by Sylvia Bond – This was an episode that I waited for with more anticipation than I normally do, seeing as it was to contain flashbacks. I have a thing for them, you see, a rather whorish, desperate addiction for getting a peek into someone’s past, seeing them as they were, not quite molded, not quite there, not quite aware, young, innocent, and all done up in the sepia tones that TV shows reserve for flashbacks. Show came through for me in most respects, I’d say, giving it the old college try, or, to quote Sheldon from Big Bang Theory, the old community college try.

by Sylvia Bond – I know the rest of the world has moved on from this, but every single time I see Barry Bostwick in any role, I immediately picture him in fishnet stockings, a black corset, with a feather in his hair, floating on an inner tube in a swimming pool with Tim Curry, who is similarly dressed. I know, I know, Barry has worked hard to move on from this interesting role, selected when he was young and inexperienced, but when you’ve seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show as many times as I have (and my numbers are in the respectable range), that image of Barry and his beautiful legs becomes emblazoned in your brain.

by Sylvia Bond – Day to day life means I’ve got Stuff to do; Show is my break from Stuff, and ever since I unplugged from cable (and my viewing choices are, by intent, severely limited), I’m really counting on Show to come through. Is that a lot to put on a TV show? Maybe? You think?

by Sylvia Bond – There’s something intriguing at the prospect of being able to see how your life would have been different if you hadn’t been in it, or if different things had happened instead of the ones that did, or any combination of the above where you get to see how much impact you had on the world. Because that’s what everyone wants, isn’t it? To know that we mattered in some way, that we were visible, that we left a mark? Thus follows this ep wherein a djinn allows Dean to have this very experience.

by Sylvia Bond: Show has a tendency, as do, I presume, most shows, of offsetting heart wrenching episodes where someone we care about dies with funny, goofy episodes where tons of people die, only no one cares so as to soften fangirls up for the kill, which they present in the form of another heart wrenching ep. Such is the dark humor of Show.

Sam and Dean and the Magical McGuffin by Sylvia Bond Supernatural Episode Review – Season Four, Episode 8 “Wishful Thinking” I think I’ve laughed enough for one season, thank you. I’ve been subsisting on eps (three in a row now) that were written for laughs, delivered for comedy, and that juxtaposed the seriousness of the [...]

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I find myself very much impressed with this season thus far because, in spite of my fears based on last season’s less than stellar batting average, I think Show is doing a marvelous job. And why is that? Well, I’ll tell you. It’s because a) there’s no writer’s strike to mess with longer story arcs, b) there are no boobs with legs being foisted upon the boys, and c) because the writers are showing appropriate amounts of interest in the boys and their inner workings. Naturally, this attention will never be as much or as in depth as I would like it to be, but I feel that we’re all rowing in the same direction now, in the direction of the Island of Brotherly Angst.

by Sylvia Bond
Long about now, when the sunlight slants low across the earth, when the leaves start to take on spooky, glowy hues and the frost sears the foliage away from the pumpkins so that they lay round and brilliant orange against the frozen mud, tons of TV shows get a wild hair up their respective you-know-wheres and decide to do a Halloween-themed episode. It’s not original by any means, but it sure is fun, because it puts characters we know and love (some we just know) into familiar, psuedo spooky situations, goofy costumes perhaps, and mixes it up so that we, the viewers, can get into the swing of the thing and have some laughs. No need to take a TV show so seriously all the time, right? Well, I probably do, so this type of episode is rather like a walk in the park on a sunny day, which I sometimes don’t realize I need. Just like I never realized that I also needed to see Dean (and Ackles) dressed in leather. I guess I know better now, huh?

by Sylvia Bond When Dean pointed to the ceiling to tell Sam that God wants him to stop, I was uncomfortably reminded of televangelists. I mean, does Dean believe in angels and God now? You’d think that one angel does not a Holy Firmament make, but Dean seems to have been completely transmogrified by the soap angel, or perhaps it’s just the ammo he’s using on his brother