I mean how much angst can we (the viewers) take?
Each season just ups the ante of personal angst:
First season's angst was about Sam and Dean missing their disappeared father, the estrangement of Sam and Dean's relationship after years of separation, and Sam mourning Jessica's death and his desire of revenge aganist the Yellow-Eyed Demon.
Second season's angst was about Sam and Dean losing their father tragically, the toll of what John told Dean prior to his death heavily weighing on Dean along with his survivor's guilt, and Sam learning about the demon part of him.
Third season's angst was about Sam struggling with the fact that his brother has one year to live and Dean being hit with the horrific reality later on of what happens after his year to live is over.
Fourth season's angst was about the personal trauma of Dean's time in Hell, Sam's dark obsession with defeating Lilith and his growing addiction to demon blood, and the wall of lies and secrets between the brothers becoming bigger and bigger.
Fifth season's angst was about the brothers' damaged relationship post-S4, the guilt they both shared in triggering the chain of events that led to Lucifer's release, and Dean's downward spiral of depression brought on by Ellen and Jo's deaths.
And sixth season's angst has so far been about more tension in the Sam-Dean relationship that never seems to stop. This time, it's due to Sam lacking a soul, his tendency to lie and keep secrets, and never seeming to care about anything or anyone. There's some angst revolving around how Dean's return to the hunting life has estranged his relationship with Lisa and Ben.
I mean the people in charge of the show are dangerously close to making Sam and Dean into people who are damaged beyond repair along with their relationship which is the heart of the show. I mean because of the amount of angst in this show, I'm hesitant about watching old repeats of the show because of reminders of that season's certain angst arc.
Now I not saying to get rid of the angst entirely because pain is a part of life whether we like it or not. But there seems to be too much of it that could prevent people from fully enjoying the show and ruin the characters for good. Just tone it down a bit, give the characters some light at the end of the tunnel instead of a wringer of tragedies, broken relationships, and heavy brotherly conflicts. Give it a rest already. I mean you can have the brothers' conflict be external instead of internal. Make it more about the monsters they are fighting than a stream of personal issues that continue to make their relationship into an unhealthy, dysfunctional relationship that should be severed instead of being barely mended and pushed back into action before it can make a full recovery.
Each season just ups the ante of personal angst:
First season's angst was about Sam and Dean missing their disappeared father, the estrangement of Sam and Dean's relationship after years of separation, and Sam mourning Jessica's death and his desire of revenge aganist the Yellow-Eyed Demon.
Second season's angst was about Sam and Dean losing their father tragically, the toll of what John told Dean prior to his death heavily weighing on Dean along with his survivor's guilt, and Sam learning about the demon part of him.
Third season's angst was about Sam struggling with the fact that his brother has one year to live and Dean being hit with the horrific reality later on of what happens after his year to live is over.
Fourth season's angst was about the personal trauma of Dean's time in Hell, Sam's dark obsession with defeating Lilith and his growing addiction to demon blood, and the wall of lies and secrets between the brothers becoming bigger and bigger.
Fifth season's angst was about the brothers' damaged relationship post-S4, the guilt they both shared in triggering the chain of events that led to Lucifer's release, and Dean's downward spiral of depression brought on by Ellen and Jo's deaths.
And sixth season's angst has so far been about more tension in the Sam-Dean relationship that never seems to stop. This time, it's due to Sam lacking a soul, his tendency to lie and keep secrets, and never seeming to care about anything or anyone. There's some angst revolving around how Dean's return to the hunting life has estranged his relationship with Lisa and Ben.
I mean the people in charge of the show are dangerously close to making Sam and Dean into people who are damaged beyond repair along with their relationship which is the heart of the show. I mean because of the amount of angst in this show, I'm hesitant about watching old repeats of the show because of reminders of that season's certain angst arc.
Now I not saying to get rid of the angst entirely because pain is a part of life whether we like it or not. But there seems to be too much of it that could prevent people from fully enjoying the show and ruin the characters for good. Just tone it down a bit, give the characters some light at the end of the tunnel instead of a wringer of tragedies, broken relationships, and heavy brotherly conflicts. Give it a rest already. I mean you can have the brothers' conflict be external instead of internal. Make it more about the monsters they are fighting than a stream of personal issues that continue to make their relationship into an unhealthy, dysfunctional relationship that should be severed instead of being barely mended and pushed back into action before it can make a full recovery.
