User blog comment:FTWinchester/On Reapers and Angels/@comment-3481504-20140603041105

The instant reapers are differentiated into being a separate species, I'm going to edit accordingly, however I'm finished arguing about it. To condense, Kripke's work seasons 1-5 was expertly and skillfully done and is Supernatural and season nine was frighteningly awful-inexcusably filled with overlays and contradictions. So this is not me in any way exempting Carver from responsibility to how he's ruined the show, but to be fair, Alastair used Death's scythe to kill the reaper, not his own power. Like Tessa, Lucifer was able to appear in a physical way to Nick without using a vessel. However, he prorably couldn't exert really any power because, otherwise, he or any archangel wouldn't need a vessel.