Bloodlines. Tsk.

[roxy]

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 the lame 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.

Comments

[casey28.livejournal.com]

"Network remains open to another spinoff of the beloved cult series." They can try again, and there's nothing they could do that would fix all the problems with Bloodlines, it was a mess. I'm glad it didn't get picked up.

[peepingdru.livejournal.com]

yes...this....x0x00x

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I can't say that I'm sorry. Everything about Bloodlines was wrong. I would have given many other spinoff concepts a chance: Jodie Mills, Charlie and Dorothy in Oz, young Krissy and her adoptive hunter brothers and sisters, Henry Winchester and the Men and Women of Letters, hell even the Ghostfacers or Becky and the LARPers. Anything would have been better than the Bloodlines idea, and would have offered endless possibilities for growth of the SPN-verse in new and gratifying ways.

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

You put this so, so well. Everything we might have hope for, what could have been so good, but they wasted it. Now there won't be anything, because some dicks at the CW completely mis-interpreted our Show, what it is, why we love it. *sigh* I do have to say that I didn't see much salvageable with that hot mess that Bloodlines was, but we'll never know now.

<3<3<3

[tasabian.livejournal.com]

This also leaves poor Chicago in the hands of the Monster Mafia! Think this plot line will ever be addressed again?

MoL could have made a great spin off. Such a missed opportunity.

[justmep2.livejournal.com]

I truly prefer no spin off over Bloodlines. I wasn't going to watch it after the pilot and I truly hoped that if it gets picked up J2 won't do guest appearances on it.
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".

[agent-jl36.livejournal.com]

JODIE MILLS SPINOFF. Needs to happen.

[tabaqui]

I can't say i mind. It was *so horrifically bad*, and man - the CW is churning out the cookie-cutter shows right now, and that was just one more cookie on the sheet. So boring, so samey-same, so predictable and uninteresting and, let's face it, so fucking *creamcheesewhite*. I mean - yay, that guy playing the lead, he was adorable as hell but...blondes. Everywhere, pasty blondes.
*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.