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Sam Winchester, Supernatural
This is the second time that Supernatural’s Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) has been included in this somewhat annual article (though I think about making it a weekly series for him).  Season 13 found Sam Winchester desperately searching for his mother, deal with Lucifer being sprung from the Apocalypse-verse and dying horribly (again) only to lose Dean when his body was hijacked by the evil archangel Michael.  Now he will be tasked with saving his brother from a twisted and massively powerful angel while doing to his day job of saving the world.

Sadly, I don’t have much confidence that the writers will give Sam a decent, full-fledged arc that encompasses both the grief of losing his brother to what is literally his worst nightmare, the fight to save him, and Sam forming any kind of bond with his newly-rescued mother, especially since the writers have already expressed the “challenges” of writing the show without Dean.  After several seasons in which it seems that Supernatural was zombie-staggering through the motions, I’m running out of hope that they can conjure up a compelling and scarily emotional arc for our Sammy. Thank god for crossroads demons, amirite?  Supernatural premieres on October 11 on The CW.

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