Is a Press Release official enough?

Ok, gotcha.

Sorry, I misread earlier posts as being still in the rumored realm.

I think I'm going to rewatch the last episode.

Is Season 10 a possibility?

And all I can think is, "Look how short Sam's hair is!"

What was unnecessarily complex about last year?

Focus on Sam's hair!

I don't think it was unnecessarily complicated -- it was actually pretty simple. Cas let the Leviathans out, and they tried to take over the world. Then they killed Bobby and Sam and Dean were even more determined to get them. Which they did.

Whenever someone says something like that, I always think they're just vaguing up the fact that they didn't like it.

What was unnecessarily complex about last year?

I found this from an interview with Jeremy Carver:

One of the things that struck me, and I think it’s almost inevitable when you’re doing a genre show, is sometimes a show gets buried under the weight of its own mythology. And particularly with the brothers, if you zero in on someone like Sam, that guy has so much stuff — the wall’s up, the wall’s down. It gets a little confusing, even to me as I was catching up, exactly what is happening. So I think one of the things I thought was maybe we can pull back on the mythology and instead start a new myth story this year. Obviously we’re not disregarding anything from the past, but at least from the get-go, we’re starting everyone off on a new ride that hopefully lasts two, three, whatever many seasons.

So the tablets, Men of Letters, Thule, Judah Initiative is somehow simpler than what we had last year?

I agree with Amy--like or dislike seems more than quantifiably confusing. Sam was on a decline, Cas steps in and grabs the crazy ball, and finally shucks it (B plot) while the A plot is chasing the a big bad and doing some not very confusing at all research, since they had no information for the longest time.

I don't think either of them are hard to follow.

Men of Letters, Thule, Judah Initiative

Those alone were confusing (to me) in the last episode. That's a lot of secret societies in one plot.

If anything, this season is more complex, although I don't think that's a bad thing, since it's all been woven together really well (for me, anyway). We've already had Dean adjusting post-purgatory, Sam's romantic angst, a new character in Benny, Cas's return, the possibility of closing the gates of hell, and Sam and Dean's reconciliation. And we're not only halfway through.

So the tablets, Men of Letters, Thule, Judah Initiative is somehow simpler than what we had last year?

No, I think it's just the new guy coming in and shifting things around to suit his purposes. And chucking away all the baggage he doesn't want to deal with any more.

I do think there were too many irons in the fire in Season 6, hence the sudden dropping of some plots like the Campbell family and the heavenly weapons. But I didn't think Season 7 was overly complex, I just didn't like how they were handling some of the storylines. Which is not a situation unique to Season 7. glares in Amelia's direction and makes sign to ward off painfully boring subplots...