frozen-delight:

Lament for everything vampires used to be on this show (before Dabb & Co. ruined it)

“Vampires are nocturnal. So are the Winchesters. The Winchesters may not be the “Undead” but they squint in the sunlight too. The Winchesters fight all kinds of beings but when they fight
vampires, things get twisty psychologically. You can isolate all of the
vampire episodes and see that, down to the disturbing one in Season 9
(one of the sickest SPN episodes ever). Vampires are symbolic, in ways
that other monsters are not. […]
Every time there has been a confrontation with a vampire on this show,
it is impossible to ignore the fact that what we are seeing in the
vampire world is just a dark mirror of what is going on in the human
world.

” (Sheila O’Malley)