I so agree about lowering the stakes being a good thing. There's only so far you can raise the stakes ... and the End of Days/saving the world is about as high as they can get--and that was six whole seasons ago! I love a show like Parks and Rec that ends every season on stakes so minute they mean nothing in the grand scheme of things, and it sure didn't stop anyone from wanting to come back and watch that show again. Besides, SPN has always been about Sam and Dean and their story; I think Show could only benefit from returning to the heart of it in that way.

Baha, I like "BuckLemming." Maybe it'll morph into Buck Lemming, like crappy writer-of-SPN-novels Carver Edlund, only ... way worse at it than Chuck.