Warning!: If you haven’t seen “Devil May Care,” you probably want to leave this page. Spoilers, ahoy! I will be writing up the Let’s Speculate articles for the foreseeable future, so please let me know if you want more of something or less of something else. I’ll start with a brief recap and then…
Supporting characters on Supernatural are often welcomed with skepticism. Part of that attitude is ingrained in viewers because we have learned that attaching to a character can lead to heartbreak. The show does not shy away from killing characters and even if it brings them back, such as in the case with Bobby or Rufus,…
Enjoy this “Tale of a few boards.”
Loving You Before Him: Finding Better Angels in Supernatural “Then he created you….the little hairless apes. And then he asked all of us to bow down before you, to love you more than him.†– Lucifer, “The End†The character of Castiel is controversial – no two ways about it. Many read the show as…
Making it Work: Dressing the Winchester Way Well, dahlings, we are here to discuss the fabulous and sometimes fabulously hideous fashion of the Brothers Winchester. If you wanna be a resident of the Supernatural world of glorious ghouls and hotter hotties then you’ve got to know how to dress the game. Here are some of…
“A path is always between two points, but the in-between has taken on all the consistency and enjoys both an autonomy and a direction of its own. The life of the nomad is the intermezzo.” ““ Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus Supernatural is a story about nomads. The show follows the Winchester family, but…
Grotesque Rules of Engagement: The Ethics of the Hunt on “Supernatural,” Part Two In the first section of this essay (Read it here!), I wrote about Sam’s “monstrous†nature (neither good nor bad) as being an essential part of understanding the ethics of hunting on Supernatural because he, as one of the key agents in…
In honor of the new season and the possibilities of new characters to come, I’d like to review some of the strongest characters on “Supernatural”. The women. So here’s my list (random numbering) of the seven ladies who kickass in the Winchester world.
Soft falls the hunter’s step on unholy ground. Here no earth covers faces or bodies or souls nor leaves behind remnants to be found. In life he rescued parts from abandoned wholes but now he whispers lullabies in ancient rhyme; Words for coins to pay Charon’s tolls. He passes through memories and time; Keeps with…
Let’s be honest. Supernatural tells a story about fathers. John, the father. God, the father. Bobby and Dean, the father figures. And most recently, Castiel, the father surrogate and Dick, the corporate father.
Grotesque Rules of Engagement: The Ethics of the Hunt on Supernatural “The growing doubt of human autonomy and reason has created a state of moral confusion where man is left without guidance of either revelation or reason.†– Erich Fromm, Man for Himself To say Supernatural is morally confused might be…
So I’ll be honest. I have not been happy with Season 7 of Supernatural. I’ve felt disconnected from the story, from the brothers, from the world within which they’ve found themselves since “Exile on Main Street.†To my mind, seasons 6 and 7 have been uneven at best – at times brilliant and at times…
