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El Adiós Para Siempre SUPERNATURAL EL ADIÓS PARA SIEMPRE Tras la emisión sin interrupciones de 307 episodios, la serie de Warner Channel está lista para emprender su último viaje. Junto a Sole Venesio, repasamos todo lo que tenés que saber del fenómeno Winchester. engo 18 años y me toca emprender lo que, para todo pueblerino, es un paso natural de su vida: T dejar el nido materno y mudarse a la gran ciudad para estudiar en la universidad. Con un bolso mediano, las alpargatas puestas, mi tonada sutil y una caja de cartón repleta de comida, toqué el timbre del departamento que se convertiría en mi nuevo hogar. Fue en ese mismo espacio que, frente a la única televisión de tubo “La serie siempre se concentró en dos que había, descubrí Supernatural. puntos. El primero es el carisma, dentro y Ahí, sentada en el borde de la fuera de la pantalla, de Ackles y Padalecki. cama de mi hermana, canté por El segundo es su capacidad de llevar la primera vez “Carry on my wayward son...”. Mucho antes de que tener metadiscursividad a otro nivel y utilizar Internet fuera moneda corriente o la fantasía como plataforma para trabajar que habláramos de plataformas de temas fundamentales como la lucha contra streaming. Mucho antes, siquiera, las adicciones, la depresión, la soledad y de que usáramos términos como hasta algunos eventos políticos” seriéfilos o fandom, existieran aplicaciones de trackeo o viviéramos el boom de las ficciones episódicas del que hoy disfrutamos. UN PLAN CON SOLO CINCO TEMPORADAS 2005 fue un año sumamente prolífico para la televisión. Desde el regreso de Doctor Who, hasta el estreno de Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds, Medium (2005-2011) o How I 18 LA COSA MOMENTOS ÚNICOS DE UNA SERIE LONGEVA T01E01 “PILOTO” La invitación a subir a Baby y emprender la lucha contra todo tipo de monstruos, este es el episodio donde Dean dice una frase que quedará para la historia: “Papá fue a un viaje de caza... y no ha estado en casa en unos días”. T02E01 “IN MY TIME OF DYING” Mucho antes de Negan en The Walking Dead, Jeffrey Dean Morgan interpretó a John Winchester, padre de Dean y Sam. Posicionado como uno de esos episodios en que se puede llorar por horas, es cuando John hace su sacrificio final y da la vida por su hijo mayor. T03E11 “MYSTERY SPOT” Homenaje a “Hechizo del Tiempo” (Groundhog Day, 1993), vemos cómo Dean muere una y otra vez, mientras su hermano intenta salvarlo. Divertido e inteligente, es un episodio que trabaja la metadiscursividad de una manera fantástica. T05E08 “CHANGING CHANNELS” Atrapados en el mundo de la televisión al ser engañados por un Trickster, Dean y Sam pasan por cuantas series se Met Your Mother (2005-2014). Son muchas las ficciones que imaginen. Desde Grey’s Anatomy hasta El Auto Fantástico (Knight Rider), nada es mucho para los chicos. nacieron en esa época y que, 14 años más tarde, seguimos teniendo presentes o se mantienen en emisión. Supernatural está entre ellas. T06E15 Creada por Eric Kripke y con dos actores jóvenes como “THE FRENCH MISTAKE” protagonistas -Jared Padalecki, a quien conocíamos de Rompiendo con todas las reglas posibles sobre Gilmore Girls, y Jensen Ackles, que lo habíamos visto en dimensiones paralelas, los hermanos Winchester son Dark Angel-, la historia combinaba fantasía, mitos urbanos y llevados a una realidad alternativa en donde, los actores algo de horror. Fórmula a la que rápidamente le sumaron la Jared Padalecki y Jensen Ackles, se encuentran en el set de filmación de un show llamado Supernatural. comedia, y gracias a la cual crearon algunos de los mejores episodios del universo. Con similitudes al Preacher de Garth Ennis y Steve Dillon, o American Gods de Neil Gaiman, la T10E05 historia introdujo a estos dos hermanos que salían a recorrer “FAN FICTION” Estados Unidos con su Impala 67 buscando salvar a la Enorme homenaje a su fandom, la celebración por humanidad de la destrucción. sus 200 episodios llegó con una nueva instancia Manteniendo una estructura ya en desuso (entregas de autorreferencial: los chicos aterrizan en un musical escolar que cuenta su historia. Para esto, los guionistas más de 20 episodios, de 45 minutos de duración), la retomaron algunas de las fanfictions más populares primera intención fue que Supernatural sólo tuviera cinco dentro de la SPN Family. temporadas. Pero eso cambió. Y el resto ya es historia que todos conocemos: en Estados Unidos, Warner Channel mudó T13E16 la ficción a The CW; festejaron los 100, 200 y 300 episodios; “SCOOBYNATURAL” sostuvieron que harían la serie hasta que sus protagonistas dijeran ‘basta’ y, finalmente, eso sucedió este año. Junto al Con picardía y subiendo