User blog:Hallichester/What I Expect From Season 7



Six seasons have gone by. We have traveled with the Winchester brothers through thick and thin: searching for their dad, avenging their mother's death, Dean's return from Hell, averting the Apocalypse and its consequences, retrieving Sam's soul from the darkest pits of Hell... The list is endless.

What have the Winchesters not done? At the end of every episode, we feel that "That's it! Where can the writers go from here: they have explored every nook and cranny, every mythology!" But the writers always manage to amaze us with their ingenious ideas and fresh twists.

Over the years, Jared and Jensen have never disappointed us, whether by the quality of their acting or their love for Supernatural fans. Being fans of the show themselves, they have strived to maintain the quality and carry on with the wonderful quirks that make us adore their TV counterparts, Sam and Dean.

Season 7 is now approaching fast: shooting has begun, spoilers have begun appearing all over the Internet and the cast and crew are giving us marvelous interviews on what the fans can expect from this season. So that's why I'm taking the chance to share what I expect from the seventh season before we are thrown into the whirlwind: waiting anxiously for the episodes each week, gleaning information about upcoming episodes and spoilers for the seasons, biting our nails at sudden twists, willing to make a deal with the Crossroad Demon to bring Supernatural back during the hiatuses (joking!)...

So here we go!

Season 7
"In season seven, the Winchesters will find themselves in an increasingly sinister, changing landscape, up against a new foe unlike anything they've ever fought. They'll find their old tricks, weapons and hiding places all rendered useless. All they'll have is each other. And the certainty that, like the last of the cowboy outlaws, whatever they face, they're not going down without a fight."

- Official Description

(I don't know why but when I read the "like the last of the cowboy outlaws" part, Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or Alive starts playing in my head.) So that was pretty much it. All other little things have already been written by fans all over the Internet and these are my expectations of Season 7. Hit the comments to give your own views!
 * From battling creatures of the night and minor demons to angels and the Mother of All, the Winchesters have come a very long way. They have braved and succeeded in all the challenges thrown at them. However, I'd love to see the brothers solving a simple, but spine-tingling, haunting or vicious creature case, like in the early seasons. A Season 1 episode, like Asylum, is much more likely to give me the spooks than the new episodes, not that I have a thing against the new episodes. It's just that the show has shifted from giving "be-afraid-of-the-dark spooks" to "what-will-happen-next? spooks." That's not necessarily a bad thing but I miss the times when I watched a Supernatural episode and had to look behind doors before entering a room or checking my closet for a fiery spirit.
 * Like most fans, I love the dynamic of the brothers' relationships: how they have gone through ups and downs but are still there to hold each other's back. Throughout the show, they have had only a few constants: each other, the Impala and Bobby. In Dean's case, he also had the amulet Sam gave to him until he discarded it in Dark Side of the Moon, disillusioned by everything he ever held on to. And that's what we are going to talk about. Immediately after the airing of the episode in question, fans began clamouring for its return. What if the writers brought the amulet back with a whole new mythology behind it? Now that Castiel is God, they can make the amulet an important part of the storyline and it will also mark a new turn in the brothers' relationship. They have moved from being close to being torn apart by the implication of the Apocalypse and its consequences. Perhaps they can find a way to revert, even if not entirely after all that happened between them, to their old relationship.
 * Another point that has been niggling me is: John, the Winchester patriarch. In the Season 2 finale, we saw John's soul break out of Hell with the onslaught of demons and after helping his sons, he vanished in thin air. What if he found a way to come back to the brothers and aid them in their perilous mission? Perhaps he can crop up in Season 7, even if only for a single episode 'cause we like to see Dad Winchester teaming with his two sons to take out evil.
 * Now that we have brought Dad Winchester up, what about his third son, Adam Miligan? The last we saw of him was being pulled along with Sam into the Devil's Pit with Michael's essence in him. Sera Gamble has hinted that Adam may return in Season 7 but it is a strong maybe. Even if he returns, I'd like to see him pave his own way and find a calling other than hunting with Sam and Dean. Everything is changing with the brothers but I really don't want to see a credulous and naive, and somewhat whiny, little stepbrother dogging them everywhere.
 * Brothers from the beginning, brothers till the end. How about a flashback episode? Not a thoroughly dramatic and highly soap opera-ish one but an episode retracing the brothers' journey throughout the years, seeing how the brothers' relationship has changed and become what it is today. (Now that I think of it, maybe they can flash to Dark Side of the Moon and retrieve the discarded amulet discussed above! :P)
 * If this season is the last season of Supernatural (NO! I want more Supernatural!), then my take of the ideal ending would be Dean driving into the sunset in the Impala with Sam by his side. Even Jensen Ackles has said that according to him this would be the best ending to this incredible show. Let's just hope that this is not the series finale and that hopefully, the writers will have Sam and Dean drive into the sunset in their beloved Impala at the very end.