SupernAtural Season 3 is Back on Track

SupernAtural

Season 3 Premiere on CW, October 04, 2007

For two seasons, Supernatural has focused on Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) Winchester while they hit the road to search for their missing father and confront various demons along the way. As it heads into the third season, the show adds two new regulars to spice up the paranormal horror plot. This, however, has created much buzz among its fans. But rest assured, the Winchester brothers will remain to be the center of attention.

According to Sera Gamble, one of the writers and executive producers of Supernatural, the writers will be talking about the new additions, Ruby (Katie Cassidy) and Bela (Lauren Cohan) while assuring the continuing importance of the Winchester brothers.

She also says the season 3 is all about discovery and bringing something different out of the brothers. “Sam and Dean are the two main characters of the show…that's how we approach every single episode,” Gamble told Eclipse Magazine.

“The new characters give me the chance to discover all new things about our guys.”“Ruby and Bela tend to fit into different kinds of stories, at least in the first part of the new season,” Gamble said. “Ruby plays a role in the hunter war, while Bela begins her arc as more of a supernatural opportunist who couldn't care less about hunting.”

Nevertheless, she understands the negative sentiments of some fans to the announcement of these two new characters. “I have to say, I know fans are really worried about the new characters, and I do get where they're coming from,” she told Eclipse Magazine. “I've watched shows and been way annoyed by new characters. But I think people are going to dig Ruby and Bela more than they expect to. At least I hope so, because we've been having lots of fun writing them.

[Show writer] Ben Edlund wrote the episode that introduces Bela. I was laughing so hard I was crying when we broke that story. She puts the boys in such a deliciously bad situation. I'm hoping that our audience will appreciate the new elements Bela and Ruby bring into the boys' stories. It's good stuff. I believe they represent a deepening and an expansion of the world we're already in. They support the story we're telling this season, rather than distracting from it. Even though they're hot chicks.”Like Gamble, Padalecki also has some positive views on the addition of the girls.

“It's not Scooby Doo and go fight crime together,” the actor explained referring to Cassidy and Cohan. “But I think after they watch a few episode with the girls all their fears will be thrown out their windows. I think they'll really like the performances and they'll really like the characters. It's nice to have some more people to mix things up.”