Ah, it must be TV pilot and series renewal negotiation season. That familiar feeling is in the air. The time of year where TV networks start forming their fall schedules, holding the not so secret negotiations in backrooms. The time where bozos with a Droid or iPhone and a Twitter account become eager to start some trouble with…
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…
“Devil’s Trap” –Robin’s Rambles –Robin Vogel This episode is one of my top-five favorites. So many firsts…Bobby Singer and his fascinating salvage yard, his dog, Rumsfeld, the Key of Solomon, the Devil’s Trap, demon exorcism! Most of this became common-place, of course, but seeing it for the first time, ambrosial! From the moment the brothers…
(This review was originally published at Blogcritics.org in 2010, but is no longer there. I’m reposting here to preserve my archive of SPN reviews.) So what if you held an apocalypse and only three bratty teenagers came? A major dud, that’s what. So, that brings us to the episode review for “Swap Meat.” The episode…
“Salvation” –Robin’s Rambles –Robin Vogel “Carry on my wayward son, there’ll be peace when you are done, lay your weary head to rest, don’t you cry no more. . .” — Kansas So starts this episode, recapping all that started John Winchester on his quest to kill the demon that murdered his…
Okay, when an episode leaves you an utter speechless mess, it works! Thanks to an early critics preview courtesy of Warner Brothers, I just got to see this week’s upcoming episode “The Song Remains The Same.” It’s definitely epic. It pretty much blew apart my afternoon! After a few weeks of “standalones” this one is going to get the…
(From Alice) Ardeospina sent this to me over a week ago (it might even be two) and since then there’s another item to add to this list. I think we all know what it is. Anyway, all this is her except for my added “Honorable Mention” at the end that I’m sure Ardeospina would have…
“Dead Man’s Blood” –Robin’s Rambles –Robin Vogel With the introduction of Daniel Elkins, a hunter who showed John the ropes, comes the introduction of the Colt, the gun that (supposedly) can kill anything. This gun, created along with 13 bullets by Sam Colt in 1835 during Halley’s comet, will kill the demon who killed…
