User blog comment:FTWinchester/On Girls, Girls, Girls/@comment-12482076-20141129162720/@comment-5433366-20141202024817

I'm sure you've heard this tons of times so I'll try not to bore you: even though Swan Song would have been a great ending, without Season 6, we wouldn't have had Samuel Campbell, Eve, and the iconic The French Mistake.

This season really did well with expanding characters that were barely introduced, and even though Eve's arc was extremely lacking and anti-climatic, she was still created and is even one of my favorite characters. Though he met a fast end, Samuel was still a much better character than he ever was in Season 4, and was they handled him well. Dick Roman is a personal favorite of mine, and Season 7 was overall a good season (fun-wise) so I'm glad it was created, too.

If you want Season 5 to have ended at Swan Song, so be it but, all this good stuff would never have been made. We can still appreciate Kripke's era and how he wanted to end the series, with still the mindset that it wasn't supposed to continue on after that point.