| The season 6 renewal for Supernatural is great news | | | | that the five-year arc would conclude with Sam and |
| for fans who want more Sam and Dean in action. | | | | Dean confronting the Devil in a final showdown, though |
| The CW series follows the chisel-jawed Winchester | | | | he's also been quick to add that he's not necessarily |
| brothers, who were raised by their father, John, to hunt | | | | out of ideas, either. |
| and kill all things that go "bump in the night" after his | | | | Going down the path of speculation, here's one |
| wife, Mary, was murdered by something supernaturally | | | | possibility: the apocalypse story arc could be extended |
| evil when the boys were young. When Sam and | | | | for another season. This might also explain the |
| Dean grow up, their father suddenly disappears on a | | | | preponderance of stand-alone episodes already aired |
| supposedly supernatural hunt routine. Sam and Dean | | | | this year—many viewers have wondered why the |
| search for their father and along the way help anyone | | | | writers have wasted time on these sorts of stories |
| with a supernatural problem with the help from their | | | | instead of focusing more on end of days themes and |
| dad's journal that contains most of his knowledge | | | | the climactic confrontation with Lucifer. The short |
| about the supernatural | | | | answer is that it may have been by design. |
| The news raises some intriguing conjecture about | | | | Another option is that Kripke and the writers dive |
| Supernatural. Season Five had long been touted as the | | | | headlong into the aftermath of Lucifer's defeat, what it |
| last, with the Winchester brothers finally doing battle | | | | means to the world, and how it impacts on Sam and |
| against Lucifer during the apocalypse. For a sixth | | | | Dean. What does removing the Devil do to the polarity |
| season, what does one do for an encore after slaying | | | | and balance of the universe? Do penny-ante evildoers |
| Satan? | | | | ravage the world, with no "dark hierarchy" to keep |
| Creator/producer Eric Kripke has always maintained | | | | them in check? |