There'll Be Peace When You Are Done

Supernatural has rolled into the station slightly later due to the weekend's festivities. I hope you all enjoyed your turkey, mulled wine and presents!

But to a more pressing matter.

This week, I have chosen to recall a monster.

Everybody, meet... A Wraith.

"Oh, you mean like an angel on your shoulder?"

"No no. His name’s Castiel. He wears a trench coat."

The Wraith first appeared in Season 5 Episode 11, Sam Interrupted. Sam and Dean are contacted by a former hunter, who now resides in a mental asylum. The two brothers get themselves 'checked in' to investigate a spate of deaths, presumably suicides.

A Wraith is the monster at the heart of the trouble.

Wraiths are human-like creatures whose true form and nature - including that of their sagging and decayed flesh - can only be seen in reflections. They appear to be human in all ways, with the exception of the sheathe spike that protrudes from their wrist, enabling them to feed on their victims.

According the the former hunter, a man named Martin Creaser, the Wraith has picked up its trail in the hospital as it is easier to go undetected when surrounded by the insane, and also because, and I quote "the chemicals that flood our brains are apparently delicious".

Wraiths have the ability to alter a persons perceptions with just a touch, resulting in hallucinations and emotional imbalance. However, in terms of Supernatural ghosts and ghouls, the Wraith is quite easy to kill, provided you can identify it! Using a mirror can come in handy, as it's true image will be reflected.

Piercing a Wraith through the heart with silver will send it on its merry way.

In Season 6 Episode 19, Mommy Dearest, Dean comes across a hybrid: a Wraith twinned with a vampire. Dean dubs the creation as a Jefferson Starship.

The definition of a Wraith is thus:

"A Scottish word, first used in English in 1513. A Wraith is an apparition, vision, or double of another living person. Its appearance is commonly seen as an omen that the person being doubled is about to die."

Tune in next Sunday for another insight into the world of Supernatural!

Carry On My Wayward Son

 

Ghosts are real. So are angels and demons and even the bogeyman.

Maybe not to some of you, but to Sam and Dean Winchester,  it's all they know. As it nears the halfway point of the seventh series, television show Supernatural leaves me breathless and wanting more after every episode. This fact only makes it fitting that I discuss with all of you lovely people, such a colossal story.

Every week, I will post about a character, monster, episode, location or a general witty occurrence from the seasons that have gone by.

We start with one of the stars of the show; Dean Winchester.

"My name is Dean Winchester. I'm an Aquarius. I like sunsets, long walks on the beach and frisky women."




When Season One begins, Dean is 26, while younger brother Sam is 22. An expert with fire-arms, Dean prefers to use his silver-plated Colt 1911 pistol or his home-made, sawn-off shotgun. Raised as a soldier by his father John, Dean possesses a strong nature in use of martial arts and knife fighting, often subduing assailants and attackers with ease, when they are more often than not, a lot stronger.

Dean lives his life hunting, scouring bars for women, loving his car - a 1967 Chevrolet Impala - and doing what fans love him best for: his awesomely funny quotes.

Possessing an in-depth knowledge in escapology, Dean can find a way out of a room with no doors. With a aged, wooden box stuffed with fake I.D's and police badges, drowning in old grains of rock salt, Dean has the ability and arrogance to pull a very convincing act out of the bag, often posing as an F.B.I agent or governmental official to gain information.

 

• Dean is a talented mechanic, meaning the Impala is always in tip-top condition.

• The pendant that Dean wears around his neck was a gift from Sam, originally meant to be a Christmas gift for John. But when John didn't return for Christmas, Sam gave it to Dean. 

• Dean has died repeatedly throughout the first six seasons of Supernatural, and has been to both Heaven and Hell

• The pendant is also angelic; burning hot to help locate God on Earth.

• Dean is in love with mullet-style rock music. His favourite band is Led Zeppelin.

• The most insatiable craving in Dean's life is that of bacon cheeseburgers.

• Dean is noted for being one for witty remarks and quotes, with some of my favourites below:

"Dude, where's the pie"?

"Is it 'cause we're so awesome? I think it's 'cause we're so awesome."

"I'm not gonna die in a hospital where the nurses aren't even hot."

"What do you want me to do, Sam, huh? Sit around all day writing sad poems about how I’m going to die? You know what, I’ve got one. Let’s see, what rhymes with "Shut up, Sam"?

What do you do when you can live forever?

 Andrew Niccol, director of The Truman Show, shows us the world where time really is money.

Justin Timberlake takes the starring role as Will Salas, a factory worker living in an alternative reality, where human beings, for some unexplained reason, cease to age beyond their 25th year.

In Time is the tale of how everyday is a struggle for the poor, whilst the rich hold the world in the hands. Or on their wrists in this case. Everybody dons a digital clock showing the remaining time alive from years, down to their very last second. By working, they can top up the internal body clock, which when reaches zero, causes them to drop dead.



Salas spends his life living day to day with just hours, sometimes minutes remaining on his clock. But his life is turned upside down when he bequethes a century from a suicidal tycoon.

On the run from the police force, aptly named the 'time keepers', Salas decides it's time to bring down the system after being put on the most wanted list for the murder of the initial owner of his new inheriatnce.

Befriending a powerful banker, Phillipe Weis, Salas seizes an opportunity by running off with the bankers rebellious daughter, Sylvia.

The pair embark on a Bonnie and Clyde/Robin Hood-style crime spree, in which they steal time and deliver it to the poorer inhabitants of 'The Ghetto'.

A production which really gives hope to those who 'negotiate for immortality', Im Time is a film that portrays a great idea (although thought of before), and really delivers.