User blog comment:Kajune/Lucifer, first son?/@comment-3969505-20160414214004

They are popular but it sure as hell doesn't helps them on the budget front.

watch the first five seasons again and compare them to the current episodes, the budgetary standards have gone down the shitter since 2005-2010.

the make-ups, the costumes, the creature designs, the practical effects, the general all around creativity with magic and shit, the attention and care to establishing a consistent fictional universe/cosmology, are all INFERIOR to what was during Kripke's run.