My new favorite people in the entire world over at cliqueclack.com have thought to ask the burning question that's been on all our minds: How was Reaper supposed to end? Whether the show had gone ten seasons or three (as opposed to the sad little two they got) the showrunners for the series must have had an end game in sight, had they been given the opportunity to show one, right? Right. And it turns out the only reason they have never revealed this evil plan is because no one asked. Well Keith McDuffee did and in addition to finding out that both Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) and Spike (James Marsters) were considered for the role of the devil, which eventually went to Ray Wise, here's what he found out:

“We had a lot of ideas in both short and long term. I remember that, at the end of the second season, we had hoped to put Andi to work at the DMV with Gladys. We love Gladys. Christine Willes is just so much fun, and we thought she and Andi had such a great way of sparring with each other that that could have been great.”

If you're anything like me you are more interested in Sam and the question of who this baby daddy? Get this: “If you remember, Dad wasn’t dead. And there was a whole reason why he wasn’t dead. Basically, the whole premise that never actually had the chance to come out was the idea that Dad was a demon, who made a deal with the Devil. He fell in love with Sam’s mom and wanted to marry her. So the deal was, fine, you’re not a demon anymore. He was never fully human, either, which is why you can’t kill him. So, in the pilot, when he said he was really sick and made a deal with the Devil, he wasn’t 100% lying nor 100% telling the truth. And this is the reason why Sam is special: Sam is part human, part demon.” Dun dun DUN!

“Sam was led to believe he was the Devil’s son, but that wasn’t true. That’s not the reason Sam had powers — the powers came from his father. His father was really his father. And part of his deal was that he was never really allowed to tell Sam the truth, and that’s the reason why he says to him ‘there’s more to this than I can tell you.’ And part of what we tried to get out of all of this was that Sam really is special. That’s the reason why, at the end of the last season, Steve comes to him and says Sam is caught between good and evil. What we hoped to get out of the third season was what part did Sam have to play? Sam’s whole existence, and the reason the Devil was paying so much attention to him and hanging out with him so much was because there was a reason: Sam was half-human and half-demon, and the Devil was really worried that this kid was going to be his downfall. If you look at what the Devil is doing throughout the series, he’s trying to tempt Sam to be bad. And he’s trying to tempt him to embrace this, that what you’re doing isn’t so bad. The whole point was that if he can turn Sam bad, the Sam isn’t a threat anymore.”

The crew goes on to say, “Other than where we knew where we were headed, and we knew of the secrets of who Sam really was and what the Devil was doing, we sort of left that open. And we did that because, I find that kind of paralyzing to have too much worked out ahead of you. It would have been a happy ending — he would have gotten the girl and he would have gotten out of his deal with the devil, and we would have found a way to get there.”

Interesting! But what about Sock and Ricky? Were they more than they appeared? No, not really. My doppelganger Tyler Labine had a story worked out in his head where he and Ricky were archangels but the showrunners never intended that to be true, rather having the two act as Sam's connection to the mortal and moral world.

So there you have it; the end to a series we will never see. OR WILL WE? Well not in the way that you think but the website also asked the showrunners about the possibility of continuing the series in comic form the way that Buffy, Angel, and Firefly have done. You'll have to check back with cliqueclack.com for that article a little later.

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