Post by Molly Phillips on Aug 31, 2013 7:09:46 GMT
When I talked to jon via email he sent me a file with questions and answers, the answers were from fans. There is alot here. some of the questions and answers that's in this file is the same ones that was posted in the "The Phillips Kane Band History" thread which you can find here
So Weird FAQ
Answers by Jon Cooksey, former Exec Producer on SW, Seasons 1 & 2
PAGE 1
Q: Did you and Ali Marie Matheson have ANYTHING to do with the 3rd season? I noticed the Terry Frewer wrote all the songs, and you were no longer the producers. What happened? Why didn't you work in the 3rd season?
A: Disney Channel wanted to go in a different direction with the show in the third season, so it was mutually agreed that we'd work on other projects for them. (We've since written "Halloweentown 2" and an animated special, “The Santa Claus Brothers”.) My biggest regret -- other than missing our cast and crew, whom we adored -- was that the series threads were never paid off. But this wouldn't really have been possible anyway, because of Cara's choice to move on to other projects at the same time. So the ending of "Twin" was re-shot to end Fi's journey (the original ending was much darker), and Alexz's character was introduced at the beginning of the third season.
As for the songs, Terry did the scoring for the show in the second season, and took over the songwriting duties from Annmarie Montade & me in the third season.
Q: What was "Twin"'s original ending?
A: The original ending of "Twin" was that Fi's dad saves her from getting
knocked off the roof, and then -- before the creature returns -- he tells
her that she's on a mission, that it is and has always been her destiny to
keep Evil from entering our world, and she must continue. He also tells her
that the Evil killed him before his time. The creature then returns and
Rick shoves Fi out of the way; Rick and the creature fall off the building,
struggling, and disappear into the ground, apparently never to be seen
again. The idea was a) to make Fi think she'd never see her father again,
and b) to give a signal that her mission was much larger than just finding
weird stuff -- there was a bigger picture.
Q: What would season 3 have been about if you’d stayed?
A: Season 3 would have tied a number of things together. We would have
discovered that the aliens who crash-landed in "Memory" were actually trying
to contact Fi, but because they were seen, they had to erase the town's
memory and leave. They returned in "Listen", where she heard them speak
telepathically (because of the wheat from the crop circles), and were seen a
third time in "Roswell", where Fi got her hands on an alien-English
translator, and where Molly had a prescient dream about Rick being connected
to the aliens. (Many of Molly's lyrics, such as those in "In The Darkness"
also would have turned out to be premonitions of things to come.) In the
fourth alien episode, an alien would appear to Fi, and they would touch
fingers, as Molly foresaw in "Roswell". The alien would then start
speaking, and Fi would run get her alien-English translator, which would
work imperfectly, but well enough. The alien would explain that it, too,
was a teenager, and had lost a parent, as she lost Rick. It would tell her
that the same thing was happening on every planet in the universe that had
sentient life on it -- Evil, in other words, is invading the entire
universe -- and that she is the destined leader in that fight against Evil.
The alien then has to leave, and Fi asks how she can contact it. The alien
points at her web browser -- the Star.Dot.Star Universal Gateway -- and
tells her to upgrade.
In a later episode, Fi then goes to find Tad Raxall, and tells him she needs
him to turn the Universal Gateway browser into a REAL universal gateway. He
harnesses SETI, making it into a transmitter instead of a receiver, and
works in the translator, so that Fi can email the aliens for information.
(This is made possible by using the 4th dimension as the "internet" of the
universe.)
Well, you get the idea. Turns out Rick and Molly were destined to get
together and have Fi, and Jack was destined to be Fi's protector. Fi fights
the force of Evil, wins, and -- if we could get away with it -- manages to
pull her father back from the afterlife, as compensation for the fact that
he was killed before his time. And if there were MORE seasons, it went on
from there!
Q: The whole Fi story didn’t end -- the show never said why he was pulled from his body.
A: We never got to finish the series arc because we left the show. Rick was investigating a war in the spirit world between good and evil and was pulled from his body by the forces of evil, before his time. My daughter raised the ultimate question one night when we were talking about this; she asked: Where was he going the night he died? Ultimately, that's the question Fi would have had to answer, and then she would have retraced her father's footsteps and come into contact with the forces that killed him.
Q: So what was Rick on his way to find when he died?
