*falls over*

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Today was a yardwork day ... putting together the frames for raised garden beds and partially filling them with semi-composted chicken litter (sawdust, mostly). I think I'm ready to go get a pickup truck load of topsoil in the next couple of days -- our yard is gravel tailings (old mine waste) and we have NO dirt except for the odd bit of river

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However what ticked me off was when I read that he was no longer a permanent cast member and several comments by the writers alluding to the fact that it was always a show about two brothers and no one else was constant. With the history of this show - ie it being dark, bleak and basically every bad (and good) guy gets killed, I started wondering if they'll eventually kill off Castiel.

*nods* Yeah, I saw the discussion of this in your LJ and went looking for the season seven spoilers myself, because I wanted to see exactly what they'd said! And I think this attitude on the part of the show-runners sums up a big part of my problems with the show (not ALL of it, but a lot of it). It's the Winchesters' show, that's pretty obvious, and I don't have a problem with that, but in pursuit of that end, the writers have no problem throwing all the other characters under the bus, and I have a HUGE problem with THAT. There's a difference between "the Winchesters are the main characters" and "the Winchesters are the only characters who matter", and I think this show leans way too far in the latter direction. At this point they've basically taken a huge, varied, interesting cast and reduced it systematically to four characters (five counting Crowley), and I wouldn't be surprised if we lose some of those next season. It's really irritating, because I don't want that. At all. I don't mind if the show revolves around the Winchesters, but I want to be sold on the rest of the world as well, and this show absolutely sucks at doing that, because of its myopic Winchester-focus.

I was talking to xparrot, oh, must have been season four or five, about the way that the show fumbled the ball when it comes to the Apocalypse, because they never gave us a compelling reason to care if the world ended! We know the Winchesters aren't going to die, so in order to really get involved in the Apocalypse storyline, we needed a compelling, interesting world full of characters we don't want to lose. Instead, we get a world that has very little else in it but the Winchesters. Result: the most boring Armageddon ever. *g*

And yeah, like you said, luckily there are other shows out there to enjoy.