Tell me it's April 1st today.....

[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

[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...