User blog comment:FTWinchester/Season 9 concepts/@comment-1509826-20130908231102/@comment-11331875-20130912005420

I don't see how being tortured by Crowley would give Meg stronger moral fiber; I mean, she's been tortured for much longer than that in Hell and probably by demons who were better at it than Crowley (i.e. Alastair). It made her hate him even more, sure, but I wouldn't say that getting tortured is character development. You know, I'd actually prefer it if they played it more as Meg flat-out using Team Free Will to kill Crowley, planning to double-cross and kill them as soon as they succeed, than as her helping them and hoping they'll help her out with him soon and then changing sides because of a crush.

But, yeah, you're right--most of the character development was off-screen. If they actually showed it, a better, more fleshed-out storyline of when/how/why Meg started to turn good could have both benefited the show and the character, and it might have swayed fans like me who thought it was too abrupt and OOC. I think Ms. Miner had the acting chops to pull it off. Maybe (though I doubt it) they had planned to give her arc more screen-time, but her injuries cut those in half?

Really? Because it seems like lots of fans liked Meg and her redeeming herself, and were upset she died. (Maybe that was just in my corner of fandom?) I actually am part of that majority who is fine with Crowley's forced heel face turn, because the way I personally view Supernatural demons (as in, no humanity left and thus no real potential for real good, love, etc.), something the way Crowley was cured (wherein their humanity has to be thrust back upon them) is the only way I see legitimately a demon feeling bad and reforming. And also because Mark Sheppard's acting in those scenes was really damned good.

That said, I still don't see why sticking human blood in a demon over and over again after doing confessions would restore their humanity, when they're already possessing a body that was full of human blood when they first wriggled into it. It works as a counterpart to the demon blood special children thing, but demons've been transformed spiritually over centuries of having their soul ripped apart and twisted and corrupted. It doesn't seem logical that a few injections of human blood over eight hours would fix that, when it took some twenty-five odd years, lots of blood from three different demons, and a string of bad choices to turn Sam demonic. (Before God fixed him. Wait, why didn't they have either a god or an angel or something come in to do something for the third trial instead of the injections? Maybe feeding the demon angel blood to purify them, or something?)