Supernatural to definitely end in 2010, but...

[Temis the Vorta]

Is Supernatural: The Spinoff in Our Future?

Supernatural creator Eric Kripke is sticking by his word that his CW thriller will bow out next May after five seasons. Sort of.

“I did set out [to] tell a five-season storyline,” the exec maintains. “Quite frankly, I never expected [the show] to make it to five years. But now that we’re in our fifth year, I have every intention of ending the story with a bang and not drawing it out or watering it down.”

Relax, Supe Nazis. Here’s that catch I promised you…“That having been said,” Kripke continues, “I’m looking at this season as the last chapter in this particular story. That doesn’t mean there can’t be a new story. Buffy did it. The X-Files did it. You close a chapter on a big mythology storyline and then you begin a new one.

So sports fans, any ideas? I nominate Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia as the stars, with writing overseen by Dorian Thompson so they get it right.

 

[bigdaddy]

I would like to know you came up with a spinoff?

This story will end in 2010, aka this season, but then a new story, with the same characters most likely, will be told next year. The two leads are on with the show if they like it for a 6th season.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Wasn't there talk about the spin off being set in the 1850s?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Ugh, having the same guys in it is not a spinoff!!! I want Adrian and Milo to play demons wreaking havoc on Earth.

 

[wamdue]

yes Kripke can consider it a spin-off all he likes, but if has Sam & Dean in it then its S6 not a spin-off.

still whatever helps him sleep at night

 

[Dorian Thompson]

ACCCCCKKKK!!!!! No Milo Ventimiglia!!! Don't even joke about that, Temis. The CW might hear you. What would he be--the demon of boredom and stiff acting? Adrian Pasdar, now him I could work with.

Oh, I am so leery of a season six. The story ends so naturally at five with Lucifer and his havoc. However.....if they were forced to do a season six (without Kripke, since he'll leave after his contract and the J's are going to have to honor their contracts and do that sixth season without him even though they're not crazy about the idea) I'd take the one option available and delve into the history of the nephilim, the idea of descendants of half humans/half angels created when angels took human lovers. Really delve into Mary's family history. Incorporate the 1850s western motif that Kripke spoke of into the nephilim theme. Maybe Samuel Colt knew more than he let on about his history when he created the gun that could kill anything.

That's me. I think the teenybopper portion of the faithful would scream bloody murder that the brothers weren't fully human, but whatever. You can't go back to fighting average ordinary vampires and werewolves after you defeat the devil. You just can't. It won't work. That's part of the reason I don't want a sixth season, but the stupid CW might be desperate for it if the Vampire Diaries tanks like all its other creations have.

 

[wamdue]

That's me. I think the teenybopper portion of the faithful would scream bloody murder that the brothers weren't fully human, but whatever. You can't go back to fighting average ordinary vampires and werewolves after you defeat the devil. You just can't. It won't work. That's part of the reason I don't want a sixth season, but the stupid CW might be desperate for it if the Vampire Diaries tanks like all its other creations have.

oh the CW are just THAT desperate, see Smallville, and Vampire Diaries had better not fail, ITV 2 in its infinite wisdom, has dropped Supernatural (lost to pay TV, and half a promise of it being aired on Virgin 1) for Vampire Diaries, ITV is going to look pretty silly if VD fails and Supernatural (however forced) continues.

 

[Aragorn]

The CW needs to seriously fix this show. They should defeat the bad guy with one punch at the 45-after mark, then devote the final act to angst and songs from hip new artists.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

Hey, Supernatural ain't Smallville, buddy. Supernatural's hip new artists are Styx, Blue Oyster Cult, and Kansas. The Vampire Diaries will have all those angsty new artists.

 

[mswood]

Hey, there is nothing wrong with angst (if it fits the story), hell this show has always had more "angst" then Smallville. And hell we had two seasons of build up to the fight with YED, and that was ended with one bullet.

But the angst almost always fits the storylines of these two characters, and if anything they actually underplay how much angst these two characters would actually experience if it was real life.

Its when the angst feels manufactured or your characters show to real growth that it rings false and hollow.

 

[bigdaddy]

There will be a season 6 if there is a CW that year. There will most likely be a season 7 too.

 

[mswood]

And unlike Dorian I really question if Kripke will end his run this season. Many producers threaten it, but few actually follow through with it. And add to it that it knows his two leads really want the show to end (I don't even know if moving the show to LA, thanks to new tax credits, would be enough to change their minds even if the CW could afford the move, which it can't).

