I've been doing more pondering about S5 possibilities, specifically about Lucifer rising and what that could mean. I've had Angel on the brain recently, and got to thinking about S2 and the Senior Partners.
Angel took the figurative elevator down to hell, but when he got there, he was still here on this plane of exsistence. He was told the day to day inhumanity people show to each other *is* more or less hell. What if SPN's version of hell on Earth is similar to the Senior Partners version. We don't necessarily have to see Lucifer, just see his effects. Maybe increased levels of mundane acts of inhumane behavior as a result of the gradual removal of the human soul. The astrocity of "when good people do nothing" kinda thing. Man can be the worse monster of them all. No special effects required.
Is it September yet? Or is that August?