It changed some of the set dressing, it changed some of the circumstances, but it didn't change where we were going or, honestly, in a large way, how we got there. What it did not change was the story or the emotions, or anything else. So that part of the finale episode got nixed. It was going to be almost a break from the story and a look at how far we've come-a little tip of the hat to the fans-and we would all be able to celebrate together," he said. "We were supposed to have a lot of familiar faces come back, and we were going to try to filter them into a montage. Particularly in episode 20, there were things planned that just aren't feasible anymore. "We did a rewrite once we knew what our COVID rules were going to be for episodes 19 and 20, and it changed some things, it did. ![]() When production resumed in 2020, drastic changes were required due to infection control rules. According to Jensen "they were literally at the airport and some of them were getting on a plane to come to Vancouver when they got called and told, 'Sorry, COVID, we're shutting down.'" The shuttering of production in March 2020 due to covid - just as episode 18 was about to be filmed, but a stop to that idea. When Bob Singer and I sat down to talk about season 15, and our inevitable end, we came up with something that felt like a fitting version of Sam and Dean's Heaven: all the people the boys had met along the way (or, at least, those we could convince to fly to Vancouver) crowded into a re-built Roadhouse, as the band Kansas played our (official unofficial) theme song: 'Carry on Wayward Son.'" "Dean was always going to end up in Heaven, and we were always going to see Sam's life in fast-forward, but those final moments were supposed to take place somewhere else. As Andrew Dabb wrote in Supernatural 15 Seasons: The Crew Member's Souvenir: The Finale for Supernatural had a different ending planned.
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