::starts petition::

Balls. Apparently Kripke is now "open" to a sixth season, according to reports from the panel. Stick to your guns, man! At least he says he will close the five-year arc as planned.

I have heard criticisms that strike me as perfectly valid, intelligent and cogent, and dismissing ALL criticism as shallow whining with a "go someplace else if you can't cope with my unbridled awesome! This is DRAMA, you fools!" kind of reply does come across as arrogant fuckwittery.

Well, it's how he appears to have historically responded to all criticism, be it fan or professional. So. I think he's just kind of an entitled asshat.

If you've already seen the Cracked.com review of Supernatural, then disregard this. If you haven't seen it, here are a few teasers:

Season One

The boys' search for their missing father was presented by the Supernatural advertising campaigns as the main plot of the show, a parallel, presumably, to Mulder's search for his sister in the X Files. It is a bit of a bummer, then, when he calls them by cell phone in Episode Nine and is like "Hey, kids, what's up." By Episode Sixteen, the three are working together. We don't think that happens in the other show.

Large parts of season one are simply unwatchable, to the extent that we suspect that they didn't bother to actually put all of the episodes on the DVD set, and that when selected, the menu screen simply says "You want to watch the episode about the racist truck? Really?"

and in the character descriptions they lead with Metallicar:

The family car, a 67 Chevy Impala, is the coolest thing on the show by a factor of four million. It survives despite being possessed by a ghost, stolen several times, crashed twice, and also beaten up by Dean in a fit of rage, after which the car claimed that she'd just driven into a wall, and that Dean just gets angry sometimes.

There's also a flowchart of the fate of female characters who appear on Show that is totally made of win.

Some of the humor is a little...harsh...but on the whole, I enjoyed it.

Large parts of season one are simply unwatchable, to the extent that we suspect that they didn't bother to actually put all of the episodes on the DVD set, and that when selected, the menu screen simply says "You want to watch the episode about the racist truck? Really?"

Shit like this makes me want to go all stabby. (at reviewer, not Morgana). Author of article didn't enjoy season one? Here, let me point out the door to the fandom exit.

I may be a little overly defensive of the series. This is the reason I can't read about it on twop.

Cracked is Cracked. Never expect to see anything other than unserious and childish humor there.

Occasionally too sexist and offensive for me, but often hilariously funny.

I really don't think "large parts" of S1 are unwatchable, though. Even Route 666.

Well, you know what I keep claiming: after about 6 rewatches, you start to enjoy it.

Shit like this makes me want to go all stabby. (at reviewer, not Morgana). Author of article didn't enjoy season one? Here, let me point out the door to the fandom exit.

Should I get out too? Because I didn't like season 1, and in fact rolled my eyes and quit watching midway through some of the episodes I caught way back when. It was only in mid-season 2 that I got interested enough to give it another try, and liked what I saw enough to keep returning regularly.

I think it's different when it's a reviewer. Then it's someone in a public forum (with a broad audience or not) who seems to be having fun shitting on something you love. That always seems icky to me, too. That's what TWoP has always seemed to be to me, which is why I don't go there.

I'm happy to have you, Matt!