I don't think making the show more R rated would be a problem. Lots of fans (several of them here) have been saying SPN would kick ass on HBO or Showtime. And it would enable them to deal more realistically with the gritty stuff.

Imagine Ghostfacers without the bleeping!

Oh, in case y'all don't frequent the low dives I do, a couple of snippets from Eyecon last weekend: Travis said Jared just picked AJ up on his shoulder one day and walked around with him like that for a while. And Jensen finally said, "Jared, put him down." So Jared did.

And filming the apparition getting hit by the train scene, Jensen kept poking AJ in the ass with his shotgun so he'd go "Ah!" in the middle of the line. Every take. And the director got testy with AJ because his delivery made no sense, but he kept doing it.

Fun times.

Here's the thing...I am okay with the series ending this season (I kind of feel lucky it has been on the air this long), but I would like to have a Supernatural Movie next year.

Pretty please.

Oh, in case y'all don't frequent the low dives I do, a couple of snippets from Eyecon last weekend: Travis said Jared just picked AJ up on his shoulder one day and walked around with him like that for a while. And Jensen finally said, "Jared, put him down." So Jared did.

That makes me unreasonably happy. For no good reason.

I feel lucky we got to S4, too. That said, I'd hate to see this season truncated, and I really hope Kripke is working on a way to wrap the story up to his satisfaction in case there's no S5 or no CW or both.

wrap the story up to his satisfaction in case there's no S5 or no CW or both.

From what I'm understanding, that's the plan.

I know both the JJs want a Butch and Sundance ending, a heroic freeze frame while the sound of a hail of gunfire goes on (I'll be Butch and Sundance, Jensen'll be Thelma and Louise). I just want them to ease on into the background, the landscape and legend of truckstop America. I want them out there, saving people, hunting things, long after the series is done.

I know both the JJs want a Butch and Sundance ending

If they did that, you'd see the fandom implosion from orbit around Mars.

I can see the Js wanting that.

Fans can be pussies. Both Butch and Sundance and Thelma and Louise have perfect endings, imo.

The interesting thing about that big loser/gainer thing is that the big gainers were pretty much all on the CW and CBS.

And, I think, that the CW is somehow connected to CBS which could help it's longevity.

Another Misha Collins interview in which he utterly fails to decrease my love for him:

Misha Collins: Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet. I've been published in several literary magazines this year. I also built the house that I live in. I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still. And I also like the outdoors a lot. I spend a lot of time camping, and in the winter I do a lot of back-country camping and snowboarding up in the High Sierras. As long as you don't hit trees you're fine.

And he was a pre-Lewinsky Clinton Presidential intern, I found out in a tv interview with Kwhatever someone linked to. Dood.

Can I fangirl Jared for a moment? Here's a quote from someone who was at Eyecon last weekend.

The Q&A itself didn't reveal much new or astounding, so I mainly enjoyed watching Jared simply be Jared. This being my second time seeing him, I settled in to savor it, and I'll tell you something that occurred to me. Jared is damned good at what he does.

Under that boyish, self-effacing, gosh-I'm-just-from-Texas exterior lies an awfully astute mind. He knows how to work a crowd, how to make us all feel at home, how to embrace an entire room like we're just hangin' out over beers - and yet he fields fan questions from the awkward to the downright silly with deft aplomb. Jared is running the room, it's not running him, and I find it impressive how well he does it, and makes it look like he's not doing a thing. Someone later told me he had excelled in debate in school, and I can certainly see that, now, in his ease in front of a crowd where anything might come at him.

Taken from this post, which I believe is not f-locked. There's a really gooey paragraph in there about him and a baby girl named Sam who attended with her parents.