SUPERNATURAL: Robert Singer Teases a Surprise in ‘My Heart Will Go On,’ Tacking a Western, Balthazar and More

After another lengthy hellatus, SUPERNATURAL is finally returning tonight with a brand new episode!

To celebrate the occasion, SUPERNATURAL executive producer Robert Singer talked with Give Me My Remote about “My Heart Will Go On,” next week’s Western-themed episode, Balthazar’s role in the rest of the season, a potential season seven and more…

What can you tease about tonight’s new episode?
Robert Singer: It’s an episode really about something I think people talk about a lot over cocktails or at a party — if you could change one thing in history, if you could go back in time and change one thing, what would you do? And then once you did change the thing, how does that really effect the world as we know it now? If a butterfly flaps its wings in China, it causes a hurricane in Florida. And it’s that premise that happens and how the boys solve that and also certainly with a large help from their buddy, Cas. It really is the beginning of a heavily Cas and the boys run up until the end of the season.

Was there a reason you guys specifically chose to unsink the Titanic in the episode versus anything else in history?
RS: Pretty much we just liked the Titanic and it fit a few of the jokes we made at the movie’s expense which we enjoyed. But I think that was a piece of history — especially with the movie being what it was — that people easily knew, and the idea of the Titanic not sinking…how that then turns into that the world that they live in is many ways different, while fundamentally the same. And there’s a nice surprise for the fans early on in the episode that is the result of the fact that the Titanic didn’t sink.

Is the surprise a person or is it something we’ve seen on screen that is now undone?
RS: Um, well, both actually. The surprise is a person and something that happened in the series that is now — at least for the 42 minutes of this episode — undone.

Balthazar plays a large role in tonight’s episode. How big a part will he be playing in the rest of the season?
RS: Sebastian [Roche (Balthazar)] is a character who is caught in the middle in these last few episodes. His character is, if nothing else, morally challenged after stealing all the weapons of heaven. He’s a character that is out for number one. He finds himself put in a position where he has to question his basic amorality and come to fall on other side of the line. He finds that he can’t ride the fence anymore and that’s where his character is going.

You mentioned we’re kicking off the start of a huge Sam, Dean and Cas arc tonight. Did you guys feel pressure on how to balance those three characters and their individual storylines this season?
RS: Well, you always worry about that as you do a season. But this season, this was all pretty well planned out, at least as an overreaching arc. Early in the year, this was the story we decided to tell and our approach to it was we’re going to tell this three arc mystery. Our first act being, what’s wrong with Sam? Sam has no soul…okay, get Sam’s soul back. That took us through half of the season.

The second act has really been this whole thing about the mother of all monsters and purgatory and what souls mean and what happens if purgatory gets opened and all of these monsters get let loose.

The third is really wrapping up the mystery and answering a lot of the questions that we posed the first 15 or 16 episodes. We knew where we wanted to go and then the balancing of the characters happens organically as you’re writing these scripts because you have these sign posts at the end that you’re heading towards and things just naturally happen. So we knew that this would be the balance. In any particular episode, you’re concerned about that, but as an overall theme of the year, we had a really good idea of the direction we wanted to go in.

Very cool. Next week’s hour seems like it will be a fun episode with the boys going back to Western times. Dean appears to be thrilled to be a cowboy…
RS: They were both really excited, they were like little kids. Jensen [Ackles (Dean)], especially. He was just so happy to do a Western [episode].

We had talked about how to do a Western and how to do it in the old west and we played with that notion probably since season one. What sends them back into the old west here was very organic and was set up by the fact that they have gone back in time before, but they have a real purpose for going back here. We had a lot of fun with the Western, but it does really progress the overall story for the year. That one worked out good. Sometimes if you wait long enough and you let the stew sit on the stove for a little while, you come up with the right ingredients. We’re really happy with it. I think everybody’s going to love that one a lot.

I think we did some really cool things this year, especially towards the end where we let out all the stops — breaking the fourth wall and having the boys go into their own TV show and the Western and the unsinking of the Titanic…it’s kind of wild stuff. We’re happy with all those episodes.

Obviously the fans are all waiting for The CW to renew the show for next season. Is there anything you’d like to say for them as they wait?
RS: All indications are good. We’re as hopeful [for a renewal] as they are.

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