At one time, the Supernatural TV series was good to the core. But with successive seasons, it’s mediocre at best. It’s like any other revenge soap, which has characters portrayed in completely black or white albeit, they only happen to be ghosts and spirits and not humans. But the drama is essentially human.
Ofcourse, you might say spirits are also human, my point is that this series doesn’t offer anything new other than the usual drama. There are no surprises. There aren’t too many layers to every story that will make you think long after the episode is over. There aren’t any new breakthroughs in the realm of ghosts and spirits. Someone somewhere in the team has decided that the soap will run come rain or sunshine by virtue of its theme. If this lazy legacy continues, it will be over sooner rather than later.
To be fair, some episodes did fulfill all that I am asking for. But they are very few and far between. Will the team of Supernatural sit up and take notice? After all, Season Five is supposed to start airing in September 2009 and is to be the last one. Can I hope that it ends with a bang and not a whimper? Who knows, if the quality keeps up to its Season 1 and 2 level, it might survive Season 6 and 7 as well!