User blog comment:GregoriusThe2nd/How Will It End?/@comment-11331875-20131030000827

I'm not so sure SPN's time is up. From what I understand, it's one of the The CW's breadwinners and I doubt they'll let it go unless it costs more than it earns for them or they get some new hit shows. (Or if the network goes under and they get bought out by a network that drops SPN from the line-up.) Its ratings are steady and it's got a passionate fanbase that provides the network with sales and buzz and what-not. Even if Carver wanted the show to end, I'm not so sure The CW would let it. (Unless they're expecting to end it soon and setting up the spin-off to replace it...?) Which could be either terrible or great--the show could go downhill if it goes on too long (I feel it started going downhill after Season 4), or maybe the staff will get some fresh blood and churn out some really excellent, well-made stories (maybe in this lovely what-if, Revolution gets cancelled and Kripke comes back).

I hope Supernatural goes for twelve seasons for one very stupid personal reason: my desktop picture is of several of the title cards spliced together so that "Supernatural" is spelled out in different letters from different title cards (ugh, it's hard to explain) and I just think it'd be neat for Supernatural (which is twelve letters) to go twelve seasons so there'd be a letter from each title card. I mean, I doubt the person who did the picture I'm using is going to update it with that version if it does happen, or if I'd even find it, but it'd be neat. ;)

Will Sam and Dean die or survive in the series finale? Either they should finally get their apple pie lives, they should keep hunting but only (to our knowledge--The Adventure Continues!) supernatural small fry with all the Big Bads defeated, or they should die. I don't know, but I do think that whatever happens, they should either both be alive or both be dead because when one of them is dead/missing and the other isn't, they lose it and bad things end up happening. And "Carry on My Wayward Son" promises "There'll be peace when you are done," so whatever happens, the show should end with the brothers content and not suffering anymore. I'd also like a ton of references to previous episodes, especially the pilot (like the last scene ending with the brothers shutting the trunk and saying they've got work to do, or Sam or Dean tucking their kids in to bed and maybe giving them a .45, or Sam and Dean dying and Dean telling Sam "goodnight" or something, or maybe they're in Heaven and the finale scene is them walking into their old house/the Roadhouse/Bobby's house/whatever to meet up with their loved ones again with Cass tagging along). I'm a sucker for stories that go full-circle.

Although I have some serious issues with the plan to say yes to Lucifer, I like most of the resolutions "Swan Song" had for its characters as an almost-finale (what with Dean having an apple-pie life with the woman he loves and their kid and Castiel in charge of the Host and teaching them what he's learned). My perfect finale might have that, maybe with Cassie instead of Lisa (since Dean did promise to see her again), maybe with Sam having accepted hunting and going out to keep doing it, not out of revenge but just to save people and hunt things. I'd feel that all these characters grew and changed and got their resolutions. They might not do those things specifically because "Swan Song" already did and the characters' "resolutions" got axed in Season 6, but it'd be cool if they did (and, hey, maybe the characters will get it right this time--maybe the lead-up the finale could be them realizing their mistakes, fixing them, and getting past them to be ready to try again).