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The backdoor pilot for "Supernatural: Bloodlines" was as bad as I expected it to be -- which was bad -- so it's really no surprise that the show didn't get picked up. Unlike "Supernatural," this episode/pilot felt like a run-of-the-mill CW show. That is, it was populated with young, pretty, actors whose performances were wooden and uninspired and whose characters were vapid and self-involved. These same young people were supposedly players (in one case, the LEADER) of powerful families who hate each other for reasons we don't care about. Worse, five different monster families supposedly ran America's Second City (Chicago) for -- actually I don't know how long, but I got the sense it was for decades at least -- and yet no hunters had ever caught on?

Additionally, we were supposed to sympathize with two of the monsters, in a Romeo & Juliet sort of way, but I found that premise and the execution laughable and insulting. Also, the real "Supernatural" characters behaved out of character just to service the plot of the episode, which required their presence as a back-door-pilot. While Sam and Dean have encountered non-hostile monsters in the past, and even allowed a couple of them to live, those situations are few and far between. On the rare occasions that [evil] monsters turn out to be "good" it's usually because they were turned into monsters against their will.

I'm actually glad the show didn't get picked up. Otherwise it would have most likely introduced more inconsistencies or outright changes to the rich mythology of the original show.

Just my $0.02