Whispers, Spoilers & Speculation Corner: 12/07/17: The Pre-Hellatus Edition


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By Paula R. Stiles

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The show will return from Christmas hiatus on January 18.

My live recap for episode 13.07 is up. I will be doing the next one at 8pm Friday (tomorrow) night, EST. During the Christmas Hellatus (which starts after tonight), I’ll be catching up on my reviews for this season.

Season 13 titles so far: “Lost and Found” (13.01), synopsis and photos, promo, preview, sneak peeks, and Shaving People, Punting Things, as well as live recap and review; “The Rising Son” (13.02) synopsis and photos and promo; “Patience” (the first spinoff set-up episode) (13.03) synopsis; “The Big Empty” (13.04) synopsis, promo and official photos; “Advanced Thanatology” (13.05) synopsis, photos and promo; “Tombstone” (13.06) synopsis, promo and photos; “War of the Worlds” (13.07) synopsis photos, sneak peek and promo; “The Scorpion and the Frog” (13.08) synopsis, photos, promo and sneak peek; “The Bad Place” (13.09) (airing December 7) synopsis, photos, sneak peeks and promo; Christmas Break; “Wayward Sisters” (13.10, backdoor pilot for the spinoff, airs January 18), photos; “Various & Sundry Villains” (13.11) (previously called “The Midnight Train” and originally, the title was “Stakes on a Train,” though there also appears to have been a switch of episodes between 13.11 and 13.12); “Breakdown” (13.12) Rowena returns; “Devil’s Bargain” (13.13) written by Brad Buckner and Eugenie Ross-Leming, introducing Danneel Ackles as a faith healer blackmailed by Lucifer; “Only the Best Intentions” (13.14); “A Most Holy Man” (13.15); “ScoobyNatural” (13.16, cartoon episode, appears in March), “The Thing” (13.17); “Bring ’em Back Alive” (13.18).

Photos, two sneak peeks and a promo are up for this week’s “The Bad Place” (13.09). It’s the last episode of the year, as the show is out for Christmas until January 18.

Alexander Calvert gave a brief interview about how the question of whether or not Jack is evil or good will be (temporarily) answered tonight. [Sigh] I am so over this stupid storyline. The final Wayward Sister, Kaia, will be introduced this week (she looks pretty dire). There’s also a cliffhanger. I know. I was shocked, too.

There are some photos up from the backdoor pilot for the spin-off, “Wayward Sisters” (13.10).

For some odd reason, there was a flurry of casting and character return news last Friday. The biggest is that Danneel Ackles, Jensen Ackles’ wife, has been cast in a recurring role starting with episode 13.13. Fandom predictably imploded over this, since the poor woman has been the target of much resentment from the more overly invested saltgunners for years. Personally, I liked her in Ten-Inch Hero and think she had good on-screen chemistry with her then-future-husband. Also, making it a family affair means her husband still seems invested in the show and settling in for more of the long haul. This makes it good news for the show getting a few more seasons. So, I’m looking forward to it. My only big concern about it is that the character is being created by the Nepotism Duo, but I guess we’ll see.

In other news, Ruth Connell was spotted on-set recently in costume, confirming rumors that Rowena will be back in 13.12.

A Shaving People Punting Things video has been promised for noon tomorrow PST.

Warner Bros has announced details about the upcoming Wayward Sisters spin-off. As we already know, it will star Kim Rhodes (Jody Mills) and the rumor that Briana Buckmaster (Donna Hanscum) is in it was confirmed. Also starring will be Kathryn Newton (Claire Novak) and Alex Jones (Katherine Ramdeen), as well as new character Patience Turner (played by Clark Backo). Another new character, Kaia (Yadira Guevar-Prip), has been added to the main cast list. Kaia’s “gift” will be the ability to spirit travel.

The spin-off premise and new characters will be introduced via several episodes in season 13. Patience will be introduced in “Patience” (13.03), which also brings back season one character Missouri Moseley (who is Patience’s estranged grandmother and from whom Patience has inherited her psychic gift). The actual backdoor pilot will be “Wayward Sisters” (13.10).

Star Kim Rhodes told EW that there’s a good in-SPNverse reason why the show will be set in a single location (Sioux Falls) instead of moving around. Rhymes with “Hellmouth,” I’ll bet.

Season 12 is out on Amazon.

The count for Supernatural calendars for 2018 is now five: a charity calendar called If I Could Tell You: The Women of Supernatural that still has a few left from its campaign (I got it today; it’s quite nice and sturdy, despite the post office’s attempts to crumple it into a rolled-up ball in my mailbox), two large calendars out on July 1, two mini calendars on September 1, and a Creation Entertainment calendar that comes out on December 1.

The show’s ratings last week rose again from the zombie turkey apocalypse of Thanksgiving to a 0.6/2 and 1.73 million in audience. The show (got a 0.537 in the overnights and half-hours of 0.573 and 0.502, respectively.

No ratings news for the previous week, but Thanksgiving Week had a huge leap for Live+7, with “War of the Worlds” (13.07) rising a whopping 167% in demo to a 0.8 and 98% from 1.241 to 2.452 million in audience (Arrow had a similar rise, though its audience remained below Supernatural. Still a bit anemic for the show’s usual delayed numbers but quite respectable for the CW, especially over a holiday weekend.


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5 thoughts on “Whispers, Spoilers & Speculation Corner: 12/07/17: The Pre-Hellatus Edition”

  1. I was watching I Know What You Did Last Summer and I think the ‘hottest’ scene in Supernatural history was when Sam and Dean both got injured jumping thru the church window to escape Alastair and THEN Sam stitched himself up while Dean wandered around with his dislocated shoulder ‘hanging’ and then Sam finished and said, On the count of THREE and he relocated Dean’s shoulder on ONE and they did that manly ‘thing’ is the HOTTEST scene in SPN history. MUCH hotter than anybody’s sex scene ever. It SMOKES. I ‘get’ that Jensen worked with Jared (and visa versa) to be ‘at ease’ with each other and here you ‘see’ that they are physically at ease with each other. I am going to eat a popsicle to cool down.

  2. I sure hope we don’t have Jack get Mary out, and Mary team up with the Wayward Women and Sam and Dean are saved by the cast of the spinoff. I want them to save themselves.

    FIRST thought this morning!

  3. It was a,decent episode.
    Did not I say that Dean’s feelings about Mary ate over the top compared to Sam and it would lead to desperate crazy behavior.
    I thought the extra world stuff at the end was unnecessary and stinks of kitchen sink writing. Not sure how the brothers ended up together when everyone is far flung.
    I liked kaia a lot. The other Dream Waklker’s methods were straiggt out of Constantine.
    Jack enjoys using his powers too much. It won’t end well. Neither will that unguarded rift. Guessing very bad alt-Michael is doing the lance killing of our peeps.

  4. So what did the ratings for Thanksgiving run up to from .3? Is .7 or .8 the rating after 7d?

    That would be fantastic.

    It was a pretty decent episode.

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