ofdarklands
replied to your post “Possibly unpopular opinion:
I’m watching Supernatural for the first…”

honestly at some point i just kind of mentally grabbed cas, gave him a chocolate, put him in my oc land, and stopped watching because it was all unhealthy and mean and i’m not about that life. they just never get any development that is not MORE suffering and some bait so

It’s just…so depressing. I’m picking back up the show because it’s October and October makes me nostalgic–especially with all the Halloween celebration–but I forgot how vicious this cycle is.

What’s really frustrating is every now and then they’ll make a step forward…but it’s immediately followed by three steps back. And sometimes, I feel like–especially in the later seasons–they dial up the midseason enmity between the two because having them talk about their feelings and grow closer as character would “play into the gay” too much. (Despite the fact that respecting and talking to each other is a basic fucking aspect of any genuine friendship!) They courted that relationship because they wanted views but when the Destiel shippers started overwhelming the other viewers, they were like “Hey! No homo bro!”

I knew any attempt at coherent plot in this show was lost way back in season 5, but I’ll always love the characters, so that’s what has kept me coming back for so long. But now, even the characterization has begun to put me off. 

I’m particularly upset at how Lucifer went from being a genuinely insidious bad guy in season five to being an uncomfortable dancing monkey. (It doesn’t help that I discovered that Mark P. is apparently something of a total dick in real life.) I wish they had let the character lay. 

In fact, I’m really upset at how all the angelic stuff in general–everything from angelic true forms, to the status of archangels as the planet shaking behemoths, to the mysteriousness of God–got downgraded from these really cool nebulous cosmic offscreen concepts to these boring on screen disasters. They took their best mythology and just wrecked it, because they couldn’t be bothered to just sit down and plot out another overarching story when they decided to keep the show running back in season 6. It’s like they just throw shit at a board and see what sticks week to week.

Like….I’m probably going to finish this series, just because I’ve been with it this long and I need to see how it ends. (God, let it end soon.) But I’m in for a real rough ride.