I hope her backstory involves either having been trained to do this sort of thing since she was in Grranimals, or being much, much older than she looks.

Matt speaks for me.

Well the boys have to interact with somebody. I gather that nobody thinks there is much of a shot for my hope that she turns out to be the big bad. I guess that would be kind of subtle for this series.

I hope her backstory involves either having been trained to do this sort of thing since she was in Grranimals, or being much, much older than she looks.

Dude, but KC, like Misha Barton, looks a decade older than she is. Why do you think I am having mental skeeved issues re: her hotness level?

She doesn't LOOK like a 20 year old girl. She looks closer to 30. (She's like Alona Tal in reverse, in that respect. I adore AT, but she looked like she was in her late teens at most as Jo, at least until BUaBS. KC has the more formed look of adulthood about her.)

Are you kidding? It's progress that she didn't die in the episode. The show would have to get to its 5th season before it could comprehend the idea of a female big bad.

Personally, I am not much on Mysterious Blondie as of yet; a ponytail holder and evidence that I -- to say nothing of the considerably-larger-than-me main characters -- cannot pick her up one-handed will improve my impression of her considerably. The meme of large men (not EVEN gigantic freaks, just Hollywood-average large) and itty bitty women is sooooo 1994.

Well the boys have to interact with somebody. I gather that nobody thinks there is much of a shot for my hope that she turns out to be the big bad. I guess that would be kind of subtle for this series.

It would be gender-issue skeevy on a show that doesn't need more of that.

But on the first point, yes.

If Dean has to, from a narrative perspective, come to regret that he's going to be dead in a year, he needs something he cares about outside of Sam, some kind of external relationship. Dean being Dean, just friendship wouldn't cut it. He needs some kind of attachment.

Sam, well, Sam could use one, for many reasons, though the plotting depends less on it.

I will say, as someone who had long hair for years (waist-length) and a taste for fire, as well as random physical activities around fire, I would leave it down more often than not.

Your long hair may vary, but it tended to get in my way as much up and constrained as down and loose, so I don't really buy the hairband complaint.

I'm a recent fan, so have seen fewer episodes than I missed. Another point about the show: how often do Black people manage to avoid both of these fates:

A) being a bad guy or turning into a bad guy
B) dying

Cause so far the only Black person I've seen get any significant screen time who did not end up doing one thing or the other was hotel porter and the hotel haunted by the drowned little girl who was later joined by her aged younger sister.

Issiah's death sure does not represent a breaking of the pattern. Maybe Tamara will, but she looks pretty doomed right now to me.

I'm a recent fan, so have seen fewer episodes than I missed. Another point about the show: how often do Black people manage to avoid both of these fates:

Black females tend to fare reasonably well, in terms of surviving and not being evil.

We have yet to see a black male ally who lasted past a single episode.

I'm having the absolute opposite reaction to this particular actress than you, Plei. I've been eager for more female agency on the show, for good characters with chewy backstories. I love Ellen Harvelle beyond reason. And yes, I like Jo, but I don't buy her as an effective lone hunter, either. A partner, an apprentice, yes, but not on her own. And Tal isn't nearly as stereotypically young CW stock as Cassidy appears to be.

I'm willing to see what she's got. But her initial appearance doesn't impress or intrigue me, so she--and the character--is going to have to win me over.