I will be very curious to see (if Kripke does leave) or hear (I should say) his original plan on if his leads live or die.

Myself if we get a 6th season (and really there are a lot of factors in this), I would rather see a arc really dealing with the failout of their lives. I don't want a Buffy riding away on a bus (I would rather have the Angel ending of getting ready to fight to the last). But really I want to see characters actually deal with the consequences of the events that have transpired.

I like to use WWII as an example, you have characters of all sorts that experienced hugely dramatic events and in many cases didn't get a chance to truly deal with those experiences until after the war.

The only problem with that, is (and as much as I love the writing on this show) do the writers actually have the ability to carry off that type of story telling. I honestly don't know (let alone if its something they would even be interested in). It certainly wouldn't be something the CW would be in favor of.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Wasn't there talk about the spin off being set in the 1850s?

Oooh yeah I liked that idea. In that case, I want Timothy Olyphant and, um, Josh Holloway will be "at liberty" by then, right? Maybe too much of the same type as Olyphant. Well then Olyphant or Holloway, toss a coin, as the badass gunman, and Zachary Levi as the clueless greenhorn just off the train from back east.

 

[Vendikarr]

There will be a season 6 if there is a CW that year. There will most likely be a season 7 too.

Any season seven would revolve around "Coy" and "Vance" instead of Sam and Dean.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

That's me. I think the teenybopper portion of the faithful would scream bloody murder that the brothers weren't fully human, but whatever. You can't go back to fighting average ordinary vampires and werewolves after you defeat the devil. You just can't. It won't work. That's part of the reason I don't want a sixth season, but the stupid CW might be desperate for it if the Vampire Diaries tanks like all its other creations have.

oh the CW are just THAT desperate, see Smallville, and Vampire Diaries had better not fail, ITV 2 in its infinite wisdom, has dropped Supernatural (lost to pay TV, and half a promise of it being aired on Virgin 1) for Vampire Diaries, ITV is going to look pretty silly if VD fails and Supernatural (however forced) continues.

At this point ITV 2 might as well be renamed The CW:UK

 

[mswood]

There will be a season 6 if there is a CW that year. There will most likely be a season 7 too.

This I don't actually see. And I can't see the CW either moving the show, or ponying up a lot of extra cash to try and encourage the leads to stay.

Nor do I see Warners doing that (which they could if they wanted to).

Many actors do actually depart their series, especially if they don't receive some form of extra pay or benefits to staying.

Smallville has managed this, but they also generate more revenue off of broadcast, they do great on DVD (about 4 times Supernatural's numbers) and they have gotten rid of their original producers, the majority of their original cast all factors that help keep cost lower. And all people that would have been given significant raises over the years.

And Supernatural's ratings so far don't warrant it. They would have to improve dramatically.

 

[wamdue]

That's me. I think the teenybopper portion of the faithful would scream bloody murder that the brothers weren't fully human, but whatever. You can't go back to fighting average ordinary vampires and werewolves after you defeat the devil. You just can't. It won't work. That's part of the reason I don't want a sixth season, but the stupid CW might be desperate for it if the Vampire Diaries tanks like all its other creations have.

oh the CW are just THAT desperate, see Smallville, and Vampire Diaries had better not fail, ITV 2 in its infinite wisdom, has dropped Supernatural (lost to pay TV, and half a promise of it being aired on Virgin 1) for Vampire Diaries, ITV is going to look pretty silly if VD fails and Supernatural (however forced) continues.

At this point ITV 2 might as well be renamed The CW:UK

agreed, meanwhile FiveUSA might as well become CBS: Gold, as all it ever does is air repeats of CBS shows, CSI (franchise) The Mentalist, The UNIT, The Guardian, Numb3rs.

That said theCW would kill to air American Idol

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'd be happy with more folk tales and back roads weirdness. That's why I came in to begin with.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

There will most likely be a season 7 too.

It'll be without Sam and Dean Winchester. Jensen and Jared will not re-sign after season 6. They actually have the talent to have careers after Supernatural. Both of them want to get out while the show's still of good quality and there are still other viable opportunities to be had in their careers. When Vendikarr says a season 7 will be with "Coy" and "Vance" Winchester, he knows of what he speaks. Supernatural started out as an on the road horror show in truck stop America, but it became the story of the Winchester brothers and family. Is the CW desperate enough to try that? Probably.

Supernatural isn't Supernatural without Dean and Sam.

 

[Skywalker]

End the Winchester story, do a spinoff set in the Wild West about the first Campbell hunter(s).