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So… what does it all mean?
What do you want people take away from that?
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What does it mean?
It’s continuing, even in the course of our show.
Evolution has always pushed forward, and [the scene] suggests that the Abbies are changing also.
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The Abbies will evolve into something else.
So in a way, it’s like history repeating itself.
Yes, exactly, but evolution doesn’t have reverse gears.
Yes, itlookedlike a human child, but would it be something perhaps more a stop evenbeyondthe Abbies?
Either way, the humans in the pods will eventually wake up to a whole new world again.
They almost didn’t, thoughCJ came close to terminating them all.
Yeah, he doesn’t press the button for termination.
He considers pressing it.
He thinks about it.
We’ve watched him watch Wayward Pines from its infancy.
He was the guy who was watching all of the pods in these 20-year increments when everyone’s asleep.
He’s watched mankind fall apart outside of the [Mountain] superstructure.
He has this knowledge that no one else has.
And it’s a huge moment for him, deciding whether or not to terminate the rest of humanity.
He is a reluctant leader.
Those aren’t the questions of, in my opinion, of a leader.
Those are the questions of a conscientious objector.
I think it is, but Theo never volunteered for any of this.
Theo thinks this is insane, period.
There’s nothing he can do.
They’re stuck in their fate.
But hedoesdo something about their fate: He deliberately lets Jason die.
Does this make him kind of a villain?
I think he’s a hero.
Jason was incredibly reckless and led the town down a pretty bad path.
It’s not like Theo murdered him.
He kind of let the bullet just do its thing.
Right, Kerry’s the one who shot him.
I’m just kidding.
How did that twist come together, and what did you want to show through that relationship?
That Jason’s not important at all in any way?
That’s one of the cool things we get to do withWayward Pines.
They shouldn’t be there.
When you play around with time, when you cheat evolution, you run into situations like this.
It’s another repercussion of cheating time.
Another repercussion of cheating time: not being able to grow crops.
Can you talk a little bit about what that means?
Did the humans go to sleep too soon?
I think it’s like that scene fromJurassic Park.
“Life finds a way.
It’s a question.
That shot was not an answer.
Now, for the past few episodes, we’ve seen Abbies gathering near the fence.
Why didn’t they attack in this episode?
What was Margaret intending to do?
What we’re trying to show is that Abbies are aware, and not just a few stray Abbies.
That was the thrust of what we were going for.
And now they’re all waiting for what the unwelcome species does next.
If you do continue the story, where couldWayward Pinesgo?
Would we even see the same characters again?
One of things that we kept coming back to was this idea of man facing his own extinction.
What does that look like?
Mankind would be the first self-aware species to go extinct.
What are those final hours, what are those final moments like?
Are we resilient and brave?
We’re probably all of those things.
What does that mean for art?
Does art still matter then?
Well, part of that is just the nature of the business.
Adaptations are just thatthey inherently change the story, because you’re playing in a completely different format.
We burned through a lot of the plot of the first three books in season 1.
What came from the books for season 2 was a little bit of the ending…
I’m not precious about my material.
