User blog:KillRoy231/Ouroboros theory

Kind of a followup to my other blog about whether the show would end.

In short: Keeping it going for so long caused it to get stale at Season 14 (though my brother thinks that started three seasons earlier), and also will probably cause Jared and Jensen to get tired of it before it ends from them dying of old age. Already Mark Sheppard left the show, which is why they killed Crowley, and they're setting Castiel up to die permanently which I think is coz Misha's getting tired of it as well. (those are the only two fan-favorites they'd never kill as long as their actors were still interested)

So, Season 14. Not judging anyone who likes it, but I'm certainly not the only one who thinks this season was weak and not as fun as the previous seasons. One of my other relatives thinks so as well, and as mentioned already, my brother feels it started getting stale at Season 11.

Maybe they know they've been going on too long, despite their refusal to stop, and they don't seem to have it in them to end a season in non-cliffhanger. Closest to that has been Season 5, leaving it ambigious as to whether it was Sam or Lucifer released from hell (later revealed to be Sam soulless), and Season 12, with the introduction of Jack and leaving us wondering what he would be like. That would've been easy enough to headcanon that he'd turn out not to be evil, which came true, but then of course Asmodeus and Alternate Michael came along, etc.

Anyway, let's take a look at Ouroboros.

Throughout Season 14, Alternate Michael has been the main villain. Secondary antagonist has been Nick with his murder spree on his way to avenging his family, and remaining attached to Lucifer. I'll get to that later, but he's not a huge threat now he's gotten his revenge.

But now, much like Asmodeus, Michael is killed six episodes before the season's end (well, it was five in Asmodeus's case, and he shared the position of Big Bad with Michael that season, where Michael didn't this season). We'll probably be getting a new villain, probably Cosmic Entity, or Lucifer revived from the Empty. Maybe Jack now he may be soulless (and an episode is called Jack in the Box), but it sounds like he seemed all right in the following episode (much like Donatello).

So, my theory is, what if they're actually giving us a chance to stop watching if we're getting tired of it but can't stop at the cliffhangers? Killing the last Big Bad, so that all the ones we'd ever known throughout the series are either dead or reformed (or both in the case of Metatron and Crowley)? And if we want to continue, of course we have the freedom to go ahead, but this providing a "checkpoint" to stop if we want?

I'll still keep an eye on how Season 14 goes and how it ends, but it sounds like it's getting a 15th season, which will likely not be the last either, and be full of mid-season hiatuses to drive us further toward the brink of insanity.

Now, yes, Lucifer has awakened in the Empty (assuming it's him because of his red eyes, unless it's Cosmic Entity coz the dark liquid form looks more like him, but does he have red eyes too?), but obviously he hasn't been revived yet or else he'd be possessing Nick again, so it would be fair to assume Cosmic Entity can't revive archangels, or maybe Lucifer couldn't fully awaken at full power for this reason. If we stop at Michael's death, we could headcanon that either Lucifer keeps Cosmic Entity awake, or kills him when he realizes he can't revive him (thus unknowingly saving Castiel), and remains awake but dead in the Empty, or else gets bored and goes back to sleep.

And that Jack either goes to Heaven to save it, or can actually make new angels, since he's more powerful than Lucifer and can awaken dead angels in the Empty.

Far easier to headcanon what comes next than the Season 13 ending.