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SUPERNATURAL has become the longest-running scifi series in the U.S. at this point. Now in its twelfth year, the show has surpassed 250 episodes in terms of filming.

But how much longer can it go on? Quite a bit longer if stars Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) and Jared Padalecki (Sam Winchester) have anything to say about it (and it looks like they do because CW President Mark Pedowitz has repeatedly said that the show will continue as long as Ackles and Padalecki want to keep doing it).

During a recent discussion with the SUPERNATURAL stars in Vancouver, Ackles and Padalecki talked about looking ahead to episode 300 and why even that might not be the end for the show.

In fact, fans should think about 300 episodes as “the next milestone,” Ackles explained. “We kind of have our eyes set on getting there. And then we’ll see….I mean, [Padalecki] keeps talking about another number that I don’t want to mention.”

“It used to be just one step at a time,” Padalecki explained. “Now we’re like just one, one and a half season stretch at a time. 45 more episodes at a time. Eric Kripke, way back in the day — I think in season 3 or 4 — he mentioned like 5 seasons or something. And everybody’s like ‘you’re going to end it after 5 seasons?’ And he was like ‘no, just taken out of context. I just think if we can at least get that far’. I think he legitimately was like ‘I’m just trying to like keep on pushing the ball so they keep on saying yes’. And there are a few numbers…I don’t think it’s going to be a number. I think we’ll all know it when we know it. It’s going to be hard to swallow.”

“I think that as long as they’re still staying true to the show and the characters are still being written in a way that we still get inspired to play them, then I don’t know that there is a number necessarily,” Ackles said.

“I think the number should be 666,” Misha Collins (Castiel) piped up.

“That’s in like 18 years!,” Padalecki pointed out.

“Alright, GUNSMOKE, you’re on,” Ackles challenged.

Don’t miss an all new episode of SUPERNATURAL tonight (November 17) at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.

The Thule Society was first introduced in season 8 of SUPERNATURAL. According to show lore, the organization originated in Europe, had access to magic, and was sponsored by the Nazi party in its early days. The Winchesters and their allies have managed to defeat the Thule twice now, most recently in the episode “The Vessel”, when a female member of the Men of Letters prevented the Thule from getting the Hand of God — a magical artifact with tremendous power.

The Winchesters will be doing battle with the Thule Society again in this week’s episode when they learn that the Thule are attempting to resurrect its old leader.

During a visit to Vancouver last week*, SUPERNATURAL stars Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles (joined by Misha Collins), spoke to journalists about this week’s episode, the  legacy of Sam’s psychic powers, the methods of the British Men of Letters, and how the boys are still trying to reconnect with their resurrected mother.

Winchesters vs. Thules. “We find out that the Thule, who are back….we believe they may have been in control or in possession of a cursed object of sorts that might have a bit of Hitler’s soul,” Padalecki teased. “And they’re trying to do a Jurassic Park and take the amber out of the tree sap and the mosquito DNA or whatever. Obviously we don’t know how it’s going and so we have to kind of go back and track the Thule and figure out if, in fact, they have succeeded. Though Hitler’s vessel, thankfully, is gone.” However, while Hitler’s vessel may be gone, you should expect to see the “SUPERNATURAL take on what Hitler was really like behind the camera.”

Sam’s Powers. Sam hasn’t used his psychic powers in many years, but the last episode brought them to the forefront when he found another psychic — Magda — who was punished by her deeply religious family for the abilities she was unable to control. Sam managed to get through to her rage by recounting his own experience with the same types of powers. But that doesn’t mean that these abilities will be returning, according to Padalecki. His conversation with Magda was about connecting with her and trying to get her to look past her desire for revenge: “I don’t think it’s something he feels is going to come back or he’s hoping will come back. I think he probably – even though there were obvious benefits, I think he’s probably hoping it doesn’t come back, but he acknowledges it. He considers it part of himself.”

The British Men of Letters. At the end of the last episode we met the mysterious Mr. Ketch, who is cleaning up the “messes” that the Winchesters leave behind. While the pair chose to let psychic Magda live and repair her life after she was held captive by her own mother, Ketch and the British MOL executed her. This is a storyline that will continue to plague the brothers, according to Ackles: “It’s interesting, we’re going to see that storyline get fleshed out in the second half of the season. There’s gonna be some recruitment attempts, some disagreements about methods of hunting, and that will certainly boil to a point. But as of right now, [the British MOL] are trying their method of trying to include us by showing that they have a superior method of dealing with these things than we do, and they’re trying to get us on board with that. But I think we’ll find out in the future that maybe their methods aren’t the best way.” Padalecki called back to an older storyline, saying that it felt familiar in these circumstances: “For me it’s reminiscent of season 6 when Sam was soulless and kind of behaved much the same way the British Men of Letters are behaving now, or at least in their hunting tactics and Dean was obviously not, so it’s fun to revisit that.”

Reconnecting with Mom. In the last episode we also saw the brothers try to deal with losing Mary all over again. This time their mother chose to take a bit of space away from her boys in order to deal with being overwhelmed after recently being brought back to life.  The brothers dealt with this fresh loss in different ways — Sam was understanding of Mary’s need for space, but Dean felt incredibly hurt by her decision. By the end of the episode he seemed more accepting of it when he received a text from Mary saying that she would always be their mother and that she loved them both.  But the awkwardness will continue as the boys struggle to learn the real life person behind the mythical figure Mary has been all their lives. Ackles explained that “There are certainly two different relationships going on, from Sam’s perspective and then from my perspective as well, or rather Dean’s perspective. Because Sam never had a relationship with mom. He was an infant. And Dean didn’t have much of one either. A lot of what he knows and what he remembers about his mother was kind of dictated to him by his father. It’s more his father’s memories of her than it is Dean’s established memories of her. But it’s unique because she’s their mother, but she’s also kind of a stranger. Obviously the brothers are strangers to her as well, which is why you see this struggle to find their footing in the relationship because it is a forced situation. And at least from Dean’s perspective, he doesn’t really know how to fit. He doesn’t know how to categorize the relationship. It’s an awkward thing which I think lends itself to good story.”

Watch the interview below and don’t miss an all new episode of SUPERNATURAL on Thursday, November 9 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The CW. You can also browse through photos from the episode here.

(Note about the video below: the interview took place the week of October 30, so when someone mentions “tonight’s episode” they are referring to the November 3 episode, while the “next episode” means the November 10 episode)

*Travel and accommodations provided by Warner Bros. Television

In the last episode of SUPERNATURAL we saw that Lucifer finally settled on a vessel after body-jumping since the time Amara cast him out of Castiel. This time he tricked rockstar Vince Vicente into becoming his vessel and now he has Rowena in his clutches, which means that Crowley can no longer use her to send the devil back to Hell.

In this week’s episode, we begin with Sam and Dean digging for information on the British Men of Letters. Unfortunately, the MOL bunker is light on valuable intel about their British counterparts, which frustrates the brothers.

Enter Castiel, who says he has a lead on Lucifer and is heading out to Cleveland to find him. The brothers think it’s a lead worth pursuing, but Castiel realizes that he’s the one who let Lucifer out of Hell, which means he’s headed out to find him alone — at least for now.

As Castiel eventually teams up with Crowley to track down Lucifer, Mary joins her sons on a spooky hunt (watch a preview) involving a crying baby in a run-down house.

SUPERNATURAL airs tonight (October 27) at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.