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http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|97261|1|,00.html'Supernatural' Brothers Brave a Hidden EvilBy John Crook LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) − Two estranged brothers encounter occultchallenges while searching for their missing father in "Supernatural,"a new WB thriller premiering Tuesday, Sept. 13.Part quest fantasy, part family drama and part scare−the−kernels−out−of−your−popcorn fright flick, "Supernatural" opens 20 years ago on ahorrifying night for the Winchester clan, when a shadowy figure appearedat the cribside of infant Sam, then whisked mother Mary away to afiery death.Sam (Jared Padalecki, "Gilmore Girls"), now a college student, has nomemory of that awful night, unlike his older brother, Dean (Jensen Ackles,"Smallville"), who willingly joined his father's obsessive quest to find thekey to Mary's disappearance. That's why Sam has distinctly mixedemotions when Dean, whom he hasn't seen for four years, suddenlyturns up with news that their father has disappeared as well."Sam is struggling with his destiny, trying to figure out whether he hasa choice in this," Padalecki says of his character. "He has fought it aslong as he can, from the day he could get out of the house and awayfrom his father and brother and the life he was born into. He has beentrying to convince himself that he could just live a normal life. He findsout slowly but surely that he can't choose his own destiny.""I think there definitely was a conflict of interest as they were growingup together with their dad inflicting his life mission upon our characters,"Ackles says. "Dean was very receptive to it, being the age that he waswhen their mother was taken away. He was able to process it andunderstand, to the extent that he could, what that meant."Sam was just a baby and had no emotional ties to the situation, whereasDean wanted to be a part of his dad's mission. Sam was forced into it,though, and the first chance he got, he split. A few years later, youhave Dean coming to Sam and asking for his help, knowing that he's

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the only one Dean can really trust to watch his back, now that hisfather is gone."Reluctantly, Sam joins Dean on what will turn into an extended questfor their missing father. Each episode will find the pair encountering andgrappling with some occult entity or phenomenon."[This is] kind of an obsession of mine, and a show that I've really wantedto do for the extent of my career," says "Supernatural" creator andexecutive producer Eric Kripke. "It's a show about American folkloreand urban legends, sort of the idea that every town has a really great,terrifying ghost story."We landed on this idea as a road show, the purity of literally just drivingin and out of a different horror movie every week, a different small townwhere something dark and evil is lurking in the shadows. That just seemedlike a very pure and stripped down and mythic way to tell this story."Ackles says the mythic resonance of the series is hard to miss."This is definitely Joseph Campbell territory," he says. "Sam, especially,is a reluctant hero and, although I hope we really do scare viewers everyweek, it's the dynamic between these two brothers that will keep peoplecoming back, I think."It helps that, even in the pilot, the two actors have a relaxed chemistrytogether that suggests a long−shared history. Ackles says he and Padaleckispent long hours together before production even began, physically trainingfor their roles in anticipation of the long work days to follow."We did a 17−hour day yesterday, and we're back into it today," Acklessays. "And these days aren't spent in our trailers snoozing or watchingDVDs. Jared and I are in almost every scene. We get a half−hour forlunch, so we try to scarf our food down as quickly as possible and graba 15−minute nap."He pauses as a production assistant interrupts the interview to ask himto come try out a new prop, then continues."See? That's what it's like."The two actors carried their sibling relationship off the show's Vancouverset recently when Ackles inadvertently led Padalecki into a real−life barbrawl that left the latter with a broken hand."When we walked into the place, there had just been a fight inside the bar,but we didn't know that yet," Padalecki explains. "When we started hearingthem talking about the fight, we decided it was best to leave, but when wewent back to the front, the guys there thought we were some of the guysthey had been fighting with so they basically continued the fight again."

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"It was life imitating art," Ackles jokes. "I've just got to play the role of older brother and show this young whippersnapper how they do things inVancouver."Series creator Kripke insists that "Supernatural" will not be one long teaseas far as its core mystery is concerned, and he promises to answer questionson a regular basis, "then ask several larger, even more difficult questions,"he adds. "So I think Dad may be making an appearance somewhere duringthis first season in an unexpected way."Although "Supernatural" is bowing in a season that is unusually heavy withother spooky series, including "The Night Stalker" on ABC and "The GhostWhisperer" on CBS, another executive producer on the WB series, the filmdirector McG, says "Supernatural" stands out from the rest of the pack fora very simple reason."This is the show that's designed to make it difficult to go to sleep thatnight after you watch it," he says. "If you watch it by yourself, you'rein trouble, because you're going to be looking behind the door and yourmind is going to be playing tricks on you a little bit. And that's just adelicious feeling."Cheers,TDThe carpet's all paid forGod bless the TVfrom Elton John's "Roy Rogers"for a good time callwww.tinyd.netThe Original Sesame Street Lyrics and Sounds Archivehttp://www.tinyd.net/sesame1.htmlIt Seems Like YesterdayOfficial '70s newsgroup sitehttp://www.tinyd.net/70s.htmlThe Four Ways − Have Show, Will Travelhttp://www.tinyd.net/fourways.html.Prev by Date:

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