‘Supernatural’ Preview Clips For ‘Like A Virgin’

Supernatural is the gift that just keeps on giving. After five increasingly good seasons of top-notch action-adventure/horror television, fans wondered if the sixth could possibly stack up -- especially considering creator Eric Kripke was leaving the show.

Now, eleven episodes in, it’s pretty safe to say that Supernatural is still one of the best shows on the air – despite a rocky first couple of episodes.

When we last left Supernatural, Death broke Sam’s soul out of hell and reinserted it back into his body, against his body’s wishes. The concern at the time was -- what happens to a soul that has been brutally tortured by both Satan and Michael the Archangel for a year in Earth-time, and something like a hundred years in Hell-time?

When Death retrieved the soul, he placed a metaphysical partition inside Sam’s mind to block out the terrible memories, but there was a 40% chance it wouldn’t work. And even if it did work, the partition would probably (eventually) fall apart, leaving a wrecked Sam Winchester shell in its place.

This Friday, the show returns after the winter hiatus, and we’ve got two clips for your viewing pleasure:

“Like A Virgin” Preview

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“Like A Virgin” Clip

Obviously, Sam will wake up from his soul-injection coma and the partition will work, at least for a time, but Supernatural isn’t known for happy endings. In fact, it’s known for being possibly the saddest genre show on television. There are going to be terrible ramifications, as a result of what happened in episode 11, and you can pretty much guarantee that the partition is going to come down. Will Sam then turn into a vegetable, as we’ve been led to believe? Or is he made of stronger stuff than that?

Recently, it was revealed that Supernatural would likely return for a seventh season. The show is doing surprisingly well in its Friday night time-slot and the President of CW wants to see it come back.

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‘Supernatural’ Season 7 Likely to Happen

It appears that fans of Supernatural will be following the adventures of Sam and Dean Winchester through their paranormal conflicts for at least one more year.

While television’s favorite brotherly duo are currently battling the repercussions of the Apocalypse, The CW is focusing on the future of this successful Friday night series…and as of now, the future looks good!

Speaking with E! Online, CW president Dawn Ostroff revealed:

“We haven’t officially picked anything up yet, but [Supernatural] is doing so well—and it’s doing better on Friday night than it was on Thursday night—so I can’t imagine we won’t pick it up.

“We haven’t started talking about next year, but I’d be shocked if we didn’t pick it up.”

As Ostroff noted, nothing is official. Fortunately, when a television network president says that a particular show is doing so well that they’d be “shocked” if it wasn’t picked up, the whole notion of it being “official” is really a moot point.

Of course, one has to ask: If The CW is so interested in renewing Supernatural for seventh season, what – if anything – could prevent this series for coming back? Simply put, Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles.

Follow the completion of Supernatural’s current season, both Padalecki and Ackles’ contracts are up. While both have attempted to transition into more theatrical rolls, Padalecki and Ackles haven’t given the impression that they’re through with the characters, yet.

With Supernatural conventions being held almost every weekend around the world (Many of which Padalecki and Ackles attend), these two lead actors will now be put in a position where they have to make a decision that may impact their acting careers in the future (read: typecasting). While Padalecki and Ackles may love working on Supernatural, one or both of them may feel the need to move on from this 6-year-old series.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that Warner Bros. and The CW won’t be able to tempt Padalecki and Ackles into re-signing. Even though Supernatural has a somewhat limited budget and an appropriate salary raise probably isn’t an available option, there’s always the possibility of Padalecki and Ackles becoming executive producers on the series they helped make a hit.

Promoting lead actors into the role of executive producer is something that is often done on series where budgetary constraints make it impossible to provide them with a substantial salary raise. You may be wondering why someone would become an executive producer on the series, instead of taking a salary raise. I’ll give you a hint: it’s not all about creative control.

As an actor in a series, you receive a set salary per episode (sometimes bonuses are built in for exceptional rating performances) and without going too deep into it, you’ll receive residuals from syndication, worldwide distributions, and perhaps some merchandising and DVD sales.

As an executive producer, you’ll receive a similar payout to the actors (although usually more elements are included), but it’ll be a larger amount. So, if an actor was getting 10 cents per every DVD sold, an executive producer may receive $1 (though these amounts I’m pitching are completely fictional, especially in relation to the difference in amount between the two).

That being said, Supernatural is one of the most lucrative franchises on television. With a series of Supernatural novels from HarperCollins, a mini-series of Supernatural comic books from Wildstorm (DC Comics), a pen & paper role-playing game, trading cards, shirts, posters, calendars, figurines AND a Japanese anime spin-off series, there’s a lot of incentive in becoming an executive producer of the sereis.

Of course, we’ll just have to wait and see what Jared and Jensen do.

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Supernatural: Castiel Gets A Sidekick; Sam & Dean Go ‘Meta’

The second half of Supernatural season 6 is looking like it will be a wild ride for the Winchester brothers. With the return of some fan-favorite characters, a trip to another dimension and another spin in the way-back machine, Supernatural will hit the airwaves swinging.

Though some fans were disappointed in the lack of Castiel (Misha Collins) during the first half of the season, Supernatural’s resident angel will make his return early in the second half as the battle between Heaven and Hell heats up. Castiel will also be getting a female sidekick by the name of Rachel; though the part has yet to be cast, producers say she’ll be a  “pretty twenty-something angel with a finely tuned BS detector.”

After their encounter with Castiel and his new partner, the boys pull a hat-trick on time travel by somehow making their way to the end of the Nineteenth century where there will be the meeting of Winchester and Colt. If you remember your Supernatural mythos, you’ll know Colt as the legendary craftsman of the gun capable of killing nearly anything otherworldly with a single bullet.

