User blog comment:San Layn/Spin-off topics I would consider watching/@comment-11331875-20141025045107

A lot of these ideas are good ones, but the budget probably wouldn't allow for them to be executed well, like for example the one set in Biblical times about the Knights of Hell; theoretically, it could happen and it could work, but the issue that springs immediately to mind is how many liberties the CW would take with what "Biblical times" looked like (among other things, like it being way too epic in scope to be done right). It's the characters they're centered on who could make or break it; like I like the idea for the Oz spin-off but dislike Charlie as she's portrayed in SPN (though a big part of that was how Sue-ish she came off as, so maybe getting her time away from the boys and getting her own series would let her breathe as a character), and I like Bobby and Rufus but their dynamic might be too similar to Sam and Dean's for it to feel fresh.

I do really like the idea of the Samuel Colt spin-off (an Old West set may or may not be doable, Deadwood did it but it was HBO and then you'd have to try to avoid looking like a Deadwood rip-off -- but it'd sure be interesting, especially given the different time period, and I just must knooow about the Colt and the devil's gates! and must see Samuel kicking demon ass!) and the Bela Talbot spin-off (it'd definitely be interesting to see her moving through the supernatural world as a main character so differently than Sam and Dean do, just each episode trying to scam people and find ways out of her deal while exploring her as a character, capped off with the most depressing series finale in history when she gets dragged off to Hell, hell yeah I'd watch). The Men of Letters and Judah Initiative vs. the Thule in WWII also sounds intriguing, but again, it might be hard on the budget to set it properly (unless they refrained from filming too "big").

If they hadn't killed off the Roadhouse crew -- Ellen, Jo, Ash, and friends -- I'd say give them a spin-off. Hmm. My perfect spin-off for this series would be something grounded in early SPN -- humans fighting evil in the form of monsters, an over-arching mystery, make it dark with a horror movie tone, but with layered, sympathetic characters we want to see go home happy. But make it different from SPN -- more minorities heading the show, for one. Avoid basing your arcs on Judeo-Christian mythology, secondly -- maybe borrow from another mythology/religion or just use ghosts, monsters, whatever, for your main arcs. Keep the emphasis on maintaining good, positive relationships between characters we're supposed to like and only occasionally shake it up and only if you need to, because all that character drama on SPN really soured me on the series -- now every conflict seems stale and forced because no one ever seems genuinely happy with each other anymore, so why should I care about their relationships?