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TV, eh? - podcast episode 38
Interview segment only, Diane Wild interviewing Amanda Tapping, 12-Apr-11
Diane: So, seasons get confusing but Season 3.5 is starting April 15th and then Season 4 is in production or is in production now is that correct?
Amanda: We're in production now, we start shooting on Monday
Diane: OK great
Amanda: We're just finishing our last day of prep
Diane: OK and so the half season premiere on April 15th, it ended on a cliffhanger last time, what can you share about what's coming up.
Amanda: [jokes] Well I think it's safe to say that this isn't a major spoiler when I say this, that we live
Diane: [laughs] OK well seeing as Season 4 is in production, probably not
Amanda: We actually follow the Hollow Earth story line not through every episode but we actually end up coming to a massive catyclisim at the end of the season about Hollow Earth.
Diane: OK
Amanda: and in the season between we actually have some really lovely sort of singular episodes I'm quite proud of. There's one I directed which is called One Night, which is a lovely Will story , there's also another lovely Will story called Metamorphosis where he undergoes, well let's say a metamorphosis. [jokes] So the title actually works! There's a cool Tesla episode coming up. We also do an episode that takes us back, it's called Normandy, and it takes us back to World War II
Diane: Oh wow
Amanda: and it's unlike anything we've ever done before. Martin directed it and it's shot very differently, it's very stylised, the look is very different we sort of toned down the pallette so it's like watching an old war movie, it's really cool.
Diane: oh cool
Amanda: and then our last two episodes, Out Of The Blue is a really interesting episode psychologically for us. It's Will and Magnus in kind of altered states and how they try to get out of it but it's a very cool look, it's a totally different side of Will and Magnus. And what I loved about it was that it felt like playing a totally different character. It's the kind of thing that I love about doing sci-fi, you can travel forward and back in time and you can do alternate reality stories and they make total sense.
Diane: It's not just the big special episode it's...
Amanda: exactly. Yeah! It makes sense. But again it all ties into this Hollow Earth story line and then our cliffhanger is huge! But it's sort of the worst case scenario, it's like "what happens if... Oh no! It's happening!" and I'll just dot dot dot on the end because you'll have to see it [laughs]
Diane: and I guess you'll live in this one as well
Amanda: I'm hoping! gosh! And then we come back to the beginning of Seaon 4 and I'm directing the first episode this season
Diane: Oh great!
Amanda: well it's actually the second episode but we're shooting it first
Diane: OK
Amanda: and it's a conclusion, the first two episodes coming back of Season 4, a conclusion to our big, old cliffhanger. When I read the ending of episode 3-20 I was like "No way! That's so cool!" then what? How do we get out of that?
Diane: [Laughs] Great, but you're not going to tell me are you?
Amanda: I'm not, I can't. Diane, come on!
Diane: How do you juggle directing while you're in it? That must be difficult.
Amanda: It is and in fact because I'm directing the first one of the season I actually have a clear prep so I'm not shooting right now so I actually have time to sit and go through my meetings and plan my shots and wander around the sets and yet I'm also trying to become Magnus again. After the hiatus you sort of have to come back and get into that character and it's been a different challenge. But when we were shooting last year I think I had three days to prep my episode in total and I was taking props eetings in my trailer and people would be coming into the Hair and Makeup Trailer first thing in the morning going can you approve this, can you approve that, it was just multitasking at it's absolute worst.
Diane: yeah, so this is a little easier?
Amanda: it is a bit, yeah it's a little stressful but yeah this is much easier, I'm not actually acting right now.
Diane: How do you get back into character after hiatus? Has this one been long?
Amanda: Yeah this one has been actually. This one has been longer than we would have liked. We would have liked to come back shooting a lot sooner than we did but we were off basically from October November December January February March like 6 months essentially. And in that time I've done a lot of travelling, spent time with my family and Mahnus is such a weird, she's such a weird gal, I mean I love her but she's very excentric and it's not just getting into the voice and wearing high heels again there's a whole sort of shift phsychologically to try to play her, not that I carry that shift home with me but you know what I mean? I kind of have to, every scene I have to wrap my head around this woman and go alright OK umm but she's coming back from a little bit of a different perspective at the beginning of this season so it will be interesting to see how they write this slightly altered Magnus.
Diane: OK, that's intriguing
Amanda: yeah
Diane: So do you find as this show goes on that you have to do more different things? Is that why there's sort of more unusual episodes coming up or?
