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Supernatural Preview - 5.06 Kids Run the World!

October 15th, 2009

SUPERNATURAL 506If kids ran the world, then fairy tales would come true! On other TV shows, that might be a great thing, but on Supernatural, you know it means some bloody Nightmare before Halloween type scenarios for Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles).

Supernatural episode 5.06 “I Believe the Children Are Our Future” airs on Thursday, October 15 at 9pm EST/PST on the CW. Listen in next week to Tuning in to Sci Fi TV for our in-depth conversation about this episode; and join in the discussion.

Check below out a teaser clip from this week’s episode.
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Supernatural Preview - 5.05 Fallen Idol

October 7th, 2009

Yes, it’s the Supernatural episode about famous people (dead and alive) featuring She Who Shall Not Be Named in a brilliant stunt casting move by Eric Kripke. Supernatural episode 5.05 “Fallen Idol” airs on Thursday, October 8 at 9pm EST/PST on the CW.

Spoilers: Check out a preview clip for this week’s episode. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) may still be on the hook to stop the Apocalypse, but even demon hunters with issues like to check under the hood of a cool car now and again… especially if the car may be a supernatural killer.

Listen in next week to Tuning in to Sci Fi TV for our in-depth conversation about this episode; and join in the discussion.

Supernatural Preview - 5.04 The End

September 30th, 2009

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While Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) are still taking separate vacations, Dean gets a glimpse of the world in five years. The good news - the world still exists. The bad news - The End actually is near!

Supernatural episode 5.04 “The End” airs on Thursday, October 1 at 9pm EST/PST on the CW.

Spoilers: Check out these preview clips for this week’s episode. Clip 1: Dean meets the future:

Clip 2: Castiel uses the cell phone again:

Listen in next week to Tuning in to Sci Fi TV for our in-depth conversation about this episode; and join in the discussion.

Supernatural Preview - 5.03 Free to Be You and Me

September 24th, 2009


Supernatural’s Apocalypse is bubbling but everyone’s off on their own paths. Castiel (Misha Collins) went to draft God onto special teams. Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) took a time out. Will Sam face his issues or freely indulge his darkside? Can our antihero with great hair turn his curse into something good? Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) is soldiering on alone, but even a reluctant leader needs more than his steel horse and a PSA from Marlo Thomas.

A spoilery clip from Supernatural episode 5.03 “Free to Be You and Me” follows the break, plus a link to Eric Kripke discussing a few upcoming episodes.
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Supernatural 5.02 Preview - Good God, Y’all!

September 16th, 2009

spn_s5ep1_sam-and-dean It’s another Supernatural Thursday! The days of miracle and wonder roll on as the angels versus demons war slouches towards Bethlehem.

Team Winchester battles on the front lines again this week when they join up with some old allies to save an imperiled town. But things may not be what they seem. Those demons (and angels) are tricky.

A preview clip for Supernatural episode 5.02 “Good God Ya’ll” and links to other preview clips follow the break.

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Supernatural Days of Miracle and Wonder

September 16th, 2009

spn4_dvd Winchester Family Business - the Supernatural guide to demon hunting (and fishing)

Contains spoilers for Supernatural Episode 5.01 “Sympathy for the Devil.”

The days of miracle and wonder start with Lucifer’s arriving white light. Sam and Dean Winchester were nearly thunderstruck by Lucifer’s arriving beam but Somebody put them on a Soul Plane to safety.

Our heroes searched for answers but Zachariah and Meg kept dogging Dean for his sword. Castiel was smited into chunky soup but Somebody brought him back to save Team Winchester. Meanwhile Lucifer’s beam circled Nick, his intended vessel. Nick’s grief and anger gave him too much sympathy with Lucifer’s daddy issues. But Dean had no sympathy for Sammy’s betrayal with that demon Ruby.

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Supernatural Season 5 - Lucifer is Coming!

September 9th, 2009

spn_poster_2_aOne more day and Lucifer is busted out! Before Supernatural season four ended in a fade to white light, remember that Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) started the dominoes falling once he tortured souls in hell and as a result beak the first seal binding Lucifer. With that lock picked, Lilith started on the next 64 seals. But it was our dear Sammy (Jared Padalecki), hepped up on blood and late-night creeping, who killed Lil to break the final seal holding Lucifer. Just before Dean ganked Ruby (Finally! Thank you Eric Kripke), she told Sam her boss would be grateful. Will Lucifer actually be happy to see Sam? And weirder, will Sam and Dean be happy to meet Lucifer?

Is ManBearPig (er, Lucifer) going to bring wrath and ruin, or smug? Maybe Lucifer’s tactics involve exploiting human pride and good intentions and blinding by rainbows.

The one thing we know for sure is that Metallicar cannot be corrupted by evil. Everyone else is fair game and ripe for temptation.

Supernatural returns with “Sympathy for the Devil” on The CW, on September 10, at 9pm EST/8 pm CST.

Listen to our in-depth discussion of this episode on next week’s Tuning in to SciFi TV (the fans’ guide to sci fi and genre TV.)

The Trouble with Angels Part 1 (Sam Winchester Gets a Rock)

November 2nd, 2008

Supernatural - Episode 4.08 “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester”

November 2 is All Soul’s Day. In the Catholic religion, it’s a holy day of obligation. The faithful pray for departed friends and family so the souls in purgatory will pass on to heaven. November 2 is also the day that Sam Winchester lost two people he loved. When he was six months old, Azazel came into his nursery to collect on the deal Mary Winchester made with him 10 years before in exchange for John Winchester’s life. Azazel paid his visit, feeding baby Sam demon blood. Mary interrupted Azazel’s work though, so he burned her up on the ceiling for interfering. Twenty-two years later, Sam returns from a demon hunting trip with his brother Dean to find his girlfriend Jessica on the ceiling and then engulfed in flames the same way Mary died.

Sam has yet another awful Halloween as he and his brother Dean have to save a town from the demon behind Halloween or the angels will wipe the town off the map. And the Great Pumpkin is a no-show. Again.

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The Ruby Slippers

October 21st, 2008

(Contains references through Supernatural episode 4.07 “Yellow Fever”)

Witches have a hard go of it everywhere. Remember those witches in Oz who were so mad to wear the enchanted ruby slippers? Wear those shoes too long, and a house falls on you, or a bucket of water melts your sister. Then some whiny Dorothy steals the family shoes!

The Ruby shoes, er meatsuits, on Supernatural have a similarly tough gig. What’s a misfit demongirl to do when she just won’t forget her humanity? Does she take the rebel road and play the Good Witch when her wicked sisters won’t invite her in to hell’s heavy clambakes? How’s a Good Witch fit in with the evil doer in-crowd? Maybe Ruby’s not a bad evil thing; maybe she’s just drawn and shoed that way.

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Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Supernatural episode 4.04

October 16th, 2008


Has Sam Winchester been lured by a ‘sireen’ who loved him up and turned him into a horny toad? Or a vermin-like bug? Or a long pig-eating rugaru? Let’s pick absurd transformation into a monstrous vermin (because that rugaru was just gross). Yep, we’re talking Kafka and Supernatural!
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