An interesting article about Supernatural

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CinemySpy posted an article titled Should Neil Gaiman join 'Supernatural'? I found it rather interesting. And wouldn't it be great if the author was right and the SPN writers really did decide to go where she suggested they might/should with S6?

Beware, don't click on the link if you haven't seen Hammer of the Gods!

Last week's episode of Supernatural, "Hammer of the Gods", gave us a glimpse about what Season 6 might be all about.

If, as I expect, the Winchester boys resolve their conflict with the angels and Lucifer by the end of Season 5 — which is what series creator Eric Kripke says we can expect — then it's entirely possible that mythologies other than Judeo-Christian could be fodder for shorelines.

And while at least a couple of the other gods — I saw Baldur and Ganesh go down fighting — were destroyed by Lucifer, we know that at least Kali — played with relish by Rekha Sharma — escaped.

I expect that Kripke and his writing team are already quite familiar with the works of Neil Gaiman.

The English writer became famous for his comic series, The Sandman, in which he cleverly mashed-up a variety of mythologies and fables. He has a talent for bringing those old stories into a contemporary context. His novels American Gods and Anansi Boys placed the characters from other pantheons in mundane, everyday lives.

In American Gods, pagan gods and creatures living in the U.S., power waning because people no longer believe in them, battle against the new gods, manifestations of technology. Anansi Boys tells the story of Mr. Nancy's two sons, dealing with the death of their trickster father.

If Sam and Dean are going to be confronting the likes of Anubis, Thor, and Kali — because she's bound to make a return, right? — in Season 6, maybe Gaiman should be brought in at least as a consultant, if not a full-on writer-producer.