Amanda: I think so, yeah, absolutely. And last year we had 20 episodes and it gave us a lot more freedom in terms of carrying out these huge story arcs and it just gave us that much more time to play. So naturally we were you know, it was less about all one focus, we were able to throw weird little things into the mix. This year we're doing 13 and I still think we'll be weird but um
Diane: [laughs]
Amanda: it's part of our charm but yeah when you have more episodes you have more freedom.
Diane: and the green screen must present challenges as an actor and a director are you used to that by now?
Amanda: Yeah I think that we're pretty used to it now. Like as a director it's a little challenging because you want to make sure you not moving your cameras too fast through it so your vis effects team has a chance to render and it's just little things that you learn to do directing on green screen but as an actor it's actually um, it's quite a joy because it's very, very simple and it becomes really just about the actors and the scene and the words and the connection between the characters and it's a much more intimate feeling to the shooting because you haven't anything, there's no eye candy, there's no scenery to chew, literally, so I really enjoy it
Interview segment only, Diane Wild interviewing Amanda Tapping, 12-Apr-11
Diane: So, seasons get confusing but Season 3.5 is starting April 15th and then Season 4 is in production or is in production now is that correct?
Amanda: We're in production now, we start shooting on Monday
Diane: OK great
Amanda: We're just finishing our last day of prep
Diane: OK and so the half season premiere on April 15th, it ended on a cliffhanger last time, what can you share about what's coming up.
Amanda: [jokes] Well I think it's safe to say that this isn't a major spoiler when I say this, that we live
Diane: [laughs] OK well seeing as Season 4 is in production, probably not
Amanda: We actually follow the Hollow Earth story line not through every episode but we actually end up coming to a massive catyclisim at the end of the season about Hollow Earth.
Diane: OK
Amanda: and in the season between we actually have some really lovely sort of singular episodes I'm quite proud of. There's one I directed which is called One Night, which is a lovely Will story , there's also another lovely Will story called Metamorphosis where he undergoes, well let's say a metamorphosis. [jokes] So the title actually works! There's a cool Tesla episode coming up. We also do an episode that takes us back, it's called Normandy, and it takes us back to World War II
Diane: Oh wow
Amanda: and it's unlike anything we've ever done before. Martin directed it and it's shot very differently, it's very stylised, the look is very different we sort of toned down the pallette so it's like watching an old war movie, it's really cool.
Diane: oh cool
Amanda: and then our last two episodes, Out Of The Blue is a really interesting episode psychologically for us. It's Will and Magnus in kind of altered states and how they try to get out of it but it's a very cool look, it's a totally different side of Will and Magnus. And what I loved about it was that it felt like playing a totally different character. It's the kind of thing that I love about doing sci-fi, you can travel forward and back in time and you can do alternate reality stories and they make total sense.
Diane: It's not just the big special episode it's...
Amanda: exactly. Yeah! It makes sense. But again it all ties into this Hollow Earth story line and then our cliffhanger is huge! But it's sort of the worst case scenario, it's like "what happens if... Oh no! It's happening!" and I'll just dot dot dot on the end because you'll have to see it [laughs]
Diane: and I guess you'll live in this one as well
Amanda: I'm hoping! gosh! And then we come back to the beginning of Seaon 4 and I'm directing the first episode this season
Diane: Oh great!
Amanda: well it's actually the second episode but we're shooting it first
Diane: OK
Amanda: and it's a conclusion, the first two episodes coming back of Season 4, a conclusion to our big, old cliffhanger. When I read the ending of episode 3-20 I was like "No way! That's so cool!" then what? How do we get out of that?
Diane: [Laughs] Great, but you're not going to tell me are you?
Amanda: I'm not, I can't. Diane, come on!
Diane: How do you juggle directing while you're in it? That must be difficult.
Amanda: It is and in fact because I'm directing the first one of the season I actually have a clear prep so I'm not shooting right now so I actually have time to sit and go through my meetings and plan my shots and wander around the sets and yet I'm also trying to become Magnus again. After the hiatus you sort of have to come back and get into that character and it's been a different challenge. But when we were shooting last year I think I had three days to prep my episode in total and I was taking props eetings in my trailer and people would be coming into the Hair and Makeup Trailer first thing in the morning going can you approve this, can you approve that, it was just multitasking at it's absolute worst.
Diane: yeah, so this is a little easier?
