I think Dean needs to get closure with them, but I don't need them back more than once or twice to do it.

Oh, I agree. But doing that this season is going to eat up some time that could be spent on other things. Or they're going to spend time on other things, and *not* tie that up, which I won't like.

I think that if Lisa and Ben are out the door, it needs to be done this season, otherwise it's just a hangover. And I don't think they've taken up too much screentime so far. I think they can get it done and have it be deep and meaningful and Over.

As for the Sam and Dean show, with only half a season to get them back to some sort of equilbrium and the shitstorm with the newly instated soul and the Wall, I think narratively they do need another season as just brothers.

they do need another season as just brothers

I don't know if we're ever going to get that. We haven't so far. I don't know if it's more than the end game, at best.

I mean, there can still be shit and obstacles, but right now? Not brothers. Because one of them has been kinda absent so far.

Okay, sure, the series finale can finally be Sam and Dean on an even keel, whole and healthy as they're gonna get, hitting the road. But to end it with a year/season of Sam not being Sam and Sam coming to grips with what Dean did to him and possibly the wall coming down and somehow rebounding from that... That feels rushed.

They can have Sam get over what Dean did as quickly as they want, though. He doesn't have to hold it against him. It's entirely their call. It could be done with in a week. We will still have the wall, but that doesn't have to get in the way of being brothers.

Daggomus Prime did art for Nanoochka's When Play Turns Bitter. Hmmph. I just want the next chapter. Someone install a keylogger on her machine, stat.

Not as much as I want more Mafia Soup Kitchen, but I've decided to be less anxious about that.

I love the way she does light, and her coloring.

I do blame you for getting me invested in the Mafia Soup Kitchen, though. Want more now, not anxiously, but impatiently.

I will cheerfully get everyone invested in the Mafia Soup Kitchen. It's one of my favourite D/C AUs period. I figure she's going to go a couple months between installments, so I'm making peace with that.

Nanoochka doesn't get a week. I need to know the final pairing. And reading the comments on her fic are interesting, because people are definitely picking sides and getting invested. And she's not always down with the side.

I will cheerfully get everyone invested in the Mafia Soup Kitchen.

Link?

Mafia Soup Kitchen fic, officially "Family Business."