Way back in season one, I fell in love with Supernatural. It didn’t happen at the very beginning. Oh, I watched and enjoyed the pilot – I’d respected Jensen Ackles since the Pollo Loco episode of Dark Angel, so I knew I’d check this out – but I didn’t realize the complexity and depth of…
In the beginning was the Darkness, a horribly destructive amoral force.i Then there was God (well, and Death), and God felt … experimental. God created Leviathan.ii Consisting of nothing but rapacious appetite, Leviathan were a relatively simple creation. However, God quickly realized he’d neglected to build in limits on their appetites. According to Death, concerned…
(Photo of Osric Chau and Lauren Tom courtesy of Fangasm) Behold, Bardicvoice is in the house and attending the Salute to Supernatural Con Las Vegas! As she does every con she attends, she gives delightful, very detailed information from the panels via live tweeting and we are again honored to share those. Below are her…
I was driving my car when I suddenly realized the gravimetrics of a binary star system provide a great analogy to make sense of the relationships between and among the Winchester brothers and their enemies and friends.
Monster-Slayer: Why Bloodlines Failed Me Truth in advertising: I loathed Bloodlines, the failed back door pilot for a potential Supernatural spinoff. I despised it so much that I deleted it from my TiVo DVR the day after it was recorded. I didn’t even erase Man’s Best Friend With Benefits that fast, and I lambasted that…
This is one of my purely speculative classes. I don’t try to predict the show’s story, as a rule: I never, ever, want to get invested in my idea of a story and thus be predisposed to reject and be disappointed by any different version – however potentially brilliant – making it to screen. But…
(Photo of Jared and Jensen courtesy of Fangasm) Sunday and a Supernatural Con usually means one thing, it’s J & J day! Yes, a lot of Bardicvoice’s tweets were of the J’s appearance today, but there’s plenty of great stuff from the Misha Collins/Mark Sheppard panel and Rachael Miner as well. All the details are…
(Photo of Misha Collins courtesy of Fangasm) Saturday was quite an event at Salute to Supernatural in Washington DC. Misha Collins had a very special panel, a webcast of his webseries, TSA, exclusively for convention goers! This was on top of his traditional Saturday afternoon panel, not to mention his judging of the costume contest…
(Photo courtesy of Fangasm) Anyone that’s ever read Bardicvoice’s tweets from a Supernatural con knows that she is very thorough with her information! She tweets live from all the panels and events and always has plenty of great information to share. Bardicvoice is at Salute to Supernatural in Washington D.C. the entire weekend and here,…
I loved all the aspects of Meta Fiction, including the meta ones. Robbie Thompson’s script was a profound brain teaser; Jensen Ackles’ depiction of Dean’s struggle with the effects of the Mark of Cain was masterfully subtle; Jared Padalecki brought Sam’s worry over his brother and his rage at Gadreel and Metatron into his every…
I think a lot of fans have been upset this season with the Winchester brothers’ fundamental failure to communicate; I know it’s been bothering me. Their relationship is broken on basic levels. We all know it needs to be healed – but HOW? I was in the shower when it hit me: what the brothers…
Supernatural University: On the Genesis and Regenesis of Monsters Supernatural has always done its own takes on classic monsters, often giving them unique twists. Over the seasons, the show has also revisited monsters, sometimes appearing to change the monster rules in the process. I’ve written a lot about monsters in Supernatural over the years, and…
