"Think of a million random acts of chance: That let John and Mary be born, to meet, to fall in love, to have the two of you. Think of the million random choices that you make and how each and every one of them brings you closer to your destiny. Do you know why that is? It's because it's not random, it's not chance. It's a plan that is playing itself out perfectly. Free will is an illusion, Dean." - Archangel Michael
Well, where exactly do I begin?! "Supernatural" has played such a vital part in my life over the better part of these past ten years that it's truly become impossible for me to sum up my love for the franchise in words. I've invested so much of my time, energy - and even money, on occasion - into the world of it's characters and it's ongoing success, that I don't think I could ever truly explain how far my love for this series, it's writers, it's actors, or it's overall story as a whole has become for me. It's a really amazing thing.
Back in the fall of 2008, over an entire year after I originally came up with the concept of montaging, I created my very first Supernatural-related effort using the format. I began the entry's pre-production on Halloween of that year and completed it a little bit after midnight the next morning I remember. It dealt with the series' ever-charismatic co-protagonist Dean Winchester as it's primary focus.
The first entry turned out so well, in fact, that I followed suit with yet another entry the following night. Now, as you can imagine, and for the sake of organization, of course: The second entry used and dealt with the series' cerebral co-protagonistic baby brother Sam Winchester as it's primary focus and concept. Afterwards, I felt that my work had been done (seeing as how I'd successfully told the stories of the shows' two main characters to the best of my ability at the time) so I retired the project altogether feeling content with what I'd already accomplished and already set out to do. That is, up until the next summer.
Somewhere around early June of 2009, I got the idea to expand on what I'd already done with the first two montages; the goal being to individually create a montage for every single recurring character of the show's mythology at that point. This would first consist of patriarch John Winchester, and then the ever-reliable Castiel, the impulsive Jo Harvelle, the always-resourceful Bobby Singer, Jo's tough-as-nails mother Ellen, and so on and so forth until I felt I'd completely done the series the true justice it deserved.
The night before the would-be promising premiere of the series' fifth season, I finished up on what I thought would be the final "Supernatural" montage ever with a first-of-it's-kind capper (or "series concluder" as I would later call it) which was "Time Has Come Today" by The Chambers Brothers, but instead chose to continue the series even further with a planned second volume less than a week later - much to the joy, I remember, of my friends, subscribers, and family. That was a proud moment for me, personally.
Volume two began in the first week of that November with an entry focused on Mary Winchester - the arguable heart of the entire series mythology. Coming back to Supernatural was actually quite a hard thing to do, seeing as how it had a tough act to follow in my all-time most favorite montage ever: "Heroes". Nonetheless, though, I commenced with the project and numerous others until it's completion in May of 2010; the day of the fifth season's finale ironically. It ended well, and I was glad that I finally accomplished yet another goal that I'd set out for myself. Most of all, though, I was most fortunate to have the opportunity to show the series concluder to my beloved great-grandmother before she passed away only six days later.
Although it wasn't apart of the "Supernatural" Montage Series itself, I created a sequel so-to-speak to the original series in the form of a long awaited (on my part) crossover series featuring the likes of Supernatural itself and several of my other all-time favorite franchises including "Terminator," "In Plain Sight," "Journeyman", "Life," "Saving Grace," "2007's Bionic Woman," "Rescue Me," "My Own Worst Enemy," and "Burn Notice". This subsequent series in question was done under the idea of my long-held belief of a unexplored shared universe between the majority of all of my favorite franchises - let it be a franchise of television, film, or literature.
And, so, without any further ado....
Supernatural: The Complete Montage Series
Dean Winchester: Personal Jesus
Jo Harvelle: Rebel Rebel
Bobby Singer: Exit
Ellen Harvelle: Believe
Bela Talbot: Take a Bow
Victor Henrickson: Tonight
Tessa: O Death!
Volume One Concluder: Time Has Come Today
Mary Winchester: Fix You
War, The Horseman of The Apocalypse: The Day The World Went Away
Archangel Raphael: Wish
Meg: Last
Archangel Gabriel: Wind Up
Chuck Shurley: An End Has A Start
Zachariah: Happiness In Slavery
Lilith: Juke Joint Jezebel
Rufus Turner: Silver & Gold
Jessica Moore: All I Want Is You
Azazel: Yellow
Pamela Barnes: Politik
Casey: Physical (You're So)
Famine, The Horseman of The Apocalypse: Lost!
Missouri Mosely: We Never Change
Ash: 42
Madison Owens: My Immortal
Alastair: How Does It Feel?
Joshua: Life Is For Living
Lisa Breadon: Love Is Blindness
Crowley: October (Redux)
Pestilence, The Horseman of The Apocalypse: Echoplex
Death, The Horseman of The Apocalypse: The Man Comes Around
Lucifer: Hells Bells
The Impala: Heartland
How It All Came To Be: Don't Panic (Redux)
Complete Series Concluder: Carry On Wayward Son / Fight The Good Fight
*"Supernatural" Crossover Montage Series (Original Post: HERE)
Supernatural/In Plain Sight: Brothers & Sisters
Supernatural/Journeyman: The Beginning is the End is the Beginning (V2)
Supernatural/Life: Rock of Ages
Supernatural/Saving Grace: Knockin' On Heaven's Door (V2)
Supernatural/Bionic Woman: Lost?
Supernatural/Rescue Me: Your Blue Room
Supernatural/My Own Worst Enemy: Bigger Stronger
Supernatural/Burn Notice: Sunday Bloody Sunday / Shoot To Thrill / The Fly / The Escapist
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