Amanda: it is a bit, yeah it's a little stressful but yeah this is much easier, I'm not actually acting right now.
Diane: How do you get back into character after hiatus? Has this one been long?
Amanda: Yeah this one has been actually. This one has been longer than we would have liked. We would have liked to come back shooting a lot sooner than we did but we were off basically from October November December January February March like 6 months essentially. And in that time I've done a lot of travelling, spent time with my family and Mahnus is such a weird, she's such a weird gal, I mean I love her but she's very excentric and it's not just getting into the voice and wearing high heels again there's a whole sort of shift phsychologically to try to play her, not that I carry that shift home with me but you know what I mean? I kind of have to, every scene I have to wrap my head around this woman and go alright OK umm but she's coming back from a little bit of a different perspective at the beginning of this season so it will be interesting to see how they write this slightly altered Magnus.
Diane: OK, that's intriguing
Amanda: yeah
Diane: So do you find as this show goes on that you have to do more different things? Is that why there's sort of more unusual episodes coming up or?
Amanda: I think so, yeah, absolutely. And last year we had 20 episodes and it gave us a lot more freedom in terms of carrying out these huge story arcs and it just gave us that much more time to play. So naturally we were you know, it was less about all one focus, we were able to throw weird little things into the mix. This year we're doing 13 and I still think we'll be weird but um
Diane: [laughs]
Amanda: it's part of our charm but yeah when you have more episodes you have more freedom.
Diane: and the green screen must present challenges as an actor and a director are you used to that by now?
Amanda: Yeah I think that we're pretty used to it now. Like as a director it's a little challenging because you want to make sure you not moving your cameras too fast through it so your vis effects team has a chance to render and it's just little things that you learn to do directing on green screen but as an actor it's actually um, it's quite a joy because it's very, very simple and it becomes really just about the actors and the scene and the words and the connection between the characters and it's a much more intimate feeling to the shooting because you haven't anything, there's no eye candy, there's no scenery to chew, literally, so I really enjoy it
SciFi Australia - Sanctuary Season 3 Q & A
What can fans expect from Season 3?
Amanda Tapping: 20 episodes and it's made a huge difference because it's allowed us to do these big huge story arcs and it's allowed us to really... as opposed to doing a lot of standalone episodes like I felt we did in Season 1 and 2. There's two major arcs that carry the characters through for a huge portion of the season. And I think there's just a certain freedom to knowing that you have 20 episodes that it's made the Sanctuary world a lot bigger.
Damian Kindler: Season 3 begins in an impossible situation with a tidal wave bearing down on Mumbai, Will Zimmerman in pajamas, desperate, desperate situation! Ah Magnus is somewhere out at sea. So you know the situation is pretty FUBAR and it's always fun to put your heroes in a situation which is impossible and then oh so cleverly, oh so logically find the solution so...
Robin Dunne: So we leave Will at the end of Season 2 and yes, he's in a very bad place, probably the worst possible place a person can be and it gets even worse when we pick up Season 3
Martin Wood: On the trailer that has been cut together and everyone is looking at there's a shot of the team standing in the library and this city builds around them ah it started out as a small idea and then turned into this massive thing that became all encompassing for the season.
Amanda Tapping: What it represents for The Sanctuary is a journey and a quest to find it and a quest to ultimately kind of save it. But it becomes our quest to find this miraculous place and the fact that my father, which has also been teased up, has sent it um to me then the message is quite huge so... it's our quest, it becomes the quest.
Damian Kindler: The idea was to sort of wrap up the issue of Kali that we saw at the end of Season 2 within the first episode but have whatever happened open up a whole other mystery and that mystery would really kind of set the tone for Season 3. With Season 3 being 20 episodes long we needed to have a really big kind of catalyst to set us on a really original and different kind of journey and I think we did that.
Ryan Robbins: It is unlike any place anyone has ever seen. It's this amazing place with this incredible civilisation that is not of this world but still of this world. And I think that the fans are going to get a kick out of it, especially because we meet such cool characters there. And for conspiracy theorists, and I know there are conspiracy theorists that watch this show, and I know how much we like to take myth and legend and conspiracy and kind of turn it on it's head but sometimes we take myth and legend and conspiracy and are surprisingly accurate. And we get to play with it, the great thing about conspiracy is nobody knows for sure but we can pretend to know for sure.
