All through Supernatural’s 15-season run, producers tried their hand at not one however two spinoffs, with each incomes a backdoor pilot regardless of neither understanding ultimately. It wasn’t till after the flagship’s conclusion that an offshoot occurred, with prequel The Winchesters lasting for only one season. Many have been satisfied that spinoff try #2, Wayward Sisters, can be ordered to collection, and it was heartbreaking when it didn’t occur. I’ve at all times questioned what might have been, and SPN’s government producer offered some particulars that make me much more bummed it by no means existed.
The “Wayward Sisters” backdoor pilot aired in the course of the 13th season of Supernatural again in January 2018, specializing in Jody (Kim Rhodes), Donna (Briana Buckmaster), Claire (Kathryn Newton), Alex (Katherine Ramdeen), in addition to new characters Endurance (Clark Backo) and Kaia (Yadira Guevara-Prip). Regardless of the intriguing idea and a core squad, The CW handed on transferring ahead with it. Now, seven lengthy years later, showrunner Andrew Dabb has supplied a window into what Wayward Sisters would have seemed like, and I really feel like mourning yet again. He advised TV Insider
We wished to give attention to monsters. We wished give attention to sort of again to fundamentals. After which the opposite factor that you just’d have there, which you didn’t have on Supernatural as a lot — you probably did in bits and items — was the formation of this workforce, which I assumed was actually cool and a course of we had began.
All followers actually knew about Wayward Sisters across the episode’s airing was that Jody and Donna have been principally gonna be mentoring a younger feminine group of hunters, with the start of Season 13 even establishing that backdoor pilot by introducing Endurance and Kaia. It was laborious to foretell how totally different or just like Supernatural the brand new present would have been, and studying all this years after the actual fact simply makes it suck even worse.
Rather more was within the theoretical pipeline for the spinoff, together with digging deeper into one side of Supernatural differently:
Then we have been going to get into alternate realities, which, at this level now, they’ve been accomplished so many instances. I’m like, ‘I don’t wish to see one other story with alternate realities ever once more.’ However at that time limit, they have been nonetheless new sufficient. We have been like, ‘Oh, that’s fascinating. We might do one thing with that.’ I imply, there’s a cause we had Chuck destroy all our alternate realities within the Supernatural season finale, as a result of I’m like, ‘I feel we’ve seen sufficient of that. I feel we’ve undoubtedly seen sufficient of that.’
In fact, it’s at all times laborious to know if a mission will carry out nicely as soon as followers have entry, however Wayward Sisters boasted characters that audiences knew and liked, and the backdoor pilot additionally had plenty of motion that probably spoke to what the tone would have been. To this present day, I’m nonetheless unhappy that it by no means occurred, although I additionally surprise how it will have fared on the time if The CW had given it an opportunity, particularly in comparison with the prequel.
It doesn’t assist that it appears like there was so much deliberate for it, and that Dabb continues to be feeling the damage as nicely:
I actually do want Wayward Sisters would’ve gone ahead. We spent plenty of time constructing as much as it. Bob Berens, who actually did the lion’s share of the work on it, did an incredible job. These actors have been superb. It simply didn’t work out for us. However I definitely assume there have been extra tales to inform there.
Supernatural did finally end the story that may have been explored on Wayward Sisters, so at the least that was wrapped up, nevertheless it solely made followers need the present much more. It’s undoubtedly not the primary present to get a backdoor pilot and never transfer ahead, and it gained’t be the final. It simply sucks that Wayward didn’t get the prospect to shine.
Perhaps a Wayward Sisters-like present might occur later down the road or a Supernatural revival, however for now, followers must think about what might have been. On the very least, the backdoor pilot is streaming with a Netflix subscription, which is healthier than nothing.