The Winchesters
“Legend of a Mind”
November 15, 2022
THEN: “You’re ready for the war against the Akrida.”
NOW
Spending a lifetime of hunting monsters takes its toll. There comes a time when you gotta let out that pain inside you. If you don’t, it’ll eat you alive.
Continue reading “‘The Winchesters’: All the doors that were closed to you.”
The Winchesters
“The Art of Dying”
November 22, 2022
THEN: “I’m going to find a way to open all the doors that were closed for you.”
NOW
Hunting has a way of changing a person. After a while, right, wrong, good, evil, they all start to look the same. And then it starts to make you wonder, who’s really the monster here—them or me?
Continue reading “‘The Winchesters’: Violence is always a choice.”
The Winchesters
“Masters of War”
November 1, 2022
THEN: None of this works without Mary. I need her.
NOW
Hannibal Park Hospital, St. Joseph, Missouri. [Electricity crackling softly]. A distressed man rushes out into the hospital’s hallway. He shouts back at an unseen group of people that they’re all vultures. He seems slightly dazed. He quietly mumbles that they’ll never know what it’s like.
As the man walks, rubble and tattered clothing appear on the hallway floor. A woman’s voice singing a song in French floats through the air. An air raid siren begins to wail and a voice shouts, incoming! The man flees from the flash of multiple explosions and the smoke that begins to fill the corridor.
Continue reading “‘The Winchesters’: Seeing past the darkness.”
The Winchesters
“You’re Lost Little Girl”
October 25, 2022
THEN: I’m never going to let you walk out that door again without telling you, I love you.
NOW
Lawrence, Kansas. A precious little girl with a shooting star barrette in her hair sends out an urgent call on her CB radio. Twinkle Star is trying to reach Big Rig Mama, a long-haul trucker who’s 10 in the wind and halfway to Hog Town.
Carrie says she can’t find Bernice anywhere. She pleads with her mother to come home and help find her. The sense of loss that this young actress conveys through her voice … push it too hard and it turns into whining. But she’s in the sweet spot of, ‘Yes, I will tear this house apart for you, and will not rest until Bernice is found.’
Well played Avangeline Friedlander. Well played.
Continue reading “‘The Winchesters’: I don’t know who I am.”
The Winchesters
“Teach Your Children Well”
October 18, 2022
THEN: I’ll keep picking the music.
NOW
The ties that bind a family together can be complicated. Parents raise you, teach you what’s right and wrong, and in some instances, how to kill monsters. But no matter who you are, there comes a time when you have to break from them and make your own way. And if you’re not careful, things can get pretty ugly.
Continue reading “‘The Winchesters’: And know they love you.”
The Winchesters
“Pilot”
October 11, 2022
THEN: March 23, 1972, you walked out of a movie theater–Slaughterhouse-Five. You loved it, and you bumped into a big Marine and you knocked him flat on his ass. You were embarrassed, and he laughed it off, said you could make it up to him with a cup of coffee. So, you went to Mulroney’s and you talked and he was cute and he knew the words to every Zeppelin song, so when he asked you for your number, you gave it to him, even though you knew your dad would be pissed. That was the night that you met John Winchester.
Continue reading “‘The Winchesters’: I’ll keep picking the music.”
Supernatural
“Don’t Call Me Shurley”
May 4, 2016
THEN: “He knows … He just doesn’t think it’s his problem.”
NOW
Metatron is rattling around in the bottom of a dumpster. Finally he comes up yahtzee with a fairly unsullied half of a half of a pastrami on rye. He opens his mouth to wolf it down – but stops. The dog is looking at him. I’m going to call him Scraps. Scraps is Sam’s puppy dog eyes made actual dog. Metatron is powerless against him.
The fallen scribe tosses the hunk of lunch meat to Scraps. A fond smile steals across Metatron’s face, and then it’s back down to the dumpster’s depths. He wrestles with the garbage before finally shouting, “I GIVE UP!”