History Headscratchers / SuperNatural

*** I always thought of their being trigger-happy, and sloppy with crime scenes, and not always too bright in general as deliberate flaws of their characters. Am I just being [[FanDumb]] and [[Handwave handwaving]] the writers' incompetence?

* [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]] but Supernatural has to be some of the best storytelling on TV. That being said, there is one thing that [[TitleDrop just bugs me]]. Holy fire. The first time it was introduced in "Free To Be You And Me," I wondered aloud why they couldn't "deep-fry an archangel" like they threaten to do in "Changing Channels." My brother said (and I quote), "[[AntiClimax That wouldn't be very heroic]]." True enough but what's the in-universe reason for not burning Ol' Lucy at the stake. In "Swan Song," it is finally explained that holy fire only works on archangels for about five minutes. If that's true, why didn't Raphael just walk through the fire. He would have been able to return to Castiel and Dean in five measly minutes. Granted, it looked really painful for [[spoiler: Michael]] but angels are soldiers, not wimps. I've auditioned [[FanWank possible explanations]], everything from [[AllThereInTheManual the varying power levels of the archangels]] to a some sort of psychosomatic effect like MartianManhunter's [[KryptoniteFactor problem with fire]]. In any case, it's squirrely at best and BadWriting at worst.

* [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]] but Supernatural has to be some of the best storytelling on TV. That being said, there is one thing that [[TitleDrop just bugs me]]. Holy fire. The first time it was introduced in "Free To Be You And Me," I wondered aloud why they couldn't "deep-fry an archangel" like they threaten to do in "Changing Channels." My brother said (and I quote), "[[AntiClimax That wouldn't be very heroic]]." True enough but what's the in-universe reason for not burning Ol' Lucy at the stake. In "Swan Song," it is finally explained that holy fire only works on archangels for about five minutes. If that's true, why didn't Raphael just walk through the fire. He would have been able to return and slaughter Castiel and Dean in five measly minutes. Granted, it looked really painful for [[spoiler: Michael]] but angels are soldiers, not wimps. I've auditioned [[FanWank possible explanations]], everything from [[AllThereInTheManual the varying power levels of the archangels]] to a some sort of psychosomatic effect like MartianManhunter's [[KryptoniteFactor problem with fire]]. In any case, it's squirrely at best and BadWriting at worst.

* [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]] but Supernatural has to be some of the best storytelling on TV. That being said, there is one thing that [[TitleDrop just bugs me]]. Holy fire. The first time it was introduced in "Free To Be You And Me," I wondered aloud why they couldn't "deep-fry an archangel" like they later threaten to do in "Changing Channels." My brother said (and I quote), "[[AntiClimax That wouldn't be very heroic]]." True enough but what's the in-universe reason for not burning Ol' Lucy at the stake. In "Swan Song," it is finally explained that holy fire only works on archangels for about five minutes. If that's true, why didn't Raphael just walk through the fire. He would have been able to return and slaughter Castiel and Dean in five measly minutes. Granted, it looked really painful for [[spoiler: Michael]] but angels are soldiers, not wimps. I've auditioned [[FanWank possible explanations]], everything from [[AllThereInTheManual the varying power levels of the archangels]] to a some sort of psychosomatic effect like MartianManhunter's [[KryptoniteFactor problem with fire]]. In any case, it's squirrely at best and BadWriting at worst.

* [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV]] but Supernatural has to be some of the best storytelling on TV. That being said, there is one thing that [[TitleDrop just bugs me]]. Holy fire. The first time it was introduced in "Free To Be You And Me," I wondered aloud why they couldn't "deep-fry an archangel" like they later threaten to do in "Changing Channels." My brother said (and I quote), "[[AntiClimax That wouldn't be very heroic]]." True enough but what's the in-universe reason for not burning Ol' Lucy at the stake. In "Swan Song," it is finally explained that holy fire only works on archangels for about five minutes. If that's true, why didn't Raphael just walk through the fire. He would have been able to return and slaughter Castiel and Dean in five measly minutes. Granted, it looked really painful for [[spoiler: Michael]] but angels are soldiers, not wimps. I've auditioned [[FanWank a number of potential explanations]], everything from [[AllThereInTheManual the varying power levels of the archangels]] to a some sort of psychosomatic effect like MartianManhunter's [[KryptoniteFactor problem with fire]]. In any case, it's squirrely at best and BadWriting at worst.

** Yeah, that one bugs me as well. It's stated in tthe series that when demons possess people the host is still there. Their just in a sort of coma or paralysis. So when they go around stabbing people left and right with a demon killing knife it kinda makes you wonder about all the innocent people they've killed simply because they had the bad luck to get possessed. They again if they didn't stab they the demon would kill them both... still, a bit bothersome.

* What REALLY JustBugsMe is how the Winchester boys kill willy-nilly and NEVER get [[WhatTheHellHero called out on it]]. It's hard to watch our "protagonists" when Sam is shooting a Crossroad Demon (and more importantly, her host) for being fresh, and when Dean just cuts a vampire's (who didn't even know what she was doing) head off when they already know that it's possible for vamps to be "vegetarians." They seem to feel remorse or even acknowledge that their total douchebags masquerading as heroes. Pfft.

***** Oh, one more thing: they should use those demon trapping signs and wards more places, and more often ( particularly in the first two series) . It just seems sensible.

** The various Hunters seem to be a moderately large and very savvy community. Perhaps there are Hunters out there who spend time gathering this information and posting it for others. After all John's journal had a ''lot'' of information in it.

*** Finally, just wanted to add that it was stated in an episode that if God didn't want to be found, then he wouldn't be found, mystical god-finding amulet or not. This seemed to mean that Chuck recognized the amulet when he first met Dean (even before Cas clues Dean into what the amulet does) and 'turned it off' so that it wouldn't alert anyone to His presence. Castiel doesn't recognize God because only four angels have ever even seen God, and Cas is not one of them. And, I mean, He's ''God.'' If He can conceal his identiy from a brainless amulet, then don't you think He could also conceal Himself from one of His own angels whom He created and knows inside and out?

* In "I Know what You Did Last Summer", in the scene where Sam is first learning to use his Tele-exorcism powers, when he fails, Ruby walks up, stabs the guy with the magic knife, and walks off.
** Which is all well and good, except the guy's sitting inside of a devil's trap. Whoops.
*** And the next scene clearly shows that the circle is intact.

* In "I Know what You Did Last Summer", in the scene where Sam is first learning to use his Tele-exorcism powers, when he fail, Ruby walks up, stabs the guy with the magic knife, and walks off.