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Also added to the arsenal for an improved Revolution are some big name writers, including Rockne S. O'Bannon (Cult) and Supernaturalfan favorite Ben Edlund. "I wanted to bring in big guns, and I have a very formidable writers' room now, with bringing back all of the geniuses like Paul Grellong, and David Rambo, and Anne Saunders, and all the rest, and now to bring in Rockne, and Trey Calloway, and Bed Edlund... to be fair, I did go to Ben last year," he recalls. "I was like 'You! Come! Ben!' and he was like 'I'm under contract withSupernatural, and how dare you poach from your own show!' And he was right, and I backed away immediately. But, I think Ben was looking for a new change, and Ben is Starsky to my Hutch, so I'm always more comfortable, to be in a room that Ben is in. I'm thrilled that he has joined us. And as expected, he comes in the room and Day One, he is pitching the wildest [stuff], and the rest of my writers who have never worked with him before? They all just kind of throw him a work like 'Huh!' and I was like 'THIS IS THE GUY'!" he enthuses.

"My last show [Supernatural] had two characters who were literally in every scene, and when you're busting out, like, the 100th episode of that show, it's exhausting for them, and it's exhausting for you, and now it's amazing what they're doing with it," Kripke says, adding that Revolution has some new characters this year in addition to the ones that are coming back. He does, however, point out that aside from Charlie, Neville and Jason being off in different places, most of the characters will be congregating in a town called Willoughby, Texas -- Rachel's home town. "Then all of the [stuff] starts to go wrong from there," Kripke says. "It gives us a really wonderful opportunity to be a little more focused and dig into character. The 'road show' part - which, I love road shows; all my shows have been road shows - but it didn't let you really have characters that you really got to know and understand and unveil and have twists - and [having] some of our characters in one location for at least a bunch of episodes has really been invigorating for the show, oddly, because they can unveil things, and they can have twists, and we can play [stuff] out. It's been very gratifying," Kripke says.