Tag: Dean Winchester
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Supernatural, “Weekend At Bobby’s”
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a sucker for the “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” storytelling approach that sees individual episodes shift the focus away from the usual main characters and onto the supporting players we’re certainly familiar with, but don’t always get to watch in action on their own. House tried it…
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Supernatural, “The Third Man”
Three episodes in, Supernatural‘s sixth season is a mess. “The Third Man” brings our favorite angel Castiel back into the picture, and along with him comes some hackneyed new mythology about the archangels and more McGuffin-like weapons that may or may not be important in the future. Here’s my problem: If the series wants to…
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Season Premiere — Supernatural, “Exile on Main St.”
Whereas the Smallville premiere had to prove it the series has direction in its final season, the Supernatural premiere has to do even more heavy lifting to even convince me it should exist as a series. I’ve already expressed my discontent with the series continuing on to a sixth season, particularly with the “back to…
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Fall TV Preview: Four returning series that have something to prove
The fall television season is just about to begin! To celebrate, I’ll be doing a series of fun features and previews for both returning and brand-new series. I have not seen any of the new pilots or premieres from veteran series, and thus the quotes around preview. No matter, that won’t stop me from doing…
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Is Supernatural’s back-to-basics plan a good idea?
Note: Again, I’m looking to do more short-form column-like pieces here on TVS. This is one of them. All Supernatural fans know this, but for those uninitiated here’s a quick synopsis of the background information needed for this piece. The low-rated CW series was always on a five-year plan, according to creator/show runner Eric Kripke. With…
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Emotion over “answers” — Discussing storytelling approaches in the finales of Lost and Supernatural
With the round of season finales out of the way for all the major broadcast television series, I’ve been thinking about which finales were the most effective and why. You know, because I have absolutely nothing to do with my life during the summer — or any time for that matter.
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2009-10 season wrap: Supernatural
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be summarizing my thoughts on many of the series that ended just as the “official” television season came to a close recently. Overview: After turning in one of the most impressive seasons of genre television in recent memory during its fourth season, Supernatural tried to top that with the…
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