A Skeptic Fan

A Skeptic Fan

Hmm

Now that the Sixth Season has been confirmed by The CW and the parties are in full swing, I have to voice a few doubts and concerns regarding a sixth season. Kripke has worked on a five year plan, ending the series with the fifth season, a big bang, the Apocalypse. This was the BIG FINALE. So if he's been working on this five year plan, what could he possibly have in store for a sixth season, for anything that could top the finale of the fifth or at least not hurt the integrity of the story that's already been told? Right off the bat we know that neither Sam or Dean are going to die in the fifth season finale, not anymore anyway if there is a sixth season, and even if they do, they won't remain dead for too long. Kripke has already stated in an interview that there is no Supernatural without Sam and Dean. They're the driving force, and if there are no Winchesters, there is no Supernatural. So, unless Kripke is looking at something like 'The Days of Our After-Lives' I don't think we'll be seeing any lasting deaths of The Brothers Winchester.

According to an interview from BuddyTV with Sera Gamble, Ben Edlund and Exec-Producer Robert Singer, they're looking to turn this car around and head for more simpler times after this Apocalyptic journey is over. They want to get back to what the story has always been about, and that is, without a doubt, Sam and Dean. Well good news to everyone who's missed that weekly monster hunt with the "Who's that monster!", but the question that falls for all those who have followed the storyline is, what is the driving force?

Despite the easy going nature of the first season when compared to the fifth, there was always a driving force, a storyline underneath all that monster business, and that was to find John. That was the hook from the first episode, finding John. Where's John? So when the final boss is beaten what is left in terms of a storyline for the boys? How are you going to make this 'monster of the week' idea work? How are you going to make anything work without hurting the existing storyline and the integrity of it?

I feel that going on would make the intensity of the fifth season rather anti-climactic. You have this intense rising action, a dramatic climax, but then you deviate into a whole new storyline. They're saying that they best way is to start with a new story, but the last story was five years in the making. It was THEE story. I think that the idea of getting back to basics and focus on the boys is a great idea, but I can't see how it could be done without hurting the previous seasons, the previous story. It's not impossibly to make a sixth season, I just think it's impossible to do it without taking away from everything before it.

I love the boys and I love Supernatural and it would be great to see it go on, but when you want to consider the story it's telling, the story that was told, do you really think it can go on? I don't. And I would've had no problem with this being the end because it was a fantastic story. It was dramatic and funny and had all the right balance of elements and it looked, for a while, like it was building to a great ending. But now I'm not seeing how to bring an actual ending with a sixth season. I have this doubt growing in my gut that says this is going to become something ugly.

S.Wesson
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BuddyTV.com, After the Apocalypse: Supernatural Writers on Season 6 Plan