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[amnisias]

Meet the New Characters of Supernatural's Possible Spin-off, Supernatural: Tribes

The new series would exist in the world of the Winchesters (Sam and Dean will make appearances, without a doubt), but unlike its country-crossing source material, Tribes would stay put in Chicago. Borrowing from the Windy City's history of mafia families, Tribes tells the story of five warring monster families and one pissed-off hunter.

via tv.com

Apperantly the CW has order a pilot already, casting is in progress.... o_O

Comments

[serrico.livejournal.com]

I am so conflicted about the spinoff. On the one hand, if all the terrible writers (or even just the worst ones!) go off to work on it, then maybe--MAYBE--the final season of SPN Proper can claw its way back to some semblance of Good. On the other hand, if ANY of the not-bad writers leave to do the spinoff...SPN Proper's in even worse trouble than it already is.

I need to know who's gonna be in charge of this sucker, basically. I NEED TO KNOW.

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

Ah, interesting point! My thought process hadn't gotten any furthere than WTF?!? Basically, I just don't get what there thinking is here - this is really a totally new show which happens to be set in the same universe. Clearly they don't get what elements the fans love about the show - the bromance and the 'on the road' feel - and just strippt it away. So yes, basically still stuch at WTF?!?

[serrico.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, yes. Agreed on all counts of WTF! It totally looks like a spinoff in name only. Like, maybe, someone wanted to do a supernatural crime family show, and someone at the CW said, "Why not make it a Supernatural crime family show?? :D? :D? :D!" Because just looking at the show's info, that seems the likeliest genesis story.

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

Well. That sounds... uhm. Standardly soap operatic, shall we say.

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying this might not be a perfectly okay show, for the people who like it. But how they make the link from SPN (apart from having the occasional Sam & Dean drive through, is really beyond me. With The Vampire Diaries they took a number of really popular and established characters off for a spin-off, that made more sense. But this? Poop. Not that I want, need or would watch a spin-off. But still....

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

It doesn't actually sound like a spin-off so much as a supernatural soap opera they're trying to tack onto an existing franchise. If they'd really wanted a spin-off, they might have done better with some existing angels and demons. Even something set in the past with Mary Winchester's hunter family...

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

it bears almost no resemblance to spn and how they expect to make five known monster families duking it out in chicago fit into existing canon i have no idea. props to the cw for apparently looking for a black actor as the lead, but otherwise that could be pretty much any paranormal type show on tv.

[amnisias.livejournal.com]

I don't think they'll care much about 'existing canon', to be frank. This is basically a new show, they're just using SPN as a launch pad.