Entries by tag: unreliable narrators
Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
Episode 10, “Asylum”
Written by Richard Hatem
Directed by Guy Bee
The final scene begins with a shot of one of the “no trespassing” signs we saw at the start of the teaser but now, on reflection, it seems to have acquired different connotations . . .
considering violation has been a major theme of the episode: violation of the patients’ human rights, of the victims’ minds in general, and of Sam’s mind in particular. Well, I guess you could say that Dean prosecuted the hell out of Dr. Ellicott!
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Continued from Part 1
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Coming soon: Things I Love About "Home".
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Coming soon: Things I Love About "Home".
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Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 8, “Bugs”
Written by Rachel Nave and Bill Coakley
Directed by Kim Manners
Warnings: image heavy post,
including images of bugs and spiders. (It’s right there in the title! 😊)
episode also includes indirect incestuous themes and internalized homophobia
Episode 8, “Bugs”
Written by Rachel Nave and Bill Coakley
Directed by Kim Manners
Warnings: image heavy post,
including images of bugs and spiders. (It’s right there in the title! 😊)
episode also includes indirect incestuous themes and internalized homophobia
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Of all the episodes in the first season, “Bugs” is one of the most heavily criticized, and not just by the fans. Eric Kripke and Robert Singer have both condemned the episode as one of the show’s worst, and all this was comically acknowledged by Chuck in “The Monster at the End of This Book”. Unjustly, however, the joke placed the blame squarely on the writing, which was an unkindness to Rachel Nave and Bill Oakley since the problems with the episode mostly lay not in the script but in a failure of execution. And, despite its technical weaknesses, I still feel there was a lot to love about the episode, especially in the development of the brothers’ relationship. So, in this review I’ll be talking about what I think went wrong with “Bugs” but, more importantly, what went right.
( Read more...Collapse )I’d like to thank everyone for all the positive feedback for my review of the Supernatural pilot. It’s encouraged me to continue with my ruminations on the early episodes, so this week I’ve been re-watching “Wendigo”.
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Apparently, Eric Kripke originally panned this episode because he didn’t think the monster was scary enough, but then he re-watched it 10 years later and decided it wasn’t so bad after all. Kripke is often his own worst critic and, imho, doesn’t give himself enough credit. Personally, I love this episode – not especially for the monster plot, I grant you, but because I think it is a wonderful study in character development. Plus, of course, it introduced the show’s original ethos, and gave us the immortal bumper sticker: “saving people, hunting things”.
To business, then . . .
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Warning: image heavy post.
Apparently, Eric Kripke originally panned this episode because he didn’t think the monster was scary enough, but then he re-watched it 10 years later and decided it wasn’t so bad after all. Kripke is often his own worst critic and, imho, doesn’t give himself enough credit. Personally, I love this episode – not especially for the monster plot, I grant you, but because I think it is a wonderful study in character development. Plus, of course, it introduced the show’s original ethos, and gave us the immortal bumper sticker: “saving people, hunting things”.
To business, then . . .
Supernatural, Season 1
Episode 2, “Wendigo”
Teleplay by Eric Kripke
Story by Ron Milbauer and Terri Hughes Burton
Directed by David Nutter.
Episode 2, “Wendigo”
Teleplay by Eric Kripke
Story by Ron Milbauer and Terri Hughes Burton
Directed by David Nutter.
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Warnings: Image heavy post. Also, contains brief discussion of mental health, incest and familial abuse themes.
Magical Realism
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Warnings: Image heavy post. Also, contains brief discussion of mental health, incest and familial abuse themes.
Magical Realism
When we next see Sam and Dean they’re filling up the car and getting ‘breakfast’ and we get some exposition that establishes how the Winchesters fund their hunting activities. One of the things I loved about the first season was that it took the time to establish the ground rules and show that they were plausible: the brothers had time to hunt because they lived off credit card fraud and gambling (Bloody Mary, The Benders), the various ‘costumes’ they wore for their investigations were sourced from hire shops, and their fake ID badges painstakingly forged at Copy Jack (Phantom Traveller).
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Comments
Thanks so much for your continuing support 😊
Yes, I would be interested in an in-depth Campbell post.
I find it interesting that while both Dean and Sam compare Sam to John, John doesn't. In this scene…