Disclaimer in red so everyone would read : I am prefacing this article by stating that it is only my opinion and mine alone. I first intended to make this a distillation of all views I collected from fans across the board.
I gave up on that idea due to the vast number of contradictory views and decided to stick to my own truth while letting others speak theirs in the comments. What will follow is an account of my experience with the characters of Supernatural in season 9.
It just makes it the one I wrote. Characters of Season 9 A few years ago, if someone asked me what Supernatural's best quality was I would have said its characters.
They were all archetypes. Dean the self-loathing, nurturing messiah who was raised as a soldier but had to be the leader time and time again to keep his family safe. And Castiel, the one with immeasurable power and a weakness for humanity, who left his family and duties in a quest to find God, and found home and heart with the Winchesters instead.
I used to think this show had the best cast of characters a TV show could have. Sadly, I no longer think that way. They had other ideas on how to tell their story. Instead of putting characters first and moving the story through their arcs, they bound the characters to their plots and dragged them through scripts, changing their personalities and arcs as they went.
