It’s that hiatus time of year again! No new adventures with the Winchester boys. Instead we wait in a state of anxiety and speculation, wondering just what the cliffhanger means for the next year. In the meantime, this writer has some time to revisit the missed review opportunities of season eleven, beginning with 11.02.
Alpha & Omega – as finales go, what can we say? It was certainly a unique finale in it’s own right – free of dramatic explosions, supernatural cliffhangers (by and large) and even had a (mostly) happy conclusion to the season-long conflict. Of course that’s not to say we weren’t left with more questions and…
Thoughts on Supernatural 11.22 – We Happy Few Season 11 has been all about the slow build to something grand. It’s been a different approach to previous years, with a patient telling of the story and a gentle rolling out of our characters, their motivations and relationships. The problem? Patience is thinning, motives are murky…
Thoughts on Supernatural 11.21: All In The Family Humourous and heart-wrenching moments, dramatic and intriguing; All In the Family was not without drama or lacking in some of the exposition we’ve been searching for over the season’s run. Season eleven has certainly been a new flavour mix for Supernatural. These past months have been…
Thoughts on Supernatural 11.19: The Chitters This was an unexpected episode in all the best ways – truly a solid, stand-alone episode. What appeared to be another MOTW storyline came to be an emotionally driven story about, not just brothers and family, but loss, the quest for vengeance that drives hunters so often and the…
Action and answers after weeks of speculation and wonder. Where is Amara? Can Lucifer really challenge Amara? Who is the lesser evil? All given an answer in one great episode, finally brining our two great villains together and revealing that, Hand of God juice or not, Lucifer is no true challenger to the Darkness. Arabian…
There is a lot to love about Red Meat. It’s maybe been a while since we’ve seen a werewolf and they weren’t really a major focus here. Instead they were a background nuisance to the frontline story – about family, because that is was Supernatural focuses on the best after all. We have a young,…
Like his brother, Dean has evolved in a multitude of ways since we first met him over ten years ago. On first glance, Dean was confident, cocky and maybe even arrogant to the surface glance. He was flash and sparkle to cover the untouched child issues and the deep emotional needs he couldn’t address in…
I loved this episode. It was unabashed filler of the best kind. Did we advance the main story arc in any way? Nope. Did we see our main antagonists for even a millisecond or discover what they’ve been up to in recent days? Not at all. Never the less, the episode was rich with humour,…
The Devil’s in the Details He certainly is. The nuances that nobody noticed about Castiel as they left the basement known as Hell and likely won’t notice until the most inopportune of times. This twist presents so many opportunities to the story it’s hard to even name them all: we can have quite a…
Here we are, part 2 of the season eight hits and misses. This was such a difficult list to compile: I really enjoyed season eight and there just aren’t that many over all major misses for me. So, most of what comes into this list are teeny-tiny little nitpicky things.
The Mechanics of Supernatural: Six Years Later In 2009 when I first wrote this short piece, I was a newer member of the WFB writing family and my life was in a very different place. At the time, Supernatural was constantly amazing me with not only the forethought going into the storylines but the longevity…
