Watching Supernatural

This episode’s official blurb is:

Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) race to Bobby’s (guest star Jim Beaver) side after he lapses into a coma and can’t be awakened. While unconscious, Bobby battles his personal demons and the reason he became a hunter is revealed.

Sam and Dean discover someone poisoned Bobby with a potion that will kill him if he doesn’t wake soon. When the brothers decide to take the potion themselves to enter Bobby’s dream in order to save him, they come face to face with their own personal nightmares.

According to a recent interview with Eric Kripke, “Dream a Little Dream” will be the major turning point for Dean in his opinion of dying and leaving Sam to fight his battle alone. As we’ve seen all along, from season two’s “Bloodlust” and the selflessness (and, inherent selfishness) in the deal made with the Crossroad’s demon in “All Hell Breaks Loose,” Dean has never really valued his life as his own. It’s always been just another commodity of his to give to his brother and his father, simply because he loved them. I’ll be on tenterhooks waiting to see just what is strong enough to change his mind!

Here is the trailer, as well as a clip from the episode:

Don’t forget: “Dream A Little Dream” is airing tomorrow night at 9 ET/8 CT on the CW! Please help boost ratings so we can show the CW just how much we love Supernatural!

TAGS: supernatural, episode 3×10, dream a little dream

Most of you probably know about Ten Inch Hero, but for those of you who don’t, it’s Jensen Ackles’s most recent film. To view the movie’s trailer, visit the Youtube station here.

Today, WinchesterBros.com’s podcast WinchesterRadio is interviewing Betsy Morris, David Mackay and Mark Witsken from the film.

For live on-air questions, call (646) 716-9119. And yes, they’re still on!

The podcast will also be available through iTunes and other feeds. Please check out the site for more information.

TAGS: supernatural, ten inch hero, winchester+radio

Great news! Supernatural and I have returned from my hiatus to give you the next episode this season! Watch the promo here:

The official blurb is: “The seemingly harmless practices of a group of neighborhood witches goes bad when one of them kills a woman. Ruby offers her assistance… but she has a few secrets of her own.”

For you scholars out there, ‘malleus’ is Latin for ‘to prefer.’ You can catch this episode on January 31st at 8 EST/9 CST on the CW!

TAGS: supernatural, episode 3×09, malleus maleficarum

Recently, the CW Source had an interview with Kim Mathers, executive producer of Supernatural. If his name seems familiar to you, you might remember him from the X-Files and Charlie’s Angels.

In the interview, Manners gives a detailed and fun interview about how he started working at Supernatural. I love how he describes the show as a ‘mini-movie’ every week, and the ‘inner sanctum’ that is the Supernatural writer’s room. He ends the interview by looking into the screen and saying ‘Keep watching, everybody.’ No worries there, Kim. If you keep directing episodes like “Fresh Blood,” we’ll be riveted.

To further our pleasure, we also have Part 1 of an interview with Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, thanks to Ducky TV.

The interview itself is new, but the information in it isn’t very new to the truly hardcore fans. Jensen mentions that they run lines on the ride to work every morning, since they don’t have much time with their scripts and the rides are at least half an hour to an hour long. We also have some new information on their favorite episodes. Aside from Season 1’s “Pilot” and “Devil’s Trap,” Jared also mentions “In My Time of Dying” and “Simon Said” from Season 2. From the shots on set, I’d say that they were filming “Roadkill” during this interview. Again, not new information but still worth a watch.

TAGS: supernatural, jared padalecki, jensen ackles, kim manners

In case you didn’t know it yet, we get a brand new episode of SPN tomorrow night! According to ACED magazine, the episode will feature many flashbacks to Sam and Dean’s childhood. Also, we finally discover where a certain piece of jewelry comes from! This looks to be yet another quality episode. Here’s hoping it satisfies us enough that we’re left begging for more.

Remember, The episode will air Thursday, November 15th at 9/8 Central on the CW!

TAGS: supernatural, episode 3×08, very supernatural christmas

I apologize for the late news - due to personal reasons and the holidays, I was unable to update until today. That, of course, means that you’ll be getting a lot of news your way today!