Martin Wood: Season 3 one of the things that we do more than we have in the past is that we arc. Which means that we go from show to show ah there is a thread that will go through them. In Season 1 and 2 we tended to do a little more of the stand alone episodes so you could always pick it up and take a look at it which is helpful because you're bringing new viewers in all the time. Season 3 we have viewers, ah billions of them, there are billions of viewers watching this show now, and so we wanted to talk to those people specifically by arcing some of our shows and giving ourselves a long thread that we will use. The city that you see is the key to that thread and that's all I can tell you. Although if you think that was cool wait until the next time you see it and then the time after that and then like four times after that, it just keeps getting exponentially bigger and better.
Amanda Tapping: We are expanding the Sanctuary universe and what's interesting is that in expanding the universe we're also making our world a little smaller like we're exploring the depths of the Sanctuary universe in a much broader spectrum but the actual Sanctuary and the family is much tighter and smaller.
Robin Dunne: It's being part of a team, it's almost like being some sort of platoon of an army where you really have to think about everybody else in The Sanctuary and I think that's what's happening and that's the interesting thing too about watching where we've come from the first three seasons.
Agam Darshi: It's exciting to see the characters being pushed to the limit and have to rely on each other and on themselves in order to get out of these predicaments that they are in. So it's going to be very exciting, for sure.
Martin Wood: Everything is bigger, everything is... did I say bigger? Everything is Bigger! Yeah, everything is bigger. The show's bigger, the sets that we've built in real life are bigger, the sets that we've built virtually are bigger, Robin's head is bigger, everything is bigger in Season 3.
Robin Dunne: It really takes the show to another level and it takes the adventure for the Sanctuary team to a new place and just to see what we're able to do it's been really exciting. I mean again it's been completely exhausting.
Agam Darshi: So I think there is a theme here basically throughout Season 3 is that we are all being pushed to a certain limits and a certain capacity that the audience hasn't seen so it's exciting to see that.
Christopher Heyerdahl: It's a huge exciting season that is fill of surprises and full of touching moments and full of danger and blood and guts and things that go bump in the night. Everything that you'd expect from The Sanctuary and more.
Ryan Robbins: Yeah, Season 3, if you remember at the end of Season 2 we were facing a giant Big Bertha tidal wave, Season 3 picks up pretty much right after that. It is an epic beginning. I think it probably... I think Season 3 is probably the most epic beginning we've ever had. Just on a sheer visual scale it looks absolutely amazing and you know it's that thing like you know the team is going to get out of it, you just don't know how the hell they are going to do it. And that's kinda how Season 3 starts off.
What's your favourite episode of Season 3?
Robin Dunne: If I was pressed to pick one, I would pick an episode we did this season called One Night because it's a story about Will and his new love interest Abby, played by Pascal Hutton, who are trying to go out on a date and again this is the kind of thing interesting about the Sanctuary, it's this living in this place is such a crazy adventure with these hairpin left turns that you never really know what's around the corner, it really is difficult to have a quote normal life unquote. And that's basically the story of what One Night is, Will saying "you know what? I just want to go out on a date". I mean it's not that much to ask, I'd just like to go out to a restaurant with a pretty girl and sit down and just go on a date, like it's been years so of course it all goes wrong and it's quite an adventure. It's really wonderful to work with Pascal because she's so amazing and we have fun together and I feel we have really good chemistry.
It was an episode directed by Amanda which is really amazing. It's an amazing experience to get to work with Amanda every day as I do, as I'm lucky enough to do as an actor but to work with her in the director's chair is just a whole other amazing experience.
Agam Darshi: There's been a lot of really good episodes that I love, coming back I think there is The Bank Job which was directed by Peter DeLuise and it was a really fun episode because it was a lot of time in a bank with me, with Kate and Magnus and Will and it kind of hints a bit to Kate's past and just sort of this bad girl persona that she had and so it was really fun to be that sassy and to really play up who she probably was a few years ago.
Amanda Tapping: We also do a great episode called For King And Country which explores the back story of The Five a little bit and also this other character. And it's a beautiful you know back in the 1800's, early 1900's, costume drama about really what solidified The Sanctuary as an entity and what solidified The Five so that's a back story for Magnus that's pretty huge this season.
Christopher Heyerdahl: For King And Country was just so huge because we actually were able to get The Five together and Ian's character and get a little more information to where these people came from, where The five came from and the roots of why we're all here.
