The only things I was really invested in last season were Dean's relationships with Castiel and with Lisa, and now both are gone. It really feels like there is just nothing dynamic or compelling at all about season seven, no emotional hook to keep me interested.

I can agree with this, even the Castiel bit, in that at least it was engaging (even if I didn't like all of it) and now... things are much, much flatter.

I got the feeling Bobby was actually dead, fwiw.

It's hard to care about the relationship between a character and a block of wood. :P

Snerk!