User blog comment:Twilight Despair 5/Fans for Season 8/@comment-3045936-20120409025543/@comment-174.56.223.166-20120415023651

That's what it sounds like to me. Also, it sounds like we might be seeing the Alpha Ghost and Alpha Fairy. I would also posit we may be getting more major supporting characters who the boys help on cases( a new face to Supernatural).