**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 [...]
Supernatural Finale
The two part finale of Supernatural came and went but it left destruction in its wake. I am not joking, fans were devastated, Twitter was like a pillaged village after the barbarians invaded, the fangirls cries were heard worldwide…Yeah, all in all it was something you could not ignore. In order to keep the spoilers to a minimum(a task at which I fail constantly) I’ll refrain from leaking to much information. Let’s see what happened though. As we know Castiel has been on the fence between good and evil for quite a while, his dealings with Crowley had most fans screaming in dismay, but his actions were justified by the – he is cute so he must be good logic – and people moved on. Alas, things were not so rosy after the finale. In the first part of the night – Let it Bleed, Castiel was more than unhelpful when Lisa and Ben (yes, they brought them back yet again) were kidnapped by Crowley’s goons. Remember last time when Cas threatened Crowley and ordered him to leave the boys alone? Yeah, he didn’t include other loved ones so Crowley took the family unit Dean worked hard to build and [...]
Supernatural – The man who would be king (or not)
I usually do the whole recap/review thing for every episode, but I skipped a couple – the wild west one and the one where Eve dies somewhat anticlimactically after being a rather preeminent villain for the course of the season. They were both great episode in my opinion (except for the whole Eve thing – she died a bit like Crowley…oh, wait!) building up to the season finale. Not having watched any spoilers I don’t really have any expectations one way or another about the episodes that will end the season, however I had huge expectations about the latest Supernatural installment. We were to find out the story of Castiel(Misha Collins), solve the mystery of Crowley’s(Mark Sheppard) survival and all that and yet I wasn’t satisfied with what I got. First of all, lately Supernatural seems to have turned into a fanfiction of sorts. Each episode makes one part of the fandom or another happy. We get hints of slash between Dean and Castiel, hints of whatever pairing the fans are shipping at the moment, the story alters based on fans desires, which isn’t always a bad thing, but it’s not a good thing either. I feel proud, I have [...]
Supernatural – The French Mistake
Took me a while to get to this review, mostly because I have been away, but my fingers have been itching since I watched the episode on Friday. This episode that had Supernatural fans break Twitter (yet again, if I may add) was awesome. One of the best episodes this season (I am perfectly aware I say that about most episodes, but it’s well deserved) had Sam and Dean land in a sort of alternate reality where they are Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles playing Sam and Dean on a not so popular show with the audiences, called Supernatural. Are you with me so far? Balthazar (Sebastian Roche) pays the boys a visit while they are at Bobby’s – alas, no Jim Beaver this episode – and tosses them to an alternate dimension/reality in order to protect the keys to the kingdom. Well, to the place where Castiel keeps the weapons of Heaven nicely stashed. It was a hilarious episode, confusion at every step for the boys who were suddenly faced with incredible challenges. Dean can’t get over the fact that Sam/Jared is married to Genevieve Cortese/ Ruby, who in turn can’t get over the fact that Dean and Sam [...]
Supernatural – Cas is Back!
OK, I know the episode is actually titled The Third Man, but we all know this is the title it should have had. First things first, some fantasies were fulfilled as Jared Padalecki did his morning routine bare chested, off to a good start right? Well, for those who were unlucky enough not to see the episode – this is not how it actually began. The episode started with the classic “THEN”, and we got a small recap of the past seasons, more importantly a recap of Cas’s rebellion against Heaven and particularly Raphael. We know angels can hold grudges, and archangels even more so, look at Lucifer – not over his daddy’s love for the humans after several millennia. In his defence he was locked into a cage for that time. Back to the “NOW” – at the start of the episode we get to witness the death of a police officer and I must say it really turned the squick factor up a notch or two. Definitely two. Poor man was basically liquefied before the eyes of his partner. It was really not a pleasant thing to see, but despite finding this scene disturbing I also found it [...]
