Yeah. I don’t even know. 

The way they’re giving classic Sam and Dean lines/moments like the “If you leave now, don’t you ever come back” is the writer’s attempt to draw on borrowed nostalgia to pull in the audience. Hey, I took an entire semester of TV Writing in Theory and Practice as an elective in college and I remember almost all of it. Okay, almost some of it. Whatever. Anyway. That isn’t an effective technique. For a spinoff to succeed, it has to stand alone. You cannot rely on borrowed good feelings from the show before it. So simply going “Hey look this girl is like Sam and maybe this one will be like Dean so watch!” is actually doing a disservice to your characters. The copy is never as good as the original and suffers in comparison. So let them be their own people and quit drawing phony parallels. Most of the audience smells that kind of disingenuity from a mile away and it turns them off the character. 

Also? I think it’s terrible to make the Native American character an addict. It’s a nasty racial stereotype. Actually there are a lot of issues like that in this spinoff  probably because in spite of the female cast, it’s being helmed by white dudes and as my friend said last night “White dudes gotta white and they gotta dude.” LOL

The dinosaurs on the other hand? SO MUCH STUPID FUN. I mean, I wanted to hate it. But my husband was next to me yelling Land of the Lost jokes at the TV and my friends on twitter were making me laugh so hard, I was in tears about it. Yes, it’s silly. But like I said before, this is what it is now. So all I can do is laugh. Some highlights from our twitter thread:

• How long until they start calling that dinosaur family?
• The dinosaur gets it’s own room in the bunker.
• Dinosaur has first dibs on the tub. 

• Can’t wait for it to share a Brotherly Bonding Moment with Dean. 
• That quickly devolved into a fight between De-Rex shippers and Sa-Rex shippers that could only be settled by all of us agreeing to write one big fan fic called Wincestuous Rex. 
• My friend then won everything by tweeting this gif: 

I mean, I can think of worse things than Sam and Dean being stuck in this primitive AU together. If there was any justice, we’d get to see them with make-shift weapons trying to survive the dangers there all tough and alone and smart and alone and rugged and ALONE. That would be fun to watch for a few episodes. But there we’re not that lucky so instead I will eagerly await the fan fiction.