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apocalypsosOkay, so I have these thoughts about tonight's episode of SPN. Or more specifically, one aspect.
I like Jo.
I don't love her yet but then again, I haven't had nearly enough time to love her. I like her in concept, though, and what I saw tonight (for the most part, which I'm about to get to) I liked as well. That's not to mention that I thought Alona Tal was adorable on Veronica Mars and was anticipating seeing her again.
Like I said, I like Jo.
But I would have liked her better if at no time had either her or Dean mentioned hooking up or getting hit on.
I know Dean hits on everything, but there are a few reasons I'd be more inclined to like Dean and Jo together if they hadn't flirted tonight. For one thing, his father just died, for crying out loud. He's in the middle of trying to work out his emotions over the whole thing and they've got him feeling this connection with her now? Why? Because she was the first pretty girl he ran into? I would want to see the pairing more if they weren't just, "Well, you didn't immediately hit on me. Want to hook up? Maybe later, okay? Okay!"
Another thing that bugs me about the pairing is that Dean ALWAYS does this. It's always the heat and the sex first and any sort of real relationship second. Even with Cassie ... I mean, he didn't spend that long with her, and yet he makes a crack after sex about them always being good at that. What I was hoping for is that at no point would he have hit on her, at no point would she have mentioned guys hitting on her, and that the two of them would start off just talking. Nothing more. Just finding a friendly connection, that's all.
If Kripke wanted me to believe a little more in the pairing, I would have preferred friends first. Maybe Dean realizes that he can talk to her differently than he can talk to Sam. Talking to Sam means turning the conversation into this thing where there's baggage. Talking to Sam means when he's talking about rebuilding the Impala or the demon hunt or whatever, he's really talking about something else. But what if the relationship had merely started out as Jo being someone he could just talk to? No assumptions of what he really means, just someone willing to sit down and shoot the shit with him. No hitting on one another, maybe a little sniping at one another, but more like reluctantly friendly conversation.
I didn't want them to immediately discuss hooking up, I wanted Dean to make a friend.
ETA: Okay, I've figured out a better way of putting it, I think.
I can see Jo giving Dean an immediate No because of this.
When we look at Dean in the episode, all broken and pretty with his one lonely tear, we think, "Aw, poor baby!" and want to give him pity sex.
But we didn't grow up around hunters. Hunters who, for the most part, have been portrayed as slovenly, morally questionable, criminally inclined, psychologically damaged in some way or another, ready to commit violent acts, and quite possibly womanizers and/or alcoholics. Jo isn't seeing hunting the way we see it, she sees it from an everyday point-of-view. These are the same guys who come into her mother's roadhouse to get wasted after a hunt and hit on her. I would not be the least bit surprised if she'd sworn off hunters as possible dates from the minute she'd gotten interested in guys. Regardless of how pretty Dean might be, she is not an everyday girl who's going to be impressed by his bravery.
If she'd given him a, "Don't even think about it, buster. Hunters are too high-maintenance," I would have bought that, given the men and women she's grown up around.
I like Jo.
I don't love her yet but then again, I haven't had nearly enough time to love her. I like her in concept, though, and what I saw tonight (for the most part, which I'm about to get to) I liked as well. That's not to mention that I thought Alona Tal was adorable on Veronica Mars and was anticipating seeing her again.
Like I said, I like Jo.
But I would have liked her better if at no time had either her or Dean mentioned hooking up or getting hit on.
I know Dean hits on everything, but there are a few reasons I'd be more inclined to like Dean and Jo together if they hadn't flirted tonight. For one thing, his father just died, for crying out loud. He's in the middle of trying to work out his emotions over the whole thing and they've got him feeling this connection with her now? Why? Because she was the first pretty girl he ran into? I would want to see the pairing more if they weren't just, "Well, you didn't immediately hit on me. Want to hook up? Maybe later, okay? Okay!"
Another thing that bugs me about the pairing is that Dean ALWAYS does this. It's always the heat and the sex first and any sort of real relationship second. Even with Cassie ... I mean, he didn't spend that long with her, and yet he makes a crack after sex about them always being good at that. What I was hoping for is that at no point would he have hit on her, at no point would she have mentioned guys hitting on her, and that the two of them would start off just talking. Nothing more. Just finding a friendly connection, that's all.
If Kripke wanted me to believe a little more in the pairing, I would have preferred friends first. Maybe Dean realizes that he can talk to her differently than he can talk to Sam. Talking to Sam means turning the conversation into this thing where there's baggage. Talking to Sam means when he's talking about rebuilding the Impala or the demon hunt or whatever, he's really talking about something else. But what if the relationship had merely started out as Jo being someone he could just talk to? No assumptions of what he really means, just someone willing to sit down and shoot the shit with him. No hitting on one another, maybe a little sniping at one another, but more like reluctantly friendly conversation.
I didn't want them to immediately discuss hooking up, I wanted Dean to make a friend.
ETA: Okay, I've figured out a better way of putting it, I think.
I can see Jo giving Dean an immediate No because of this.
When we look at Dean in the episode, all broken and pretty with his one lonely tear, we think, "Aw, poor baby!" and want to give him pity sex.
But we didn't grow up around hunters. Hunters who, for the most part, have been portrayed as slovenly, morally questionable, criminally inclined, psychologically damaged in some way or another, ready to commit violent acts, and quite possibly womanizers and/or alcoholics. Jo isn't seeing hunting the way we see it, she sees it from an everyday point-of-view. These are the same guys who come into her mother's roadhouse to get wasted after a hunt and hit on her. I would not be the least bit surprised if she'd sworn off hunters as possible dates from the minute she'd gotten interested in guys. Regardless of how pretty Dean might be, she is not an everyday girl who's going to be impressed by his bravery.
If she'd given him a, "Don't even think about it, buster. Hunters are too high-maintenance," I would have bought that, given the men and women she's grown up around.
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Date: 2006-10-10 08:24 pm (UTC)*snicker* You know what would never happen, but would be choke-on-your-tongue-and-die hilarious? I mean, since we have no idea of Jo's age (except that she's likely a few years younger than Dean), don't know who her father was, and have speculation from Sam that John and Ellen had a thing...
You know where I'm going with this one. But imagine the facial expressions, and the hours of washing mouths out with soap. That alone would endear Jo to me. Take notes, Kripke.