Jess wasn't family, was she? Not blood family. What if she had lived and gone on the road with the boys? It would have been a different show, but it would have been pretty interesting.
For me, at least, that bit I bolded is the point. Yes, it could have been pretty interesting, but that's not THIS show. You (Generic, with that big capital G) are watching this story and seem to be wanting a different story, and so are often reading it as a different story, which just...yeah, I know authorial intent is dead and all, but that doesn't work, and I'm going to stop there, because I keep wanting to compare this to all the people demanding their version of whatever from J.K. Rowling, and bringing HP into something never leads anywhere good.
As for wanting to see female hunters, too, that's a different issue. I imagine they're out there, but since there's been absolutely no indication of an official Hunter Network/League/Whatever -- from what we've seen, you know who you've stumbled across, and maybe if you're lucky, they know someone else -- it doesn't particularly strike me as out of line in this canon that Dean and Sam don't currently know any. In every way, we are watching a show with a very tight POV; there is no greater entity or organization providing context, and if Dean or Sam don't know about it, and also don't say or do something to indicate that they know it, we don't know about it. So female hunters? Well, unless they stumble across some -- and since they haven't stumbled across any hunters except for Elkins in 121, I'd say hunters aren't exactly thick on the ground -- our best bet is that John might know some, but as we've seen, John knows all kinds of people that his sons don't know he knows, and he appears to have alienated to some extent every single one of them. At any rate, I not only wouldn't have any problem with Dean and Sam meeting a female hunter in any upcoming season but expect that I would enjoy it, much like I would enjoy them meeting, say, another young hunter of any gender, because all the ones we know of so far are John's age or older. However, I would rather that they just "meet" her/him/them, because like hg, I don't even really want John there full-time.
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Jess wasn't family, was she? Not blood family. What if she had lived and gone on the road with the boys? It would have been a different show, but it would have been pretty interesting.
For me, at least, that bit I bolded is the point. Yes, it could have been pretty interesting, but that's not THIS show. You (Generic, with that big capital G) are watching this story and seem to be wanting a different story, and so are often reading it as a different story, which just...yeah, I know authorial intent is dead and all, but that doesn't work, and I'm going to stop there, because I keep wanting to compare this to all the people demanding their version of whatever from J.K. Rowling, and bringing HP into something never leads anywhere good.
As for wanting to see female hunters, too, that's a different issue. I imagine they're out there, but since there's been absolutely no indication of an official Hunter Network/League/Whatever -- from what we've seen, you know who you've stumbled across, and maybe if you're lucky, they know someone else -- it doesn't particularly strike me as out of line in this canon that Dean and Sam don't currently know any. In every way, we are watching a show with a very tight POV; there is no greater entity or organization providing context, and if Dean or Sam don't know about it, and also don't say or do something to indicate that they know it, we don't know about it. So female hunters? Well, unless they stumble across some -- and since they haven't stumbled across any hunters except for Elkins in 121, I'd say hunters aren't exactly thick on the ground -- our best bet is that John might know some, but as we've seen, John knows all kinds of people that his sons don't know he knows, and he appears to have alienated to some extent every single one of them. At any rate, I not only wouldn't have any problem with Dean and Sam meeting a female hunter in any upcoming season but expect that I would enjoy it, much like I would enjoy them meeting, say, another young hunter of any gender, because all the ones we know of so far are John's age or older. However, I would rather that they just "meet" her/him/them, because like hg, I don't even really want John there full-time.