The Enigma and Cruelty of Sam Winchester’s Powers Part One “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest feat is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us” Nelson Mandela Kind readers, before I begin, allow me to warn you – this is going…
Dean Winchester Is Dead – Long Live Dean Winchester ‘You can smirk and joke and lie to your brother, lie to yourself, but not to me. I can see how broken you are, how defeated, you can’t win, you know it, but you keep fighting, just keep going through the motions. You’re not hungry, Dean,…
Angels, Archangels, Michael himself and the Winchester Brothers ’ Heavenly Connection to Cain and Abel The Archangel Michael by Guido Reni, Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome Dean Winchester is Michael’s intended vessel, that much we know, in fact, he is Michael fabled sword, the ultimate weapon against evil, not…
Supernatural Soundtracks Can you imagine a movie or an episode of your favourite tv-show without the music? Undoubtedly, some scores are lodged in your brain like a bullet – as they are in mine. Whenever I watch any sea life documentary, for instance, Jaws’ ba-dam…ba-dam…. appears in my head. It’s almost Pavlov… Everytime any…
Lux Aeterna – An Epitaph For Kim Manners “Is is such a secret place, the land of tears.’ The Little Prince Antoine de Saint Exupéry In the realm of grief, in the land of tears, one year is nothing. One person passed away, and even after a year the…
Folie à Deux – Sam and Dean in the Cuckoo’s Nest Usually I don’t write reviews. This time, however, I couldn’t help myself. This was an episode worthy of the early Supernatural stories, the ones that made us love the show – a monster, a creepy location, a formidable team of charming hunters…
A Devil Named Lucifer ‘Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.’ John Milton The Lord of Hell. Lucifer. There probably is no greater enemy: Although the titles attributed to the devil are legion, in the realm of Supernatural this is his name. We are told a tragic story of a fallen…
Quoting Supernatural If you know what’s out there and once hoped to live a normal, apple pie life, you are quoting Supernatural. Needless to say, you despise chick flick moments and don’t do shorts, because saving people, hunting things is your calling. After a while you find that this whole gig ain’t…
‘Abandon all hope, you who enter!’ – Dante Alighieri’s inscription at the entrance to Hell We don’t know much about hell. In Supernatural’s universe it is a place where one month becomes a decade. It is a ‘prison made of bone and flesh and blood and fear.’ It is ‘a pit of…
Sam’s and Dean’s Good Intentions for 2010 It’s a celebrated tradition in several countries to begin a new year with putting down what we’d like to achieve that year or what we will stop doing. Using suddenly emerging telepathic skills (New Year’s Eve-Champagne will do that to you), I sneaked into the…
‘Unconquerable Souls’ Poetry That Could Be Supernatural As some of you will already have noticed I read a lot, and I have a soft spot for poetry. Give me Shakespeare at any time, and I’m happy. Now, some of my best-loved poems have begun to remind me of my favourite tv-show and…
Inspiration is a wondrous creature – suddenly it raises its head out of nowhere, when you least expect it… after watching a couple of old Supernatural episodes, Indeep’s song from the eighties – Last Night a DJ Saved My Life – was played on the radio … Suddenly words began to form in my head,…
