ERIC KRIPKE: There was, as a matter of fact. When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don’t really start with a character or a logline like, “What if the electricity turned off?” I was just noodling on an idea from an image of two guys having a sword fight, Lord of the Rings style, but instead of some kind of English Stonehenge, vine-covered structure as their backdrop, they were doing it in front of a vine-covered Starbucks. It was honestly that. And then, I started thinking, “Can we make America into a feudal kingdom, where we can have adventures and heroes and villains and love and loyalty?” It was just about coming up with a setting where you could tell a really classic, epic, sweeping adventure saga that was a very Joseph Campbell type of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings world.
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I hope this series has as long a run as SPN has had, I loved the pilot and could see Kripke all over it. Not many pilots hook me with the first ep, Supernatural, Veronica Mars and Roswell, now Revolution. If Eric keeps this up I will have him up there with Joss Whedon, but really SPN is my favorite series ever and FINALLY THE DVD COMES OUT TODAY...HAPPY DANCE.
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