de tono, este capítulo es uno de los crossovers más divertidos de la televisión. Atrapados anuncio de la despedida de Arrow, los chicos comunicaron en el clásico dibujito animado, los chicos se suman a una en sus redes sociales que la decimoquinta temporada sería la de las investigaciones de la pandilla de Scooby-Doo. última gran misión de los hermanos Winchester. LA COSA 19 EL AMOR TIENE SU ESTACIÓN EN EL CORAZÓN Cualquier fanático de Supernatural puede admitir lo mismo. Mientras que las primeras cinco entregas son impecables, UN ADIÓS QUE el resto tiene tantos episodios brillantes como olvidables. NO ES FÁCIL Reconociendo esto y aceptando que uno puede amar una PARA NADIE ficción imperfecta, la verdadera riqueza de la serie siempre se concentró en dos puntos. El primero es el carisma, dentro y fuera de la pantalla, de Ackles y Padalecki (dupla a la que en Informalmente, el último día de la San Diego Comic 2008 se sumó Misha Collins). El segundo es su capacidad de Con se conoce como el “domingo de Supernatural”. llevar la metadiscursividad a otro nivel, y utilizar la fantasía Esto no es aleatorio: ya nadie recuerda cuándo fue la como plataforma para trabajar temas fundamentales como última vez que la serie no invadió el Hall H del centro la lucha contra las adicciones, la depresión, la soledad y hasta de convenciones, convirtiéndose en el evento más algunos eventos políticos. importante de la jornada. Este año, con un panel que Todos estos elementos fueron los que propiciaron una de las hizo llorar a miles de fanáticos, la rueda de prensa se mejores experiencias seriéfilas de los últimos 20 años, es decir, la desarrolló en medio de un ambiente que combinaba la constitución de la SPN Family. Una comunidad de fanáticos a tristeza y el cariño por un equipo que lo deja todo. “Al principio, la historia combinaba fantasía, mitos urbanos y algo de horror. Fórmula a la que rápidamente le sumaron la comedia, y gracias a la cual crearon algunos de los mejores episodios del universo” la cual, el equipo técnico y el elenco le dieron identidad dentro ¿Cuán involucrado estuviste en las definiciones sobre el final de la serie y sets de filmación. Pero aún más importante es que de la serie? se trata de un grupo que se basa en las relaciones de amor, Jensen Ackles: Creo que estuve más metido en el apoyo y sostén para personas de diferentes partes del mundo ‘dónde íbamos a terminar’ que con el arco narrativo de como, por ejemplo, esa pueblerina que recién llegaba a la la temporada. Cómo llegamos a ese final es tema de los ciudad con sus alpargatas, su tonada y la comida materna. guionistas y ellos son quienes pueden descifrarlo. Cuando Con festivales de la magnitud de los organizados por fandoms fuimos a verlos a Los Ángeles, nos contaron cuál era su históricos como los de Star Wars y Star Trek, disfrutar de visión y qué era lo que ellos consideraban el mejor cierre. Supernatural excede y antecede a mirar la serie de televisión. En ese momento fue cuando todo esto se volvió algo Para llegar al punto en el que, si uno sólo se queda con el muy, pero muy real. Yo tuve problemas. Tuve muchos episodio emitido, se está perdiendo del 50% de la experiencia. problemas con eso. Por algún motivo, no podía aceptar Porque, como reza el lema supernatural: “La familia no la idea que proponían. Una semana más tarde todavía termina con la sangre.” 14 AÑOS Y MILLONES DE ANÉCDOTAS Hasta la temporada cinco, Originalmente, Eric El apellido de Dean y Dean usó la campera de Kripke quería darle a los Sam iba a ser Ford, cuero que heredó de John. hermanos un Mustang 65. ya que el creador Pero durante un viaje hacia Sin embargo, un vecino lo quería homenajear a la convención fan de Los convenció con que el auto Harrison Ford. Pero Ángeles, fue robada y esa fue un Impala 67, ya que por motivos legales, fue la razón para el cambio en este ‘sí podés meter un tuvieron que renunciar de look en el personaje. cuerpo en el baúl’. a esa primera idea. 20 LA COSA pensaba: “Dios, ¿por qué estoy teniendo tantas dificultades en estar en una serie que empezara a apestar o, como me digerir esto?”. Entonces decidí llamar a un viejo amigo [Eric gusta decir a mí, no quiero estar en un auto que se queda Kripke], a quien le conté cuál era el plan y le confesé que sin nafta. Quince es un gran número. Tan grandioso como necesitaba cierta claridad. Él me la brindó. Luego llamé a Bob 327. Que es, además, el tipo de motor que ponían en el [Singer], le hablé un poco sobre el tema. Y ahora tengo que Chevy Impala, allá por los sesenta. admitir que estoy muy emocionado con el cierre. Creo que va a ser grandioso. Creo que va a ser terriblemente emocional.
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