I liked Jamie a lot too. It's so nice to see female characters with some strength to them. She could have been a good long-term girlfriend for Dean (although I think a relationship with someone like Pamela might have suited him better, although it'd be potentially less serious).
I was saving my opinion of Cassie until you got to your Route 666 ten (or more) things post, but now seems the time as the contrast between Jamie and Cassie is interesting.
I've never disliked Cassie at all and I find it quite sad that many people seem to loathe her so much. I did a bit of a Miami Vice rewatch last year, and compared to the awful women Cockett used to collect, Cassie was fantastic! That said, she isn't a great character, and if it hadn't been for her connection to Dean, then she'd be completely forgettable. There is a definite disconnect between what we're told Cassie is like, 'strong, intelligent, fiery' and what we actually see. It's hard to see just what it is about her that made Dean fall in love with her rather than with any of his other conquests and I've yet to read a fanfic that's satisfied me of that either.
So Jamie then. Although she's central to the case, she doesn't need to be anything much as we most likely won't see her again, but yet we see she is everything that Cassie should have been: she's clearly intelligent and isn't a bimbo; she sees straight through Dean from the get go and she concludes that his life must be tough (which isn't immediately obvious from what he tells her). She's neither a passive victim or a screamer, actively defending herself twice and saving the day. She also stays calm throughout, even when she's trapped by the shapeshifter or when she learns the truth of what's out there in the dark. If it was that kind of show, then it would've been easy to see Dean falling for her and why.
On a swallow note, although both boys looked yum, the black an white really suited Jared particularly, except for: Sam pulls this face so very often i.e his ugly sister audition!
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I was saving my opinion of Cassie until you got to your Route 666 ten (or more) things post, but now seems the time as the contrast between Jamie and Cassie is interesting.
I've never disliked Cassie at all and I find it quite sad that many people seem to loathe her so much. I did a bit of a Miami Vice rewatch last year, and compared to the awful women Cockett used to collect, Cassie was fantastic! That said, she isn't a great character, and if it hadn't been for her connection to Dean, then she'd be completely forgettable. There is a definite disconnect between what we're told Cassie is like, 'strong, intelligent, fiery' and what we actually see. It's hard to see just what it is about her that made Dean fall in love with her rather than with any of his other conquests and I've yet to read a fanfic that's satisfied me of that either.
So Jamie then. Although she's central to the case, she doesn't need to be anything much as we most likely won't see her again, but yet we see she is everything that Cassie should have been: she's clearly intelligent and isn't a bimbo; she sees straight through Dean from the get go and she concludes that his life must be tough (which isn't immediately obvious from what he tells her). She's neither a passive victim or a screamer, actively defending herself twice and saving the day. She also stays calm throughout, even when she's trapped by the shapeshifter or when she learns the truth of what's out there in the dark. If it was that kind of show, then it would've been easy to see Dean falling for her and why.
On a swallow note, although both boys looked yum, the black an white really suited Jared particularly, except for: Sam pulls this face so very often i.e his ugly sister audition!