Bloodlines. Tsk.
5/8/14 05:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I see that they did not pick up Bloodlines. This doesn't make me happy because I feel like the chance we had to have a spin-off got tanked forever. I guess I was hoping that they'd pick it up and then fix it with time. Now TPTB are going to think it was the fans who sucked, instead of the writing on that ill-conceived episode. They introduced it the wrong way, they went in the wrong direction, they definitely pitched that thing to the wrong audience. Don't they get that we're *not* sitting at home watching our Show and dreaming about riding shotgun in the Impala with Sam/Dean? Don't they understand that probably most of us want to *be* Sam or Dean? We want to be that cool, that tough, that bad-ass. We're not dreaming of wearing designer gowns and dancing/screwing some mook in a tux. (well, sometimes we are but not on SpN night.)
Seasons prior, nearly every category of monster was shown to have an Alpha--it would have been so interesting to go with that idea--they could have shoehorned the Alphas into thelame kind of overused mobster family plot and made it hot. *I* would tune in to see the Alphas and their minions duking it out, as long as the writing was good and the actors were decent. I was truly surprised at how awful most of the Bloodlines cast was. I'm old, children. I'm going to need more than a hot ass to keep me invested.
It hurts to think of the possibilities we've lost--if only they'd gone that way! It would have left us some leeway to really cross over with SpN. Not necessarily the boys, maybe some minor characters we've met during the years. They wasted an opportunity to expand on the Hunter's world that we've only seen little glimpses of...*sigh*
I just can't believe by how *much* they missed that shot.
Seasons prior, nearly every category of monster was shown to have an Alpha--it would have been so interesting to go with that idea--they could have shoehorned the Alphas into the
It hurts to think of the possibilities we've lost--if only they'd gone that way! It would have left us some leeway to really cross over with SpN. Not necessarily the boys, maybe some minor characters we've met during the years. They wasted an opportunity to expand on the Hunter's world that we've only seen little glimpses of...*sigh*
I just can't believe by how *much* they missed that shot.
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5/8/14 11:34 pm (UTC)And plus: they could have used Alaina's pre-Abaddon character, because she's wonderful and gorgeous and strong and interesting.
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5/9/14 12:11 am (UTC)I WANT ***THAT*** SHOW. WITH HER AS THE LEAD
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5/9/14 12:18 am (UTC)IDK, I'm not a TV writer, but I can easily mentally excise her conversion into a demon (or hell, maybe even keep it!) and at least vaguely perceive whole story lines!
PS Your icon HOMG.
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5/9/14 03:20 am (UTC)There are plenty - I'd love to see her just be her pre-Abbadon self, and how she came to know Henry, and some monster-lore, and the Bunker at full operating capacity.
And a theme song with "Josie" in it. XD
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5/9/14 12:48 am (UTC)MoL could have made a great spin off. Such a missed opportunity.
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5/9/14 08:20 am (UTC)I'm not sure this is the end for any spin off, though. The shows cast and crew are very aware to fans reactions, I believe that they at least get why fans didn't like it and might give it another shot. Hopefully with a better execution, the idea was just fine for my taste. It was the writing, the cliches and the casting that screamed "CW teen drama ahead".
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5/9/14 12:59 pm (UTC)It was the writing, the cliches and the casting that screamed "CW teen drama ahead".
hokey smokes, yes!! Painfully so!
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5/10/14 10:24 pm (UTC)*sigh*
To me, a spin-off is an awesome character that gets to have his own life. So Sheriff Jody or the MoL or Victor if he'd survived - anything but the mess we got.
If they try again, i sure as hell hope they *pay more attention* this time.
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5/10/14 10:45 pm (UTC)In a kink-meme, fandom can come up with better shite than most network thinktanks. It's sad, really.