About Last Night's Episode

[smalltrolven]

I have now watched 13.10 twice, once on a stream that was rather spotty and once with my husband who is an occasional watcher of spn. I went into the episode trying to have an open mind, mostly because I enjoy my show very much and there was finally a new episode.

Overall, it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting, there were parts of it that I enjoyed,

Comments

[roxymissrose]

I am sorry they chose Monsterland to premiere the pilot with. I was hoping for some adventure with Sam and Dean before they got rescued. It was too fast, and made dimension-hopping irrelevant, at least as far as Sam and Dean.

I was pretty pleased on the whole with WWS. I have my fingers crossed that they'll put the focus on Donna and Jody, and let the girls develop as the show goes along. So far, the strongest character I thought was Alex, and I didn't like her before that much, but last night she captured me. She was a good foil to Claire, (who is not fem-dean) and yep, reminded me a bit of Sam, if Sam had been allowed to mix college and hunting. :)

[amypond45]

I liked Alex best, too. She reminded me of Sam, and I like the way they portray her being able to balance a normal job/college with hunting, something I'll always wish Sam had been able to do.

[smalltrolven]

I was wishing we got more of the Monsterland fun times, guess we'll just have to write fic about it....
I also like Alex the most out of all the young characters, but I really doubt the focus will be on Donna and Jody, this is the CW after all. Got to capture that teen audience with stories about other teens. Too bad, because I like Donna and Jody together, they're no Bobby & Rufus (much less Sam & Dean) but they at least have some chemistry.

[roxymissrose]

Ach, don't mention Bobby and Rufus--that was my dream spin-off! *cries for what will never be*

[amypond45]

I wish Monsterland had had dinosaurs. I think I'm still in mourning :(

[roxymissrose]

Me too. :(

[smalltrolven]

I was actually very relieved it wasn't dinosaurs, because it was a whole different universe which I guess is more interesting to me. When the AU!Kaia knocked her staff/weapon against that skull it made a clanging noise, which made me say "Woah do the monsters have *metal* skeletons?!?!" Metal skeleton gorilla-ish monsters....cool.

[sillie82]

Yeah, this is pretty much what I thought as well. I love Jody and Donna, and if they'd been the focuss, I would have loved it way more. Now, it doesn't help that I've never been a fan of Claire, and this episode did not help in me liking her.

Honestly, I would have enjoyed an episode of just Sam and Dean surviving Monsterland much more than what we got in the second half of the season premiere. Because when it comes down to it, they are why I'm still watching Supernatural.

YES!

[smalltrolven]

I found I actually liked Claire a bit more after last season's episode where she was briefly a werewolf, and I liked the actress a bit more after watching her angsty teen performance in the HBO series Big Little Lies. But i don't like her or the character enough to watch the series if it actually gets spun-off from SPN.

[fireheart13]

I agree with so many of your points. I'd have loved the spin-off to be about JOdy and DOnna, and when it was first announced, I thought that's what it was going to be. I can't stand CLair, and the whole pack-of-pretty-girls thing does nothing for me. *sigh* I don't anticiapte watching it if it does get picked up.

[smalltrolven]

Yeah, I think it comes down to that the older side of SPN fandom is not really the target audience for the spinoff, which is totally fine. Pack-of-pretty-girls, that's a very good description, just not interesting to me, I'm sure there are plenty of spn fans that will watch.

[tygrrlyli]

I was annoyed. The episode was kind of fine. I appreciate Patience and Alex. Jody & Donna are amazing. I like Kaia.
Claire was (still is??) a halfwit. I cannot stand her. I don't need to like characters to appreciate them. But I abhor her arrogance and complete fuck-wittery. If she wasn't arrogant, I think I'd be fine with her. I still wouldn't like her, but I'd understand her.

What annoyed the piss outta me was that Kaia was set up just so Claire could learn a deep, life-changing lesson. That's it. A really cool, woman of color, was killed off for the sake of the blond white girl to learn a life lesson.
Fuck that noise, hard, with barbed wire.

Being a white girl myself, I feel I have a pretty good platform from which to yell my rage. And as a white girl, I'm likely to be better heard than any women of color who point it out.
I liked Kaia, yay for doppelganger Kaia, but I liked the one we had.