Emma
09-15-2005, 03:21 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/Galleries/4images/data/thumbnails/432/097E7.jpg" width="99" height="66" align="right" hspace="7" vspace="7" border="0" alt="Jensen Ackles, Jared Padelecki, WB, Supernatural"> 'Supernatural' is a loud, believably unbelievable ghost story, a different ghost from classic lore guest-starring each week
It isn't going to be a very good fall for mommies on new sci-fi shows. ABC's "Invasion" has one "smelling different," probably due to proximity to aliens, and on the WB's "Supernatural" there's a mother pinned to the ceiling above her child's crib, engulfed by hellfire.
"Supernatural" uses the image to establish its horror-movie bona fides, to elicit waves of disturbance and pleasure in said disturbance. Network TV is clear on certain issues of sexual content (you can't show a nipple, we know that), but there's more ambiguity around horror-movie violence. Can you show a woman pinned to the ceiling like that? "Supernatural" looks like it'll push things; that introductory scene is certainly a "gotcha" moment promising more.
The show has a quorum of executive producers around it with Hollywood box-office credibility, including Eric Kripke, whose screenwriting credits include "The Grudge" and "Boogeyman," and music video auteur turned filmmaker McG ("Charlie's Angels"). McG knows loud. "Supernatural" is a loud, believably unbelievable ghost story, a different ghost from classic lore guest-starring each week. Bloody Mary. The man with a hook who haunts Lovers Lane.
To untangle our protagonists: When the Winchester boys, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) were little, the boogeyman (unspecified) came to get their mother (aforementioned, on ceiling). The event sent the boys' father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) on a lifelong, obsessive quest (is there any other kind on TV?) to find the evil spirit that perpetrated the episode. Now he's missing on a "hunting trip," and all-grown-up Dean enlists about-to-enter-Stanford-law-school Sam on a mission to find him.
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Source: KTLA
By Paul Brownfield
Times Staff Writer
It isn't going to be a very good fall for mommies on new sci-fi shows. ABC's "Invasion" has one "smelling different," probably due to proximity to aliens, and on the WB's "Supernatural" there's a mother pinned to the ceiling above her child's crib, engulfed by hellfire.
"Supernatural" uses the image to establish its horror-movie bona fides, to elicit waves of disturbance and pleasure in said disturbance. Network TV is clear on certain issues of sexual content (you can't show a nipple, we know that), but there's more ambiguity around horror-movie violence. Can you show a woman pinned to the ceiling like that? "Supernatural" looks like it'll push things; that introductory scene is certainly a "gotcha" moment promising more.
The show has a quorum of executive producers around it with Hollywood box-office credibility, including Eric Kripke, whose screenwriting credits include "The Grudge" and "Boogeyman," and music video auteur turned filmmaker McG ("Charlie's Angels"). McG knows loud. "Supernatural" is a loud, believably unbelievable ghost story, a different ghost from classic lore guest-starring each week. Bloody Mary. The man with a hook who haunts Lovers Lane.
To untangle our protagonists: When the Winchester boys, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) were little, the boogeyman (unspecified) came to get their mother (aforementioned, on ceiling). The event sent the boys' father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) on a lifelong, obsessive quest (is there any other kind on TV?) to find the evil spirit that perpetrated the episode. Now he's missing on a "hunting trip," and all-grown-up Dean enlists about-to-enter-Stanford-law-school Sam on a mission to find him.
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Source: KTLA
By Paul Brownfield
Times Staff Writer