Do you have citations for that?

I don't have time to listen to this JDM interview again right now, but if I remember correctly, he discusses SPN and says that he always hears that he's too busy to come back on the show but the truth is that he's never been asked. Also that he's not sure that he'd want to come back because he doesn't like the way the character has been mutated from what he originally understood him to be.

I know JDM doesn't like where John has gone. I just don't get why Kripke is supposed to dislike John. That's the citation I'm looking for, and JDM didn't answer that question either.

I mean, there might be no good narrative reason to have him back, and that's why he's not been asked. But that's an entirely different proposition.

Although if someone is going to kill him

Wow. Y'all are bloodthirstier than I, which is saying something. I've considered he should be shunned, but not killed.

I don't feel any nagging unresolved plot threads with their afterlife, and that any resolution has to be on Dean (and Sam and Sampa) accepting that their (still) gone.

Do we care where they are? I'd assumed heaven but it's been stated pretty clearly that we don't actually know.

And, personally, I'd like to know. If we aren't going to end with the Winchesters dying to save the world, hey, happy endings wouldn't suck.

I've considered he should be shunned, but not killed.

I'm so on Dean's side it's not funny. They'll probably not do it all vengey style like I might want--if it does happen, it'll be a battle with immediate peril, or maybe he'll change his mind at the last minute and redeem himself (and then sacrifice himself, natch).

But the idea of Dean hunting him down and killing him? I still wish Roy and Walt to come to an abrupt revenge-driven end. It's how my blood courses. Fucker tried to kill them both.

They'll probably not do it all vengey style like I might want

In my idle imaginings -- I spend way too much time re-imagaining SPN plotlines, I tell you -- at that moment when Dean is ready to put down Samuel Sam steps up and says "let me do it." And explains (in short sentences, because these guys don't go in for long conversations so much) that his soul is already in hell, but that Dean still is bound for heaven. So let Sam be the one to kill off granddad. And then my heart clenches because Dean always tried to be the one to take on the harder jobs to spare Sam (like offering to be the person to kill Madison) but now Sam will always step forward and try to be the person to take the shot in these cases (in my version of the show, anyway). Since he doesn't have anything left to lose, literally.

Aw. That's SPN-sad.

I do hope Sam gets his soul back before that's an issue, though.

That is definitely SPN sad but I don't see the Dean I've known for the last six years killing kin without a damn good reason. Sadly, I don't think selling your grandsons out to a demon rates at this stage. But they should totes shun him.

I still wish Roy and Walt to come to an abrupt revenge-driven end.

Well, yeah. They KILLED them.

Um, Roy and Walt were the ones that killed them, right?

I think if someone kills you, you can kill them right back. It's the lessor things where you've got to figure out what is the good path versus what is evil.

The only reason Samuel didn't kill Sam and Dean is because Sam is a crazy-assed motherfucker. He delivered them directly to where they were to be killed. He didn't abstractly sell them out. They were going to be killed and he was perfectly okay with that.

So I'm still in Dean's place when he promised to kill him. But I don't think Show would go there.

I was sitting here trying to remember just what Crowly intended to do with them in his monster Gitmo, and I too thought that he intended to kill them. When the guys were split up and both of them had a group of demons sent in to them, I thought the demons were there to finish them off, not just to tenderize them.

He delivered them directly to where they were to be killed. He didn't abstractly sell them out. They were going to be killed and he was perfectly okay with that.

Is this what we are supposed to see in those scenes though?

I mean, I can see how it should be true. But Show has clearly slammed shots of the KoolAid where Sam and Dean can't be killed like any other human. It's not even meta because they're above the credits any longer, it's part of the myth now, the way I've seen it.

Because if Sampa really threatened their lives, he should be toast given the unwritten Winchester code. But I've never thought he had that kind of actual power.

Also I don't think Show would go there. But that is apart from how less-than-regularly-mortal the boys are looking these days.