Supernatural:
The Complete Ninth Season (2013 - 2014/Warner Blu-ray set)
Picture:
B Sound: B Extras: B Episodes: C
Supernatural
continues in this four-disc-23-episode collection featuring new
exciting episodes from the hit series from CW and Warner. While the
digital effects can at times be cheesy and some of the acting iffy,
the show succeeds in low budget creativity and offers some decent
plot twist that make it a step above other yawns such as The
Vampire Diaries. For those of you who haven't seen the show, it
centers around Sam Winchester who grew up hunting unearthly horrors.
But now, law school and a normal life beckon until Sam's estranged
brother Dean appears with troubling news: their father has
disappeared, a man who's hunted evil for 22 years. So to find their
father, the brothers must hunt what he hunts... and Sam must return
to the life he'd rather leave behind.
The
season picks up with Sam Winchester (star Jared Padalecki) - who is
dying from the events of the previous season. He dreams that he's
talking with his brother Dean (star Jensen Ackles), who is trying to
convince him to fight to live, and their late friend Bobby Singer
(guest star Jim Beaver), who is trying to convince him to let go and
die. All of this occurs after an Angelic horde has descended down
onto the Earth. With the angelic Host's descent to Earth, Sam and
Dean now face a world inhabited by thousands of powerful beings, each
with its own chaotic agenda. Before tackling the threat of the loose
nukes roaming the globe, the Winchesters engage in their most
personal conflict yet. Meanwhile, Castiel finds he's more vulnerable
and yet capable of more humanity than ever before. As the threat
escalades, a way must be found to reopen the gates of Heaven and head
off a demon insurrection in Hell. Throughout, darkness leaves its
mark on Dean: has he final crossed the line to protect his family?
Here
are a list of the episodes contained in this set:
I
Think I'm Gonna Like It Here, Devil May Care, I'm No Angel, Slumber
Party, Dog Dean Afternoon, Heaven Can't Wait, Bad Boys, Rock and a
Hard Place, Mother's Little Helper, Meta Fiction, Alex Annie Alexis
Ann, Bloodlines, King of the Damned, Stairway to Heaven, and Do You
Believe in Miracles?
The
sound and picture are the disc are both pretty well put together
featuring a 1080p high definition transfer with a 1.78:1 widescreen
aspect ratio and a powerful, lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 track that sounds
better than the show did on television in its original broadcast.
There's also a Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 track on the disc (but it
doesn't compare obviously to the DTS Mix.) There are also subtitles
in English SDH, French and Spanish.
Total
Run Time for this set is 967 minutes. The extras on this release are
pretty decent with 3 Episode Commentaries, The Men of Letters
Interactive Set Experience, Behind the Scenes of Supernatural, 2013
Comic-Con Panel, Unaired Scenes, and a Gag Reel.
All
in all, though I didn't get into the show previously it's not that
bad. If you are itching for a new show to get into or if you want to
get back into the show now may not be a bad time to get into
Supernatural. From what I hear fans saying about the show,
this is the best season yet. Thanks to Warner, we have excellent
releases like these to get our appetites whet.
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James Harland Lockhart V
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