what would be a better ongoing story?

I'd like for the BMOL alliance to blow up in Mary's face very quickly so she can be shown to be in the wrong and the BMOLs can't be written off the show.

I'd like for the nephilim to live only so Dean can slay it with a fully powered Lance of Michael, True Vessel of Michael-style.

I like as many MOTWs as possible. The lesser mytharc episodes the better. I find them cluttered especially in the later seasons. I liked it better when Sam and Dean didn't need a huge squad to solve every problem but fine, J2 needs time off and I love Crowley and Rowena so I can deal, especially since Rowena adds a magical element which I REALLY enjoy. I'm not crazy about Lucifer still being a thing but as long as Pellegrino is playing him, I'm good. He can stay lol. :)

Claire and Alex to be scourged for being such brats.

I don't really care what the story is as long as it relates closely to the Winchester Brothers. We are at ep 15 and the BMOL's is finally starting to impact the brothers on a more personal level. Now Sam and Dean need to find out about all the shady crap they pulled, have Mary completely involved in the BMOL's ulterior motive (to take over American Hunters), blow them back to England and Mary be sent packing back to Heaven where she belongs. If I were Dean I would have major beef with Amara for her "gift".
As far as Lucifer and the Nephilim I just don't care. So far it doesn't involve the brothers so I am not engaged. Only 8 more episodes to go and I don't feel any suspense or danger for anyone. Just a lot of family melodrama. Kind of Dabb's specialty.

I don't have any problem with the ongoing story, but that might be, because I haven no expectations and haven't had much expectations for this show for several years now. In fact, I find it kind of fun and have decided to just back and enjoy the ride of this show for however much ridiculously longer it can go! It's just a fun, episode by episode, ride for me now.

Going forward is difficult from where it is now. Ideally, they should've had a better plan going into this season. I don't think Mary is going anywhere. I think if she did, it'd be a waste of a character and a season. If they want her to be a good guy, a Winchester, then they need to have her learn some kind of a harsh lesson with the BMoL. I don't know what.

Maybe have Dean and Sam vs. the BMoL, Mary sticks with the BMoL, and either the BMoL get destroyed with her being the sole survivor or she stops the BMoL from killing the nephilim, because I don't think it's going to be evil. When she shows up on the bunker's doorstep looking for help, she needs to be contrite, and then they can start building her relationship with her sons next season the way they should've done at the start of this season.

I'd love some dialogue on what happened in those 10 years between when she made her deal and when it came due. I'd love for her to take an active interest in finding out about her sons lives. We've heard the tail end of a couple of discussions they've had with her, but I'm thinking those conversations didn't even scratch the surface of what their lives have been like. I don't mean entire episodes, just little bits of dialogue here and there. I'd also like for them to acknowledge that she's younger than her sons, which means they have experience in hunting and life she doesn't. Basically, I'd like for there be something of a reversal of the parent/child dynamics.

If we're going to keep introducing more hunters, I'd like more like the ones we've seen this season, like the hunter/witch twins and Wally or Eileen from last season. I'd much rather see more of those kinds of characters than the BMoL, and I'd like for at least one hunter to fanboy or girl over Dean.

I'm sick of Lucifer and don't see the point of him being on here again, so I obviously want them to wrap up his storyline. Lucifer or Crowley. I don't think they should have both, and I like Crowley.

What else? Uh, Cas . . . I don't really know what they're going to do with him. If I suspect that Lucifer's kid isn't going to be evil, then I guess Cas will find himself on the side of the angels and by extension the BMoL, so he'll be in direct conflict with the brothers and have to make a choice. I'm thinking the baby won't be born until the season finale, and this will be the set up for next season.

For MotW episodes, I would like new monsters. Last year they at least tried to do some new monsters. The same goes for the 'Big bad' next season. Try something new. It doesn't have to be something bigger than Amara to be interesting, just something that's cunning, maybe something that's found a way to bind Chuck and Amara and the ramifications from that.

Above all else, I want horror back on this show, no corporate angels and demons, and I want them to stop taking rules that were established in previous seasons and tweaking them or changing them entirely.