I miss Kripke.....

ETS MAKE THE MARK SO STRONG THAT DEAN IS ABLE TO KILL DEATH!!! (Now this hasn't been confirmed, but still...)

He's been able to "kill" Death because he was using his scythe, whose lore since season 5 was that it could kill anything, including Death.

Let's make the crossroads Demon that is 5 tiers below many other demons King! Why? Well he can make cool catchphrases!

First of all, he was King of the Crossroads, the boss to a large network of demons. Second, he was personally very powerful, as was already established in season 5. Third, the rest of the infernal hierarchy was gone: yellow eyes, Lilith and their best lieutenants had been killed, and with Lucifer gone Crowley didn't have too much in the way of competition left.

But he's bad? No, that won't do, let's make him a quirky neutral character that has more comedic scenes than badass ones!

Season 6, 7 and 8 Crowley was a monster that spent most of his time torturing and killing mercilessly, and tried to kill the Winchesters on a number of occasions. He was charming, but utterly evil (remember when he offered Dick a rack of children's ribs?). Season 9 and 10 Crowley suffered from the consequences of his almost-cure and his addiction to human blood; it was a shitty execution but the storyline made some amount of sense.

The possibilities were endless, but what we got was one season of an underwhelming apocalypse

Season 5 was an "underwhelming" apocalypse? I mean you are entitled to your opinion but I think it was magnificently executed; rooted in lore, self-consistent, showing what life in the beginning stages of the end of times might look like, and what the deep end of it would end up being if the Winchesters didn't stop it.

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