SPN Meta: Season Five Random Blithering Speculation
The traditional pre-season theory post, so as things unfold, I can go "See, I was right!" or, much more likely, people can point and laugh at how wrong I was.
Random slap-dash Speculation about Supernatural Season 5 (NO SPOILERS, SPEC ONLY)
-The Four Horsemen are coming! I'm certain! \o/ Why? Alastair said that sickle in "Death Takes a Holiday" came from a friend who "doesn't really ride a pale horse, but he does have three amigos". You don't put a gun that huge on the wall unless you intend to fire it. Also, (and this is a dead giveaway), the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appear in a Metallica song (which skips War and goes with Time instead, which you'd think would be a more direct swap with Death as a fellow embodiment of entropy, but anyway). This is Kripke we are talking about. Any chance to reference something Metallica did is probably gold to him. I really hope if they do show up, he uses them as a continuing Bad for several episodes, rather than they way the Seven Deadly Sins were done in in a single episode, [gamermode]kind of like the DM vastly underestimated the required challenge rating and sent a band of kobolds up against a 20th level Wizard, a 20th level Fighter, a 12th level dual class Fighter/Psioniscist and a 10th level NPC Druid with a plot-hook. Not that I know a damn thing about D&D 3e.[/gamermode]
-Also if the Horsemen show up and the Croatoan Virus returns or is referenced as being a project of 'Pestilence' I will squee myself stupid. Not even because I totally called it in huge type and everything, but dude. Continuity bomb FTW! \o/
-At some point this season, Lucifer is going to be taking over Sam. Because that ups the stakes and puts Sam and Dean into a horrible position, and the writers' like nothing more than to put Sam and Dean into horrible positions.
-Before then, Sam will have a Harry Potter thing going on, with having a sense of where Lucifer is, and maybe, judging solely from the 'he's coming' at the end of 4.22, be drawn towards Lucifer somehow against his will. Although Kripke might have an allergic reaction to the concept, it was definitely being implied. I think.
-The whole continuing Sam's blood etc theories and Dean theories, and all that other stuff I keep yabbling about, I'm still thinking some of it could be coming up. Starting from the 'big secret' in season 2, going through stuff in my Season 4 predictions, Dean's birth/YED's Plans/Observer effect stuff, Dean and fate and saving the world with Lucky Charms, Yin and Yang and Winchesters preserving the balance, all the way to post-finale Spec from back in May. There's bits and pieces in there that I still think might apply. Coherence needed.
-I was thinking Big L might bring back YED as a reward for not screwing up, but YED is dead by Colt and... Yah know, I don't think Lucifer's going to have a problem either re-generating YED after a Colt-death. Or he won't care. Hard to say. Reconstitute him out of Sam's blood? That'd hurt.
-Time travel by angel is an option available to the writers. I'm thinking we might get more backstory, possibly of the Colt.
-I really, really want Colin Ford and Jensen Ackles to do scenes together. I don't care if it's by de-aging Sam, or sending Dean into the past, or what. I just want to see the two of them do a scene together.
-Bobby will probably... Nope. Not gonna say it. It feels inevitable but stranger things have happened. I just have horrible trepedatious feelings about that panic room, and that top vent. Demons can't get in, but demons could pour things in. O.O
-There will be more Chuck because there must be more Chuck. \o/
-Castiel, at some point is going to lose his gas bladder 'Grace' and Fall. Except he'll already be on Earth so he won't have to go the same 'getting reborn as human' path as Anna and will end up (from a mundane viewpoint) being Jimmy Novak with a really messed up dissociative personality. HOWEVER!!! I think if this does happen, it will wind up being for a larger reason that is not immediately obvious, part of a larger plan, and he'll return to being an angel in the end. Or die, but keep a happy thought.
-Castiel and Lucifer (and Zachariah) being brothers will be riffed on in some way, because it's a family connection and this show does family up, down and sideways. (Hee! Now I've got this thing running through my head of Castiel going "Dad's gone on a hunting trip and he hasn't been home in a few days," and getting one of the other angels to go off with him and hunt for God. XD)
-Anna. I don't think she's dead. I don't know if she got re-de-Graced or if her and the Angel flunkies (who had damn well better be smarter than Demon flunkies) just beamed out to get her re-indoctrinated, but I don't think we've seen the last of her. I still want her to be secretly plotting, damn it. But I kind of want everyone to be secretly plotting, so there you are.
-Also, if the Trickster turns out to be God in hiding, observing events, I have no idea what I'd do. Laugh for one.
-[Theories and spec which are being supported or denied by the thankfully few spoilers I have encountered are not listed here.]
-I'd be cool with this being the last season. Obviously a sixth season would be awesome too, if only to see what kind of crack plotlines start showing up once they go off the edge of Kripke's map. :-)
-I have no doubt that no matter what happens, or how bad things get, in the end, the strength of the family bond between Sam and Dean will beat everything. Fate, Destiny, Apocalypse, screw it. Sam and Dean are brothers and that will save them (and save the world, but who cares about the world, really). It's been the primary theme running through the show since the start, it's been running all through every season, and it'll come through in the end. The Apocalypse will be averted because Dean gave Sam the last of the Lucky Charms, and Sam gave back the toy. My zen is unshakable. \o/
IF THERE ARE SPOILERS CONFIRMING OR DENYING ANY OF THIS, I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW THEY EXIST. SPECULATION, THEORY AND MUSING ONLY. NO SPOILERS IN COMMENTS PLEASE! :-D
(see sidebar for definition of spoilers in this Journal.)
