In which I try to explain my mixed feelings on Supernatural.
So, as I'm sure anyone reading this knows, I used to love Supernatural so fucking much. Indeed, it used to be my very favorite show on television. I used to be excited for every single new episode. And it used to be the one show where I always trusted the writers to make the show as awesome as possible.
But now? None of that is true anymore. Which actually makes me more sad than it does angry. Because it feels like I've lost something I loved so much. Or, even worse, that something I loved that much has been ruined.
Now, it's not because of what they've done with Cas... In fact, I actually think his actions in season six were perfectly in character and I love that they let him be redeemed and that now he's possessed by something evil and that it's not just Cas suddenly evil. I'm incredibly relieved that everything went down the way it did, and I honestly have no problems with that part of the story, save maybe the wtf way it went down in the season 6 finale... YES I STILL LOVE YOU, CAS. EVEN IF THE WRITERS DON'T.
I can even get over the boringness of the Eve storyline last season, because at least it did end well (the last ep of was actually one of the first and few eps I actually really really liked last season and which made me think the show was finally on an upswing - alas) (plus, Jefferson Starships will never stop making me lol) and, if I'm looking at it objectively, at least all the stories have led into one another; they haven't all just been random or disjointed.
Even the snoozeworthy repetitive pointlessness of the "something's wrong with Sammy" plots only bothers me so much. I mean, hell, I actually liked soulless Sammy last season. (He was hilarious. They shoulda just kept him.) As it is now, Sammy is just basically boring, and his story is boring, but at least he's back to trying to do the right thing again (which makes me want to hug him a bit, even if that is somewhat inconsistent).
No, what I really, truly hate about Supernatural now (from the end of season 6, and now the beginning 7) is how they've completely ruined Dean.
For seasons 1-5, Dean was the one who always cared, who never gave up and never gave in no matter how bad it got, because his friends and family were everything. Indeed, his friends WERE family. The only family he and Sammy had left. And he treated them as such.
When someone he cared about was in trouble, even if everyone else told him it was hopeless, or that they couldn't be saved, he was the one person who never gave up, that never stopped insisting they do anything and everything to save them.
When they were up against overwhelming odds, when all the cards were stacked against them, he was the one who always said they'd fight to win or die trying.
He'd put his own life on the line to save someone he cared about, or to save the world, and he did, over and over.
And that's why I loved him.
And now that's completely gone.
They've turned him into a heartless, whiny, emo dickwad who lazes around getting drunk and crying 'woe is me' and 'everything's gone to shit' (even though things have been much, much worse), whose first instinct is to get angry at Cas for one indiscretion and then just kill him when he gets into trouble (even though Sammy did much, much worse in the past), and who gets pissed at Cas for not fixing Sammy's hell visions instead of doing anything to try and fix it himself.
The general decreased writing quality and boring stories don't help the show's case either, but for most of season 6 I could at least still enjoy it week to week even though I didn't love it how I used to, because I still loved the characters.
But what they've done with Dean now...? I just don't even know. I think if Cas hadn't superseded him as my very favorite character when he showed up it would probably make me even angrier than it does.
I think what it all boils down to is that, at this point, I honestly just don't CARE about Sam and Dean anymore. If they killed them both off in the next episode, I'd feel absolutely nothing about it one way or the other. Not unless they seriously improved their writing before then. Cas is the only character I still give a shit about... and maybe Bobby, 'cause as long as Jim Beaver's playing him, it's hard to really fuck Bobby's shit up too much.
Basically, I just wish the show had ended with the epicness of seasons 1-5 and the story they made the show to tell instead of dragging it on through the mud just to make more TV. I'd much rather have quality over quantity.
I hate the fact that now I have to qualify my statement of "I love Supernatural" with "...seasons 1-5." I want to love my very favorite show again. I hate (and it makes me so sad) that I don't still love it like I used to.
But now? None of that is true anymore. Which actually makes me more sad than it does angry. Because it feels like I've lost something I loved so much. Or, even worse, that something I loved that much has been ruined.
Now, it's not because of what they've done with Cas... In fact, I actually think his actions in season six were perfectly in character and I love that they let him be redeemed and that now he's possessed by something evil and that it's not just Cas suddenly evil. I'm incredibly relieved that everything went down the way it did, and I honestly have no problems with that part of the story, save maybe the wtf way it went down in the season 6 finale... YES I STILL LOVE YOU, CAS. EVEN IF THE WRITERS DON'T.
I can even get over the boringness of the Eve storyline last season, because at least it did end well (the last ep of was actually one of the first and few eps I actually really really liked last season and which made me think the show was finally on an upswing - alas) (plus, Jefferson Starships will never stop making me lol) and, if I'm looking at it objectively, at least all the stories have led into one another; they haven't all just been random or disjointed.
Even the snoozeworthy repetitive pointlessness of the "something's wrong with Sammy" plots only bothers me so much. I mean, hell, I actually liked soulless Sammy last season. (He was hilarious. They shoulda just kept him.) As it is now, Sammy is just basically boring, and his story is boring, but at least he's back to trying to do the right thing again (which makes me want to hug him a bit, even if that is somewhat inconsistent).
No, what I really, truly hate about Supernatural now (from the end of season 6, and now the beginning 7) is how they've completely ruined Dean.
For seasons 1-5, Dean was the one who always cared, who never gave up and never gave in no matter how bad it got, because his friends and family were everything. Indeed, his friends WERE family. The only family he and Sammy had left. And he treated them as such.
When someone he cared about was in trouble, even if everyone else told him it was hopeless, or that they couldn't be saved, he was the one person who never gave up, that never stopped insisting they do anything and everything to save them.
When they were up against overwhelming odds, when all the cards were stacked against them, he was the one who always said they'd fight to win or die trying.
He'd put his own life on the line to save someone he cared about, or to save the world, and he did, over and over.
And that's why I loved him.
And now that's completely gone.
They've turned him into a heartless, whiny, emo dickwad who lazes around getting drunk and crying 'woe is me' and 'everything's gone to shit' (even though things have been much, much worse), whose first instinct is to get angry at Cas for one indiscretion and then just kill him when he gets into trouble (even though Sammy did much, much worse in the past), and who gets pissed at Cas for not fixing Sammy's hell visions instead of doing anything to try and fix it himself.
The general decreased writing quality and boring stories don't help the show's case either, but for most of season 6 I could at least still enjoy it week to week even though I didn't love it how I used to, because I still loved the characters.
But what they've done with Dean now...? I just don't even know. I think if Cas hadn't superseded him as my very favorite character when he showed up it would probably make me even angrier than it does.
I think what it all boils down to is that, at this point, I honestly just don't CARE about Sam and Dean anymore. If they killed them both off in the next episode, I'd feel absolutely nothing about it one way or the other. Not unless they seriously improved their writing before then. Cas is the only character I still give a shit about... and maybe Bobby, 'cause as long as Jim Beaver's playing him, it's hard to really fuck Bobby's shit up too much.
Basically, I just wish the show had ended with the epicness of seasons 1-5 and the story they made the show to tell instead of dragging it on through the mud just to make more TV. I'd much rather have quality over quantity.
I hate the fact that now I have to qualify my statement of "I love Supernatural" with "...seasons 1-5." I want to love my very favorite show again. I hate (and it makes me so sad) that I don't still love it like I used to.