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Listening to the Crossroads guys tackle the episode made me it easier for me to articulate some of my very complicated feelings about ‘Ladies Drink Free’.
Like they say in the episode - you’re not doing a character any favors by bringing them into an episode that treats them poorly. The episode would have worked much better with someone who already was a werewolf like Garth, or Kate, as the purpose of the episode was to develop Mick Davies’ story.
Claire’s brief stint as a werewolf has no lasting effects on her character.
She is in exactly the same emotional place as she was last year. She has not progressed in hunting.
Had she been allowed to stay a werewolf; that would have drastically affected her and set up interesting future storylines. Imagine the possibilities: Claire trying to control the monster within her while secretly enjoying the power it gives her.
As it is she just served as filler in an episode that was really about someone else.
It’s also increasingly upsetting to me that the writers of Supernatural are ignoring everything that made Claire interesting as a character; her religious background, her hatred of the angels, her possession trauma, and are trying to turn her into a generic teen heroine.
Claire deserved Lily Sunder’s storyline.
(In my fantasies there's a Claire spin-off and Jeremy Carver writes it. He created her. He can treat her well.)
Like they say in the episode - you’re not doing a character any favors by bringing them into an episode that treats them poorly. The episode would have worked much better with someone who already was a werewolf like Garth, or Kate, as the purpose of the episode was to develop Mick Davies’ story.
Claire’s brief stint as a werewolf has no lasting effects on her character.
She is in exactly the same emotional place as she was last year. She has not progressed in hunting.
Had she been allowed to stay a werewolf; that would have drastically affected her and set up interesting future storylines. Imagine the possibilities: Claire trying to control the monster within her while secretly enjoying the power it gives her.
As it is she just served as filler in an episode that was really about someone else.
It’s also increasingly upsetting to me that the writers of Supernatural are ignoring everything that made Claire interesting as a character; her religious background, her hatred of the angels, her possession trauma, and are trying to turn her into a generic teen heroine.
Claire deserved Lily Sunder’s storyline.
(In my fantasies there's a Claire spin-off and Jeremy Carver writes it. He created her. He can treat her well.)
