Andrew Dabb

“	What I will say is... whether I have been privileged to work for Eric Kripke, Sera Gamble or Jeremy Carver, they all had really specific visions for the show. Visions that I thought took the show in their own way. You know I think if you look at all their tenors on the show, they're all Supernatural but they feel a little bit different and I think coming and sitting in that chair and me being able to dictate things a little bit more I'm able to play up a sort of Supernatural that I really enjoy.	”
	— Andrew Dabb's view of now being the showrunner

Andrew Dabb was a co-executive producer and writer for the series Supernatural. He started writing along with Daniel Loflin as a writing team/supervising producer who joined Supernatural in Season 4. Dabb and Loflin were also writers for the third Supernatural comic series Supernatural: Beginning's End. In Season 8, Dabb and Loflin began writing episodes separately and at the end of the season, Loflin departed the show. Beginning with Season 12, Dabb assumed the role of co-showrunner alongside Robert Singer following Jeremy Carver's exit, continuing in this capacity until the series concluded.

“	I get that people may not have been as into that as we were, they're certainly fair, but I do believe that, you know, sometimes you try things and you hope they work and that one... yeah. It didn't necessarily work for everyone, I'm certainly aware of that, but at the same time if you start doing things only you know that people are going to like, and people are like "Oh my God I love it," that limits you storytelling wise. At this point in the show, those stories are easy to do. It's easy to tick three boxes and know on Twitter the fans are going to go crazy for it. It just is. We all know what those three boxes are but I think the question is, if those are only the types of stories you're telling and those are only the type of episodes you're telling, then are you really allowing the show to grow creatively? It becomes a nostalgia cycle. You know what I mean? And we've certainly been on 12 years. We have our share of nostalgia and certainly have gone to that well but if that's all you're going for, that's all you're doing is repeating, then it becomes a real problem and it puts a clock on things. I think we have with the guys and these relationships we have places to go that are really interesting, I don't ever want to get to the point where I'm like, "We're not going to do this because Twitter's not going to like it." I just don't think that's a good way ever to run a story, or run a show, and I also think truth of the matter is, the thing people like the most is that they want it but they didn't know they wanted it.	”
	— Andrew Dabb on the controversial ending of Season 11

“	I think you always want your show to grow, and I think a show can grow internally, by putting existing elements in different packaging, but it also grows externally in terms of introducing new characters, new problems, things that nobody saw coming. Our goal is to do both.	”
	— Andrew Dabb

“	You can never please everybody. Once you realize you can't please everybody, you have to do the ending that makes the most sense and I think we've got an endpoint that does that for us. I certainly hope more people will like it than won't like it, but I'd be lying to myself if I thought everyone was going to like it. You have to do the thing that makes the most sense to you.	”
	— Andrew Dabb on the series finale

Writer

• Season 4
  • Yellow Fever (with Daniel Loflin)
  • After School Special (with Daniel Loflin)
  • Jump the Shark (with Daniel Loflin)
• Season 5
  • I Believe the Children Are Our Future (with Daniel Loflin)
  • Sam, Interrupted (with Daniel Loflin)
  • Dark Side of the Moon (with Daniel Loflin)
  • Hammer of the Gods (with David Reed; teleplay with Daniel Loflin)
• Season 6
  • Weekend at Bobby's (with Daniel Loflin)
  • Family Matters (with Daniel Loflin)
  • Unforgiven (with Daniel Loflin)
  • Frontierland (with Jackson Stewart; teleplay with Daniel Loflin)
• Season 7
  • The Girl Next Door (with Daniel Loflin)
  • Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! (with Daniel Loflin)
  • Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie (with Daniel Loflin)
  • There Will Be Blood (with Daniel Loflin)
• Season 8
  • What's Up, Tiger Mommy? (with Daniel Loflin)
  • Hunteri Heroici
  • Trial and Error
  • Clip Show
• Season 9
  • Devil May Care
  • Road Trip
  • Bloodlines
  • Stairway to Heaven
• Season 10
  • Reichenbach
  • The Things We Left Behind
  • Inside Man
  • The Prisoner
• Season 11
  • Form and Void
  • The Devil is in the Details
  • Beyond the Mat (with John Bring)
  • Red Meat (with Robert Berens)
  • Alpha and Omega
• Season 12
  • Keep Calm and Carry On
  • First Blood
  • All Along the Watchtower
• Season 13
  • Lost & Found
  • Wayward Sisters (with Robert Berens)
  • A Most Holy Man (with Robert Singer)
  • Let the Good Times Roll
• Season 14
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Lebanon (with Meredith Glynn)
  • Moriah
• Season 15
  • Back and to the Future
  • The Heroes' Journey
  • Carry On

Trivia

Andrew Dabb's cameo (seen right) in Season 7.

• In Supernatural The Official Companion Season 7, Jenny Klein revealed Dabb made a cameo in the episode There Will Be Blood.

Dabb's full statement on the original finale.

• Six months following the series finale, production designer Jerry Wanek assembled a book for the cast and crew, filled with extensive details of the various sets created for the long-standing series. Within this book, Dabb expressed his sentiments about one of the last sets built, the interior of Harvelle's, which was ultimately not utilized, and his mild disappointment over the inability to shoot the original ending due to COVID-19. "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. 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.'..and when we opened back up in August, getting that many people in an enclosed space, much less traveling some of our favorites from LA and making them quarantine two weeks for what would be a half day's work, just wasn't realistic. Even Kansas, always game, didn't feel like they could make that trip, which we completely understood. And so that Supernatural ending … ended. I love what we have now, Dean in the car on the open road, but I have to admit that I sometimes think about our original idea—all of Sam and Dean's family and friends, and one of the greatest rock bands ever on a masterpiece of a set, and I miss it … even though it never really existed. I miss what it could have been."

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