MAG Retrospective - Crew's Qs with Jonny & Alex
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The Archivist and the End of Season Five
No one wants to hire a young director, says Johnny. The final season has changed way beyond your original or even relatively recent plans though some the archivist accidentally starts the apocalypse which you mentioned in passing about exactly four years ago have a bite. Last ten episodes were a little bit reordered early in the season my first draft didn't actually have them meeting Elias till right at the end till the finale and had hilltop road happening a couple of episodes earlier. As I was writing as we arrived at the tunnels beneath the institute I realized it felt super artificial for them not to go up and see Elias basically immediately.
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