Supernatural is ending, but the stars are open to coming back

After over a decade on the air, Supernatural — the show where brothers Sam and Dean Winchester criss-cross the country fighting all manner of otherworldly horrors — is finally coming to an end after the upcoming fifteenth season. In that time, Supernatural has amassed a loyal following of fans heartbroken over the end…but with so many new shows popping up all the time, is this really the end?

“I don’t think these guys look in the past very often,” said star Jensen Ackles (Dean) at a Supernatural panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. “It’s a long journey that I don’t think will ever going to be over. I think we’ll go away for awhile.”

Padalecki jumped in to finish his onscreen brother’s thought: “And then we’ll come back for 15 more seasons!”

Now, that’s a joke, of course, but it’s not like The CW hasn’t thought about extending the show before. Over the years the network made not one but two pilots for spinoffs, neither of which went to series.

“I hesitate to maybe accept the idea the spinoffs didn’t work,” said Padalecki. “They were great. But I imagine they didn’t work for the network at the time. There was something humbling that the show keeps going…I hope we see more from the Supernatural universe. I always loved scenes I wasn’t in, because it fleshed out the universe. It would be an interesting spin-off to see with these guys.”

For the record, Padalecki and Ackles agree with costar Misha Collins (Castiel) that a spinoff featuring Castiel and the angels is the way to go.

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 04: Misha Collins attends the The CW’s Summer 2019 TCA Party sponsored by Branded Entertainment Network at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on August 04, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images,)

And then, yes, there’s always the possibility that Sam and Dean could just return for their own reboot or spinoff or whatever. “I’m not ever ready to close doors or burn bridges,” Ackles said. “Am I saying something is in the works? No. Am I open to conversations down the line? Sure.”

But that’s in the far future. In the more immediately future is the show’s final season, which will drop later this year. According to Padalecki, “[w]e’ve been crying ever since” it was decided that season 15 would be the show’s last.

"There were no concerns about the stories or if he writers could carry on for 60 more years. Jensen and I had conversations over many years about it ending. You don’t want to be the last person at the party, even if it’s the best party in the world. We’re such a well-oiled machine, we thought it might be poetic to say goodbye too soon."

As for the ending itself, executive producer Eugenie Ross-Leming offered the barest of hints: “The way the ending has emerged…this sounds ‘booga-booga’ — but it led us to this place. There’s certainly been conversation and arguments, but it’s been very organic.”

Fellow executive producer Robert Singer also spoke up: “Every season has been a cliffhanger, and we would figure it out the following season. We’ve never done an ending before, so this was a different thing.”

And then Ackles said something that kind of makes me involuntarily nervous: “Right now the game plan we have won’t please everyone — you can’t — but, for the majority of fans, this will feel right and great abut the journey they took with the Winchester brothers.”

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“The ending won’t please everyone” is something we heard a lot ahead of the final season of Game of Thrones, and, uh, they were right about that. We’ll see what the final season of Supernatural holds when it kicks off on October 10.

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