First item of business: Jensen Ackles’s film Ten Inch Hero is still looking for a distributor. In the meantime, fans were alerted on the movie’s blog on the 26th that a Youtube clip of Priestly was up. 50,744+ views, 1027 ratings, and 691 comments later, the video has won 10 honors on the site (including #1 Top-Rated This Week and #1 Top Favorites This Week). You can view it in all of it’s glory (and I do mean glory, since I was in stitches afterwards) here. Once again, Jensen’s comedic timing, delivery, and commanding presence are awe-inspiring.

TAGS: supernatural, jensen ackles, ten inch hero

Based on the recommendation of Henry Jenkins, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at M.I.T., New York Magazine will feature the fan vidder Luminosity, along with other media artists. You might recognize Luminosity’s work from the “Women’s Work” vid above, which I believe was featured in a Supernatural Fan Convention.

Regardless of what you think of the themes running through the above fanvid, you have to admit that it’s like a sucker punch to the gut when you first see it. Back when I first saw it this past spring/summer, I distinctly remember that some people claimed it made them cry. Others ranted about how completely one-sided the views in the vid are. To me, that’s the mark of a truly lasting and worthy piece of fanwork: one that’s so distinctive and provocative that you can only either love it or hate it. There are no grey areas within the vid itself, and it certainly doesn’t allow for much ambiguity of feeling.

As to all the hoopla surrounding this vid, Luminosity says:

“Women’s Work” is a critique of the eroticization of the violence done to women in all media, not just Supernatural. Women are sexually assaulted, murdered, and then laid out in artistic tableaux, chopped into pretty, bloody pieces. They usually further the plot, but they’re hardly ever a part of the plot. We wanted to point out that in order for us to love a TV show–and we do–we have to set this horrible part of it aside. A lot. Often. Sisabet [the co-vidder of the project] and I believe that we could have made this vid using almost any show, from Heroes to CSI, but we are fans of Supernatural. We care so much about a show that we want share it, make an argument, highlight a character or situation, lampoon something, evoke a mood. I’ve also made four other Supernatural vids that celebrate the show, the arc, the relationship between the brothers and the genre itself. (Source)

TAGS: supernatural, fanvid, Luminosity

Ducky Does TV has been lucky enough to get promotional videos from Supernatural that discuss all of those little details that go into making our show what it is. This is some very interesting stuff here, so I really recommend that you watch these two, as well as the SPFX Makeup.

TAGS: supernatural, behind the scenes, visual+effects

Operation: Winchester is a project that aims to support the hard-working troops overseas by sending them care packages that include a few of the comforts of home, along with copies of the “Supernatural” Season 1 DVD sets. In the process, we put some much-needed supplies and quality entertainment in the hands of a lot of deserving people, and help spread the word about “Supernatural” at the same time. (Source)

Operation: Winchester has launched it’s second phase, which is a collaboration with the Staten Island Project Homefront to send Supernatural DVDs to U.S. troops overseas. If you’d like more information on how to help out, please check out the above links and make a donation!

As a side note, I’d first heard of the Staten Island Project Homefront in conjunction with the similar campaign to send nuts on behalf of Jericho fans. In fact, that campaign was particularly successful, as you can see in the video below (taken by fan JerichoBaginz):

For more joint fan promotions between Jericho and Supernatural fans, check out the We Are Fandom Campaign.

TAGS: supernatural, operation winchester, we are fandom, staten island project homefront, jericho

This week’s promo features the return of an old ‘friend,’ Gordon Walker. Gordon’s appearance is very creepy, and with the shot of his bloody teeth, one has to wonder if he’s become the very thing that he hates so much: a vampire.

The episode will air Thursday, November 15th at 9/8 Central on the CW!

TAGS: supernatural, episode 3×07, fresh blood

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the people who work on the SPFX makeup for the show. One of the episodes they mention is “Skin” from the first season, which is particularly educational. It’s startling to see that skin can be replicated by plastic that easily on screen, isn’t it?

Don’t forget: tonight’s episode is called “Red Sky at Morning” (preview here) and will be on the CW at 9/8 central!

TAGS: supernatural, behind the scenes, SPFX makeup

This week’s promo has a very interesting Pirates of the Caribbean flair to it. I’m rather surprised to see Bela in this episode; her role seems to have changed from an antagonist to a damsel in distress. As this show has its fair bit of the ‘damsel in distress’ syndrome, I’m slightly disappointed. On the other hand, the promos are almost always guaranteed to be misleading, so perhaps there is hope for her and this episode! I suppose we’ll have to wait it out.

TAGS: supernatural, episode 3×06, bela, red sky at morning