Happy Birthday Sammy! Little Sammy is 29 today.Huh…guess that’s not so little any more. Of course if you want to factor in the missing year, then he is an over-the-hill 30! NopeI’m sticking with 29. Thought I’d share some cute photos I have of Sam from various episodes. See if you can guess which ones…
Solitary Sam: I Can’t Do This Alone For months, Hallucination!Lucifer (Hall!Luci) had been working on Sam’s fragile psyche. Like water slowly eroding stone, Hall!Luci’s stream of taunts, mockery and endless conversation were eroding Sam’s hold on sanity. Yet, somehow, Sam continued to cling to control. But then one day, in a quiet library, Sam…
Ever since I started reviewing Supernatural in season three, I’ve taken some enjoyment here and there in performing a close study of Sam’s character (and gotten tons of “Sam fan†accusations because of it). He’s quite an enigma most of the time because he tends to internalize everything. It makes for hours of fun speculating. …
Sam Winchester and the Evolution of a “Freak” In the world of Supernatural, the word freak connotes different, dangerous, evil, and nonhuman. Hunters throw around various permutations of the word to describe the creatures they hunt (freaks), the situations they find themselves in (freaky), or negative emotional states (freaked out). Of the Winchester brothers,…
You want to know how freaking impossible it is to critique season six Sam Winchester? I mean, how in the world to you characterize a character that wasn’t a character for an entire half a season? It just blows the mind. Nah, there’s certainly something more to soulless Sam than meets the eye. After all,…
(If you missed part one of the analysis, check it out here.) In “You Can’t Handle the Truth,” Dean is in full panic mode concerning Sam. He discusses the situation with Bobby, considering either walking away from Sam or shooting him. He is uncomfortable, anxious, and agitated. Sam is not and has not behaved like his…
“Ever since I came back, I am a better hunter than I’ve ever been! Nothing scares me anymore because I can’t feel it. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I think I need help.” Soulless Sam—You Can’t Handle the Truth Soulless Sam was perhaps the most daring aspect of Season 6. To turn…
Remember this? As I may have hinted before, I have these little conversations with myself during the rare quiet times at my house. Like when I’m reading a great article posing the question about the diminishing appeal of superheroes on TV. Here’s the bizarre inner conversation that followed:
The OMG! Sam Winchester Top 10 list Warning: The following article may cause uncontrollable drooling, I advise you to get a bib, napkin, bowl, bucket… Whatever suits you better and prevents you to ruin your computer. 😀 Our editor in chief kindly reminded me that here in the TWFB we like to show…
I choose Stephen Crane’s poem to frame this analysis because it points toward a specific tradition in American literature: naturalism’s brutal portrayal of the natural order. It also, with its notion of bodily ownership, underlines how “one” exists against the reality of the outside world, “because it is my heart….” Since Supernatural has now adopted the “natural…
Well, for Sam this time. It’s no secret: I miss my Sammy, I want to exclaim, and I have done so in my head countless times. Though I can understand how much Jared Padalecki must enjoy performing this development of Sam’s nature – and I am so proud of him watching him grow even more…
Supernatural has long become a topic of scientific research. Scholars, devoted to the paranormal, have begun investigating the phenomenon of weirdness inside the show and developed theories that now leaked into the ‘real world’.
