Post by dazz on Aug 28, 2018 12:18:36 GMT
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.
A prequel show of Crowley would be interesting but they might have to use a different actor just like we were discussing with Castiel and Misha Collins and I am not sure how long Crowley had that body but it was obviously not his original one since Rowena (his Mum) didn’t recognise him when she saw him for the first time and Mark Sheppard isn’t getting any younger.
I am still surprised Crowley is no longer in the show ‘cause I thought he would have stayed in it until the show and I think he would have made it to the end but Mark chose to leave. I heard there were plans to have him appear in the Alternate Universe as a human hero but I am not sure if that is still happening now ‘cause Michael is in our universe now and Alternate Bobby and Charlie might be stuck here too which is a convenient way to bring the actors back to the show after killing them off. 
I don’t know if you have re-watched the earlier seasons for a while but the weird thing about Bobby is when he was first brought into the show they didn’t seem to be that close to him and he was more like a distant friend of their Father’s and over the next few seasons that changed completely and they were always talking about how he was an Uncle and a Dad to them and we heard about all these things they did with Bobby before the show started and it was like they forgot about how they were like with him when he first joined the show and there was all this additional history that wasn't there before.
I haven't for a while no, but iirc Bobby & John had some sort of falling out a while back which seeing how Sam was surprised Dean was hunting alone in the pilot also suggest Dean doing his own thing is relatively new, so anything John declared was law basically, and Sam wouldn't have seen Bobby in years either way due to going off to college, and I don't think they ever really showcased the relationship past early high school years for Sam, and that stuff does happen irl, but I think more so how the boys became so reliant on Bobby was kind of silly, before him they could research and learn things for themselves, and same with after, but whilst Bobby was around how often would they only half learn about a creature before turning to him or not bother at all?
Does anyone but me miss Garth? like I wish we could have had him still be the new Bobby, even as a werewolf, he wouldn't need to go anywhere but he could still help out, plus a once a year pop in for help would be fun I mean I wonder how he would react to Jack? Oooh what if they had given us bad ass Garth with like a massive scar and a missing eye from apocalypse world, make a running joke of all his injuries, like he's lost an eye, 4 teeth, both his big toes, 2 ribs, a kidney and a nut fighting the angels, even if it's just so Jack or Cas could heal him back to perfect health for the joke of Cas telling him you may want to check your fully equipped now and then walks off as badass Garth checks he has both plums.