User blog comment:Princepurple/Cool monsters only appearing once/@comment-5619706-20131217004931

This was my main gripe with the introduction of Benny. While I understood his importance to the plot and the manner of his sacrifice--I disliked the way we got so many vampire episodes from Season 8. I know vampires are one of the most, if not, the most popular monsters in pop culture, and that's probably the reason why they chose Benny to be a vampire to begin with, but it had a lot of disadvantages. For me, they are as follows:

-Lack of opportunity to introduce new monsters/develop other monsters (when there were others that were equally or more interesting/powerful)

-We had so much vampire episodes when they haven't even improved their CG on their vampire fangs

-Overusing vampires put the series on the same level/group as other shows (i.e., True Blood, Vampire Diaries) in an already diluted (vampire) genre, when in fact, Supernatural's lore and mythos is much more expansive than most of those shows