Eric Kripke chose to bring Eve, the powerful Mother of All, as the primary antagonist of Season Six of Supernatural. Eve was introduced as an extremely dangerous protagonist who could easily defeat the Winchester brothers. I was immediately drawn to the storyline, happy that the series was pitting the Winchesters against probably their biggest challenge of all.

I was so wrong! The Supreme Monster could not rise to her potential because the writing was just plain lazy. While Kripke has been great with his storytelling in other places, he just didn’t care enough to build Eve up to her hype. The result was a below-average villain who fell victim to one of Dean’s cheap-shot tricks.

After being introduced as a threat unlike anything Dean and Sam ever faced in the past five seasons, Eve’s death was just disappointing. Not to mention, Julia Maxwell was capable of taking...