“Supernatural” reaches a new milestone on Tuesday night as it airs its 200th episode.
Jensen Ackles, who plays Dean Winchester on The CW show, told Access Hollywood he never could have predicted they would make it to this point.
“I didn’t think we’d make it to Season 2. There’s such a high failure rate with television these days and it was just the same back when we started in 2005. Just getting on air was like an 87 percent failure rate,” Jensen told Access in Vancouver last month on the red carpet at the “Supernatural” 200th episode party.
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“The odds were stacked against us, so just to make it through Season 1 and get a pick up to Season 2 was a huge sigh. The fact that we’re now talking about 200 episodes? I don’t think we really understand it and I don’t think I will understand it until the show is over and I stand back and I’m able to actually look back and reflect upon what it actually was ’cause I’m still in it right [now] and we’re still in the trenches and we’re still fighting the war and it ain’t over,” he added.
Jared Padalecki, who plays Sam Winchester, said he is thrilled to have reached this point.
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“It’s been this weird kind of comedy of errors and this very lucky situation where we started out at [The WB], went to The CW and we had a few of the same crew, and obviously, [The CW President] Mark Pedowitz came in and loved the show and kept us going strong right when it could’ve been a coin toss and either heads or tails, heads they stay, tails they leave and he kept us around and we’ve had this new, fresh breath of life breathed into our show, and here we are,” Jared said. “And I still sometimes can’t believe it. It’s amazing.”
Tuesday’s episode, titled “Fan Fiction,” has been described as a love letter to the show’s devoted fans and it will see Jensen’s Dean and Jared’s Sam Winchester, follow up on a case that leads them to a girls’ high school where the Winchesters’ story is being recreated on the stage.
“They’re actually doing a musical version of Sam and Dean Winchester’s lives and so Sam and Dean Winchester go to investigate this death and go like, ‘Why are these people — why is this person dressed like Bobby? Why is this person dressed like Cas? And [they] come to find out it’s this kind of like fantastical version of our lives,” Jared told Access. “And it became like this pseudo-realism where Jensen and I, as Jared and Jensen, were watching as Sam and Dean and we were kind of watching like the last 10 years of our lives and the shows that we had done and these journeys that we had been through as Sam and Dean and it was a really cool just blessing that not a lot of people get to experience.”
“Supernatural” continues Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW.
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— Jolie Lash
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