I loved Supernatural.
I mean, the old Supernatural, when it was all about beating the monsters.
Now it's just....diluted. Diluted, regurgitated Supernatural. Like some uber fans got Sam and Dean lookalikes to play watered down versions of themselves and in a tacky nonsensical fanfiction-esque plot.
I'm just gonna say it: even Jensen and Jared look like they're over it. They're good actors. They play the roles well. I mean yes they practically are these characters after playing them all these years but. But. You can tell when something's gone its course. Nothing lasts forever.
Kripke needs to let this go now. He should have let it go three or four (maybe even five) seasons ago.
Way to dig a pit and drag everyone down it with you.
I mean how many times can Dean and Sam actually die and go to hell/heaven and come back without it becoming boring? Oh, Dean's dead. Meh, he'll be back. Oh Sam's dead. Sad face, but we know he'll be back.
How many times can Crowley try to take over Lucifer's position before it becomes redundant? Like, two seasons back already.
I'd have liked to see them take a different route with season 12. Okay mom has come back from the dead, great. It would have been way better if Dean and Castiel and Mary didn't tell Sam who she really was. Have her cut her hair and dye it or something so he wouldn't recognise her from family photos. I thought this was what they were alluding to when she said she didn't know how she could face Sam since everything that's happened to him has been because of her. But nope. Nope. Their meeting was lacklustre. Mommy saves 'her boys' and automatically Sam knows she's his mum. Even though he was just a gurgling and pooping little baby when she died, and I'm pretty sure he didn't sit and waste his days moping over photos of her.
But the way they ended off season 11.... it was a warning flag already. They could have had so much FUN with that episode yet they didn't, and tried to make it all out serious, which made the climax extremely lame and left me feeling cheated of something far more entertaining and memorable.
And don't even get me started on the acting. They're better actors than that, they've proven it so many, many times before. Now it's like they're not even trying anymore. Like they're just pitching up to work and doing it half heartedly because they can get away with mediocre acting.
I think everyone can tell this series has run its course. Stop the fan-service. Just call it a day and shut it down. Leave the world with an awesome last episode rather than running it into the dirt for another season and being remembered as 'the series that should have ended x seasons ago'.
PLEASE, Kripke.
Just STOP.