I personally believe one of the reasons people in the fandom dislike Mary is because she’s not there to JUST assist the boys; She’s her own person and it shows and I think some fans have an issue with that. But then again that’s just my opinion.

elizabethrobertajones:

Yeah, I don’t think anyone’s going to own to it, but there have been anons some of us get which are basically demanding she be entirely subservient to Sam and Dean in the plot, grovel for apology for being a terrible mother, and how dare she exist in the story outside of them without mentioning them or having a one track mind about them >.> 

I mean, it’s basic good writing to have ANY character introduced who has something other than the primary reason they’re in the story to make them interesting, right? Like, you write an ice cream man the characters go to to get ice cream, and if he has a personality and references even in a couple of lines that he has a life outside of selling ice cream, he’s a well-rounded character given his place in the story, right? 

You reintroduce Mary to the story, you’re not going to just paste her on to Sam and Dean to follow them around and help them mindlessly and just be there to comfort and uplift them, she needs to have *anything* about herself that is not just being tucked under their arms the whole time. Even stories where her emotional centre is about them, if she handles it in her own way, for herself, and is written as a character who clearly has a 3-dimensional inner life and wants and needs and will do things for herself and make choices that make sense for where SHE is and not what Sam and Dean need from her every single time, then she’s well-written enough to pass as a real human character, you know?

I think she’s really well-crafted in that respect, that her story is still all about her family and sons at the end of the day, but everything she does is still what Mary wants and feels and needs, and I literally do not care that it might not be what Sam and Dean want and need from her, because in a way they selfishly got to have her to themselves for 11 years as a character, as a figment in the narrative, as just an internalised aspect they carried with themselves. It’s like she’s a genie manifested from them into the story and now she’s free and running wild. And of course you can see she loves them wildly, but she’s also a Winchester, so that means she’s a depressed suicidal wreck who makes bad decisions and vents by punching all the skeeziest bad guys in the face… How can you not love her? 😛 

At the end of the day when it comes to Mary that’s literally all I care about to boil it down to the most basic element: she is FREE. And that’s what the writing is telling us, even when she is captured she’s going on personal arcs that work for herself and her own emotional story. So I’m happy with how they handle her because the writing cares that she is a real person.