“Is it the only non human monster?”: A Single Flaw That Runs in Every Supernatural Monster Makes a Season 1 Creature Exceptionally Brilliant
Supernatural might be The CW’s flagship series, but that does not mean that the show got any concessions when it came to it’s budget. At the end of the day, Supernatural, despite its popularity, was a low-budget dark fantasy series that had to cut corners when presenting its story. And nowhere is it better shown than the monsters in the franchise.
When one looks at the monsters that serve as the antagonists in Supernatural, be they ghosts, gods, angels, or demons, they always wear a human face, looking more or less like human beings with a situation-accurate cosplay. However, there was one exception in these ranks, which was the Wendigo, which was fully CGI.
Supernatural realized early on that the CGI route was not for the show
The Wendigo was the only creature in Supernatural that got a fully CGI appearance, while the other monsters and demons appeared in human form. The Wendigo episode might have had very shoddy CGI in 2005, but the episode is still counted amongst the best ones that the show had to offer, specifically because of the tension that the episode built around the character.
The Wendigo also probably showed the creators of Supernatural that they cannot rely on CGI for its horror and dark fantasy bites in the show. The responsibility for these fell on the actors, who were able to create an environment of tension and stakes without having to rely on CGI, in a show that relied heavily on monsters to deliver its scares.
Fans are really baffled about the fact that there was only ever one CGI monster in the show
Reddit has been rife with discussions about how such a small number of fans figured out that Supernatural, over it’s fifteen season and 200+ episodes, only had one CGI monster.
Supernatural as a show, according to fans, could have been merely testing out how CGI would look once the episode airs, wondering how it would play with audiences. However, what this ended up doing was showing the creators of the show that CGI would simply not work in the format that the show was in. There was also the fact that the minuscule budget that the show initially had could be put to better use in other places, rather than having it factor in the exuberant costs of CGI.
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