Thank God we do! That’s a lot of what we’re exploring in the second season: How do you put that relationship back together? We want to dive into the dynamics of what makes Will and Katie’s marriage work. What will it take to bring Will and Katie back together, both physically and in terms of repairing their marriage?Ĭlearly it’s going to take having a second season of the show. How 'Walking Dead' (and Nicolas Cage) Helped Sarah Wayne Callies Book 'Colony' We’ll learn a lot more about that in season two. We wanted to see how there are different circumstances between the blocks, and over time, even within the blocks things change dramatically. We didn’t want to start the show in such a dystopic place. The notion of surveillance and how order is maintained in totalitarian society is something we want to explore in season two. One of the things we could have done better in the first season is explain how the characters in our story are watched. You say Katie is alone, but we do see someone spying on her in the final scene… Katie will find it hard to extricate herself from the resistance and the obligations she formed there. Broussard tells her earlier in the season: “Once you’re in, you’re in.” It’s a little like Al Pacino in The Godfather Part III. We wanted the season to end with Katie alone, torn between wanting to get her family back together and also her responsibilities to the resistance. While Will searches for Charlie, Katie is further away from her family than ever. He’s determined to finish what he started. Everything Will has done is driven by his desire to get his kid back. Early on in the second season, we’ll pick that storyline up and find out whether or not he finds Charlie. At the end of the season, he’s through the wall, in the Santa Monica block, and now he can fulfill his mission. He began the season setting out to find his son, and he got caught and went through this long and circuitous journey. It was important that Will accomplish something. What can we expect from him in season two?
Will comes full circle at the end of the season, leaving for Santa Monica to find his son Charlie. I don’t want to say too much about it, but … you’re going to learn a lot more about what’s happening in this world, and you’ll learn it pretty quickly.
I don’t feel like I should answer the question about how much of a time jump there will be, but let’s just say we have a pretty cool idea of how to start the second season. Should we expect a jump in time between seasons, or will season two begin where the finale left off? The decisions they’ve made has left this family fractured at this point in time, and the second season will be about what the consequences of that are. We felt like episode nine was the emotional resolution of the show, and the finale was the setup for what the show would be in season two: Will is in Santa Monica, Bram (Alex Neustaedter) is arrested, Snyder (Peter Jacobson) is no longer Proxy, Maddie (Amanda Righetti) and the kids are in the Green Zone and Katie is alone. We really loved this idea of separating and exploding the dynamics of the main characters at the end of the season.
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