MAG Season 5 Q&A - Part 2
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The Final Twist in the Web Spreading Out
The idea of John making that decision to take over from Elias, from Jonah at the end was always there. And then him essentially dying to release the fears into the multiverse was always caught what that ending was. In our first iteration, actually, the 1997 reveal of the web spreading out was actually going to be an episode 200 revelation. But as we got closer, it became more and more apparent that A, as a final twist, worked a lot better if it was revealed in establishing the stakes because so much of the series was about choice. It felt cheap to have the archivist like tricked into doing it or like just revealed that it had all been a manipulation.
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