User blog comment:FTWinchester/Who's still watching?/@comment-11331875-20140410163135

Hey, I'm alive again! And will hopefully be back to contributing regularly! I still want to rework the character pages in biography format and figure out the timeline, but I ran into a roadblock with the latter and will have to put it on the backburner. (It's an issue with the Season 7-Season 8 timeskip--I think I posted about it on the Talk page on Chronology.) I got plans for other stuff, too, but I think I might focus on that stuff later.

Honestly, I was watching just for the villains--specifically, the demons--but as I feared, they're making Abaddon much less of a badass this season than she was previously, partially due to overexposure and partially to make her eventual defeat by Crowley and Winchesters plausible. Please, God, let her kick everybody's ass and make good on her promise to rule over Hell, Heaven, and everything in-between, that'd be one cool direction to take the story in--imagine Sam and Dean trying to deal with a dark, dystopian world like in "The End", where Abaddon rules all. Do that, bring back Anna, and make this show a B-movie horror show again, and I will never say another bad word against Carver's run. Another problem I have is that they're retconning the hell out of Abaddon and the Knights's backstories; some of the retcon makes sense, but overall it's distasteful and distracting. And they're messing up big-time with Crowley--I like the character and am amused by his snark, but the way they portrayed him and his "addiction" in "Blade Runners" was embarrassing (I full-heartedly agreed with Dean's "You're the King of Hell! Act like it!") and there is really no in-universe reason why he hadn't been killed by the Winchesters (he was of little help the whole time he was their prisoner and Kevin or Sam really should have killed him when it became clear that he'd be no use) or Abbadon (she's had like two opportunities to curbstomp his head in and didn't act quickly enough either time) ages ago, unfortunately making me dislike his character and feel he's overstayed his welcome. As a whole, demons are either too political (Crowley v. Abaddon) or wimps and jokes (save that one unnamed badass demon Tara--loved her--shot in the face in "First Born", wish he'd stuck around to serve as Abbadon's Meg), and are almost as boring as the angels (who have pretty much the same problems). So basically now the only reason I'm watching is out of loyalty to the show and the desire to see it through to the end... while mentally rewriting everything so that it makes a lick of sense.

I don't personally know anyone who watched/watches the show outside of a few relatives I tried to brainwash into liking SPN. Even then, I kind of washed my hands of showing it to them because either they watched the episodes out of order and frustrated me so much that I gave up on them (like watching a rerun on the fifth season finale when they were still in Season 1, c'mon!!) or we watched the full first five seasons together and I decided to let the show end there for them instead of making it worse. The only other fans I know (i.e. regularly speak to about it) are you guys and peeps on tumblr.