Supernatural begins its fifteenth season on October 10, which will also be its final one. Fans are already feeling emotional about all the “lasts” that we’ll have to face in the next seven months, including the last season premiere on October 10. We’ve already endured the last time the cast goes back to work in Vancouver, the last ‘Supernatural Day’ while the show is on the air, the last visit to San Diego Comic Con, and more interviews with the actors tearing up than you can shake a stick at. All these ‘lasts’ make the stakes seem even higher for the final season. Fans are known for their passion, so we all go into a new season with our own personal wishlist of what we’d like to see happen, but this season we know we have exactly twenty episodes for those wishes to come true.
My own coping strategy is not to wish for anything too specific, because I’ve already got a lot to deal with just trying to cope with Supernatural ending. I don’t need any disappointment about wishes not coming true on top of the stress and grieving that’s already there! But like every fan, there are things I’m hoping for in Season 15.
5. Some “old school” Supernatural episodes.
I love a good call back to the early seasons, and we haven’t had that many “Monster of the Week” episodes in recent seasons. Just give me Sam and Dean in the Impala saving people, hunting things, a healthy dose of brotherly bickering with a dash of protectiveness, staying in roadside motels made quirky and colorful by Jerry Wanek’s set dec magic. The finale of last season is a perfect set up for MotW episodes, with all the things the Winchesters have sent to Hell (or Purgatory?) over the years come back to haunt them. This calls for more hunting, does it not? I’d love some symmetry as Sam and Dean vanquish those monsters all over again.