I think it was around 2005. The show has been on forever.
15 seasons!
I_Abibde posted...
I tried to enjoy Supernatural, but a specific episode in Season 5 ("Twilight of the Gods") turned me off to it permanently. Just ... really didn't like where they went with that.
s15 actually covers that. The Winchester Boys play pool against Fortuna who explains that God ("the Creator") created everything, even other gods. His reason for doing so was because humans had started to worship things besides him -- which annoyed him at first -- but he realized they would also blame those gods for when things went wrong and used those other entities to shoulder the blame. It also explains why the Pagan Gods are so much weaker than Archangels. And, in general, in terms of power -- excluding a few cosmic beings like Death (partly because their power is poorly defined) -- the order kinda goes Amara/the Darkness, God, Nephilim, Archangels, and then everything else is kinda under that. And technically God *might* have been strong as the Darkness by himself, but he was possibly weakened he started creating things.
Granted, "Twilight of the Gods" kinda has a sub issue because in a much later episode we learn that Gabriel *isn't* actually Loki. Loki was a separate entity who let Gabriel use his appearance and name to help hide him. That episode was among the show's worst and was a confusing mess. It would have been far simpler to have just had Odin "adopt" Gabriel as Loki.
And I'll admit that the episode also put a sour taste in my mouth the first time I saw it.
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(\/)(\/)|-| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist.