‘Supernatural’ stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles on how the show will end

“Supernatural” still has at least one more season to go before it sees the end, but stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles, who play brothers Sam and Dean Winchester respectively, already know how they want the show to go.

Neither actor is privy to how the show will end, but both have a rough idea of their perfect ending. Ackles, 38, thought the apocalypse, which had been hinted since the first season, would be their last episode. It would have been as well since creator Eric Kripke’s original plan for the show was to run for five seasons only. Season 5 ended with the Winchesters able to stop the apocalypse from happening, though a tragic ending for Sam and a semi-happy ending for Dean.

“But then again, you can’t end the TV show with the worst thing happening,” Ackles admitted to EW. “As we’ve evolved, I think that there’s different roads that the show could certainly go down that would be interesting. I think we’ve taken some really good turns.”

Padalecki, 33, thought it would be great for the boys to end on an ambiguous note. “Part of me, loving ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,’ always thought it’d be great to see the boys against insurmountable odds and to freeze-frame on them and just hear stuff in the background. You don’t know if they die, you don’t know if they live, but you know that they’re going to go out in a blaze of glory,” he said to the entertainment site.

“I don’t think we should see the boys die or live, we should wonder,” he added.

The “Gilmore Girls” actor, who is among the returning cast for the revival show, might not have a clear idea on his kind of ending, but he knows Sam and Dean would continue to fight side by side against evil. “As long as they’re alive, they’re not going to stop fighting.”

In a show where no character is safe (the main characters themselves have died hundreds of times already), it’s hard to think that Sam and Dean will end up truly dead in the very last episode, whenever that will air. But it’s probable, and that’s what Ackles thinks would happen.

“It’s either going to end tragic or it’s going to end not tragic, and I can kind of make an argument for both,” he told EW, adding he didn’t know which direction the show would go. But true to their characters’ personality and history, he said thinks Dean would make the ultimate sacrifice for Sam.

To be fair, that’s what the boys have been doing since the first season: sacrifice themselves for each other. Case in point: the most recent episode (season 11 episode 17), titled “Red Meat,” wherein Dean once again pleaded for his brother’s life in exchange of his.

Read “Red Meat” recap here.

“Supernatural” is on Eleven every Monday in Australia. Earlier this month, US network The CW renewed the show for another season.

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