Petrichor02 t1_iryip3k wrote on October 11, 2022 at 11:59 PM

I’m pretty sure Season 9 was my least favorite overall. It didn’t justify Season 8’s cliffhanger, it didn’t bother to fully explore some of the more interesting things set up by Season 8, it would have opened up a huge plot hole in Season 6 if Season 12 hadn’t fixed it, Metatron was a thoroughly uninteresting Big Bad and Abaddon’s position/origin/goals weren’t explained well enough to set her up as a competent foe in need of such drastic measures as the Mark of Cain, the reaper retcon was terrible, and Season 9 just took the weakest plot lines of Season 6 and made them weaker (Season 9 had the less interesting civil war in heaven and the less interesting angel-trying-to-become-the-new-God storyline).

FTWinchester t1_iryj6zy wrote on October 12, 2022 at 12:03 AM

>pretty sure Season 9 was my least favorite overall.

Same here. All its major plots are copied from 6 but watered down. The reaper-angel retcon was bad, and the contrived brotherly drama was most overused.

Ace0fSpadesX12 OP t1_iryn84g wrote on October 12, 2022 at 12:34 AM

Could you remind me what the reaper retcon was exactly? I haven't watched that season in years.

Petrichor02 t1_irz1c1e wrote on October 12, 2022 at 2:23 AM

It said that reapers are angels. But before this we were told that angels were separate creatures. In Season 4 we were told that angels hadn’t been on Earth for thousands of years despite reapers being around on Earth all the time. Furthermore we’re down that demons can possess reapers in Season 2, so if demons can possess angels, that drastically changes the trajectory of Seasons 4 and 5.