User blog comment:FTWinchester/Who's still watching?/@comment-1149167-20140419063436/@comment-5619706-20140419105040

Thanks for responding! Nice to hear a new point of view.

I agree with pretty much everything you said. The reason I had to struggle in defining where the story canonically ended for me was because I also really liked Eve's arc as well. She was the most interesting thing to happen in the Gamble Era. Plus, like what Gurgatory said, Season 6 had some really stellar episodes. Season 7 has them, too, but on a lesser degree. Castiel regaining his memory to the tune of the Yardbirds' Turn Into Earth was really awesome, though.

Gamble had weak filler episodes but at least her major arc was interesting in theory, if not in execution. Carver had better individual episodes and in technical production, but his major arc is weak, bare and too slow for me. Sam and Dean alternately dealing with the angels and demons seem very disorganized and unreasonable. The focused on angels for the first half of the season but they switched to Abaddon and now they're back to Metatron.

If you remember Carver's goal in an interview when the show was just renewed for Season 8, he said he did not like how the show suffered from the weight of the mythology. He also said that he wanted to create a new myth (while sticking to the angels and demons??) I knew right then and there it might be difficult for me to watch it, since I watch mainly for the lore and the big bads. And now I realize that whet he meant by "new myth" was that he plans to retcon whatever he wants to retcon. That I think was his biggest mistake that led to viewers who watch for the lore to stop watching. Well, we know he got his wish.

Though I am no longer happy with the show, I'm happy for the staff and production team if they are getting more viewers.