User blog comment:FTWinchester/Season 9 concepts/@comment-1509826-20130908231102/@comment-11331875-20130911232948

I agree that vampires are getting overused (weren't they supposed to be near-extinct in their first episode?), but Benny is one of the few new characters I liked and his return makes more sense to me than the other dead ones, so I'm willing to let it slide. Bringing in more minority characters to add a little diversity to the show would be nice, though, because as of now it's basically a parade of white guys marching in and out of death. Missouri, Tamara, and Ellie could all work as recurring allies (who also aren't dead yet and whose potential return wouldn't cheapen death any further than it already has been). I seem to remember a discussion on here about the show adding in a new female hunter (Tracy, right?), so fingers crossed she's cool and doesn't get the boot.

I really can't say for certain if it is Alaina or not, because as I said, my sound doesn't work (so I can't hear her voice), my computer screen is messed-up (so I can't see colors on it clearly), and the clip with supposedly her in it is very, very brief. But people on the other board I mentioned seemed convinced that she's coming back and they're all thrilled, so either A.) it's her, B.) I gave the wrong clip and they found something else with her return in it, or C.) it's not her and I've just insidiously raised all your hopes to come crashing down on you later. (Mwahaha.)

As for the Meg thing, I just said that (in conjunction with Abaddon) because Abaddon reminds me of Meg in early seasons. As for Meg herself, I can see what you guys are saying and I do like the irony of her becoming quasi-good, I just strongly feel that it was unnecessary and out-of-character for all involved--Meg, the Winchesters, and Castiel. For me, Meg was too well-established as pure evil (e.g. murdering people in cold blood for no reason, trying to force herself on Sam and Jo, killing many of the Winchesters' friends, possessing Sam to make him do evil things and trick Dean into killing him, trying to make Bobby kill Dean, etc.) to accept her getting defanged into a perfectly trustworthy ally and love interest for Cass who gets no respect from those damn, bigoted Winchesters (who should have really not have allied with her in the first place, given their history with demonic allies in general and Meg in particular, and Meg should really not have allied with them either, given that they were the ones responsible for her "father"'s death and her god's imprisonment). If they had introduced a different character, still like her, still played by Rachel Miner (maybe even if she were still a demon, though a hunter might be less of an eyebrow-raiser), it would have been fine, but I just never personally bought it. It came off to me like they knew Meg was a popular female character and they really, really wanted a Ruby-type character to pair off with one of the protagonists, so they forced Meg into the role. It felt unnatural. Maybe if they had more episodes dealing with them legitimately dealing with these issues and getting past them, I could have swallowed it a little easier, but she went from Servant of Satan to Li'l Unicorn Lass over just five episodes.