Supernatural.tv Newsletter

Issue #9 | 8 Feb 2009

Members of the Month

Sacrifice16

Cindy123

Click on their names to see some of their work.
The board staff at Supernatural.tv chooses forum members who have shown significant progress or outstanding work in fanart and fanfic to be the Artist of the Month and the Writer of the Month.

Announcements

• A new "Admin Team" has been introduced to Sn.tv in order to cover for the replacement of grkgrl and also to try out a new system to deal with spammers and unnecessary threads more quickly. The new Admin Team is Tracer2032, Ashikins, Lo, and dean_an_sam_rock. Best of luck.

• Supernatural has returned from their mini-hiatus, and are back in full swing. Make sure to check out the new episodes!

Supernatural News

Our deepest condolences go out to the cast and crew of Supernatural for their loss of Director and Executive Producer Kim Manners, who passed away Sunday, January 25, 2009. Manners passed away in Los Angeles due to complications from lung cancer. If you would like to read more on the story, BuddyTV has an article here.

Winchester Bros has an exclusive interview with Alex Irvine, author of Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal. Click here, if you would like to head on over to their site and read the interview.

Sera Gamble, over at TVGuide, has answered some more Readers Questions. Click on the link to go read what she had to say to the various reader questions that were submitted.

And Ask Ausiello has some new spoilers for the rest of this season…if you're the want to be spoiled type.

Board Updates

Articles:

Hello, fans of Supernatural.  Today, I've made a deal with grkgrl to air episodes of the virtual series Sam on Supernatural.tv.  The series picks up where Season Three of Supernatural left off with the series premiere entitled "As Daylight Dies..."  The series is currently on its midseason hiatus after airing its tenth episode, entitled "A Trip Down Memory Lane (1)," and will return on January 30th, 2009, with the episode "Doomsday (2)."
Sam stars Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester, Katie Cassidy as Ruby, J. August Richards as Travis Sheridan, and Patrick Flueger as Carson Adams.  The series' official site is http://samtheseries1.proboards83.com.  Thank you for paying attention to this article and I hope to see you around the site or on Supernatural.tv forums in the near future.

-Drew

CASTIEL

At first I was uncertain as to the introduction of Castiel as a character, uncertain as to where the show could possibly go regarding the appearance of an angel.  But, as the season has progressed,  Castiel has added so much to the overall myth-arc unique to the show, that I have grown to like the addition of an angel.  They've had demons and creatures of evil on the show for three seasons now, so why could they not have a being of light, representing all that is good to balance things out?

Castiel at first seemed a little mysterious, and probably still does to a certain extent, but, in my opinion, this adds to the appeal of the character, as I am left wondering what direction his story will take, how he will add to the general storyline.  I find it interesting how he seems to have a genuine respect and liking for humans and for Dean in particular.

The consistently dishevelled appearance of Castiel is a constant reminder that this, after all, is an angel riding the body of a devout man, a "vessel" as the angel himself constantly refers to the man as, or, in Dean's words "A Holy Tax Accountant"  No one truly knows what the angel's true form looks like, bar an unfortunate woman who had her eyes burned out for seeing on Castiel's true visage.  The only indication we have been given of Castiel's true angelic nature is the black and shadowy impression of a pair of featheredwings shown to Dean, because in Castiel's words, Dean "had no faith"

I think that Misha Collins is the perfect casting for the role of Castiel, as he seems to convey the perfect sense of outward innocence coupled with the air of hidden menace.  Misha has definitely made the character his own, and I cannot now imagine another actor in the role.

Here's hoping that Eric Kripke and his crew will continue to use both Misha and Castiel in many more episodes to come ...

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Note from the Editor

Greetings,

Seeing has how this is my first issue for the Supernatural Newsletter, I thought that it would be a good idea to introduce myself. Incase you didn't read the last issue, or don't remember, I'm SenatorSeth, Seth for short, and I'm a forum moderator on sn.tv. I'm primarily a fan artist, but also make various genres of digital art as well.

However, when Grkgrl said she was stepping down as forum administrator and was looking for volunteers to take over the Newsletter, I thought it would be a good experience to expand beyond the fanart forum and try writing for the Newsletter.

Anyway, I hope that you continue to enjoy the Newsletter. There aren't going to be a lot of changes because I really like the way that Grkgrl has set this up and I love the responses that the newsletter is getting now. However, I will always be open to suggestions and contributions from you readers.

Thanks for your support, and thanks for reading this issue of the newsletter!!

.::~Seth~::.

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