Comments on: Supernatural shouldn’t be renewed

By: Emmy

Emmy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:44:53 +0000

Jim, I have to agree with you. I do think the show should end at 5 seasons. They’ve been great seasons and in my opinion Season 4 was their best one yet. This season I think has been less consistently good and the plotholes have been bigger but when it needs to work, it’s still terrific.

But I think there is no hope for them to top themselves in Season 6 and I think there is very little of them actually managing to put together enough decent stories for it to even be interesting. I think there will be even more plotholes and more thin storylines of the sort that are starting to creep in now. I think the characters risk becoming caricatures. I basically think they risk undoing everything that made the show great to begin with.

Plus I do think Jensen and Jared, protestations to the contrary aside, would prefer to be back home, in California, closer to their friends, closer to the rest of the industry, where even if they each do get another regular gig right away, at least they’ll have opportunities to do guest star roles on other shows or small parts in locally filmed movies to stretch their wings a little bit. They’ll be able to establish more contacts that can get them more interesting roles. They’ve worked 12 to 15 hour days, 9 months of the year for 5 years now.

By: jamos2007

jamos2007 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:59:22 +0000

its the only show worth watching since the death of ‘BSG’,'Stargate sg21/atlantis’.cant include ‘stargate;universe’. long may supernatural continue and how about a bloody feature length film for the die hard fans.

By: ex fan

ex fan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:08:16 +0000

Is this real life?
This show became garbage in season three with all the CW crap, skank girls and then the nail in the coffin with the fat angel that can’t move his face and has no reason to exist.
Supernatural has jumped the shark so many times I can’t even count them anymore. Bella, Ruby 1 Ruby 2 Ruby 3 Ruby 100, Kripke mocking the fans, Kripke making episodes about fans, and then the horrible awful revolting fat angel.
Kripke is the worst person I’ve ever saw running a tv show, he’s obsessed by online wanking, he should really work as a janitor or something like that.

By: Peassoff

Peassoff — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:55:58 +0000

EM, I have to disagree with you. The first seasons were fresh and new, but the last seasons are better.
I have to agree with James though. Five and out. I flove this show but I want it to end up on a high note.

By: Mneh

Mneh — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:32:00 +0000

@Em, I agree with you. I haven’t enjoyed SPN very much since season 3. I absolutely loved seasons 1-3 but I feel that seasons 4 & 5 have been too pompous and derivative. I’ll be glad if the show ends after 5 seasons.

By: Em

Em — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:29:25 +0000

Should have stopped with S3 actually. The plot holes are too big and glaring by now so a sixth season will tarnish the goodness of the first 2 seasons if allowed. The first seasons were something fresh and new, now the show is just old and tired and ripped off every other show ever made.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:58:24 +0000

I think the show should end with season 5. Having watched the show since the pilot, it has been interesting to see the characters grow (or, in some cases, regress) and become who they are now. But it’s time to go now. I don’t believe Kripke has any ideas that will keep the show fresh and innovative for one more year. Not only that, I don’t want to see him milk this show and its stars just so he can put a feather in his cap and gloat.

By: Garak

Garak — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:58:50 +0000

I think I have to agree with you Jim, as much as I love the show, I can see it easily falling into the X-Files trap (needlessly padding out the mythology until it makes no sense). I find it funny that a show with such a vocal fanbase, that has campagined year after year for renewal, is faced with hoping that the ratings drop enough to kill the show! :P

Having said that, I’m going to give Kripke his due and reserve judgement on any potential sixth season until I see it. Personally, I’d love to see the Brothers Winchester just barely avert the apocalypse at the end of this season, but have the general populace learn of the existance of supernatural beings. It would be an interesting way to continue into the future, with the boys having to sort out the aftermath, while having to deal with the public knowing who and what they are.

By: James Rundle

James Rundle — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:50:29 +0000

I didn’t actually consider the Antichrist plotline, although I kind of assumed he’d play a factor in the final few episodes.

And yes, Kripke was insecure about reaching five seasons, but the plot is certainly designed to run for that length. I remember when season three was coming out he also said something along the lines of “I just wanted us to reach the third season, then it all kicks off”. Every show creator says something similar, but there was always a defined beginning and end point.

The point of my column wasn’t that I don’t want to see more Supernatural on television, it’s that I don’t want it to be drawn out for the sake of being drawn out, or a solid ending to the overarching plot being compromised by the need to leave certain elements in play for the sixth season.

By: Erika

Erika — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:45:50 +0000

The staunch 5 year plan came from Kripke being extremely insecure SPN would ever reach a 5th season, he said this at this past year’s San Diego Comic Con.

He actually planted a seed this season of where the show could go after the Apocalypse ends, the Anti-Christ is still out there. Right now he’s a cute, cuddly, confused kid. SPN doesn’t DO cuddly kids – they’re always creepy. Tracking down the Anti-Christ and trying to keep him from going dark side can drive a whole, final last season.