User blog:FTWinchester/On Reapers and Angels

So there has been a lot of confusion on these two creatures, and I have looked around--a number of tumblr bloggers and even the SupernaturalWiki already consider reapers as angels (some even as early as 9.03 - I'm No Angel). So I guess that's the new canon.

Here's why it's laughably stupid:

Not only did they undo a core mythology about the show, it also ruined the entire Kripke era. The mystery of Castiel's unprecedented strength should not have been new and fascinating to demons. The lines saying angels are finally walking the earth among humans is wrong. The plot and the entire urgency in the story of Season 4-5 about angels requiring vessels, and the climactic destiny of the two brothers housing the two archangels Michael and Lucifer--gone. Because a weaker subset did not need vessels at all. Azazel possessed an angel. Wow. Just wow. Alastair claiming he or Lilith can't kill angels when Alastair killed one reaper? Yeah, no. Death would and should literally be an archangel.

R.I.P. Supernatural.