Saving aliens, hunting things—the family business.

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Also I forgot to say how much I love Plei for writing

I saw it as the only way they could have a funeral without bodies to burn. They're standing there, giving them as close as they can to a hunter's send-off.

That's their ritual. That's how they say goodbye and godspeed to family.

That makes so much more sense and I feel so much better about it. Before I was all WTF, Bobby?

Since the Christian bible never mentions Lucifer as an angel and otherwise includes a few references to generic angels as god's representatives; a mention of Gabriel, found only in Luke, as the angel who brought the news about Jesus's birth; and a cryptic reference in Revelations that includes a war in heaven, Michael and a dragon, it's hard to say there's any angel canon. Lucifer and the war in heaven come mostly from Milton's fevered imagination.

But...what do you do after fighting Lucifer?

Well, there's going to be a power vacuum in Hell, and if God stays absentee, there'll likely be a similar power struggle in Heaven. Cleaning up the mess could be interesting, especially if they bring Gabriel, Crowley, etc. back in.

Not sure it would work for a whole season, though.

Seriously, the only way you could top Lucifer as a Big Bad is to go full-on balls to the wall and make God the big bad for Season 6.

That makes so much more sense and I feel so much better about it. Before I was all WTF, Bobby?

Yeah, same here. Thanks, Plei, for making that make sense.

Using white font just in case. Kripke has been pretty adamant the Lucifer arc will be resolved at the end of Season 5. He's also been vague about whether he will be involved beyond a fifth season. Regardless of Kripke's status as showrunner, the boys are both committed to a sixth season should the show be renewed.

Personally, I hope season 5 is the end, but that's the CW's call. If they do renew, I'm gonna be a Sam-and-Dean fangirl, and I'll park my rear end in front of my TV on Thursday nights and watch 'em.

But...what do you do after fighting Lucifer?

Go to Disneyland?

make God the big bad for Season 6.

That's what I was thinking about when it still looked like the Colt would work. If they succeeded in taking Lucifer out halfway through the season, what then? But if the last time the Pale Rider was out in the world was the Flood, and the Flood was on God's orders...but then it turned out that math didn't need doing.

The boys are being told over and over again how parallel their stories are to Michael's and Lucifer's, and can't they see they MUST follow the same road as Michael and Lucifer? However, one thing is glaringly different: Whereas Lucifer and Michael's relationship seems irrevocably severed, Sam and Dean have overcome what separated them and are united again in common purpose. While Sam was confronting Lucifer, I kept hoping Sam would point out that distinction to Lucifer.

I do worry that Castiel's powers will eventually diminish to the point where he can't "beam" himself and the boys out of harm's way.

It's starting to bug me how everyone has to point out that Sam & Dean are the Chosen Ones because they are brothers who fought and betrayed each other. As if that's so very uncommon.