User blog comment:Jyggalag Daedric Prince of Order/Season 9 A Bust?/@comment-6637171-20130702165430/@comment-11331875-20130704140220

RaghavD, it'd be interesting if she were someone else, but we haven't had many female hunters after Ellen and Jo, so it'd be cool to see another. If she is a hunter, I hope she isn't too much like Ellen and Jo, though, because then it'll feel like a retread, like how Season 7-8 Meg felt more like Ruby than Meg. You make a good point about the possible Dean/Tracy connection, and I agree that Charlie probably isn't important enough to get a love interest--I just thought it'd be funny if the fandom threw a hissy-fit again at the idea of a love interest, and said love interest turned out to be for Charlie.

FTWinchester, I think my biggest problem with Amelia was how she was used. The idea of Sam not looking for Dean and instead just settling down really, really annoyed me because it made one of my favorite characters look like an idiotic jackass, so my perspective of Amelia was tainted because she was the main focus of that subplot. Plus, it was boring to me. If they had written it differently, say Amelia became/was a hunter who helped Sam look for Dean and became an ally for both brothers, Amelia recognized Sam as one of those grave-digging, murdering psychos off the Most Wanted list who were supposed to have died a couple years ago and he had to find a way to persuade he was telling the truth, or if it were gradually revealed that Amelia wasn't even real, just some kind of hallucination he'd lapsed into after Dean disappeared (yeah, old theory I know, but I really like this one because it fits in with the "nothing is as it seems" thing Season 8 was supposed to have going with all its characters), I probably would have liked her much better because then she'd have a less-controversial place in the storyline, she'd give Sam look more sympathetic than he did, and she could even help propel the plot along. I did feel for her at times, like the end of "Torn and Frayed" (was that her last episode? you know, the one were Sam doesn't show up and she closes the motel door?), so I think it wasn't a matter of the actress not having the chops for her role, but the writers' fault for limiting her to such a boring redux of Sam-and-Jessica/Dean-and-the-Braedens. In short, I totally agree with you about Amelia.