**HERE BE SPOILERS** One of my favourite tv shows returned with a new season and also with quite a bang. After a season of hit and miss episodes, the show came back bigger and better than before. I admit I was having very low expectations and I have successfully managed to avoid all form of spoilers and trailers until the episode aired last night so I was quite blown away by how the story unfolded. We had the chance to ease ourselves back into the lives of the Winchester duo and their faithful sidekick Bobby (yeah, I know, he’s not a sidekick) with a slow start. Let’s just say it all went kaboom after a few minutes of relative peace and quiet. What with Sam having intermitent hallucinations of Hell, Castiel going on a righteous fight against those he deemed unworthy of God(or of himself in this instance) and Crowley (Mark Sheppard) being reinstated as King of Hell, it was bound to be exciting and it sure was. The acting was superb – Jared Padalecki was amazing as a haunted by his time in the cage Sam, Jensen Ackles shined as a disappointed friend who was humiliated and mocked and as [...]
My Heart Will Go On – Supernatural
After an incredibly long Hiatus, though it might have seemed longer considering just how much I wanted to see the next episode, Supernatural is back with My Heart Will Go On. This episode can be considered one of the “light hearted ones” and really, we all know they never predict anything good for our favourite boys. Like all episodes of this nature it was rather bittersweet with secrets being revealed to us, but not to the characters, secrets that I am hoping will set the wheels in motion for another season. (Though secretly I hope they resolve everything in this season and bring something fresh to the table for the next one.) Let’s see what happened, shall we? *SPOILERS AHEAD, ADVANCE AT YOUR OWN RISK* The episode started in a fashion reminiscent of Final Destination – we are slowly shown items that can be potentially dangerous to a man in his garage, he narrowly avoids death a few times and then he meets a rather unpleasant demise at the “hands” of a garage door. I have to say, this episode really made me consider all the ways I could die by simply crossing the street. The boys are off [...]
Supernatural – Hm…And then there were none
OK, let’s start from the beginning. We got last Friday a comeback from Eve, I was wondering where that little Mother of all Monsters went. Apparently she’s traveling up the highway turning Jesus loving truck drivers into homicidal maniacs via a bug in the ear. Yes, I did say bug in the ear…well, it’s more worm like, but my sentiments towards it were the same. Sam and Dean investigate a strange string of murders (but you probably already knew that, it is called Supernatural for a reason) Except this time they have Bobby(Jim Beaver) joining them. I have to say Jim, you look awfully sharp in a suit, but as of season 4 the trench coat is to much Castiel to see it on anyone else. Fashion aside, they are a little stumped as to what went on, until they see Eve – not so pretty on camera Eve – getting in the trucker’s cabin. Dean is a bit taken with the sight of Eve from behind, until she turns towards the camera and we see she is actually one fugly mother. Oh, Dean…you and women monsters, not a good combination. While they pretend to be FBI agents a murder [...]
Supernatural and Mannequins
It’s Tuesday today. Took me this long to gather the strength to write something about the episode that aired last Friday. It wasn’t bad per say, but (the word that cancelled my previous statement) I just didn’t enjoy it. It was one of those love them or hate them episodes. I suppose it was because there was no happy ending, or because the Doctor didn’t pop by in his TARDIS to stop the Autons, oops, I mean the mannequins. For the first 10 minutes or so I was sure I was watching a re-run of Doctor Who (for those of you who don’t know this show – get watching.) But back to the story at hand. Sam, who was left convulsing on the floor at the end of the last episode is “much better” now. That is a lie of course. He seems to remember much more from those 2 minutes=one week of hellish memories than he gives away. Dean is not convinced but he seems to let it slide for the moment. And back to the episode – Sam and Dean are investigating a strange set of murders seemingly impossible to have been committed by a person. Can you [...]
Supernatural – The secrets are out
Last night’s episode of Supernatural was one of great reveals, we finally find out what Sam has been up to this past year when working with grand pappy. Too bad the revelation is bitter and shook my entire view of his character. Since this season started we got glimpses of Sam, but with Dean’s aid he kept it on the straight and narrow, Samuel on the other hand seemed more content to roll his eyes and exhale deeply to show his displeasure at his grandson’s antics. Can you call them that? I have to say, I think the whole behaviour that grandpa displayed was supposed to make him a more…acceptable character, but it fell short in my eyes. The man is beyond redemption. Let’s back up a bit however and get some background. This episode, titled Unforgiven – a very appropriate title – brings us back to a town that Sam and Samuel visited a while back to investigate some mysterious disappearances. We find out what happened through various flashbacks that Sam has throughout the episode and it’s not pretty. Death did tell him to not scratch the wall for a reason, but judging by what went on this episode, [...]
Supernatural – Caged Heart
After a two week long wait, finally Supernatural rolled around with a brand new episode. This episode had all the markings of a great one – Castiel was back, Meg was back and so was Crowley. All we needed was Chuck and all things would’ve been right with the world. But even so, this episode just didn’t feel whole to me. Like there was a big part of it missing, and no, it wasn’t Sam’s soul. We start off with Crowley and his attempts to discover purgatory via torture. He does have Sam and Dean on a short leash and so an endless supplies of demons high on the food chain coming quite often. But it seemed so wrong to have Crowley, who acts like such a bad ass (and who is the self-entitled King of Hell) be the guy that tortures the alpha. Killing him in a very anticlimactic way was I suppose a preface to his own equally anticlimactic demise. I already said it felt like this episode was lacking something, but alas it had some things that really felt like they were dropped in there for the sake of humour but fell flat. Like Castiel watching porn [...]
