Supernatural (season 2) - Wikipedia. Supernatural (season 2)DVD cover art. Country of origin. United States. No. The season focuses on protagonists Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) as they track down Azazel, the demon responsible for the deaths of their mother Mary and father John. They attempt to discover the demon's plan for Sam and other psychic children—young adults who were visited by Azazel as infants and given abilities, and whose mothers often then died in a fire.
During their travels, they use their father's journal to help them carry on the family business—saving people and hunting supernatural creatures. The season aired on Thursdays at 9: 0.
ET in the United States. The previous season was broadcast on The WB. The cast and crew garnered many award nominations, but the episodes received mixed reviews from critics.
While both the brotherly chemistry between the lead actors and the decision to finish the main storyline were praised, the formulaic structure of the episodes was criticized. The season was internationally syndicated, airing in the United Kingdom on ITV.
Although the season was split into two separate releases in Region 2, the complete set was released October 2. Region 4 October 3, 2.
Directed by David Nutter Written by Eric Kripke. There are a couple of story formats set up in Supernatural. There will be the “Monster of the Week. The seventh season of Supernatural, an American fantasy horror television series created by Eric Kripke, premiered September 23, 2011, and concluded May 18, 2012. Twin Peaks packs action, mystery and damn good cherry pie in the episode There’s Fire Where You Are Going.
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The episodes are also available through digital retailers such as Apple's i. Tunes Store. This pair complemented the father- son relationship of the Winchesters in the first year. Because the writers felt the character's . Actor Jim Beaver made multiple appearances as hunter Bobby Singer, an old family friend of the Winchesters. Beaver had expected his first- season guest appearance in . Smith also made an appearance in a flashback in the penultimate episode, .
And though at first reluctant because of his role on Grey's Anatomy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan returned as John Winchester in the season premiere and finale. The reins passed to Fredric Lehne for the second- season premiere, and the show's producers enjoyed his performance so much they brought him back for the two- part finale. Linda Blair, famous for her role in the horror film The Exorcist, appeared in the episode . Though a fan of the show, Blair had turned down a guest appearance in the first season because she did not want to return to horror, having spent years getting a . This changed after the television series Extra aired a three- part profile on her acting career and work with animals. It attempted to find a series that would write a role for her as . Kripke, a fan of The Exorcist.
This was the first episode to have the Winchesters as supporting characters, and Kripke felt . Director Kim Manners felt Vaugier brought to the character a vulnerability like that of Lon Chaney, Jr. However, this changed with Chris Gauthier's casting, and Edlund felt that Ronald turned out to be a . There'd be an obituary that would take the guys into a town, they'd do a little research, they'd have a skirmish with the monster, they'd meet a girl, they'd have a showdown with the monster, they'd learn something about themselves, and then they'd roll out of town again.
Pretty much every episode had that structure. And we worried that the viewers would get bored with the show if we did that again for a whole other season.”— Kripke on the decision to change the series formula. The writers attempted this by including more . Instead, the episodes dealt more with Sam's fear of becoming evil, which Kripke regretted since the writers never depicted the character committing malevolent acts. From the series' beginning, Kripke desired to feature an evil clown because he felt that . This decision made the clown . He found the legend similar to Supernatural, noting, .
To circumvent this, writer Sera Gamble suggested Johnson's story be made into a subplot detailed in flashbacks, with the Crossroads Demon returning in the present to make more deals. The creature was instead made invisible, which Gamble believes gave it a more terrifying presence. Edlund decided to have the production staff look like . For example, the reformed- vampire episode .
The plot alluded to . However, Humphris had trouble developing the script's outline. Kripke noted a part of the episode in which brothers are arrested and have to explain to police what had happened; this scenario ultimately became the framework of the episode, which begins with Sam and Dean being taken into custody. The writers deliberated over the use of five or six monsters in trying to find one appropriate for the episode, but eventually settled on a trickster because it . One of the writers' first creative ideas of the season was depicted in the teaser of .
Like in the final version of the script, twins with mind- control abilities were the focus of Edlund's original pitch for the episode . However, the more powerful twin—kept secluded due to deformities—forced his brother to perceive himself as retarded. At the end of the episode, his brother ate him in retaliation.
