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Oh, that's so interesting! I dropped out early in season two. I came back midway through season eight, and as I marathoned the early seasons, I was really pleased with the first five seasons and how brilliantly they wrapped it all up with a nice tidy bow. And then... whoops, we got renewed for another season! Seasons six and seven really felt discombobulated to me, and eight was better but a really rough season. Nine... there was a great idea with nine that they just never really lived up to the potential of. Ten, so far, is pretty good - still not living up to the potential they've built into their storylines, but trying, anyway.

The female characters (and I forgot Donna - who just came back for a second episode, a Minnesotan sheriff and in her second ep, Jody Mills was there too!) are brilliant and mostly not-dead, which is pretty brilliant. It's sad that it took them seven seasons to figure out how not to kill women off.

Felicia Day comes back after hiatus this season! It will be her fourth episode (I think - or maybe fifth?). And with the exception of the crappy Wizard of Oz episode (which again, SO MUCH POTENTIAL. So much NOT LIVING UP TO IT.), her episodes are far and away THE BEST of the last four seasons. Her character is brilliant and seriously, THE BEST episodes.

Also, Naomi (Amanda Tapping) is great, and the whole storyline involving her is great (this is season eight - really great throughline in season eight with Cas and the angels).

Abaddon was brilliant - her early eps were GENIUS but the writers don't know how to write a good bad guy to save their lives, so the end of her arc is sadly unimpressive.

So anyway - much better with women! Some awesome characters and recurring characters! But still, SPN, so. You know. Take all with a bucket of salt.