My Take Radio

I swear to you, this is not a girly show, (even though I watch it, I am a girl, and  it is on The CW — which I under­stand is a red flag to any­one with the male anatomy.)  Super­nat­ural debuted on Sep­tem­ber 13, 2005 and is now cur­rently in it’s fifth sea­son. It was cre­ated by the fan­tas­tic Eric Kripke, who is also cred­ited as Exec­u­tive Pro­ducer, along with Joseph McGinty Nichol, whom we all know bet­ter as McG.

Per­son­ally,  I believe this show is get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter with each pass­ing sea­son. Kripke had orig­i­nally stated he had a Five-Year Plan for the show, and envi­sioned wrap­ping it up in Sea­son 5 (Boo). How­ever, I think we will be see­ing more of it due to a loyal  and grow­ing fan base, which is awesome  (Yay).

The main char­ac­ters of the series are broth­ers Dean and Sam Win­ches­ter. The guys have fol­lowed in their father John’s line of work – that being Hunters of demons and the para­nor­mal (bet­ter than sit­ting in a cubi­cle all day?? –You be the judge.) Amidst all this hunt­ing, we get great snarky lines and comedic gold – which in my opin­ion are one of the best ele­ments of this show. Another is the music –  “Carry On Way­ward Son” by Kansas starts off many of the episodes, and it gets stuck in my head every time. Dean’s black ’67 Chevy Impala has been dubbed by fans the “Metal­licar” for pete’s sake! With great writ­ing and exe­cllent sto­ry­line con­sis­tency,  this is truly one of the most under­rated shows on the tube right now.

In a nut­shell, Sea­sons 1–3 have revolved around the broth­ers learn­ing more about their work while sav­ing peo­ple from super­nat­ural beings — we have seen Ghouls and Gob­lins, Trick­sters, Shapeshifters, Paris Hilton, etc. Obvi­ously, there have also been major plot points, most of which I don’t want to ruin. Exam­ples are Sam devel­op­ing psy­chic abil­i­ties that prove to be more than that of John Edward, or Dean mak­ing a deal with a demon named Lilith to save his brother, giv­ing him one year to live before being dragged by Hell­hounds to Hell.

Sea­son Four was all about Heaven vs. Hell – Sam and Dean have to work with Angels, the most impor­tant being Castiel,  to stop Lilith’s plan of break­ing the 66 seals of Hell — which would let Lucifer walk free on Earth. Not a good thing. Well, with him being an Angel and all, Castiel (played by Misha Collins) had pre­vi­ously res­ur­rected Dean from Hell with the intent for him to stop her from break­ing these seals. Sam also dis­cov­ered he has a demonic side and kind of gives in to it by becom­ing strung out on demon blood (Super­nat­ural crack) in order to become strong enough to defeat Lilith once and for all. This, my friends, does not go as planned.

Sea­son Five’s cur­rent sto­ry­line revolves around The Apoc­a­lypse. Sam and Dean are in a race to try and defeat Lucifer (see, I said it didn’t go as planned) and not end the world. There have been some major rev­e­la­tions, which I will not spoil, that are lin­ing up to make this sea­son the best one yet. If you have never watched Super­nat­ural, check you local list­ings, and  I urge you to get Sea­sons 1–4 on DVD and catch up.