User blog comment:FTWinchester/Season 9 concepts/@comment-3045936-20130913000842/@comment-5619706-20130914022227

You covered everything, General. Season 1-5 will forever be TV gold for me. Season 6 was good in paper, and each and every one of the subplots (Heaven's Civil War, Heaven's Weapons, Hell's Civil War, Alpha Monsters, Eve and Purgatory) were very interesting and good on their own. However, they were crammed together so that we only got little bits of each. We hoped for a little more depth in Season 7, but it was pretty much dick-jokes. And while the socio-economic and political symbolisms of Season 7 were superb--it lacked the charm of what makes a show about supernatural. It was too natural and plain.

Our theories here really don't have much chance, given the direction Carver has chosen, but a little hope doesn't seem too bad.