8.12 As Time Goes By: As Long As We’re Alive, There’s Always Hope What if your whole past Isn’t what you always thought? What’s your legacy? Commentary and Meta Analysis While this episode was beautifully shot and had some powerful emotional beats, I had real problems with it because it seemed to radically…
8.11 LARP And The Real Girl: Escaping Isn’t What It Used To Be Frustrated LARPer Binds fairy to kill rivals: Brave hearts win the day. Commentary and Meta Analysis I thoroughly enjoyed this episode! I don’t have a lot to say about it meta-wise, and being a standalone villain hunt, it didn’t…
8.10 Torn And Frayed: I Can’t Enjoy A World I Need To Save Who controls angels? Crowley and Naomi both Tamper with base code. Commentary And Meta Analysis Torn and frayed pretty well described all of our heroes by the end of this episode. But despite being torn and frayed, a…
We know season eight is exploring issues of perception. Even if we didn’t have the interview words of showrunner Jeremy Carver pointing that out, we’d have known it from what we’ve seen thus far of the conflict between the brothers, particularly given its basis in their differing experiences and views of those experiences from their…
Supernatural has often drawn parallels between monsters, their victims, and the Winchester brothers, and I’ve always enjoyed episodes where the case of the week played directly into the psychology of the brothers. I thought this episode accomplished that goal with subtlety, avoiding anvil-dropping. And while the clues to Sam’s solo year are coming with agonizing…
8.02: What’s Up, Tiger Mommy?: It’s About The Sacrifice What’s the price of peace? Mother’s soul for her son’s life; Dean’s Winchester guilt. Commentary and Meta Analysis I will apologize in advance, because this one’s going to be short and shallow given the current strictures on my time. I hope to be able…
Escaped fighter Dean Disrupts Sam’s new life of peace. New quest: Word of God. Commentary and Meta Analysis I’m afraid this won’t be up to my usual standards – I’m hideously hard-pressed right now juggling the career I’m leaving, the career I’m starting, family matters, and my fannish heart – but I had to…
As always in the anticipation of a new season, many fans are bouncing off the walls reacting to spoilery tidbits about the upcoming storyline. I’m going to say up front I’ve never understood the fannish tendency to jump off cliffs making judgments about things we haven’t even seen yet, especially leaping to angry, bitter conclusions…
This article takes you along on the 2012 Location Tour with locations manager Russ Hamilton. While we clearly went to some locations that are being used in season 8 – heck, Supernatural reuses so many locations that it would be impossible to avoid that, and we saw a glimpse of Purgatory at the end of…
Bardicvoice’s VanCon Reports, Part 10: Location Tour, Spoilers Only! Russ offered a few very tiny little spoilers for season 8 during the location tour. They don’t give away anything about character or plot, so they hardly qualify as spoilers at all, but for people who are thoroughly keeping their heads down and eyes averted to…
(All photos taken by sweetondean) The highlight of the con was, as usual, the panel with Jared and Jensen on Sunday. Both stars were in fine fettle, happy and relaxed, and played off each other with their usual aplomb and impeccable timing. For those fans who waited until the very end of the day, which…
(All photos from sweetondean) I’ve chosen to consolidate the last two panels on Saturday because I didn’t get as many notes from them as from others. The Dick and Matt show was a lot of fun and included some tasty treats. The Jim and Misha panel was less rewarding to me personally because it had…
