I recently saw the trailer for the new Star Trek movie due to come out in May, 2009, and wrote a little peice about it. Here it be at pinkraygun.com. Enjoy!
You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Wishful Thinking” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!
An excerpt:
“Sam snapping open his laptop has been a comforting recurring theme this season of which I heartily approve. Whenever the plot prescribes him to be at the laptop, and whether he’s at a desk in a motel or, as he is here, pushing the food aside, I get a little thrill of “oh, yes,” and imagine, somehow, that the Sam I know and love and that the Sam SAM knows and remembers has returned and all is as it should be. Seeing Sam with his laptop is like seeing James Dean behind the wheel of a Porsche 550 Spyder, which, even if you know that things are going to go to hell in hand basket really fast, looks iconically brilliant at the time. Because laptop or no laptop, Sam’s still headed down that slippery slope; I just hope he sees what’s coming at him head on.”
You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!
An excerpt:
“Although the demon wasn’t very light on his feet, I was worried about Sam, especially when he lost hold of the demon-killing knife. Yeah. Trouble ensues, because the demon is fairly powerful and determined and after waiting 600 years (which is when he was last cast into hell), this is his night. The relevant conundrum that Sam is confronted with is whether or not he will use his forbidden powers and save himself from Samhain. As a fangirl, this is a question that does not need asking, since the answer is so obvious, even though I know that Sam would be in SO MUCH TROUBLE should he do what he’s done before and lied about again, and again, and again. And then one more time after that. And then I became distracted by the fact that the lighting was such (oh, those lighting boys, ever on the job! Big smooches for ya!) that Sam’s eyes glimmered a rather strange color as he raises his hand to exorcise the demon. I couldn’t figure out whether it was yellow or white, but there was something there, something so very WRONG that my breath stuck in my throat and I though, “Oh, poor Sammy.”
If you smite them you have to smite me first
Quit fingering your bone, Sammy
Don’t hate me because I’m powerful
You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Yellow Fever” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!
An excerpt:
“As Sam’s sitting there, he’s saying all those things that Dean has never wanted to hear. Saying them with dark tones in his voice and a finality that seems to be Dean’s biggest fear, that one day Sam will truly turn Dark and all this will be over, “all this” being the saving people, hunting things mantra that runs through Dean’s blood like, well, like blood. Because it is his blood and without it, I don’t think he can survive. Sometimes, I hate to think what will become of him when the last supernatural thing is laid to rest. Perhaps, like a gunslinger with no more bad men to kill, he’ll walk down to the streets of Laredo and wrap himself up in white linen and wait to die.”
You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Monster Mash” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!
An excerpt:
“Dean and the vampire fight, which is when Dean discovers that the MOW is a shapeshifter. As the chase scene ensues (as they do, and it’s a treat because I like to watch Dean running), I was particularly impressed by the stunt over the gate. The vampire comes running, and flies over the gate, complete with cape flapping, while Dean struggles with it, looking through the bars like an abandoned orphan. I’d like to give the stunt team and this actor a bunch of gold stars, which they can put on their calendars to remind them how well they did. Look, I know full well and good there was some sort of device, a mini tramp or something, that the actor stepped on to enable him to fly over the gate, but it was COOL, man.”
You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “In the Beginning†at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!
An excerpt:
I particularly loved the scene where Dean talks to Mary in the living room, where she’s going through her stack of LPs, and didn’t that bring back memories? (You kids, LPs were what we had before CDs, okay? The fragility of which imbued the music on the black vinyl with more meaning and value than a cold, technical CD ever could. And they sounded better. Ask anyone.) Dean wants to know what John is like, and I applaud Show for asking this question because while my fangirl brain could make stuff up, it was nice to get it from the source. And yeah, Nice is the word to use here, apparently John was sweet and kind and romantic and dreamy, and believed in the happily ever after. Mary’s face glows when she tells Dean this, and Dean’s look of shock and surprise is very good and amusing, because yeah, this is a 180 from The Dad that I know and love and bring up as often as I can.Â
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Dean before he realizes that Grandpa is not who he says he is…
You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Dean Winchester” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!
An excerpt:
“Hendrickson provides me with the Tossing of the Sam and there is, really, nothing I like better than to see the boy get a bit of abuse because he takes is so beautifully. I think the reason I enjoy it so much is that I feel that each and every time it happens to him, Sam is completely shocked, SHOCKED that he’s being beaten up yet again. It’s almost as if he still believes somehow that the world is a good and gentle place, and is completely unaware that the Universe is out to get him and slam him against a sink (or a wall) at every available opportunity. I consider this sense of surprise and indignation and disbelief to be one of the last bastions of Sam’s innocence, so I’m always up for a demonstration. “
Beautiful Against Stained Glass
You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Lazarus Rising” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!
An excerpt:
“The moment where he stands at his own graveside amidst a circle of fallen trees that seems eerily similar to Tunguska, shoulders rolled forward, eyes narrowed against the brightness, is an excellently done bit of filming. There is no wind, no sound at all, adding to the creepy, other-worldly feel to this scene. Plus, Show didn’t rush it, because DEAN wouldn’t rush it, he’s going to take in his surroundings before he makes a single move. It gave off the odd feeling that maybe he was the last man on earth, which of course brought up the next important question: Where is Sam?”
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You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Heart” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!
An excerpt:
“The boys separate to do watchful things; Sam watches over Madison all night, making me wonder when he sleeps. Dean is still watching Kurt, which we see in a very atmospheric scene with a full moon, sweeping clouds, gothic overtones, and Dean, with one leg propped up, standing in an alley. For all it’s so short, it really is a beautiful little clip, and always makes me think that Dean’s unafraid because he knows he’s almost the most dangerous thing in the city. Plus there’s that whole waiting element; as boys, they probably learned patience early on, and I wonder what Dean’s thinking of here as he watches, on sentry duty through the darkness.”
Girl’s underwear is not poison
You can read my review of the Supernatural episode “Roadkill” at pinkraygun.com. Thank you!
An excerpt:
“There’s lots of looks and tips of the head, silent exchanges between the brothers as they try to convince Number Six to let them take her out of there. (There’s lots of flashing of flashlights, as well, in this ep, always sexy, and it starts in the first scene where the boys are looking for Number Six’s car. Which they can’t find.) Personally, I wouldn’t get into a stranger’s car on a BET, let alone with these two characters, because if I didn’t know them, I would be totally freaked to meet them on the road like this, and run very far, very fast in the opposite direction. It just adds to the creepiness of this ep that Number Six does not, no, instead she gets into the back seat of the black (totally AWESOME) and scary car with two guys well over the six foot limit, and allows herself to be driven off.”
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