Post by dazz on Aug 18, 2018 16:24:32 GMT
A Castiel show wouldn't really work as a prequel anyway given how they set it up early on that Angels prior to S4 didn't visit earth much, a Trickster prequel however that could work, we know he had been on earth for a few millennia and under the same persona so that could be fun plus that character was always a blast for me.
Crowley spin off could work as Mark Sheppard may be open to coming back if he were the star of his own show, plus it's a way to explore the character more, as is Crowley kind of got to the point where it was what do you do with him now, he was still bad he just wasn't evil anymore, but he was never going to be a full good guy either, so it was to the point of what do you do with him?
OOH OOHH Rowena & Jody buddy cop series now THAT would be epic, I love Rowena plus her powers and Jody's job could make for some really fun stories, or Rowena & Mary again could be fun.
Bloodlines I think could have worked if it were A: not a Supernatural spin off, and B: The Originals wasn't also on at that time, as Bloodlines was too much like an Originals rip off with an "Original" in the cast and so far removed from what Supernatural had set up as plausible in that universe to work, like in a world where Hunters don't revisit the same towns they work incase they blow their cover the idea that monster mob families are vying over Chicago and have been for decades seems stupid, now had they also set it up that Chicago, NY, LA other major cities actually have this sort of thing and they also act as exceptions to those hunter rules because hunters are also located in them or to oversee them somehow to keep it covered up and to contain the problems the monsters cause, then maybe it's passable as a part of that universe, but it wasn't in either case.
I agree with you about 'Bloodlines' and I haven't watched 'The Originals' before so I don't know what that was like but I did hear some other people say it was similar. My main problem with the episode was the lack of Sam and Dean and having it put in between such an important part of the show and I wanted to skip it and go to the next episode but couldn't.
Yeah at this point I think the only way a Supernatural spin off works is once Supernatural ends, or is a limited series, which truth be told could be cool, like each year we get a different spin off like a season of Jody & Mary, then a season of Cas & Claire, then a prequel season of Crowley pre season 4, make an anthology spin off so you can focus on specific problems, but also you can tie back to the main show by having Sam & Dean pop in at the start or end of each season and the stars of each spun off season popping into Supernatural to help out and allude to their own show.
And yeah the lack of the Winchesters was a big mistake, that's been an issue with the show since the start, the Supernatural fans are fans of Supernatural primarily because of them, they are the life blood of the show, it's why the mainstay additional cast have always worked because they weren't brought in like they were muscling the boys out of the episodes, Bobby doesn't appear until the end of S1 and is mostly kept as simply additional to their stories for quite a while before getting his own episodes, Cas was introduced but planned to be killed off so they didn't delve into him too far until the fans already fell for him, same with Crowley, I think the same for Jody also, it's the ones who get brought in meant to be on par with the guys and get kind of shoe horned into things that get a backlash and then cut, which is crappy because I always loved Jo & Ellen, hell I dug Ash if I'm being honest, but it's the flaw of a show like this that is set up around a brotherly bond like the Winchester's that's what people tune in for so anything that gets in the way of that people get pissy about.