Hey Amy!
It just feels like a culmination of pretty much everything they've experienced.
Including the going eeeevviiil option, since God isn't anyone's favorite...ever...in that Universe.
-t, good point by you, in re: Billie. Perhaps they are saving her for the season ending reveal.
Oh, yeah! I forgot about her, too, -t.
Although "the only way" is always a concept with a whole lot of fluidity in the SPNverse.
I'm behind, but I want to play along.
If Sam is/becomes God and Dean is a Reaper (or Death, or the Darkness fwiw), what about Cas?
Still an Angel of the Lord. Just a different Lord.
For some reason I keep flashing on hippie!Cas communing with butterflies et al. So yeah, still an angel, but maybe with a St Francis flair? That would be an interesting new trinity.
Oh, I like that! Hippie!Cas was pretty great
Exactly. Cas would be the righthand angel, better able to effect the change/support/influence he has always wanted but routinely fell short of. He would also continue to keep the boys in line...cleaning up their messes.
I confess, I don't know what happened with Mark Sheppard, but it would be interesting to see him return in some changed capacity to compliment the Trinity.
I think they just decided Crowley didn't fit well any more and I can see why.
That said, from what I've managed to gather (and I don't follow these things all that closely any more), he was unhappy with his final episode.
This is the best thing I've read on his feeling about the execution of his exit: [link]
I do remember that after Crowley died on screen, one of the writers/showrunners teased a possible return someday, and Mark shut that right down (this was all on Twitter, but I think some of the tweets might be gone). My impression about that has been because he was angry about his final scene, not leaving itself.
Aw. That's too bad. I liked the character but can agree that the ramp up to the end was pretty weak.
Thanks for the link!
I always thought Mark Shepherd, from clips I'd seen from cons, seemed to be wanting all the attention for himself. But I could be really wrong about that.
Last night's episode, S15E3, was ... wow. I did not see a lot of that coming. And I sincerely hope this whole "hell's open" thing is over for the rest of the show.