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So I’m slow on the Supernatural news since the holiday return, but there is some good news to spread thanks to Spoiler TV – Supernatural will return for a sixth season.

Now creator/showrunner Eric Kripke has been on record as saying that he envisioned the show spanning 5 seasons only. It appears now that Kripke will step down as show runner so that current executive producer Sera Gamble will take over….but no fear Kripke fans, he will reportedly stay on as executive producer with his co-showrunner Robert Singer.

So essentially same peeps, but different jobs. I’m hoping though this isn’t a case of us a year from now wishing Kripke had gotten his way and the 5th season was the final. Television shows do not normally age gracefully. PROVE ME WRONG GUYS, PROVE ME WRONG.

The apocalypse may have to wait!

CW boss Dawn Ostroff says Supernatural creator Eric Kripke is warming to the idea of a sixth season.

“I think he’s in that state of mind,” she says. “I had lunch with Eric the other day and he’s really excited about the show right now. I think he feels this season has been really satisfying for him. He’s certainly not running out of ideas by any stretch of the imagination.”

Ostroff, who says Kripke has been “hitting it out of the park” creatively this season, also points to Supernatural’s ratings success as proof the show has a lot of life left in it.

“The ratings are up,” she says. “We have more young women coming to the show than ever before. There aren’t a lot of shows that you can say are doing better in their fifth year.”

What would make the show even higher in the ratings is to start marketing the show a little heavier towards the gay community! The one episode this year that FINALLY introduced a gay couple was one of the best this season and helped raiase the gay profile of the show!…………Just a thought.

Yes! Score. We’re back on track with the story. I’ve been itching to see Mark Pellegrino have some actual scenes as Lucifer for some time now. Seems as up until now he’s been off the radar, with the exception of our brief introduction, and Sam’s dream conversation with The Devil. I’m really into this notion of sympathetic evil and feel he’s the guy with the best ability to sell it. So far it’s not bad, I do feel he really does “have” to do these things, maybe humans have more free will then Angels ever could, despite being well ahead on a being flowchart of the universe.

(I’d sketch one of these flowcharts out for you guys, but I’m lazy. Suffice it to say it will start out from top to bottom as Universe/God/Whatever you believe – Angels – Dolphins/Elephants – Humans – Cats – etc)

And as much as it sucks to see Ellen and Jo go, someone has to or else we’ll get bored watching the Winchesters get out of every jam. Self sacrifice is a good way to do it.

Now we all just need to wait patiently for January for the next installment. If we pulled off the between season waits to explore Dean’s trip to hell, and then Lucifer rising, I think we can wait this one out.

This week’s Supernatural is the last original episode until january, and we have a clip here for you to whet your appetite!

Now, I can imagine some may not be a fan of this continuing trend of the series now recognizing and acknowledging itself, some may even argue that it’s being post modern for post modern sake. Now I for one enjoy it anyway since I enjoy general weirdness, and two, that post modernism argument is tired and get with the time people, we’re now post post modern.

OK, I admit I’m full of crap, but it is fun. This has been a societal realization building for some time now – fictional characters have just as much right to interact with you, as you them. Take your plethora of reality shows, or your Paranormal Activity’s into context, and you can see the changes in fiction that have made it completely acceptable to fully screw with the 4th wall. We all know that it’s true that indeed the world is a stage, and we are all merely players. Just ask Andy…well, if he wasn’t dead that is.

(Yes, reality shows are still somewhat fiction I contend, as these people are never themselves – they know the camera is there just as I type knowing you’ll be reading this)

So let’s jump into the critique. I am not a fan of this delaying the story. One off episodes are fine, plus I imagine perhaps they are a bit cheaper to produce since there is no need to have epic demon and angel battles or any of that fun stuff, but really the limiting of the story to literally the last two minutes was irritating. This appears to be a trend now that we’ve wrapped up last season and the boys are back together. Where is Lucifer in all this? On sabbatical?

I will give the episode a pass though as I had fun watching it, and there was one scary character – Becky. Her obsessiveness first over Sam, then Chuck, was frightening. Maybe some dudes would like that, but I was freaked out.

Now go get the colt already.

OK, this episode was fun. Yes, I was desperate to get back to the storyline as any of you who watched the Paranormal Activity video review know, but I had fun eventually getting there.

(Yes, spoiler alert, we do get to the storyline, but it takes some time to get there – you’ll enjoy waiting though)

Quote of the episode: “I’ve…..got…..genital….herpes”.

Yes, I will also admit to having seen enough Grey’s Anatomy to know what was being referenced. The music that was constantly playing was so distractingly awesome I barely paid attention to why Dr. Crazy Slap was always hung up on Sam. That have that show pegged.