Finally, the February 18th episode gives the actors a chance to reflect on the characters they’ve created—or perhaps that’s the other way around.

According to showrunner Sera Gamble:

“There is no magic, there is a television show called ‘Supernatural’ and everyone seems convinced that they are the actors named Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. It appears that there are actors having a psychotic break on a set and the producers don’t know what to do, basically.”

Gamble sounds very pleased with how the self-referencing episode turned out. “The dailies are fall-on-the-floor hilarious. The guys are so funny in this episode. And, you know, meta is not to everyone’s taste, but I enjoy a nice slice of meta.”

How meta does the episode get? Well, Supernatural creator Eric Kripke, executive producer Robert Singer and even Gamble all make appearances in the show, but not as themselves. Part of the episode concerns the search for Kripke, who has isolated himself in some undisclosed location while writing the script for a SyFy Channel original movie. Meanwhile, actor Brian Doyle-Murray plays Singer, while Gamble will be a voice over the phone. Gamble has yet to confirm whether she will be supplying the actual voice.

The meta episode sounds very similar to the X-Files fan favorite episode “Men in Black”, highlighted by such weirdness as Alex Trebek being partnered with Jesse Ventura, which itself was a nice palate cleanser to the often dark and maudlin tones of the program.

Considering Supernatural‘s history of hilariously poking fun at itself, this episode will surely be one not to miss.

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Supernatural: ‘Like a Virgin’ Preview – Soulful Sam

With the holidays behind us, it’s time for our favorite television shows to return to the air with new episodes. On January 28, Supernatural fans will find out what happened after Death attempted to return Sam’s soul from Lucifer’s cage.

Unfortunately, that suspenseful revelation will have to wait until later in the episode, because if Supernatural has taught us anything, it’s that there’s always a monster that needs to be killed – and waiting for the unconscious to come around is just not in the cards.

After finding out that women have been continuously disappearing from a familiar small town, Dean and Bobby team up to find out who (or what) could be behind these paranormally driven kidnappings. With some mythological research, it soon becomes apparent that the women who are disappearing were virgins that wore purity rings.

While this mysterious v-word might stupefy the Casanovian Dean Winchester, the always resourceful Bobby Singer knows exactly what type of creature their dealing with. In a first for Supernatural, the Winchester brothers (now that Sam is awake) will have to battle one of the Middle Ages’ most iconic creatures… Dragons!

Fortunately (as you can see in the photos below), it appears that Sam and Dean have found the perfect weapon to deal with their proverbial Godzilla. Although, considering the size of the dagger they’re holding (and Supernatural’s production budget), these dragons will most likely be some form of human-based manifestation, rather than the full-size, fire breathing, flying monstrosities.

Aside from a giant knife, the photos below also give a glimpse at where the dragons keep their intended victims. On top of that, you also have some photos of Sam and Dean in their now iconic black suits and, more importantly, a couple photos from the scene in which Sam reveals the fate of his soul.

You can view the photos below:

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‘Supernatural’ Season 6 ‘Clap Your Hands If You Believe’ Spoilers Discussion

Last week on Supernatural, Sam and Dean received their final objective for the season. With Crowley willing to trade Sam’s soul for any paranormal Alpha, the Winchesters are on the hunt. After a battle with some canine inclined skin-walkers, the brothers are now on to their next fight.

During Comic-Con, Supernatural Executive Producer, Ben Edlund, was extremely excited about this episode. Accompanying Edlund’s episode is a special intro in which it puts Sam and Dean into The X-Files.

While on a hunt for alien lifeforms, Sam and Dean’s hunt takes an unexpected twist. After a tussle in crop circle, Dean finds himself on the hit-list for something that only he’s able to see, fairies. Of course, with the introduction of fairies, Edlund made sure to continue with the storybook character, as elves, gnomes and leprechauns will also be revealed.

While Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are investigating a UFO sighting, Dean is abducted from a crop circle.  However, when he awakens, he discovers he isn’t dealing with aliens, but fairies!  Unfortunately, only Dean can see the fairy that keeps attacking him which makes tracing and stopping them difficult.  The brothers become even more perplexed when Sam’s investigation leads them to a world full of elves, gnomes and a leprechaun.

If you’re posting comments here, assume that anyone in the conversation has seen the episode – if you haven’t seen the episode, I would recommend you don’t read these comments here until you have. You’ve been warned.

Discuss away!

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Supernatural Season 6 ‘All Dogs Go to Heaven’ Spoilers Discussion

Last week’s episode of Supernatural put everything in its place for season 6. Sam, who has no soul, was ripped out of Hell by Crowley. Additionally, Crowley also pulled Samuel out of Hell to do his bidding. Who, in this case, is trying to find the location of Purgatory. Unfortunately, while Crowley was ripping Sam out of his Lucifer cage, he made sure to leave Sam’s soul in there, for insurance purposes.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot! The rest of Samuel’s family had already been taken over by demons. So, Sam and Dean is all he has left.

Phew! Who would have thought all that would have come out of a single episode of the show? Well, considering it’s November sweeps, one might have had suspicions.

With that, the skinwalkers return to Supernatural. Although, this time, they’ve decided to take on a “different” form. After Sam and Dean find out that the skinwalkers are rocking the canine look, in an attempt to overthrow the world with sleeper cells, they have to seek out their original Alpha nemesis, the Alpha skinwalker.

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Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) investigate what seems to be a werewolf killing but turns out to be a skinwalker (guest star Andrew Rothenberg) posing as a family dog who is taking revenge on his owner’s enemies. After capturing the dog, he turns human and tells Sam and Dean that an Alpha skinwalker has created many sleeper cells that will rise on his command and kill their families. The only way to stop the mass murders is to find and kill the Alpha.

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