The story was eventually changed, and instead focused on questions such as . However, this caused a major complication: the writers would have to devise a way for Sam and Dean to escape in the end. The psychic children were killed off because the writers felt the characters were not as interesting as demons and monsters. The second part ended the brothers' quest to kill Azazel, but also opened more storylines for the third season, such as Dean's demonic pact to resurrect Sam and the question of whether what returned was . For his scenes as the yellow- eyed demon Azazel throughout the season, Fredric Lehne wore hard, colored contact lenses that greatly obscured his vision. The production crew placed sandbags on the floor to help him locate his marks. Lindsey Mc. Keon, who portrayed a Reaper briefly possessed by Azazel in .
Her scene—she touches Ackles' forehead—took nine takes to film because she kept missing. Production shifted to the following episode after five days of filming, and resumed when Palicki became available for the final three days. Andrew's- Wesley United Church. Because the series uses few standing sets, set designer Jerry Wanek often had to construct entirely new sets for each episode.
Wanek noted, . I thought it really matched the tempo and emotion of the show. The loft set from . The vault scenes in .
Andrew's- Wesley United Church, with plastic used to imitate sculpted stone. It also functioned as a jail in . Thus, in the scene involving John Winchester selling his soul to Azazel, Gruska wrote the music as .
A blues guitarist was brought in, and played on a . However, they added in dissonant notes to foreshadow the . Rock songs are also usually featured in .
The premiere used Ted Nugent's . The finale recapped the entire season to Kansas' .
The second season also began the tradition of naming many episodes after classic rock songs, with Kripke preferring Led Zeppelin songs. Beginning with the second season, visual effects became an in- house department.
Wide shots of the bank's exterior—featuring closed- off streets, police, and SWAT helicopters—were accomplished with visual effects. Thus, the shape engulfed in light was a girl wearing a skintight white leotard. Cockroaches were digitally inserted into the sewer scenes of . The department added blood flowing from underneath him, and also made his fingers twitch and his mouth open and close to create a more lifelike appearance. Dean has an out- of- body experience in . To forgo the use of visual effects, the special effects department sculpted a full gelatin face from Ackles, and applied it to a body double. She was required to breathe through a straw, as well as don underwear soaked in ice- cold fire- retardant gel.
Viewers consisted mainly of teenage girls, with the CW trying to attract more males. According to Special Forces Soldier Master Sergeant Kevin Wise at a 2. Supernatural convention, the DVDs most requested by armed forces personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan were the first two seasons of the series. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 1. While at first hesitant of the series, believing it to be .
Praising the cliffhangers and the brotherly chemistry between the lead actors, Kaz deemed Supernatural . Not understanding why the Roadhouse was not used more throughout the season, she was . Ryan also favored the new hunter characters, especially Ash, and was . Regarding Sam and Dean, she noted the series' . While she enjoyed Tricia Helfer's guest appearance, she did not enjoy the stunt casting of Linda Blair and would have preferred a . Other problems he found included .
However, he believed that the season ended . Tallerico praised the . He also found . He enjoyed the expansion of the series' mythology, as well as the new characters introduced. He also praised the . Writer Raelle Tucker won the Constellation Award for . Including all 2. 2 episodes of the second season, the set also featured DVD extras such as episode commentaries, deleted scenes, bloopers, Jared Padalecki's original screen test, and a featurette on the making of the season finale.
DVD sales for its week of release, selling 6. Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 2.
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This year, we are going to have a little bit more of an epic feel with a Big Bad and a real quest for the brothers to unite.“It’s like pre- biblical story that’s never been told,” the EP continued. What I like about where we’re going is the brothers are united, similar to Season 1, when we were looking for dad. We’re back to normal so to speak and we have a common target.”More highlights from the SDCC panel: * Some fan favorites will return, “but they’re coming back in surprising ways,” so Carver couldn’t share any more details.* Asked if there will be more atypical hours like the meta installments, EP Andrew Dabb hinted at “something really fun” in Episode 4.* Castiel will be united with the boys against the Big Bad.* “I’m pretty dead,” Mark Sheppard said of Crowley’s future. I showed up as a guest star, kissing a very tall man under a bridge.”* As for why Felicia Day’s Charlie was killed off, Carver said they have to take the story where it goes. And given that it’s Supernatural, “people die on the show,” he explained.