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So…I don’t hate Mary. But I’m disappointed in the way the show has decided to handle her character and storyline. 

I found the tension between Dean and Mary interesting in the beginning of the season, and I was willing to wait and see how that relationship would evolve. But the writers seem to have dropped that particular story thread and all seems ok between Dean and Mary on the surface (and I say the surface because once Dean finds out she’s lying, things will not be ok). 

In theory, I should understand her motivations for working with the 
BMOL and keeping it a secret from her sons and Cas: I guess she’s supposed to want a monster free world to keep her sons safe, but that’s not really coming across in the show. I don’t know, her actions and reasons are very flimsy at best.

Last night, I was scratching my head at the lengths Mary went to in order to keep her secret and secure a particular item for the BMOL. She did it at the expense of Cas and her sons dying. I know the character is getting a lot of hate while others are defending her actions by saying “Cas and the boys have lied to each other and done things for the greater good”, and that’s true. But we’ve spent many years with these characters and we got to see their storylines play out on screen, and we got to see their motivations. And some of us didn’t like the lying and the backstabbing (some of us excused every little thing our favorites did) and they were criticized accordingly. 

But then there’s Mary. We have not spent a lot of time with the character and she has not spent a lot of time with her sons. So what we see on screen is someone who’s not comfortable being in her sons presence unless she needs them to help with a case. That’s not cool. Not cool at all. 

So when the show tries to sell to the audience that Mary is doing questionable things to make the world a safer place for her sons (and this is just a guess because I don’t feel that it’s been established that this is why she’s working for the BMOL), it doesn’t hold water. It’s not believable and she will continue to receive a lot of flack, because we have no idea why it’s crucial for her to work with the BMOL and keep it a secret from the boys. The stakes aren’t high. It’s not like she’s trying to prevent an apocalypse from happening. 

Basically, I’m not feeling a connection to the character and that’s sad because I really want to love her. I don’t hate her. I don’t even dislike her. But I need the writers to allow Mary to make a concerted effort to connect with her sons. Because while the show has shown that Mary was willing to sacrifice her own life for her sons (the prison episode), I’ll always question if that was out of love or out of some need to go back to heaven, because she’s expressed before that she’s having difficulty adjusting and fitting in. As a result of this, I can’t feel or believe her love for her boys, and because she has not made an effort to get to know her sons, her lies and betrayal paint her as an unsympathetic character. That’s a problem.