Should Neil Gaiman join Supernatural?
27 April 2010 2:00 PM, PDT Last week’s episode of Supernatural, “Hammer of the Gods”, gave us a glimpse about what Season 6 might be all about. If, as I expect, the Winchester boys resolve their conflict with the angels and Lucifer by the end of Season 5 — which is what series creator Eric Kripke says we can expect — then it’s entirely possible that mythologies other than Judeo-Christian could be fodder for storylines. And while at least a couple of the other gods — I saw Baldur and Ganesh go down fighting — were destroyed by Lucifer, we know that at least Kali — played with relish by Rekha Sharma — escaped. I expect that Kripke and his writing team are already quite familiar with the works of Neil Gaiman. The English writer became famous for his comic series, The Sandman, in which he cleverly mashed-up a variety of mythologies and fables. He has a talent for bringing those old stories into a contemporary context.
