When it was announced that The CW had greenlit The Winchesters, a prequel series to long-running fantasy series Supernatural, there were immediate questions about who would be appearing from the original series and how it would connect to the first season of the flagship series. At the time it became known that Jensen Ackles would be acting as narrator on the new show, providing a voice-over as Dean Winchester, but in a recent interview with TVLine, Ackles explained that fans can expect some “crazy” connections to the lore of the original series. He said: