User blog comment:FTWinchester/Holy Terror/@comment-11331875-20131204113750/@comment-5619706-20131205010112

NaiflidG, thank you for properly communicating most of the things that went wrong in that midseason finale. I actually tweeted to Jared and Adam Glass (one of the writers) if they could explain how angels now look like white demon smokes instead of beings of white light, but I got no response.

Almost all of our major arc episodes are almost photocopies of each other, where Castiel is caught, tortured, and a new generic female angel is killed for the sake of 'shock' factor. Castiel ripping out that grace was really awful and disregarded the established lore. The grace is the very essence of an angel--almost like their soul. So if one angel absorbs the grace of another--doesn't that mean they should become the other angel (or acquire major characteristics of the other angel)? And if they could do that since the beginning, why didn't Raphael just straight-up pull out the graces of all the angels that opposed him past season 5? Or Castiel for that matter? Heck, why didn't Michael or Lucifer just plan on using that against each other?

The characters could no longer be proper investments to our emotions--they die too quickly and are not developed, even supposedly major ones like Malachi and Bartholomew. The moment I saw Muriel and knew she was almost sympathetic--I knew it would be pointless to hope for her survival.

Kevin was on the sidelines the whole season, so killing him, although strategically intelligent and sound on Metatron's part, is a total waste in terms of character development. In terms of plot development, it's also detrimental, not in and of itself, but because of the fact that we had ZERO progress on the tablets since episode one. If they at least let Kevin have one, just one, episode focusing on him, and translating at least half of the tablet, then killing him would have made more sense. Now we are at another stand still, and Kevin, who could have just went on a quest to find his mother and verify if she actually died or not, is dead--with no resolution to his own story, his fulfillment of avenging his mother's death and his life's downward spiral. And now we will all be forced to deal with a new prophet for the next half of the season.

But wait, what's this? Kevin could be brought back to life!! Yeah, sure. But then you cheapen an already cheap death, and that also just wastes the plot event of having to kill him in the first place. There's more but I have to go now, so I'll just stop there for now.