Yeah, Bela was a deliberate omission for me. I can't work out how to fix her, but I damned well could suggest fixing the boys' reactions to her. SHE SHOT SAM. STOP BEING SO NOT UNNICE TO HER.

I loved Lauren Cohan, and I think she had great onscreen chemistry with JA's Dean. I wish they could have created a better character for her, or at least served her character better. Bela never actually fit into the Winchesters' world, and while that was supposed to be part of the appeal of her character for the audience--while providing girly eye candy and a bit of the glitz most if not all other CW shows have and the CW seems to require--it never felt organic to the show. The sheer clunkiness did her character in, I think. ETA: Well, along with the whole SHE SHOT SAM thing, that is.

I didn't mind Bela, although they wrote her with a lot of holes. Even her introduction made no sense -- how was she supposed to know they were eating at Biggerson's in time to grab a wig and a uniform and pretend to be a waitress?

I have no problem with her being a bitch, or doing what she did -- it's sort of surprising we haven't seen more people profiting off the supernatural instead of just being victimized by it.

And while I don't love that she apparently killed her parents because she was a victim of sexual abuse, I can't think of a lot of other reasons for a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl to want her parents dead and remain remotely sympathetic.

And while I don't love that she apparently killed her parents because she was a victim of sexual abuse, I can't think of a lot of other reasons for a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old girl to want her parents dead and remain remotely sympathetic.

Non-sexual abuse. I mean, Max wasn't molested.

Abuse in general is pretty cliched, though.

Not that it's not horrific, of course. And it happens, so.

I just can't get over them getting over her threatening to kill him. At least Gordon thought he was saving the world.

Totally cliched. Just doesn't have to be sexualized. Which is, like, at least 75% of chicks in comics backstory/origin story/damage. I'd rather, at this point, if they have to use the abuse trope, have it be of the non-sexual variety. I mean, does a chick HAVE to get a copy of The Courage to Heal with her cape?

(Note: actual numbers hyperbole. But the complaint is one of long standing.)

Well, for those of us who don't read comics, that's not going to ping. I just wanted something more creative.

I also want it to be tomorrow night. Now please.

I also also realized I may be writing girl!Winchesters in my own way, since I've got a mother and two daughters in this book who have powers/a life no one can know about. Oops?

But rape is the worst thing that can happen to you.

Well, unless you're a Winchester. Indubitably, losing your brother is worse.

I always liked that my Batgirl's father shot her and didn't teach her to speak. That's some sick shit.

Yeah, that's pretty hardcore.