bakasara:

filleretive:

Here’s a short list of things Supernatural is about, to me. Because I really don’t see Supernatural as “two brothers driving around in a muscle car and killing monsters.” 

• The definition and creation of family: bloodlines versus chosen family, and the persistent question whether one’s nuclear family defines one’s fate.
• Free will, consent, duty/responsibility, and independence.
• The necessity of questioning authority figures (e.g., Heaven, the state) on the grounds that they, too, have the capacity for evil.
• The legacy of child neglect and abuse, and how adults who were abused as children survive and recover; also related to mental health. 
• The origin of evil and the capacity for redemption, again through choice.
• Gender roles (especially hegemonic masculinity) and heteropatriarchy; this is especially true in Season 10 (e.g., the Grand Coven vs. MoL, the show’s treatment of women, Dean deconstructing machismo).
• Responses to (extreme) trauma, grief, and loss; ultimately, hypothesizing about human nature by placing characters under (extreme) stress.
• Class and poverty and the “underground economy,” class aspirations and the “American dream.”
• All told through the vehicle of sci-fi/fantasy action-adventure. 

This is what I watch for, at the end of the day.

I agree with this, 100%. Perfectly worded.