What the Winchester Family Business Means to Me

***HAPPY THOUGHTS ONLY ZONE – NO NEGATIVITY PLEASE*** In light of the recent controversial mudslinging about this site and even our intrepid leader, I felt it was time to reflect on what the Winchester Family Business is truly about. I stumbled upon Alice ‘s episode reviews the summer between season three and four and followed her from…

Sam and Dean and The Winchester Formula: Survival, Posttraumatic Growth and Heroism Under Supernatural Circumstances

    A hero is the one who does what he can. The others don’t. Romain Rolland     Two independent, gutsy, at times goofy guys in a gorgeous classic car, some of the best rock music ever written, constantly blaring from the radio, a new town each day, all across the country – the epitome…

Do You Believe in Magic?

    It’s called Supernatural, so of course magic is everywhere, even quotidian one might say, the highways and byways of America full of pointy-capped Gandalfs spreading joy and expensive special effects. Forgive me being painfully and uncomically glib, but I’ve rewritten this intro at least 79 times so let’s get right to the heart…

Supernatural Score Soundtrack to Be Released September 7th

On September 7th, which just also happens to be the day of the Season Five DVD release, the Official “Supernatural: Original Television Soundtrack – Seasons 1 – 5” is available for purchase as well.  This soundtrack actually features the score tracks by longtime “Supernatural” composers Jay Gruska and Christopher Lennertz.  As a big fan of their work,…

Top 22 Previously Unseen Supernatural Beings I Want In Season 6 – Part One

Top 22 Previously Unseen Supernatural Beings I Want In Season 6 – Part One

I was more than halfway through my own list of monsters I wanted to see in season 6 when I checked in to TWFB and saw that Elle2 had created an excellent list of monsters she wanted to see in season 6!  Thankfully, I was writing about things we haven’t seen yet, while she mostly…

What’s In a Name

Those that we call Winchester by any other word would be as sweet…. Forgive me, kind readers, the blasphemy of paraphrasing the words of magnificent Shakespeare for my own intentions… But, as the bard and I have shared a loving relationship from my 16th year on, I trust William would not take it amiss… I…

Significant Mothers of Supernatural Part Two:  The Surrogate

Significant Mothers of Supernatural Part Two: The Surrogate

Significant Mothers of Supernatural Part Two: The Surrogate (For Part One: One-Hit Wonders go here.) The Winchester Brothers have had their share of loss. Their family has never been large, forged more in arms than in blood, to be sure. From the first moment that the boys meet her, in her own way Ellen adopts…