Meanwhile, Elton saved a dying Percy and followed a smoke cloud to find Silas.
Why was Will on the run and who are these people he’s with?
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Let’s start at the very end.
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The last thing we see is Felix reunited with Will and this group behind him.
What can you say about why Will is not with Leo and who this group is?
SCOTT GIMPLE:Hoo-boy.
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Can’t say much about who the group is.
This is a brand new group.
So there’s that.
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As for Will, there are some references to what Will was doing and Leo expecting him back.
You know me, I’m a lockbox.
I’m impenetrable, Dalton.
GIMPLE:It’s a little more complicated than that.
Some very difficult relationships are being tested and I don’t mean personal relationships.
I mean sort of big relationships of societies.
So there’s an implication that he might know that something bad went down where they’re all from.
So there’s definitely some blanks to be filled in there.
We’ll learn more as we get into season 2.
GIMPLE:Will straight up thought they were dead.
Why do you think they were dead?
Is that because of what we saw at the end of episode 1?
Let’s talk about the Hope of it all.
Plus, she’s always been a little restless.
Is that stuff in the mix at all?
Huck has told her, “Your dad’s fine.”
But those are words.
She has no idea the kind of condition he’s been in.
She doesn’t know what he knows about this organization or the lengths that they’ve gone to.
I think that she’s eager to reunite with him to see if he’s okay.
And together they’re greater than the sum of their parts.
That’s pretty big stuff.
That speaks to how the relationship has changed by this story.
GIMPLE: Yes, I think.
I’m going to give it to Matt to overrule.
NEGRETE: I approve of that.
Yeah, I agree.
I’m in full agreement.
I think she would.
I don’t think shewantedto by any means.
GIMPLE: Oh, yeah.
There would be no evil laugh afterward.
She’s obviously a believer in the cause.
And you said sheisa believer of the cause.
Those stakes are pretty high.
And though I don’t think that Tony and Percy were… they were acceptable losses.
Even we talk about how the group other than Hope is expendable, even to her.
These aren’t things she relishes, but this is the future of the planet they’re talking about.
It isn’t light like that.
This is a very solemn thing.
That kind of boils it down it’s not quite grandiose, but that covers it.
Matt, what can you tell us about Huck’s dad?
NEGRETE: Huck’s dad?
We don’t know much of anything about him in season 1.
It’s really about the reveal of who Elizabeth is.
He does get name-checked.
NEGRETE: Yeah, watch-checked.
He gets watch-checked as well.
So we do know there’s a history there.
It’s a great point: That watch is a link to their father.
Actually, I’m going to end it right there.
I’m not going to spoil it.
I want to talk about Leo and Belshaw a little bit.
First off, does Belshaw really care for Leo as a boyfriend?
Or is this just all an act?
GIMPLE: We’ve kind of talked about that.
And [she’s a] terrible cook.
I mean, really bad cook.
So if he does divulge something, what is she going to do with that information?
And is she willing to expose him to the higher-ups and maybe potentially put him in endanger?
But yeah, it’s just a matter of waiting to see how that plays out.
He’s walking into a minefield by opening up to the wrong person there.
I want to talk about Silas, who sacrifices himself so Elton and Percy can get away.
Obviously, it’s a valiant move.
So is this move as heroic as it is a continuation of that?
Because this could be seen again as putting his own value below theirs.
Or is it something else completely?
And he wants to be the hero.
I don’t think it was him not feeling he was worthy.
I think it was him feeling he was responsible, that he was able to do it.
He was able to be the hero.
If you’re able to be the hero, be the hero, as said at the Kingdom.
I think there was something beautiful about that, considering his vector.
But this was him transforming into the hero.
And Silas was one of these people.
But through that journey, he discovered that he’s as heroic as anybody else, if not more.
And I hope some people come away with that for themselves.
Okay, we just saw the journey.
So if season 1 was the journey, what is season 2?
NEGRETE: I’ve just tonally been thinking about season 2 as chapter 2 of a two-chapter book.
But the second chapter, I think, is going to feel much different.
And I really think that they’re on their way.
Push has to come to shove now.
They’re on the CRMs doorstep in a lot of ways.
And the CRM, in a lot of ways, has brought the fight to them.
And now I think that the role’s been reversed.
And now that they realize who Huck is, they know more about what they’re up against.
The ball’s in their court to a degree.
And through that, that’s really going to define who they’re ultimately going to become.
There are some interesting opportunities narratively to it.
So I was able to plan four years ahead.
There were things that we laid out that we didn’t get to for years.
That’s like, “Holy crap.”
And really wanting to establish these characters, really wanting to feel these characters.
That said, we knew very early on that it was going to be two seasons.
It made it a different mission with these stories.
We needed to be very cognizant of it with every step we took forward.
Season 2 establishes three very different worlds that are connected, but tenuously.
And they couldn’t be more different, each one of these worlds.
Beyond that, we wanted to complete the vibe of these characters growing up.
It’s different for Matt and I coming from where we came from, but challenge accepted.
We’re getting near the end of the journey from a writing standpoint.
We’re liking how it’s going.
Are we going to pick right back up in season 2?
Or is there going to be a time jump between the two seasons?
NEGRETE: From a conceptual standpoint, I’ve always loved starting seasons with a time jump.
But there’s some pretty urgent business to attend to coming off the end of season 1.
We have Hope heading towards the research facility.
She’s hoping to be reunited with her father.
There’d be some things we wouldn’t want to skip over.
Let’s put it like that.
It’s definitely a reunion that we want to see and want to capture and feel.
So there are some pretty immediate concerns that we’re going to be dealing with in season 2.
GIMPLE: All muscle though.
