“Westerns have also spawned their share of heroes, such as the Cartwright clan on the ’60s TV show Bonanza. You can see similar themes on TV now with the leather-clad bikers of FX’s Sons of Anarchy or CW’s Supernatural siblings Sam and Dean Winchester.
‘We are kind of a Western, actually. We just have the Impala instead of horses,’ says Supernatural executive producer Sera Gamble, who plans to attend Comic-Con.
‘That very clean-cut, perfect-hair Superman from the ’40s, I don’t know if we so much relate to him anymore,’ she adds. ‘As much as that’s a very iconic image, there’s something scruffy and hard-drinking about Dean Winchester that makes him relatable and understandable. Our guys mess up and fall down and they get back up again, and that makes them compelling.'”
Source: USAToday