Kripke has mentioned in passing that this season will be the optimistic season and will have a proper ending so I'm hoping he'll live up to that. I WANT Sam and Dean and Castiel to survive. ALL of them. And I want God to kick some angels into line in a subtle, Good Omens, poker playing in the dark with a strange smile on his face the whole time sort of way.

Although of course, I say that as a practising Christian ;), so it's not as if my view is ~entirely~ unbiased.