Agam Darshi: Another one of my favourite episodes is Hero II because Kate somehow gets some abnormal powers I guess and with that she's able to do a lot of really fun things and so it showed this other side of Kate, very sassy, almost sexy side of her that I don't think the audience has ever seen before.
Ryan Robbins: You know I think well for obvious reasons that my favourite episode for Season 3 is probably Animus, it's probably the Henry episode but not for the reason a lot of people probably think. We've interchanged relationships a lot with people now and pairings on missions whereas before it was a lot of Will and Magnus, Henry and Biggie or Henry and Kate, we've actually flip flopped a lot of things and we've actually seen Will and Henry we've seen their friendship and what that looks like and that's been really fun. Actually that's been a really great experience in Season 3 for myself and for Robin Dunne because we are friends and it's really cool to bring elements of our friendship into Will and Henry.
Agam Darshi: I love the episode Breach, I'm not really in that one very much but reading it was really different, it's... it's not an episode that we've ever done on Sanctuary before and it's actually a very risky episode to be honest when I read it I was surprised that it was given the green light to be done, simply because it is risky.
Christopher Heyerdahl: I loved Breach just because it was such a huge... it was such a huge challenge for Amanda to go through what she had to go through in order make that episode come through and she did it with such grace and whenever I see examples of Amanda's grace it always inspires me. So that's a favourite for that and it's also the introduction of Ian Tracey who I have huge respect for his talent and it's wonderful that he was available to come and be a part of our family and play with us for a while until who knows when.
Martin Wood: What's interesting about Breach is when I started looking at it I thought okay I've done the Next Tuesdays and the Requiems where it was two handers and each of those shows tend to be the more difficult ones because you are in one place all the time. In this one I wanted to direct it a different way so what I did was take all the stuff that's in that one side of your brain that tells you.. you know it's like the autonomic breathing system it's just this is what you do when you get in this kind of situation, this is what you do, this is how you shoot this scene, this is how do this. And I changed all that by just throwing that out and every time I looked like I was going to do something the same I changed it. And it was a scary show for me it was really scary show because I went into it completely on the balls of my feet and I was shooting two shows back to back and I shot that one in six days instead of seven days and so there was a whole bunch of factors that allowed me to get scared and I did and it's probably one of the best shows I've directed.
Robin Dunne: It's difficult because again they're all such great adventures and every time as an actor every time, every script you pick up there's always a surprise as to what's happening and where the story is going, it's never what you expect and I think that is one of the many things that is special about Sanctuary.
What's your favourite abnormal or abnormal power?
Ryan Robbins: You know there is a few... it's funny because we actually about this, have these conversations about what kind of powers. In a recent episode where Will started to turn into an abnormal, that brought up well what other kind of abnormal would you be. As far as vampires go, Tesla is probably the coolest vampire out there and I'm not just saying that because he's on our show but I think the way Jonathon plays him makes him a very cool, very relevant vampire. He's not a stereotypical, he's not what you see, he's just really done something really interesting with Tesla, very bright, very intelligent. Not to say the other guys aren't bright and intelligent but you know what I mean, he doesn't sparkle.
Agam Darshi: My favourite abnormal is Tesla and I do want to be a vampire very badly, very, very, very badly. I think I would be a great sidekick, I think I'd be a really good Robin to his Batman, so to speak. And I will, I mean if they wrote it in I would do anything to ensure that that I live up to Tesla's you know, live up to Tesla's protege.
Martin Wood: My favourite abnormal so far has been the Steno because of one shot and that is as the Steno comes around in the sewer he's on all fours and he's got those kind of little man arms and man legs but he's got like a Steno body and he comes around that corner and I keep thinking that's an album cover, that's sort of The Sanctuary album cover right there. It's an abnormal wandering around in the sewer and I really like the Steno especially because it starts out as this cute little puppy that's sort of wiggling it's tail all over the place and he turns into this guy has you know, that licks Kate. Um, so I really like the Steno.
Robin Dunne: I think if I could be any abnormal I would be Two Faced Chuck... don't respond to that. I like that character, first of all it's great to work with Chuck Campbell because he's such a funny guy and it's such an interesting character that this sort of duality of the personalities and I think it would be nice to have a face back here that's like your angry side. So you could be like Hi! How's it going? or just this part of you would be really, really nice and you could turn around and just be like grrr grrr grrr I hate you, go away! That would be interesting because then you wouldn't be really responsible, this part of you really wouldn't be really responsible for... it's be like sorry it's that guy, you know he's in a bad mood again.
