8.23 Sacrifice: It Was Always God’s Intention, The Ultimate Sacrifice Metatron’s Heaven: Exile angels for revenge. Closing Hell is death. Commentary and Meta Analysis My reaction to this episode was mixed. On the one hand, the performances, direction, and technical production aspects were absolutely stellar, and it filled my eyes and broke my…
Strip away the falling angels, the demons, and the Demon Trials and we are left with a story about seeking redemption. It is this aspect that makes Supernatural so utterly gripping and powerful each episode—and “Sacrifice” is no different. It’s all about forgiveness. It can be hard won or given freely. Sometimes its both….
I know I haven’t been here for many months, and all I’m going to say about that is that I had two back surgeries to have a spinal deformity corrected, and I’m healing, with maddening sloth. I also wanted to say that I have been thoroughly enjoying season eight of “Supernatural” way more than six…
8.22 Clip Show: When They’re All Gone, What Will You Have Left? How can you fight on When why you fight is destroyed? Crowley’s leverage … Commentary and Meta Analysis This episode really turned up the pressure on the Winchesters, with Crowley finding the precise psychological lever to pull to hurt the…
In a blinding white light, Dean Winchester emerged from Purgatory, covered in dirt and blood and looking way sexier than anyone has any right to. He’d spent a year fighting monsters, trying to escape a plane he was never supposed to be in. Dean brought back secrets. A friend that didn’t fit the norm of…
“What’s the line? “Saving people, hunting things. The family business.” Well I think, the people you save, they’re how you justify your pathetic little lives. The alcoholism, the collateral damage, the pain you’ve caused… The one thing that allows you to sleep at night – the one thing is knowing these folks are out there….
Whenever we get down to the last set of episodes for a season, expectations are extremely high. We want something that thrills us, excites us, makes us laugh, cry, gives us some extraordinary canon to debate, shocks us to the core, but overall delivers something that we enjoy. I can honestly say, after two watches,…
One week to go, people. How’d that happen? The last 2 weeks have got us fully locked and loaded for heaven knows what, because seriously, I have no idea where this is all going! This week’s “Clip Show” took us on a crazy ride, one that raised plenty of questions and filled me with both…
As penultimate (see Sam, people do say it) episodes go, this set a number of balls in motion for the finale and what will be most interesting to see is not only how the plots are wrapped up (for the ones that are) but how they end up coming together when they do. “Clip Show”…
SPOILER ALERT: I loved this episode. Supernatural has really been bringing it the past few weeks and I am loving every second. We are one episode away from a long hiatus and there is still so much that needs to be resolved! As is typical at about this time every season, I feel like my…
Warning!!! If you haven’t seen “Clip Show,” read no further. There will be extensive talk about the episode, so you will be spoiled if you read this without watching the episode first. If you’ve seen it, come on in and talk about it with me!
Building upon the willing hero theme that “LARP and the Real Girl” examined, “As Time Goes By” delves into that of legacy. Sam and Dean have inherited a great hunting legacy from their maternal side, the Campbells. They have descended from a long lineage of hunters that have faced the supernatural throughout the centuries….
