Yeah, Supernatural promised us a "back to basics" season 6. Cue further rehashing of angelic warfare, hell-angst, and Purgatory: the Extra Afterlife for when Heaven and Hell just aren't tedious enough. ::sigh::

Have to disagree about Chuck, though. I always thought that show developed its characters fairly organically. And it has a definitie end-date, thank goodness.

Was positive Alias would be on the list. This time, they could start from the ending and work their way backwards to the start. Also that lame Lost ending needs to be reworked. Maybe they could just retool Season 6??

"Heroes" seems pretty obvious to me, much more so than "The Event." Season 1 had a ton of potential, and then it all went so very wrong so very quickly. Have some kind of game plan -- a REAL game plan, not one that changes every five minutes -- and competent writers and it could be amazing.

I like that Chuck and Sarah got together. It's better than having two characters pine for each other to the point where you just don't care if they get together or not.

I feel like people keep forgetting that Supernatural was only really about "saving people, hunting things, the family business" and road trips for, like, a hot second. Even early in season 1 they started laying the foundation for bigger things like Sam and his psychic-ness and all of the YED's "special kids". The show had huge seasonal arcs from the get-go, this isn't a recent event. They hunted things and listened to old-school rock at the same time as they were doing things to set up for much bigger stories. It can't "go back" to something it never was in the first place.

Now what's really hurting this show is having a Sam-fangirl at the helm (i.e. Sera Gamble). She only wants to give Sam big stories, but at the expense of other characters, especially Dean. He's been reduced to freakin' Supernanny every time Sam losses his soul or get a damn paper cut. She waters Dean down to a home-sick, love-struck idiot while making Sam more and more annoying and a perpetual victim of whatever. Dean is, IMO, the more interesting character and season 4 showed that the brother could have independent storylines while still having the show be good. There has been a bit of an angel overload (too much of a good thing..?) but with Misha Collins not being a series regular is season 7, maybe it won't be as bad. But, hell, Gamble's still in charge, so I'm not holding my breath.

You're completely missing the point. The "go back to its roots" is not a call to get rid of seasonal arcs altogether, but to remember that the show was, in fact, about "saving people, hunting things, the family business" once upon a time even as it laid the foundation for bigger stories like Sam's psychicness and the YED's special kids. In the last few seasons the "saving people, hunting things" theme has completely collapsed under the weight of the seasonal arcs, and things that were once pieces of the overall show (demons, angels) now completely monopolize it.

I partially agree with some of what you say, in that there were always overarching story lines, but I think that the show has become very imbalanced - too much emphasis on turgid 'epic' storylines and an overindulgence in angst has just eaten the show alive. When I say I want a 'reboot', I aminly want the show to go back to a place where Sam & Dean were occasionally successful, and that their existence was something besides an tortuous slog of misery and failure that even death cannot stop.

Reboot GENERAL HOSPITAL.

And no, I am not kidding.

What? You want to go back to the days of General Hospital when pairing off a rapist and his victim was the height of "romance?"

That's one of the things that could get written out in a reboot. Along with the mobster and the hired killer that are supposed tobeth romantic leads.

It might be best if instead of constantly rebooting shows (Happens enough with movies already.), people could just try writing new original stories for people to fall in love with?

I'm not sure why anyone would ever want to return to the saccharine early days of Smallville. At least the last few seasons had a bit of bite and a sense of humor. Early Smallville was Seventh Heaven with more annoying characters.

For the record, Leslie, they got Richardson, TX, spectacularly wrong too... and it's Jensen's hometown! I'm pretty sure every town the brothers visit on that show looks a lot less like Canada in real life.

What about Gossip Girl? I'm not saying reboot to season 1, but I think season 4 and most of season 3 could be completely erased. To me, they've royally screwed this show up.

Actually, Dean is my favorite character, but I'm not the head-writer of the freakin' show, so it's less of a problem with me having an obvious favorite and more so when the HW does and it hurts the show. It's not a bad thing to be a "fan-girl" or "fan-boy" for a particular character, but it is a whole 'nother thing entirely when the writing shows that one is favored to the point where it seems like the characters themselves have traded personalities to an extent.

I don't want Dean to have all of the attention. I would like it so that the characters can have this reallyclose bond but still be able to have equally interesting stories on their own. Or at the very least if one is going to carry the bulk of the storyline, the other characters shouldn't suffer from it. And I think Dean has because he's been reduced to Sam's nursemaid. And then it makes Dean all whiny and pathetic and make Sam look like he can't do a damn thing on his own and it's just stupid and needs to stop.

(Cas is also a favorite of mine who's become needlessly whiny this season..well, until the finale that is)

Totally agree on Survivor. The closest, I think, to the first few seasons of Survivor was the Fans v. Favorites. Loved that one, with the whole Black Widow brigade and everything. It was meh again from seasons 18 onwards.

Although I'm not a big fan of Glee anymore, I disagree with bringing it back to being a show about Rachel. What I used to love about Glee was its wit and its refreshing take on high school - it's now just a slew of afterschool specials. I'd say hire more writers (or replace the writers of the facepalm-worthy second season) to give it new life.

At this point, I don't know if rebooting Supernatural would save it for me. I stopped watching when Dean started crying every. Single. Episode, there was a Grace Kidney in a tree, no wait a bottle, and when Sam turned into someone completely unrecognizable so that Dean could be the saint and Sammy the sinner. Since then I have popped in here to look at the episode recaps, and so far nothing has made me regret my decision to kick this show off of my DVR.

I would be happy with Glee if they would just remember that Rachel used to be her own person without Finn, Kurt used to be awesome before he was a saint, and for the love of all that is good and holy, Quinn had a baby last season.