Supernatural interviews, a new article and more on ‘Making the Cut’

March 1, 2007
CHUD.com has an article on Supernatural, "the best genre show you’re not watching." Click here to read.

More on the Promax/BDA, the CW and BLINK competition is on The Futon Critic.

Sequential Tart has interviews with Alexia Fast (Missy Bender, The Benders), Brooke Nevin (Katherine, Asylum), Georgia Craig (Sherri, Night Shifter), Sera Gamble (Supernatural writer/executive story editor) and Phil Hester (who spoke a little on the upcoming Supernatural: Origins).

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Making the Cut

February 28, 2007

The CW, Promax/BDA and BLINK are teaming up to launch a competition for college students to create a commercial promoting Supernatural. The competition, titled Making the Cut, begins March 1. For more information click here.

Promax & BDA site.

And a Matt Roush's Ask Matt follow-up. … Read More

Tall Tales

February 19, 2007

By John Keegan

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sprntrl2x15If previous episodes haven’t made the connections between “X-Files” and “Supernatural” abundantly clear, this installment should seal the deal. This episode is basically the “Supernatural” version of “Bad Blood”, one of the best comedic episodes of “X-Files” and one of the most beloved in the entire nine season run. Or perhaps it would be more appropriate to point back to “Jose Chung’s ‘From Outer Space’”, at least thematically. Despite the similarities, this is a solid episode that takes the spirit of its ancestors well in hand.
After all, those episodes were less about the absurdity and more about revelation and perception. The same applies to this episode, both in how the brothers see each other through the twisted lens of the Trickster and how the Trickster messes with the brothers directly. As with all things “Supernatural”, even an amusing episode with plenty of hilarious jokes is more about character than anything else.

Very early in the season, Sam and Dean were adrift in the aftermath of the confrontation with the demon. Sam had lost his computer, and Dean had lost the Impala. The restoration of both over the course of the first few episodes was a metaphor for the restoration of their confidence in themselves.

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