I watch Supernatural.

This could eventually go under Guilty Pleasure Wednesdays, primarily because...(okay I'll come right out and say it)

It kind of sucks.

I'll give you a moment to spit fire and venom at me. Done? Great, here's why.

I think it began when the show moved its focus from monsters to Angels, which seemed like a good move to begin with since this massive demon war was central to its overarching plot, but the 2nd act is where, as they say in Hollywood, "the desert where the dream may die".

But has anyone noticed the weird little signs? True, there was that hiatus following the passing of Kim Manners, but after that it felt like there was going to be some creative differences on the rise.

First there was that Prophet Chuck episode, "The Monster at the End of This Book", which felt like a cheap copout reboot of the storyline. They had their big bad evil demon (which at this point in the season had become extremely ephemeral--there was almost no developed conflict with her, much less than when she was introduced in Season 3), who wanted out from her ultimate plan in freeing the Devil. It stinks of new writers not liking Lilith and trying to make her a second stringer.

Then they had to name their next episode "Jump the Shark", which conceptually was great, but in execution had a back-heavy laden exposition delivered by the villians of that episode, and I need not point out the significance of its naming. It was almost as if the writers of the show were poking fun at themselves, and apologizing for such a crappy storyline.

Obviously, I'm not watching the show for Ackles or Padalecki (the latter of whom I've gotten rather tired of, with his constant whining, ginormous brow, and unrealistic dialogue delivery), so they aren't really helping the situation.

Yeah, Supernatural has been kind of bland. I'm sure there's a million girls out there who if they read this, they'd be sharpening pitchforks and lighting torches. But I've watched it since the beginning, and I guess I'll for now remain a fan.

Now, I had a hard time admitting this to myself. It's because the concept of monsters in America in the classifiable way they first introduced it was plausible, novel, interesting, and something that I had come up with during my junior year in college, which is incidentally when it began to air. So color me frustrated that the WB/CW was going to slap it together for mass consumption, because cleverness gets watered down easily for mass consumption when it comes to TV. Not that I mind that much though, because it makes room for one of my novel projects I'm working on.

So I enjoyed it, for what it was worth, this nice one hour of watered down supernatural mystery suspense thing headed up by a couple of Anglo pretty boys, filmed mostly in picturesque parts of Canada. Then the watered downness began to increase, and the Anglo boys did more cliched things than smart things. And my little supernatural mystery suspense void began to feel a little betrayed.

I'm not writing this to detract from the show, really it's shooting itself in the foot. I'm just pointing out where I think things have gone wrong.

For the finale itself (SPOILERS AHEAD, UNLESS YOU MANAGED TO FIGURE OUT THE ENTIRE PLOT IN THE FIRST FIVE MINUTES) well, it pretty much went for the hurt. I'll just list it:

- Dean whines to Bobby
- Bobby gets redneck on Dean
- Angels screw around with Dean and *GASP* oh noes they're actually evil in that authoritarian big brother way that no one expected at all. Ever.
- Castiel defects. Again. God make up your mind.
- Ruby's SINISTAR EVIL PLOT is revealed. Sam is in catatonia, which must be something like boredom, because that's how he was acting. Like we didn't see this one coming either (she's a demon)
- Sam goes all demony and crosses the line. Oh gee. We didn't expect this either, like the Angels or Ruby.
- And the Devil gets freed. Crossing fingers that Supernatural drops its pretense and just turns into a dark comedy like Reaper.

So yeah. It wasn't really a finale more than a, let's rehash everything that happened this season into their expected final outcome.

I didn't feel invested in the characters at all. I think they've just been taking their arc developments and just thrusting them into different situations. There's no change, no development, no accessibility that gives them sympathy. This season is basically great in concept and poor in execution. And now we'll all have to wait an entire summer to see the results. Hopefully, (if they exist) these new writers will have something better up their sleeve.