Blog:Supernatural (seasons 6-15)

Supernatural is an American television series created by Eric Kripke. It was first broadcast on September 13, 2005, on The WB, and subsequently became part of successor The CW's lineup. Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the two brothers as they hunt demons, ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural beings.

While the first five seasons were well-received, the same can’t be said for these seasons. While critics didn’t mind these seasons too much, there were negative reviews from audiences and fans of the show due to these seasons being out-of-focus of its premise.

Why These Seasons Suck

 * 1)  Executive Meddling: Eric Kripke actually wanted to end the show at season 5, but thanks to huge fan-service and executive meddling, he was forced to continue the show for a whopping amount of 10 more seasons, making seasons 6 and onward unnecessary.
 * 2) * This is also one of the biggest examples of jumping the shark, quantity over quality, and seasonal rot.
 * 3) Many of the new and old heroes & villians have suffered bad characterization in these seasons:
 * 4) *Sam & Dean get little to no characterization throughout seasons, other than suffering traumas. This means the brothers never actually grow, develop, or change at all, and are stuck to the same people they were in Season 1.
 * 5) *This also means the show has to retread the same conflicts & problems they have in their relationship from earlier seasons, such as not telling each other about things (which happens ALOT in these seasons), Sam trying to get out of hunting (which he’s been trying to do even BEFORE Season 1), and most of all, stopping each other from sacrificing themselves for the greater good.
 * 6) *And when these problems happen the show usually goes back to the “They’re brothers and they love each other!” excuse to fix their problems & return to the status quo, a bad example of this is in Season 9 where Sam disowns Dean as a brother only to love him again after his death in the season finale.
 * 7) *This is at its worse in the Season 8 finale “Sacrifice”, where contrary to the episode’s name, Dean stops Sam from completing the trials, the trials that could’ve gotten rid of demons from Earth, the entities that have been the main enemies of the Winchesters since the show began, ruined both their lives and has killed innocent people.
 * 8) **Also, this makes Dean look like a selfish jerk who will risk lives and cause people to be killed in order to save his brother.
 * 9) *Lucifer, one of the main villains of the show suffers bad characterization from once being a threatening & foreboding villain to more jokey & comedic, coming off more like the Joker from DC. This also applies to other actors who play him as well.
 * 10) **The show introduces Lucifer’s son, a Nephilim known as Jack who is just a “young kid with immense power who could destroy the world” trope, even though the show already had that type of character with Jesse Turner AKA The Antichrist. He exists mostly to cause conflict & for Sam & Dean to have a son figure.
 * 11) *In Season 12 the boys’ mother Mary Winchester comes back and becomes one of the most hated characters by the fans due to spending less time with Sam & Dean and caring more about herself. This is evident when in that season she keeps the fact that she’s working with the British Men of Letters from them.
 * 12) **Speaking of the British Men of Letters, they’re considered to be the worst villain of the entire series, as their the main villains of Season 12 despite having no powers, and mostly consist of evil spy stuff & disagreeing aka not having the same belief system as the boys (which is considered to be dead in this universe), and are defeated very easily by a raid.
 * 13) The seasons have nullified the concept of death in the show, as Sam, Dean, and especially Castiel die multiple times throughout the show only to be brought back later.
 * 14) *In fact in Season 13’s case Sam dies while going through the apocalypse world only to be brought back by the end of the episode!
 * 15) *On other on the side, characters who've died in the original seasons like Michael/Adam, Gabriel "The Trickster/Loki", and Lilith come back only to get killed very quickly.
 * 16) Demons & Angels are nerfed heavily throughout these seasons, which is worse with the former, as Sam & Dean came from not being able to defeat one to now wrestling & killing an entire pack of them easily.
 * 17) *Castiel is one of the shows biggest nerfs, as in Seasons 4-5 he’s able to defeat other entities easily (albeit not other archangels), but from Season 6 onwards he gets his ass beaten 9 times out of 10, is usually saved from death at the last minute by one of the boys or other entity.
 * 18) Certain plotlines that could be explored more throughout these seasons (Eve, Demon Dean, the Men of Letters) are cut short in favor of not as good storylines involving the reapers, hell, and Jack.
 * 19) The show constantly retcons or contradicts lore from earlier seasons, the biggest example is constantly changing the rules of Heaven & Hell.
 * 20) *Even newer seasons aren’t exempt from this, like how The Empty is said to be stronger than god, only for it to reveal itself as being weaker than him in the final season.
 * 21) Terrible or Mediocre episodes such as:
 * 22) *“Dog Dean Afternoon”
 * 23) *“Season 7, Time for a Wedding!”
 * 24) *“The Heroes’ Journey”
 * 25) *"Destiny's Child"
 * 26) *“Inherit the Earth”
 * 27) *“Carry On” (depending on your view)
 * 28) The episode, The One You've Been Waiting For, is extremely offensive. To put it off this way, the entire thing is literally all about Adolf Hitler. His supporters of the 21st century manage to obtain his soul and transfer it to a body. Once Dean kills Hitler's new body, he literally says "I killed Hitler!" and is proud of that.
 * 29) *It also ruins the history of Hitler. In reality, Hitler commits suicide after his defeat in World War II. In here, someone whispers to his ear before killing himself, which convinces Hitler to not commit suicide. Because of this, Hitler lives and dies later on without involving suicide.
 * 30) On the topic of introducing new characters and offensive topics, it literally even introduces God as a character, Chuck Shurley. To make it worse, He's seen as an enemy and somehow more evil than Lucifer (another villain of the show). He's even portrayed as vulnerable and even has His own sister, Amara. Yes, God has a sister in this show! This led to many religious people being offended and said people actually even boycotted and are no longer fans of the show.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Before the eleventh or twelveth seasons, the show still has some episodes involving the 2 hunting paranormal activites.
 * 2) It actually had a crossover with Scooby-Doo. That, too, is also a good episode.

Reception
While the first five seasons were acclaimed and spawned a massive fanbase, Supernatural has now been seen as a series that's outstayed its welcome by fans. The show's popularity has also even declined due to it now being boring and unimpressive, also because of its controversies. This lead to many fans to stop the series after season 5. Some fans of the show have continued watching until it’s eventual end in 2020, but have criticized the show for its decline in quality and having a lot more bad episodes.

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