Supernatural Season 5 Hints, Storylines, and Season 6 Talk

Supernatural was one of the panels at Comic-Con last month that I wanted to attend, but unfortunately it was on a Sunday, one of the few worthy panels in the whole day, and I had to catch a flight earlier in the morning. If I had attended, I would have told you about what show creator Eric Kripke said about the coming Season 5 and the possibility of an additional Season 6, though that’s not a given since the CW hasn’t told the crew if they would be back after this year yet.

Fortunately, the folks at Airlock Alpha has your breakdown of what Kripke said, and what to expect from Season 5.

As fans of the show knows, at the end of Season 4 the Winchester boys had unwittingly unleashed, literally, Hell on Earth by releasing Lucifer from his prison. The entire season had the brothers trying to prevent just that, but alas, evil is apparently smarter than our Kansas heroes. So what awaits them now that the baddest demon of them all is on the loose?

- For one, producer/writer Sera Gamble says the apocalypse has “not turned out to be as dark as I thought it would be. I am finding this apocalypse surprisingly amusing. We are having so much fun with it.” That’s interesting. I thought the show would get much darker in Season 5, but apparently not?

- The angel Castiel will return, and will become hunted. He will once again join up with the Winchesters, and along the way, learn more about what it means to be human. No word on the angel Anna, Dean Winchester’s heavenly booty call, though.

- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will appear — as muscle car riding badasses. Yup, this is Supernatural, after all. It ain’t your dad’s apocalypse.

- Lucifer will be played by Mark Pellegrino of Showtime’s Dexter. Also, God himself will finally make an appearance on the show, though later in the season.

- In one of the episodes, Dean will get to see what the world is like five years in the future in the aftermath of the Apocalypse. Word is, Dean will spend a lot of time trying to prevent what he’s seen from coming true. But as you know, in the world of Supernatural, what you want and what you are rarely the same thing.

- And finally, showrunner Eric Kripke always intended for the show to end after five seasons, and he doesn’t plan to stretch out the Apocalypse storyline beyond Season 5, even if the show gets picked up by the CW for another year, which at this point isn’t a sure thing. If the show does return for a Season 6, though, Kripke says he will definitely be back, which is something he initially said he wouldn’t do back at Comic-Con, but has apparently changed his mind.

Supernatural Season 5 returns September 10, 2009 on the CW.