User blog comment:CROWMETA13/THE BEST PERIOD OF SUPERNATURAL/@comment-1149167-20180516022308

Always interesting to hear opinions like this. I usually don't join in on blog discussions but this has peaked my interest. For me, I absolutely loved anything Seasons 1-7. Season 6 is where they started to lose me with a few episodes but still I loved the Eve and leviathan arcs.

When Carver became show runner..that's when Supernatural changed for me: Season 8. Carver preferred primarily focusing on the relationship of the boys. Which is fine, Supernatural has always been able to balance the melodrama, but in this case, it was overkill for me. When Dean returned from purgatory, I remember Carver saying one of the themes of the season being "How would Dean feel knowing his brother left him in purgatory". I didn't like that. I myself have always been interested in the mythology and it felt like the show began to take a backseat to that, instead they began to focus on the drama between the brothers and their relationships with Castiel, Crowley, etc. Seasons 8 and 9 were simply okay for me, but 10 and 12 are without a doubt Supernatural's worst seasons. Waaayyy too much filler and one major difference I've noticed is that the filler episodes suck now. Every now in then we'll get a gem such as "Scoobynatural" but I was appalled at the script for "A Most Holy Man" hell I think that may be one of Supernatural's worst episodes and it just so happened to be written by the two showrunners.

11 was really good and probably one of my favorite seasons on par with Season 1-7 that is.. until the last 2 episodes of the season. They really dropped the ball and that's really on Andrew Dabb. Carver and Dabb have written some excellent episodes and are extraordinary script writers, however both are poor showrunners in my opinion, their overall arks leave so much to be desired. At least Carver had a plan, Dabb seems to be throwing things on the wall and seeing what sticks.

Also I've seen more than a few of the fandom refer to this writing crew as the B-team. Cant say I don't agree. All of the current writers are hit or miss, you never know when they'll write a good one or bad one. The only great writer remaining from Supernatural's glory days is Dabb and lets face it..he's not writing scripts as good as he used too. Frankly I'm hoping Kripke sticks to his word and returns to write the finale. If Supernatural has to end with the B-team writing the scripts then I'm predicting a very dry last season filled with canon discrepancies.