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Originally Posted by nunnehi
Fly, that's not quite true. In the case of this show, it was originally pitched as a miniseries so some changes probably happened at some point in the show to extend it away from that. It was renewed early before it aired, which caused a course correction. So, certainly there have been some changes of intent from the Pilot to maybe the 3rd or 4th episode. I'm sure the show was probably pitched with 2 episodes (meaning it was created as a 2 hour Pilot), so any changes could have happened after that. Considering the nature of the storytelling, they could tell pretty much a completely different story than what they shot in editing.
Production probably wrapped about 2 weeks before the first episode aired (could have wrapped as late as the first episode airing based on the original start), and they could have retooled it earlier than that, as well as had that preview (that got it renewed) so that they could wait to lock the last episode until as late as possible. The show's shooting in a really consistent way, so no one would really know if stuff was taken much out of sequence. To me, it felt like the last two episodes were maybe intended to be 3 and 4 or 4 and 5 originally. It felt out of sequence. The payoff would have happened sooner in a miniseries than it did here most likely.
The timeline, per Wikipedia, is that the pilot order was in July of 2014, it got picked up as a series in December, started production in mid-April, and put the pilot up on the internet for streaming at the end of May, a month before it hit the air. It got officially picked up for a second season just before the airdate(so after the pilot had already hit the public, but after production had wrapped or was about to wrap, idk what the schedule was for this but we're talking about 11 or 12 weeks to shoot 9 episodes).
So they might have reshot some of the pilot before the May 27th soft launch, and the original pilot could've been different, but they had 4 months to retool the miniseries concept into a series before principal photography started.
It's possible they were recutting everything and also possible they've brought people back for secret mid-July reshoots or whatever, but I'm pretty confident all the creative decisions for this show were made before June 24th. They could be moving stuff around, reordering episodes and subplots, but actual developments like whether a character is real? That's not something you decide on the fly, if nothing else, no studio executive is going to sit through a pitch where the hook is "and not even I, the writer, know whether this character is real. Seriously, IDK, we'll see what people think once we start airing the first few episodes".
Last edited by FlyWf; 08-17-2015 at 12:27 AM.