Why supernatural season 6 is disappointing

Even if the finale left a lot to be desired, the show's run provided fans with some genuinely excellent seasons of television. Updated on July 31st, by Rhys McGinley: After fifteen years, Supernatural finally called it quits, closing the book on the story of the Winchester brothers. In the end, the show's finale ended up infuriating many fans, and admittedly, there was a lot that went wrong.

Nevertheless, for a show that ran for fifteen years with such an expecting fanbase, the show continued to provide the goods season after season. There were apparent low-points where seasons just did not work, but out of the fifteen, there were multiple seasons that were truly amazing and only two or three could be considered flat-out bad.

This season is the worst of them. Castiel is gone for most of it, which alienated many fans at the time who had come to love him.

They realized their mistake and brought him back, of course. The Leviathans have the potential to be interesting, but it's another case of trying to top what they already did the best of. There is then that Bobby randomly and unnecessarily died, and lack of threat presented by the Leviathan, all of which drag this season down.

This season just started to get ridiculous, and it didn't do the show any favors. The biggest issue with this season is how painfully forgettable it is; it is hard to think up all of the significant events of this season off the top of the head. There's just nothing that can have impacts like Lucifer, or Death, or a brief, vague introduction to God, and this is where it seemed like the fans were right to say that Supernatural was starting to beat a dead horse.

This season led to better things, such as Jack, but was overall painfully below average. Season 9 dealt with the fall of the angels, which was a pretty cool concept, but it just wasn't as good as the earlier ones. The season never reached the heights of season 8's finale. The angels on Earth were so initially fascinating, but it quickly becomes clear there is one glaring problem, the angels themselves were not interesting. Season 6 is the aftermath of where the series arguably should have ended, and it just feels tacked on.

Sam is, once again, brought back from the dead, and it makes the audience feel as if death has no consequence for the brothers anymore. Soulless Sam is an intriguing concept, but even then, it doesn't make sense why Castiel hid that he brought a villainous Sam back from Hell. Cas going dark at the very end just seemed wildly unlike him especially since he's so quick to apologize when he realizes he's dying.

It was not a fantastic start for the post-Kripke era of the show. Fans took to social media to voice their criticisms of the writers and anger toward the mediocre ending. After 15 seasons of facing death, God and even the apocalypse, fans expected more. Some of the actors alluded that the ending would have been slightly different were there no restrictions. But how could the writers have created a better ending, even with restrictions in place?

This would give the comfort that Dean lived a longer, more enjoyable life, but it also would leave room for a potential reboot or mini-series if the actors chose to return. The finale felt rushed, wrong and did not make a lot of sense for many fans.

However, the finale took Castiel even further down this path as he took on all the power of Purgatory and declared himself to be a god. While I was intrigued by Castiel in "The Man Who Would Be King" and felt the twist that he was working with Crowley breathed much-needed life into the storyline, the turn in the finale felt rushed and it was sad to see a likable character make such a corrupt decision.

Like I said in the episode review, I am looking forward to seeing Castiel being slapped back down for what he has become, but I hope there is a chance of redemption for the angel too.

It would be a shame for such a great character to end that way. The Castiel and Crowley storyline may have explained the open questions, but looking back at the season as a completed whole, there was a lot of time spent on episodes that ended up going nowhere important, specifically regarding the Campbell clan.

With someone as well-known as Mitch Pileggi in a recurring role as Samuel Campbell , it seemed a waste to give him a storyline that was going to sputter and turn out to be a non-issue in the grander scheme of things. Similar to this was the Mother of All storyline once Eve appeared, although that one I was more than happy to see end quickly since I found the actress to be less than convincing as a powerful villain. On the other hand, the episodes with the fairies, the pseudo-Twilight vampires, and the time travel to the old West to meet Samuel Colt were much better ways to spend our time.

Before it aired, the meta-crazy idea seemed like it was going to be too much, but it worked like a charm, poking fun at the show as well as the actors, writers, directors, just about everything.

Ackles, Padalecki and Collins were hysterical throughout and it was just the shot in the arm the season needed. Appearing throughout the season were the excellent guest stars Mark Sheppard and Sebastian Roche as the demon Crowley and the angel Balthazar, respectively. Season four onwards is where it gets goofy. With this season came the introduction of angels and Heaven, which ended up governing the remainder of the series.

While there are a plethora of really great episodes and plots in the later seasons, along with the introduction of some of my favourite characters, the general quality of the show drops from here onwards. Instead of switching things up once in a while using the plentiful material they already have, the threats always have to get considerably bigger and badder than the last. Then, just as the heroes lose all hope, the writers throw in a shiny new deus ex machina into the mix.

Every season is like this. Then, they'll have the boys overcome the odds with the help of Castiel, Jack, Rowena, Crowley, or some other divine intervention. Finally, they'll immediately undermine all of that progress with an even more impossible antagonist so they can set up the next season with the boys as the underdogs… again.

Not to mention, by the end of series, the boys are literally trying to kill Chuck AKA God , which both makes sense for the series finale and is completely stupid. Obviously, a lot happens in between to keep you invested, such as the friendships they have though most of their friends are now dead , and the father-son relationship that Dean, Sam and Castiel share with the spawn of Satan AKA Jack.