9.20 Initial reaction: WTF?

[caranfindel]

Well, that wasn't a waste of 42 minutes of my life. Because I only spent about 10 minutes watching it. As soon as the Supernatural title card showed up, I decided to fast-forward through every scene that didn't include Sam and/or Dean. So these are the notes I took last night:

Oooh maybe this is Dean in a hoodie killing all the boring monsters?

Oh, a dead girlfriend, THAT'S original!

Lucien Lavinscourt? WTF kind of name is that?

Bonham and Peart! \o/

(Skipping all the Bloodlines crap) This should go quickly

"This one's labelled Susan!"

Kids, back in my day, a "spinoff" meant one or more popular characters were actually spun off, like a little satellite, from their mother show. For example, for those of you old enough to remember, All in the Family begat The Jeffersons, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show gave us Rhoda and Lou Grant. Or if you're not that old, how about how The Simpsons spun off from The Tracey Ullman Show, or The Cleveland Show came from Family Guy. That's a spinoff. A beloved character with their own history and storyline gets a show of their own.

What we saw last night? That wasn't a spinoff. That was someone borrowing (and mangling) canon from one show and creating another, completely different show. And then shoehorning a couple of beloved characters from another show into it. A true Supernatural spinoff would have been if Garth and his new vampire family were given a show, or Jody and Alex.

Anyway. I knew I didn't care about the "spinoff," but what The Powers That Be did last night took me beyond "don't care" and straight into "I resent that this show even exists." Because they wasted an episode of Supernatural (at this point in the season!) on this crap.

Comments

[cassiopeia7.livejournal.com]

All in the Family begat The Jeffersons, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show gave us Rhoda and Lou Grant.

This is a beautiful and perfect definition of "spinoff." Too bad Carver & crew don't seem to know the meaning of the word.

"I resent that this show even exists." Because they wasted an episode of Supernatural (at this point in the season!) on this crap.

x100,000,000,000⁹⁹ *wild applause*

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

OH SO TRUE.

I had it on with the mute on for a good chunk, because, well...who cares?

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Well, you gave it more of a shot than I did. I literally had my finger on the FF button the whole time.

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

I was watching it in real time.

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

Ah. I never do that. I'd rather watch 30 min later than sit through commercials.

[manzanita-crow.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this. What utter bollocks!

[thursdaysisters.livejournal.com]

I can't decide if Lucien Lavinscourt sounds more like a Harry Potter villain or a soap.

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'm voting for HP villain.

[heavenli24.livejournal.com]

Lol - and he doesn't even have a good American accent (let alone a good Chicago accent - and I'm British... I don't even know what a 'good' Chicago accent is supposed to sound like). I definitely heard some of his native northern English accent creep in in the middle of the episode though.

I hadn't heard of Lucien before he was announced in the spinoff, but turns out he's been doing the rounds of high school-based dramas and soaps in the UK for the last few years, playing teenage parts only. He's also a failed pop star and a reality TV star, apparently taking part in Celebrity Big Brother a couple of years ago (not quite sure how he classes as a celebrity though).

[freya922.livejournal.com]

I know! Right? NOT freakin' pleased. Do they think our fandom is the CW fandom? Because it's not. I, too, remember All in the Family (i.e. I'm 50+). I want Sam, Dean, and Supernatural's mythology, not another freakin' CW type show...

[frozen_delight]

Oh, a dead girlfriend, THAT'S original!
And an absent father... *snorts*

Oooh maybe this is Dean in a hoodie killing all the boring monsters?
Now THAT is original. You should be on the writers' team. :)
But seriously, why did the boys ever think that guy with the monster hand was a monster?

"This one's labelled Susan!"
Thatwas my favourite moment.

Positive new insights of the week: Even monsters can wear nice suits. And not all shapeshifters leave their disgusting bits of old skin lying about. :)

[caranfindel.livejournal.com]

"This one's labelled Susan!"
Thatwas my favourite moment.

Did you also think at first that it meant Susan was the contents, not the owner?

[a_starfish]

That wasn't a spinoff. That was someone borrowing (and mangling) canon from one show and creating another, completely different show. And then shoehorning a couple of beloved characters from another show into it.

Ha, yes. Mangled was the word that sprung to my mind too. I was left with a slight feeling of disbelief that of all the things they could've done with canon/the SPN 'verse this is what they chose to do. Fast forwarding to the Sam and Dean bits sounds like a more tolerable way of watching this!