No, my biggest problem with this season is that the writers are undermining all the powerful and emotional moments in previous seasons with how they are characterizing Mary Winchester.
Now this isn’t a “I hate Mary Winchester” post, because even though I don’t like the character, she is pretty consistently written. No, my problem is that how they have written her makes everything that happened before hand seem far less important. It isn’t just the pilot episode of Sam saying “Mom is dead, and she isn’t coming back” or the episodes where Dean and Sam experience Mary as they …show more content…
Mary has not once really addressed that she fucked her son over and yet still couldn’t leave the life. She didn’t know what Azazel was going to do to Sam, but she had to know it wasn’t good. I am not going to go on my rant about how Sam’s character has been destroyed this season, that is a whole different rant, but he hasn’t even been able to be mad at Mary for more than a couple minutes of screen time. I get that he has never met his mother, but Dean has been mad (rightfully so) but Sam is always just disappointed and the one trailing after Mary for approval (to the point he joins an organization that TORTURED HIM). Yet, there has been nothing on screen to show Mary gives a shit about Sam (because she joined an organization THAT TORTURED HIM). All of her references are in relation to things Dean likes and she only seems like she is going through the motions about caring about