What can viewers expect from the season one finale of The CW’s Star-Crossed? At the 2014 WonderCon in Anaheim, CA, executive producers Meredith Averill and Adele Lim said that fans of the series can expect a “huge cliff-hanger” and a real game-changer to the world created in the sci-fi series.
Meredith Averill and Adele Lim Interview
Is this sci-fi series a natural fit for The CW?
Meredith Averill: “I think certainly right now it’s a natural fit for them. That seems to be the direction that they are going. I think that all of their pilots they picked up last year had some sort of sci-fi element to them.”
Adele Lim: “Yeah, and it’s a great home for us too because not a lot of the other networks do as much sci-fi. None of the major networks do, and so in terms of being excited about the material and being comfortable with the material that we want to do, CW is a great fit for us.”
Because it’s on The CW, do you have to skew the storylines a little more toward the teen audience or do you worry about that at all?
Meredith Averill: “It’s actually the opposite. They are pushing us to go in the opposite direction. They are wanting to go to a darker, more dangerous, more adult place. I think they are getting away from the model of the WB world that they used to live in and pushing us more toward telling the bolder stories, which has been great for us because that’s what we want to be doing.”
Adele Lim: “Absolutely, and you can see it in the evolution of the show. When we were first on the show, I thought we were going to be doing more of a Romeo and Juliet but with an extraterrestrial setting and that was it. And that’s not the case at all. They challenged us to make more of the world and to make it a little darker and more expansive, and when we did it took on a life of its own. So you’ll see that, even in our first season from midway through all the way up to the end, the stakes are higher, the danger is there. We get more into the culture and the things that make them different and dangerous. It’s been so amazing for the show because it opens up story and it ups the stakes to everything.”
The show is also bringing up different social issues.
Meredith Averill: “Without having to feel like they are spoonfed a particular theme or message.”
Adele Lim: “Or that we’re singling out a particular group of minorities. This country, particularly, has an interesting relationship with how they’ve treated people that they viewed as outsiders – whether they were a different race, different set of immigrants, people with different sexual preferences. We think the way we’re doing our show is we can take the best of those, the most dramatic points of that history and sort of turn it into storytelling. It’s worked out amazing for our characters and the relationship they have with each other, and some really heartbreaking stories.”
Do you see season two getting a lot darker?
Meredith Averill: “Yes. It’s funny because we’re actually talking about season two right now and we wish that we could spoil for you – but we would never want to – what happens in our finale, which is a huge cliffhanger, a very explosive finale. It’s all leading up to something very big happening and it really is a game-changing event going forward for season two. So we’ve been talking about what that new world kind of looks like and the impact that has on our characters. We do see it going in a darker place though still maintaining the relationships and the characters that everyone knows and loves. They’re not changing, it’s more that their situations are changing.”
Adele Lim: “Yeah, and we’re also really looking forward to, again, because we can only explore a little bit of the Atrian alien culture because they’re basically held in an internment camp, but in season two we’d like to blow all of that up and give the audiences a more in-depth look at not just what their culture was like in their home planet but sort of what it’s become now that they’re marooned.”
How far out in your heads to you have the seasons planned? Do you know what a season three or a season four would look like if it got that far?
Meredith Averill: “We’ve been talking about some ideas for what a season three would look like. That’s about as far as we have gotten.”
Adele Lim: “And honestly for us, having gone through the making of season one, you don’t know want to be limited. Sometimes you think you’re heading to this amazing place but somebody has an amazing idea in the middle of it. And that’s also one of the benefits of having our series be something that was created out of whole cloth, that you’ll be able to come up with the stories and the trajectories in time. Because sometimes an amazing actor comes in and an amazing storyline presents itself and you have to give yourself over to it and see where it goes.”
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