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......I think I'm going to throw something.

I mean, I had been warned beforehand that Season Six was bad, but that was awful. I don't think it could've been made clearer that things were supposed to end before this point and that no one knew how to carry it on further. The only reason I can't say it's worse than Season Three is because it only villainized and killed women and black people, missing the 'gays' checkbox. Let's lay them out:

• The season starts by smashing the reset button on the finale of Season Five, in that Sam is no longer in hell, and hasn't been for the entire damn year that was skipped! Several characters that were established to be dead are brought back only to go nowhere, and to top it all off, the bizarre choice to bring back Lisa and Ben from the beginning of Season Three at the tail end of Season Five is carried through here, when we haven't seen nearly enough of them to believe Dean wants his 'happy ending' to be with them.
• Samuel in particular is especially grating, because he quickly begins to become a proto-Ruby, in that he's condescending as hell and constantly strings along the protagonists while clearly holding ill intentions for them and never giving them the whole truth. When he died, I wasn't sad at all, especially because his throwing away of Sam and Dean to get Mary back comes without any mention of the fact that Mary's been dead for 27 years, that she wouldn't want to be back without John, or that Sam was forced by Azazel to kill his own damn wife who you'd think he'd also want back.
• The season is a mess, and I mean that sincerely. There's several plot-lines here that get hastily introduced, forgotten about, and hastily concluded, often in terrible ways.
  
  • Eve--who is played by an actress severely lacking the poise or commanding presence they were after--is played up as an Echidna-like "Mother of All" to the monsters...when Judeo-Christian lore already has such a figure. It happens to be Lilith, who they killed already. She's only introduced halfway through the season, only appears in two more episodes, and dies before the finale.
  • Sam's soullessness only lasts a third of the season, and the drama about what will happen if he gets it back only lasts another couple episodes before it's forgotten about until the finale.
  • Crowley's business with Purgatory sees fit to involve Meg--who was really uninvolved in Season Five despite her return--only for her to do very little and then vanish.
  • Aforementioned Samuel simply emulates all the worst traits of previous characters I hated and then dies.
  • Raphael has almost no presence this season despite showing up in the last two episodes--where his vessel is swapped out for a black woman seemingly just in time to splatter her instead of the more-valuable black man, I guess. He eventually gets played up as the primary reason for the Purgatory plot, in that he's strong enough to force Castiel's hand, but we've seen him subjugated by two characters thus far--both Castiel and Balthazar, the latter of whom never explains how he crumbled Raphael, and also dies.

Speaking of which, they are really fucking trying to make me hate Castiel this season. Or, I should say, they're trying to make him a sympathetic villain and only succeeding in making me hate him. He's whiny, he's manipulative, and he acts like he's being hurt and betrayed by longtime friends despite the fact he's only been playing for Team Free Will for a single season. He spent all of Season Four sitting pretty with Zachariah rooting for the Apocalypse! Now he throws out everything and plays ball with Crowley to try and overpower Raphael, and cements his bastard status by breaking down the wall around Sam's soul--the wall that was necessitated by the problem he caused!

I hate him. I hate him and I want him to suffer. And I hate Supernatural Season Six, because it is awful.