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I'd love to know how much, if any, of a game plan they had for those details and how much they stayed true to it given it took nine years to shoot 50 episodes. Their original pitch document is one of the best I've EVER seen, so I'd like to think they had a true ending in mind, but I have a feeling they had to switch over to pantsing around Season 3 when they realized they were getting more seasons.

Edit: If you pitch creative projects or aspire to, this is really worth looking at.
 
Ru1977 said:
from when WIll was taken.
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I have not watched the new season yet, but I know a long-standing question I've had, which I think may never be answered, is how Will initially, in season 1, knows how to and manages to communicate through the lights. I don't think we've ever gotten the scene from the other direction, just Wynona's.
 
docsilence said:
I'd love to know how much, if any, of a game plan they had for those details and how much they stayed true to it given it took nine years to shoot 50 episodes. Their original pitch document is one of the best I've EVER seen, so I'd like to think they had a true ending in mind, but I have a feeling they had to switch over to pantsing around Season 3 when they realized they were getting more seasons.

Edit: If you pitch creative projects or aspire to, this is really worth looking at.
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Thank you for that link! I definitely will check that out.

I know people claim things all the time, but supposedly after they got the renewal for the second season, the brothers said they sat down and really plotted out what things were, how they worked, where they came from, and started the trail toward Vecna. I don't know how true it is, but I want to believe it because I absolutely would have done that. Actually, I knew how my book series was going to end before I even wrote the prologue for the first book. but, you know, I'm the guy who started the One-A-Day poll thread for the Joe Classified section, then spent the rest of the day cataloguing as many characters from every source I could think of and arranging them in some kinda order to make sure I had that set up for later.
JakeEkiss said:
I have not watched the new season yet, but I know a long-standing question I've had, which I think may never be answered, is how Will initially, in season 1, knows how to and manages to communicate through the lights. I don't think we've ever gotten the scene from the other direction, just Wynona's.
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Well... and that is something we may get a definitive answer for, but I can kinda see some ideas in the show already that may be enough to guess (I mean even in the previous seasons).
 
Ru1977 said:
Thank you for that link! I definitely will check that out.

I know people claim things all the time, but supposedly after they got the renewal for the second season, the brothers said they sat down and really plotted out what things were, how they worked, where they came from, and started the trail toward Vecna. I don't know how true it is, but I want to believe it because I absolutely would have done that. Actually, I knew how my book series was going to end before I even wrote the prologue for the first book. but, you know, I'm the guy who started the One-A-Day poll thread for the Joe Classified section, then spent the rest of the day cataloguing as many characters from every source I could think of and arranging them in some kinda order to make sure I had that set up for later.

Well... and that is something we may get a definitive answer for, but I can kinda see some ideas in the show already that may be enough to guess (I mean even in the previous seasons).
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We had the light bright scene, certainly. I'd have to rewatch but IIRC the folks on the USD side don't have a corresponding object. They have to be told it's there. This creates a question for me which is, were the lights and letters on the wall in the USD after Joyce put them up? Because if now, how does Will know what to spell? I don't think we see them over there later. There's also the question of how he knows how to do it at all. We can assume that's Vecna's influence somehow, but the mechanics of how it worked I don't think have been really figured out yet.

One thought I had about the USD initially was that it's a time-displaced post apocalypse. The world after Vecna. This would explain some things, but I think might cause some inconsistencies elsewhere.
 
TBF it's been so long I've kinda fuzzed out that last season or so minus Eddie. It's totally possible I'm just forgetting something they explained.
 
I think... what happens is the person in the USD is able to feel a tingling sensation when near the light sources, and Will likely was making bulbs brighten just by being near them before determining it could be a way to communicate with his mother, whose voice he could hear as a distant echo. Once the means of communication are set up (the letters on the wall, or the lite bright), again I think the person in the USD is able to vaguely see that when they manipulate the light.

I've also learned the stage production they did about Henry apparently has more lore stuff that is kinda important, so I hope they make that available to the masses somehow.
 
Finally got around to the new Sterling Harjo show “The Lowdown”. I knew it would be pretty good based on how great “Reservation Dogs” was. It’s definitely got a shaggy dog Pynchon / Coen Bros quality to it. With a healthy dose of Harjo’s goofball naturalism. Worth a watch. Great cast. Kyle Mclachlan. Keith David.
 
Haven't yet seen the play despite living not too far from it. But I agree- they really need to make, at the very least, the script available for folks to read. But also- why not just shoot a proshot and stream it on Netflix? I think that would be worth doing, but I'm sure they won't until it closes on Broadway, or else no one would go see it. From what I've read, the show is summing up the events of the play juuuust enough so that you get the gist-
like why Henry is afraid of Max's cave, Max's flashback to seeing young Joyce, etc.
but if you want the full story, you gotta check out the play.
 
PanchaMaestro said:
Finally got around to the new Sterling Harjo show “The Lowdown”. I knew it would be pretty good based on how great “Reservation Dogs” was. It’s definitely got a shaggy dog Pynchon / Coen Bros quality to it. With a healthy dose of Harjo’s goofball naturalism. Worth a watch. Great cast. Kyle Mclachlan. Keith David.
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I've been meaning to check it out. My boyfriend worked on the marketing campaign for it- putting together some promos and some of the red carpet interviews for the social media accounts and everything. He got a streamer of some of the unfinished episodes but couldn't legally share it with me (he's a stickler for rules), but he said it was really fun. And I know he's telling the truth because he generally isn't into shows like that.
 
I am more a prestige TV / oddball TV type person. Not a big liker of things in general. I think most mainstream entertainment is trash. Which I have no issue with someone liking trash so long as they admit it’s trash. I mean I like mindless entertainment too; but I tend to get it out of my system with NBA games and Bronze Age comics.

Case in point my fav shows of recent have been "Reservation Dogs", last season of "Fargo", final season of WWDITS, the most recent Alan Partridge series, that Italian HBO show “My Brilliant Friend”. So my tastes swing really “high” to really silly. Sure I’m forgetting a few. Either way that’s a basic range of my interests.

Edit. “Task” was really good.
 
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adrienveidt said:
My TV viewing is easily summed up as: 'if it ain't happening in space why am I supposed to give a shit?'
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Technically, Earth is in space. So ALL the shows are in space. You have so much to catch up on now. I recommend starting with the 'Real Housewives' series of documentaries (I'm assuming those are accurate documentaries about what it's like to be a 'housewife' that is real, and also in space). Godspeed, Veidt.
 
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