fannishliss

i always thought part of the problem with jo was that the ptb tried to introduce her as a potential love interest, and when it didn't work (the boys weren't emotionally up to it and a lot of fans FLIPPED THEIR SHIT) they didn't know what else to do with her. so every episode she was in, she seemed like a slightly different person. potential love interest. dean's mini-me. wannabe hunter. and she had great potential as a character - she was probably the closest analogue the show had to sam and dean, in that she was someone in her twenties who'd grown up in the life, but because the harvelles were very much a part of the hunter community, and because her dad hadn't become a hunter in response to her mom's death, her attitude towards it was different. she wanted to be a hunter, and because she'd been to college she knew there were other options. she chose to stay in the life, whereas the boys weren't ever given a choice. and even tho sam left, he got sucked back in against his will. in a way she was a great contrast. but i think the ptb have always had a hard time writing younger women as anything other than potential love interests, and they didn't know what to do with her if she WASN'T going to be dean's possible roll in the hay, if her storylines had nothing to do with her sexual attractiveness.

>>I like in Roadkill that the woman is really ... a Cylon! no, a ghost! :) <<

hee! i may or may not have gone "OH MY GOD IT'S SIX" the first time i saw it. spn might have been the first non-bsg show i saw tricia helfer in (either that or csi: original flavor) and i was so impressed that she was so un-six-like. i really liked molly. i liked that the boys thought she was alive for a big chunk of the episode, partly because i twigged to the fact that she wasn't before they did. :D