User blog comment:FTWinchester/Darkness as the overall Big Bad/@comment-9249716-20160126223945/@comment-9249716-20160127153632

I can understand that. But I would say that the thing to consider is that the people who were in charge of the direction of the show's writing has changed hands twice after season 5. Kripke probably approved for wahtever reason but if he had stayed on as the head writer, the show would've gone a different direction where the writers didn't have to constantly insert ideas just to keep the show interesting and try to make it "cool" from season 6 and onward. The current writers ahve turned the show into a comic-book/fanfic parody of itself by doing what they've done with seasons 6-11. seasons 8 and 9 were not as bad, but 6, 7, 10, and 11 were them throwing out ideas to TRY and make some things make sense only the ideas fell apart on their own (like how the wrtiers never figured out what to make Eve and killed her off in an anti-climactic way, or how the leviathans weren't all that great yet they were this supposed biggest threat since Lucifer, and now the Darkness which they just pulled completely out of their ass just to make the show "cool"). They've basically gone the joss whedon route where they enact ideas but make them so ludicrous that they can't cover all their bases and they're practically experimenting with ideas, not really thinking how bad the ideas really are in the long run.