Ryan Robbins: There's something about like, like an angel kind of abnormal, like wings and I don't know something like looking human but having these great big wings.
Martin Wood: I like Magnus' power, you know the old stay alive forever kind of power because then you never have to do anything you could like never pay taxes and they throw you in jail and it's like eh so what, you know I'm going to outlive everybody in this room, I don't care.
Ryan Robbins: Or I don't know if you want teleporting and wings, I think it's a bit greedy. It's a bit like Superman, he can do everything so it's kind of like uhhhhh that's nice but you can do everything and meh, I get why people don't like him, you know. Superman's boring, he's too good.
How has a 20 episode season changed things on Sanctuary?
Damian Kindler: It's a lovely, ringing endorsement, it's very flattering, it's what every show runner aspires for, it's they want more. The challenges are just to keep the show at the same level every episode, I think some shows have that many they spend a lot of time and money on big landmark episodes and then there's the odd trapped in the elevator episode or phone booth or I'm in the trunk of a car part two and you have to be able to keep the quality. And I think the way you do that is you can have your trapped in the phone booth, trunk of a car, trapped in the basement episodes but they really better be as true to the characters of the series as the big monster invasion episodes.
Amanda Tapping: So it's been really interesting because we've had the freedom to do the stories of our particular characters, you've got 20 episodes so we've been able to explore different back stories and so as much as it's gotten bigger, it's gotten more intimate.
Robin Dunne: It's been a wild ride so far, I mean Season 3 is going to be the craziest one we've ever done. Intensified by the fact that we're doing 20 episodes this year so we can really have these long character arcs and learn more about the characters within the Sanctuary, understand the relationship between the characters that much more.
Ryan Robbins: I don't want to over exaggerate but Season 3 is epic. It's hands down the most epic season we've had and we were talking we have 20 episodes to play with as opposed to 13 so there's an incredible amount of story telling that you can put there, there's amazing back stories for our characters, the action has been ramped up again from Season 1 to Season 2 the action was ramped up a lot well it's even more so in Season 3. Just the story arcs and the character arcs are broader, it's been such an incredible ride. The visual effects this season are ridiculous they're so crazy, Anthem has again I don't know how they keep raising the bar as high as they do.
Christopher Heyerdahl: It's, it's huge. It's just a huge season and so many things happen and you know I think of the journey that Magnus goes on, that's just enormous and we see her going into the depths of her, of everything to survive. It's such a big survival year for Magnus, like we haven't seen before and we think well how can she survive this period of time, 160 years, she's now 160 years old this year.
Martin Wood: What tends to be the advantage of having 20 shows is that you can start an idea and take a little bit longer to spread it out, you're not, the idea does not have to collapse in on itself and be told in three episodes. Now you have a way to spread it out and one of the things that the fans seem to like is that they like to see in show 4 something that gets called back in show 9, even if it's just one line and they go oh yeah! remember when they talked about that. Our Previously Ons tend to take care of that but it's nice that people can discover those things. Over a 20 arc you get to do that more often and you get to do it with a wider spread in between so when they're arcing shows you don't have to arc and you know you don't have that kind of an arc you can have a long arc that you can do.
Damian Kindler: It's funny when we got the 20 order I admit I was a bit daunted I'd never been the show runner of a show that had 20, I'd done two seasons of 13 episodes and I found that a nice challenge and I enjoyed it but when we went 20 I went oh my gosh how in the heck will we come up with... but you think about the show differently. You actually have a bigger canvas to paint on, you can tell more stories instead of other stories that tease other stories and you have arcs in a nice way and I'm really proud of Season 3 I think this show really just kind of found a whole other layer and it was because we had 20 and it gave us the mental space to really develop shows. It's a heftier palette you have more tools in your toy.. tools in your toybox?? Toys in your toybox, you have more to work with. You have more episodes to write.
Ryan Robbins: The actors brought it this year, the crew brought it this year, the writers brought it this year. I mean we came out guns blazing, saying you want 20 episodes? We're going to give you 20 kickass episodes and hopefully we'll give you 20 more and then 20 more and then 20 more and every year we're going to try to raise the bar and year we're going to shock you and we're going to surprise you and we're going to blow your minds. That's the idea, I think Season 3 we're off to a really great start.
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