Supernatural creator, Eric Kripke, says he had always planned on a five-season story; Supernatural is in its fifth season. While the CW has yet to renew the series, Kripke told Entertainment Weekly that if he goes into a sixth season, he will end the current metastoryline "with a bang" and begin a new one. Kripke maintains he always intended to tell a five-season story, but never really thought Supernatural would make it to five seasons.
While CW has yet to renew the best show on TV, and creator Eric Kripke has no contract in-place after this season, an executive at the network said that Kripke had been "knocking it out of the park" creatively this season and that Supernatural has higher ratings now than in earlier seasons. "There aren’t a lot of shows that you can say are doing better in their fifth year."
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I am also a big fan of Supernatural and have watched it faithfully from the beginning. That said I have to wonder what they could possibly do in another season. If they were to go for another round then, obviously they would have to prevent the apocalypse that they are currently dealing with. After you kill Lucifer himself how exciting can it be to say, "Well, Sammie; let's go gank some plain, old, ordinary, run-of-the-mill demons."? Maybe in the new season they can go to Norway and prevent Ragnorok.
Hey, Ernie - nice to hear from you!
A lot of commenters on the articles from which I got this information (included in the post) agree with you, but I have Season One on DVD, and though the Yellow-Eyed Daemon and Sam's ESP abilities and all that are established fairly early-on, they aren't as overwhelming as the storyline has become in recent seasons. Even now though, Supernatural has its share of eps in which the larger storyline is only barely forwarded - not exactly "one-shots," but episodes you could watch and enjoy without knowing anything about the bigger plot.
This got me to thinking about writing a post concerning serial fiction, and since you said this I may still, because my thinking was: "Why does there have to be a BIG Plot, anyway?" You dig?
Let me go ahead and write this as a post, because it'll be too long here...
Here's my response, in full.
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