This week, “The Curious Case Of Dean Winchester” brought another stand-alone episode, and that’s just fine by me. Like everyone else, I’m eagerly awaiting any progress where the apocalypse, and Lucifer, are concerned. As long as the stand-alones have guest performances like we saw this week though, I’m more than happy to wait. It really is hard to argue against an episode that offers an 80-year-old Dean appearing in his own Grumpy Old Men spoof with Bobby, and has Sam getting a case of the magical clap. Right? Read the rest of this entry »

Since I’ve caught up on Supernatural through my Diary of a Supernatural Virgin, I can’t help but have mixed feelings. I love that I’ll be watching in “real time” this season, but I loathe that I’ll be waiting for episodes with the rest of you rabid Supernatural fans. It’s just not right to make us wait … but wait we must — only until Thursday, September 10, though!

That doesn’t stop some of us (read: me!) from searching for every little scrap we can find about the season that’s to come. I went spoiler-free for so long so that I could give an honest reaction in my virgin diary, that I think now I’m overcompensating. OK, I exaggerate a bit, but a few tidbits I’ve read have got me speculating — a lot — about season five, and if it is possible for it to be the best season of Supernatural yet.

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There aren’t a lot of shows on TV these days that are just pure fun for every second you’re watching. How I Met Your Mother comes close, and I think Glee and Modern Family might make the list this fall. Right now, though, we’ve got Psych — let’s celebrate!

1. James Brolin as the sheriff was charming and hokey all at the same time. It’s always good to see him in any capacity other than Mr. Streisand.

2. Jim Beaver — OK, so he wasn’t Bobby Singer, but any Jim Beaver is good Jim Beaver. That almost sounds dirty….

3. The long version of the theme song — I’m hoping they don’t do that every week and I’ve just been fast-forwarding through it.

4. The title of the episode, “High Noon-ish,” just tickles me.

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Season 4, Episodes 20-22

I have such mixed feelings about being caught up with Supernatural. Watching all four seasons in a concentrated amount of time had its benefits, but I’ll be anxious to watch season five as intended. Sure, the waiting will just about kill me from week to week, but I can just make up an excited song, as I did for Buffy and Veronica Mars when it was finally their air night. No, I’m not 12 (that’s Julia!); we all have our strange coping mechanisms.

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Season 4, Episodes 13 – 15

I’m just not sure it’s normal for someone my age … is it OK that my heart beats with excitement every time I hear AC/DC on the car radio these days? Oh Dean, what have you and your 8-tracks done to me? Or maybe it’s Kripke, and the fact that he’s back in his groove and I’m loving Supernatural once again.

Although I have to say the last several episodes have been decidedly void of cool soundtrack vibes, let alone Impala cruisin’. Now there’s a staple of the formula I seem to have taken on while the boys bicker. Glad I can help out.

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Season 4, episodes 5-8

You’ve all warned me of the darkness of season four, but so far, all of the episodes have had nuances of the funny that I like, and there have even been some completely light and hysterical episodes (see “Monster Movie” below). I think what makes season four “darker” is that we’re really getting more into the psyche of the boys, and it should be dark, because they’ve been through a lot in the last four years. It’s just Supernatural staying true to the characters, something they do so well.

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Season four, Episodes 1-4

So… wow. They really didn’t mess around with the beginning of season four, did they? Something that the writers of Supernatural do in the most amazing way is come up with logical consequences based on the events and actions in the episodes. Things happen, the boys do something, and it makes perfect sense because there’s such a strong sense of character in this show.

So far, season four is darker, less funny and a whole lot deeper, ripe with back story and angst. It’s wonderful and awful (and I mean that with love) all at the same time. I miss the lighthearted banter between the brothers, but I am also addicted to the path down which the story is taking us, and I revel at the mind of Eric Kripke and his writing staff that they can keep upping the game like this. Supernatural, you’ve come a long way, baby, and you haven’t let me down yet. I’m riding the train all the way to Fangirl Station. Yeah, I don’t think I’ve got it in me to be a fangirl either, but Supernatural is definitely on my list of all-time favorite shows.

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