Looks like it’s the end of an era...

[frelling_tralk]

Hey #SPNFamily here’s a little message from @JensenAckles @mishacollins and me. I’m so grateful for the family that’s been built because of the show. Excuse me while i go cry. pic.twitter.com/QDXDsAyIfK
- Jared Padalecki (@jarpad) March 22, 2019

Comments

[violateraindrop]

I'm weirdly sad about this. I'm actually enjoying this season. It just seemed like something that would be around forever. However, I'm sure that this was Jared and Jensen's decision. The network probably would have blindly renewed it for years to come.

[frelling_tralk]

I am too, even though I still need to catch up with seasons 11-14, but the show did almost feel like it would follow Sam and Dean into their old age at one point. It leaves you feeling a bit weirdly empty to know that next season is going to be it

And yeah I think that this seasons episode count being cut to 20 was probably a sign that Jensen and Jared were starting to struggle with the workload, and who can really blame them? It must be hard for them though because of how close the set is as a family, they’re not going to get the same opportunities to work together again like that after SpN, so it must have been a tough decision

[violateraindrop]

S11 has some really good episodes, Have fun! ;)
I don't even know how I feel. Until S5, everyone always seemed worried if it would be renewed or not. Then at one point it just seemed like a given that SPN would continue.

When the shorter season was announced, I thought that it would be the start of a trend. I could totally picture SPN with 12-15 episode seasons. I think that's why I'm more surprised. I thought the seasons would just get shorter from now on.

The CW brilliantly put Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell together in a show again, including jokes about escaping prison. Maybe they'll manage to do a SPN reunion, too.

[frelling_tralk]

I am surprised in a way that they had 23 episodes (which is longer than the average show length of 22 episodes anyway) for as long as they did, and then only switched to 20 episodes for the final two. Especially when you would hear about them being overworked, and Castiel’s character partly being used in seperate subplots to them more of a break, so why not just lose the extra episode?

And certainly it could have been an option for them as well to have half seasons like many other shows do on the CW, I am surprised that the most the seasons were ever cut down to was 20 episodes right near the end, but I guess that they were happiest with the format of spending a year in the life of Sam and Dean? At least I’m sure they could have negotiated a different episode format with the CW a while ago if they had wanted too, and maybe instead just spend half the year on filming, but it does seem like they were happiest with 20+ episodes for as long as the show was running

[nemophilist]

I haven't watched in years but SPN FOREVER ♥

[frelling_tralk]

I haven’t watched regularly in a long time either...I’m just caught up to season 10 so far, but it’s so easy to fall behind when there’s so much television on these days, and SPN’s 23 episode seasons could feel a bit overwhelming once you fell behind and had a few to catch up with

I am wondering though if news of the show coming to a close might encourage more viewers to start catching up and finish the show now that there’s an endpoint?

[tabaqui]

Damn.
*sniffles hard*

[frelling_tralk]

You can tell too that Jared has been crying a lot over the decision, both him and Misha have such red eyes :(

I hate endings :sighs:

[tabaqui]

I know!! Hanging by a thread, he was.
*hugs him*

[frelling_tralk]

It’s going to be so tough on all of them I imagine when those last days on set approach. (

[cifan70]

And after I watched the one and only episode that was the Scooby Doo animated one, I told myself I wanted to watch the series. Now is my chance.

[frelling_tralk]

Ooh I still need to see that one, it seems like everyone really loved it

[tasabian]

I've watched since the pilot and will miss my "comfort" tv. Have never been in the fandom, nor shipped anything, so have avoided all the drama and just enjoyed the show for what it is. Amazing that in the early years it narrowly dodged being canceled a few times and then achieved this extraordinary longevity!

[frelling_tralk]

Heh yes, I seem to remember there were postcard campaigns after the first season because everyone was worried back then about the WB cancelling it!

I haven’t kept up with SPN in present time for a while now admittedly, but it’s still always been a presence on my flist, always been a show that you’re aware of, and certainly I still kept up with the occasional fanfic and fan video even while no longer watching ‘live’. And to think that I was still in my early 20’s when it first began airing :feels very old: