“At the time,The RingandThe Grudgewere huge hits in theaters,” Kripke recalls to EW.
“There’s a very particular tone to those movies.
They’re quite serious, and that was what we sold,” says Kripke.
It was just all very heavy and probably, looking back, just needlessly complicated."
Some of that complication came from Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean’s (Jensen Ackles) story.
“[It was] so stupidly complicated, and it was all super-dull.
So then I turned it in and at the time I was like, ‘Nailed it!'”
They gave Kripke the option of trying again or parting ways.
But like the characters he created, Kripke was going to go down swinging.
“I couldn’t do anything fun, so I started entertaining myself.”
That’s when it all came together.
That was a really important difference because they just viewed it as another pain-in-the-ass job they had to do.
Like, every time Sam saw a ghost he was like, ‘What the f—?!’