Random slap-dash Speculation about Supernatural Season 5 (NO SPOILERS, SPEC ONLY)
-The Four Horsemen are coming! I'm certain! \o/ Why? Alastair said that sickle in "Death Takes a Holiday" came from a friend who "doesn't really ride a pale horse, but he does have three amigos". You don't put a gun that huge on the wall unless you intend to fire it. Also, (and this is a dead giveaway), the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse appear in a Metallica song (which skips War and goes with Time instead, which you'd think would be a more direct swap with Death as a fellow embodiment of entropy, but anyway). This is Kripke we are talking about. Any chance to reference something Metallica did is probably gold to him. I really hope if they do show up, he uses them as a continuing Bad for several episodes, rather than they way the Seven Deadly Sins were done in in a single episode, [gamermode]kind of like the DM vastly underestimated the required challenge rating and sent a band of kobolds up against a 20th level Wizard, a 20th level Fighter, a 12th level dual class Fighter/Psioniscist and a 10th level NPC Druid with a plot-hook. Not that I know a damn thing about D&D 3e.[/gamermode]
-Also if the Horsemen show up and the Croatoan Virus returns or is referenced as being a project of 'Pestilence' I will squee myself stupid. Not even because I totally called it in huge type and everything, but dude. Continuity bomb FTW! \o/
-At some point this season, Lucifer is going to be taking over Sam. Because that ups the stakes and puts Sam and Dean into a horrible position, and the writers' like nothing more than to put Sam and Dean into horrible positions.
-Before then, Sam will have a Harry Potter thing going on, with having a sense of where Lucifer is, and maybe, judging solely from the 'he's coming' at the end of 4.22, be drawn towards Lucifer somehow against his will. Although Kripke might have an allergic reaction to the concept, it was definitely being implied. I think.
-The whole continuing Sam's blood etc theories and Dean theories, and all that other stuff I keep yabbling about, I'm still thinking some of it could be coming up. Starting from the 'big secret' in season 2, going through stuff in my Season 4 predictions, Dean's birth/YED's Plans/Observer effect stuff, Dean and fate and saving the world with Lucky Charms, Yin and Yang and Winchesters preserving the balance, all the way to post-finale Spec from back in May. There's bits and pieces in there that I still think might apply. Coherence needed.
-I was thinking Big L might bring back YED as a reward for not screwing up, but YED is dead by Colt and... Yah know, I don't think Lucifer's going to have a problem either re-generating YED after a Colt-death. Or he won't care. Hard to say. Reconstitute him out of Sam's blood? That'd hurt.
-Time travel by angel is an option available to the writers. I'm thinking we might get more backstory, possibly of the Colt.
-I really, really want Colin Ford and Jensen Ackles to do scenes together. I don't care if it's by de-aging Sam, or sending Dean into the past, or what. I just want to see the two of them do a scene together.
-Bobby will probably... Nope. Not gonna say it. It feels inevitable but stranger things have happened. I just have horrible trepedatious feelings about that panic room, and that top vent. Demons can't get in, but demons could pour things in. O.O
-There will be more Chuck because there must be more Chuck. \o/
-Castiel, at some point is going to lose his gas bladder 'Grace' and Fall. Except he'll already be on Earth so he won't have to go the same 'getting reborn as human' path as Anna and will end up (from a mundane viewpoint) being Jimmy Novak with a really messed up dissociative personality. HOWEVER!!! I think if this does happen, it will wind up being for a larger reason that is not immediately obvious, part of a larger plan, and he'll return to being an angel in the end. Or die, but keep a happy thought.
-Castiel and Lucifer (and Zachariah) being brothers will be riffed on in some way, because it's a family connection and this show does family up, down and sideways. (Hee! Now I've got this thing running through my head of Castiel going "Dad's gone on a hunting trip and he hasn't been home in a few days," and getting one of the other angels to go off with him and hunt for God. XD)
-Anna. I don't think she's dead. I don't know if she got re-de-Graced or if her and the Angel flunkies (who had damn well better be smarter than Demon flunkies) just beamed out to get her re-indoctrinated, but I don't think we've seen the last of her. I still want her to be secretly plotting, damn it. But I kind of want everyone to be secretly plotting, so there you are.
-Also, if the Trickster turns out to be God in hiding, observing events, I have no idea what I'd do. Laugh for one.
-[Theories and spec which are being supported or denied by the thankfully few spoilers I have encountered are not listed here.]
-I'd be cool with this being the last season. Obviously a sixth season would be awesome too, if only to see what kind of crack plotlines start showing up once they go off the edge of Kripke's map. :-)
-I have no doubt that no matter what happens, or how bad things get, in the end, the strength of the family bond between Sam and Dean will beat everything. Fate, Destiny, Apocalypse, screw it. Sam and Dean are brothers and that will save them (and save the world, but who cares about the world, really). It's been the primary theme running through the show since the start, it's been running all through every season, and it'll come through in the end. The Apocalypse will be averted because Dean gave Sam the last of the Lucky Charms, and Sam gave back the toy. My zen is unshakable. \o/
IF THERE ARE SPOILERS CONFIRMING OR DENYING ANY OF THIS, I DON'T EVEN WANT TO KNOW THEY EXIST. SPECULATION, THEORY AND MUSING ONLY. NO SPOILERS IN COMMENTS PLEASE! :-D
(see sidebar for definition of spoilers in this Journal.)