As the title suggests, last night’s Supernatural was not your typical episode. It was set in Chicago and involved 5 major supernatural families that are the heads of organized crime, sort of Godfather-ish. Sounds cool, right? Tons of possibilities for our boys to get into trouble. And with us nearing the inevitable season finale, that is what I was expecting. TROUBLE. Instead it was well . . . boring.
Now before you harp on me for saying that, reread what I anticipated the show to be. A standard, awesome Supernatural show.
The intro had potential, a ton of unsuspecting supernatural beings were killed by a mysterious hooded figure with Freddie Krueger claws. One victim escaped and happened upon a new character named Ennis who had just proposed to his girlfriend who *SPOILER* was killed by the same Freddie Krueger guy. My heart broke for him. It really did. But after 12 minutes of no Dean and Sam, I thought I was being punked. They did show up, for like a minute, then it was the commercial break and back for more scenes minus the boys. The plot twisted into a soap opera between Ennis and his daddy issues and the Shapeshifters (who can shift without the traditional skin shedding and pain)/Vampires/Werewolves/ and two other families that I believe were only mentioned—Djinns and Ghouls (I think. I don’t know. Maybe some of them were ganked in the beginning too). It was really hard to keep track. That’s when it started to sink in; this isn’t Supernatural. It’s a promo for the spinoff called Bloodlines. We’ve been duped. I guess I should have figured it out being that the episode was titled Bloodlines, but I wasn’t expecting it to be 10% Supernatural and 90% Bloodlines.
When I first heard they were going to do a spinoff, I thought AWESOME! I was really intrigued to follow another hunter around as he slayed the EVIL monsters while driving a kickass car and listening to classic rock. Perhaps with a family member who, dare I say it, is a bad ass female hunter? It could be another good show that didn’t romanticize beings that are supposed to be horrible. Now, I’m not saying those shows/movies/books/whatever are bad. I love Vampire Diaries, Twilight, Trueblood, etc and I’m writing a series involving angels and demons and a few of my demons will eventually redeem themselves. But they have to EARN IT! I didn’t MAKE them good simply because they’re hot.
Anyway, 20 minutes into Supernatural/Bloodlines, it was pretty evident that Bloodlines was going to be more like Vampire Diaries and The Originals. There is lots of drama and similar character backgrounds. There is Ennis the hunter who watched his girlfriend die and has daddy issues. Could he be the new Sammy??? Sammy watched his girlfriend die by the same yellow-eyed bastard that killed their mom. He and Dean searched for him and finally they got there vindication and ended him many seasons later. Ennis killed the Freddie Kruger guy THAT EPISODE! No room for him to be tormented over finding the guy and seeking out justice for his fiancé of maybe a minute. So no, he’s not the “next Sammy.” I likened him more to Jeremy Gilbert from Vampire Diaries. Jeremy is their hunter and he’s had three, count em three girlfriends die—although Bonnie is back, but she might be dying again. Anyway, dating Jeremy is a bad idea—just throwing it out there for his Bonbon replacement. There is Violet, a Werewolf in love with a Shapeshifter named David, but she hides it from her family. Sort of Caroline/Tyler/Klaus vibes from, again, Vampire Diaries.Then there is David, the hot good Shapeshifter who is also in love with Violet. Aside from being hot and in a forbidden romance, he has family issues (his brother was the victim of the Freddie Kruger guy who almost got away. Sort of sad-ish) and left his family for several years because of those issues. His brother’s death death brought him back. Umm, Tyler Lockwood anyone??? Plus David’s sister is a major B! How else does he remind me of Vampire Diaries and The Originals? Umm . . . because he is FROM THOSE SHOWS! He played Kol, one of the five original vampires.
Kol
David
GAH! CONFUSING!
The show didn’t really get better. The boys were in it a handful of times to sort of pass the torch off to Ennis to be the hunter for Chicago who is going to partner up with David??? and said they would check in on him from time to time. Blah Blah Blah. Cause they have really done things like that in any other friggin episode . . . Even if that does mean they will guest start on Bloodlines, I don’t think that is enough to entice me to watch it. SORRY.
Now, if they were to maybe do a spinoff on Garth with his wolf pack as the world continues going to Hell while Dean deals with his Mark of Cain and Sammy deals with . . . well Dean, I’d probably watch at least the first several episodes of that. Garth is funny.
A Texas Ranger? Come on!
Add Cas into the mix and I’m sold. Or better yet, give Cas a spin off. Lord knows (he he) has has a ton of stuff to deal with that we don’t get to see.
I don’t know, maybe once the frustration/confusion wears off I might give Bloodlines try, if it is a night where I have absolutely nothing better to do. I really love Supernatural and in turn I wanted to help support Bloodlines, but so far, from what I’ve seen, there just isn’t enough of a connection to Supernatural for me to get invested. Maybe they will prove me wrong and let Ennis do what our boys do best: KILL THE FRIGGIN MONSTERS. Until then . . . well, we shall see.
Love,
Laurie
PS For everyone else going through withdrawls:
You’re welcome 🙂
Laurie Wetzel 