Submitted by forman98 t3_11e8do9 in television
saufcheung t1_jacusof wrote
I agree, first 4-5 seasons were excellent. After that, it felt like they needed to keep increasing the intensity and made questionable decisions. This happens to many of these shows.
The procedurals like Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, etc have it easier.
peon2 t1_jad6whl wrote
Yeah Power creep, they beat the devil so the next baddie has to be more powerful, and then the next one, etc.
I still enjoy the later seasons for the monster-of-the-week episodes but almost all of the plotlines are weak.
Neoliberalism2024 t1_jadj75e wrote
I loved the series throughout the entire run, but the power creep was pretty hilarious.
They kill literal death, and eventually they kill the actual omniscient omnipresent God, despite having no actual powers.
Puts DBZ to shame.
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Frisky_Picker t1_jaejpdu wrote
Yeah I was really hoping they were going to give it their all for the last season but not even close. After killing god Dean gets killed in a routine vampire hunt, something we've seen them do numerous times, and we end up with Sam wearing a cardigan, glasses and a shitty gray wig. Never seen a more buff grandpa in my life.
KingSam89 t1_jadxhff wrote
It's so hammy and campy it's incredible imo. I loved when the show was more "grounded" but I equally love it for going so hard off the rails while being self aware and REALLY committing to it.
What other show has done that?
tagen t1_jadhxpp wrote
Until eventually they literally killed Death, Lucifer, and even God. It got pretty silly (I still enjoyed the later seasons, but I also know they were ridiculous and not as good as the beginning)
bbenjjaminn t1_jadx2vc wrote
I liked how they depowered them in the last episode or 2 of season15 but it felt like that could have come way earlier in the show to get them back to fighting more normal monsters.
prailock t1_jaeffws wrote
The extremely meta "The French Mistake" in Season 6 is one of the best episodes of a show taking the piss out of its actors, storylines, and fans. There's a reason those gifs are still used today.
forman98 OP t1_jad67hv wrote
I used to go on the subreddit and speculate how certain seasons would wind up, and I was always wrong because they would just keep getting more and more ridiculous and then a bigger enemy would emerge in the last episode and one of the brothers would disappear. That show had so much potential for good stories but it became fanservice schlock.
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