are definitely the roughest for its female characters (and that says a lot because it doesn’t really get much better). For starters, there are barely any female characters that aren't love interests. It makes sense to an extent.
This was back before the show's demographics had shifted so heavily in the teen girl direction, so it was still leaning more into male-wish-fulfillment territory. And we get characters like Jo (Alona Tal) and Ellen (Samantha Farris) who actually get to be involved in demon hunting and the plot, but they still meet the most common fate for any character: they die. The same with Sam’s () love interest, the demon Ruby (
Genevieve Padalecki) who similarly gets to hang out and do plot things for a little bit before biting the dust. Of the few memorable women from the first 5 years of the show, all of them are dead.
As reached its middle years, it struggled with a lot of growing pains.
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