With the recent interview with Jerry Wanek reminding me of some interesting early episode behind the scenes stuff, as well as our Supernatural Script Hunt group going public this week, I thought it was a perfect time to talk about some of the origin story of how the series grew from Kripke's original ideas into the story we know and love. We'll also fully discuss 1.04 Phantom Traveler, but I do drop a rather larger than usual number of links in this one. So... here's some links! :'D
The Superwiki page for this episode: http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/1.04_Phantom_Traveler (linked there you will also find the transcript of this episode, including the transcript of Jared and Jensen's commentary on this episode, as well as the Yellow Revision Script)
The arenas Kripke submitted to the network on June 3, 2005: https://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/182635407515/erik-kripke-on-twitter-for-the-300th
The "Harrison Draft" of the pilot episode: https://www.slideshare.net/JulesWilkinson/supernatural-101-pilot-early-draft
The Infamous Ackles Ass Equation post (aka the only complex math equation I recognize on sight): https://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/179709219920/a-few-of-my-followers-asked-me-to-create-a-tumblr
Interested in helping us as a fandom to acquire more original scripts like the ones linked and mentioned above? Join us at SPNScriptHunt for details: https://spnscripthunt.tumblr.com/
And on a more personal note, I created a discord server for anyone who wants to talk amongst themselves about the episodes as we go along. DM me on twitter (@mittensmorgul), tumblr (@mittensmorgul or @spngeorg) or discord (mittens#4865) and I'll send you a link!
