User blog comment:FTWinchester/Season 9 Arc/@comment-6637171-20131115080133/@comment-120.28.127.118-20131130092927

I agree. I found it insulting how they were dumbing Cas down - i.e. not knowing how to brush his own freaking teeth - because he lived as a human (who had these supercool powers and had no need to eat or sleep) for about more than a half of season seven. It also makes me wonder how the angels knew Cas helped Metatron - or that Metatron was even alive (I'm pretty sure only Naomi and her lackeys knew). But it's very idiotic how they're constantly trying to kill him; they should be more worried how vulnerable they are now, now that the low-tier angels were slowly losing their abilities and becoming more and more human (like how Season 5 Cas was becoming weaker and weaker,) and that Abbadon was out and looking for them and for making demon kind thrive again. It's also annoying how, for a Big Bad, Abbadon has been shown in only two episodes (one in which she's shown for a few minutes).

Then there were those episodes that showed how conflicted Dean was when he felt he should tell Sam about Zeke or not. The really powerful scenes - specifically the ones that drove the season on - seems really rushed and not properly written.

And then there's Crowley, who's just really there for the sake of the one-liners. (You can't exactly say what he said about the spell being irreversible is true because Kevin might have mistranslated it.) Kevin - whose primary role is to translate the tablet - is being forgotten, like Adam; no one's paying attention to the threat the angels pose, or the number of demons slipping into Earth because Dean refused to let Sam complete the Trials.

There. The Trials. Surely their not closing the Gates of Hell has some consequences, right? None of them are talking about the Trials, or the threat it poses, or its consequences. No one's talking about the angel problem unless Cas' in that episode, but even Cas must be on the thin line between life and death. No one is acknowledging the conflict that started in Season 8 and is currently their main problem.' Everyone's too busy with the baddie of the week and trust issues. They keep having breakdowns that seems kind of annoying now it's so often.'

Slumber Party and Dog Dean Afternoon was funny, yes, and I like how they thought of the confused new viewers they had from Season 2 to onwards with the Bad Boys episode (although that kind of backfired since a majority of the fandom's still fighting on John's raising of the boys, and the new viewers have Netflix, and other online websites where you could watch the episodes, or even CDs of the seasons, and Tumblr - which probably gifed every single frame of every episode of every season so far) but episode 8 - which kind of reminded me of the episodes back then - was a bit off. Not the sex thing, or the thing thing, but it felt very strange (could've been just me, though) because the last few minutes were, like earlier, really rushed. Like, nearly 90% of the episode was just a filler to placate for the scene towards the ending. From episodes 3 - 6, if you put all the scenes that pushed the season together, you'll get 30-40 minutes.

I am seriously hoping that here, in episode 9, things would start to pick up and the plot would finally make sense (even my dad says season 9's kind of slow.) If the reason for the slow drive of the season is so that all fans would be pleased, then screw it. If you have to slow the progression of the season down for the sake of pleasing all the fans, then stop. Write it however way you want it, just please let whatever plans you have for this season to just happen alrea  dy. Because let's face it, it may please the fans for a short period of time, but then we'll start expecting more, craving for more, (even voicing out our desire) and then lash out if our expectations weren't brought to life. And not all fans would be pleased at the same time.

If they continue with this pace, not only will they not gain new viewers, but they will lose old viewers as well. I love this show very much, but I can't take this slow pace and nonsense anymore.