A: In "Nightmare", Rick takes the keys and leaves -- we hear later in the episode where the Wisp returns (“Destiny”) that Rick didn't die in the crash; his spirit was yanked from his body, and THEN the car crashed. So where was he going, and what would he have found there? I never came up with that, specifically, but it was something that would have revealed the true face of Evil in the universe, and that would have allowed
Rick to tip the balance for Good. But it was all predestined; Molly -- the
latest in a long line of witches that included Fi (in a small way -- usually
just a sixth sense that we showed occasionally, as when she sensed Rebecca's
appearance before looking around) -- was always destined to meet Rick, the
crusader, and have Fi, the child who would be the key to the battle between
Good and Evil.
But what Fi would have found -- I don't know.
Other tidbits: Did I mention that Jack was a knight (in a previous life)
who had volunteered to be reincarnated as Fi's older brother, to protect
her -- so she wouldn't be killed before her, as her father would be? That
was the source of his Arthurian value system, seen most sweetly in his pure
love of the girl from "Angel" (a long distance relationship they sadly
abandoned in the third season). If you watch the intercut in "Banshee" when
Fi walks down the castle hallway, you'll see that the editor dissolves from
the suit of armor to Jack, searching for Fi.
That was the real purpose in bringing Rebecca back -- in the episode that
got killed by the network -- Jack was to start having past-life visions in
the third season, of a castle back in Arthurian times (the same castle Fi
saw in Banshee). Fi tracks down a castle that seems to be the one Jack is
remembering, but it's in ruins, so there's no way to verify if what Jack is
seeing is real or just a dream (Jack is skeptical, obviously). So Fi
contacts Rebecca, and it turns out Rebecca was in Wales with her parents
when she was only a few hundred years old, and met the knight who would
later be Jack -- not a coincidence, just more predestination. Rebecca
herself was always destined to be in Molly's life, even though Molly
wouldn't be born till centuries later.
Did I mention that we DID plan for Fi to bring Rick back into this world, in
the 65th episode (or later, if the series ran longer)
The lyrics to "In The
Darkness" were to be a prescient vision (by Molly) of what Fi would
literally have to go through -- demons, etc. In other words, Fi would have
to go to Hell to bring her father back into our dimension. That was the
reason to keep Molly from ever getting together with any other man; perhaps
she was prescient about that, too, somehow knowing deep inside she'd see her
husband again.
Anyway, I guess I haven't answered your question. I guess the fans will
have to make it up!
These are just some of the questions and answers, I was going to post the whole thing. But it would take alot of pages. so >>here<< is the file, it's in word pad
So Weird FAQ
Answers by Jon Cooksey, former Exec Producer on SW, Seasons 1 & 2
PAGE 1
Q: Did you and Ali Marie Matheson have ANYTHING to do with the 3rd season? I noticed the Terry Frewer wrote all the songs, and you were no longer the producers. What happened? Why didn't you work in the 3rd season?
A: Disney Channel wanted to go in a different direction with the show in the third season, so it was mutually agreed that we'd work on other projects for them. (We've since written "Halloweentown 2" and an animated special, “The Santa Claus Brothers”.) My biggest regret -- other than missing our cast and crew, whom we adored -- was that the series threads were never paid off. But this wouldn't really have been possible anyway, because of Cara's choice to move on to other projects at the same time. So the ending of "Twin" was re-shot to end Fi's journey (the original ending was much darker), and Alexz's character was introduced at the beginning of the third season.
As for the songs, Terry did the scoring for the show in the second season, and took over the songwriting duties from Annmarie Montade & me in the third season.
Q: What was "Twin"'s original ending?
A: The original ending of "Twin" was that Fi's dad saves her from getting
knocked off the roof, and then -- before the creature returns -- he tells
her that she's on a mission, that it is and has always been her destiny to
keep Evil from entering our world, and she must continue. He also tells her
that the Evil killed him before his time. The creature then returns and
Rick shoves Fi out of the way; Rick and the creature fall off the building,
struggling, and disappear into the ground, apparently never to be seen
again. The idea was a) to make Fi think she'd never see her father again,
and b) to give a signal that her mission was much larger than just finding
weird stuff -- there was a bigger picture.
Q: What would season 3 have been about if you’d stayed?
A: Season 3 would have tied a number of things together. We would have
discovered that the aliens who crash-landed in "Memory" were actually trying
to contact Fi, but because they were seen, they had to erase the town's
memory and leave. They returned in "Listen", where she heard them speak
telepathically (because of the wheat from the crop circles), and were seen a
third time in "Roswell", where Fi got her hands on an alien-English
translator, and where Molly had a prescient dream about Rick being connected
to the aliens. (Many of Molly's lyrics, such as those in "In The Darkness"
also would have turned out to be premonitions of things to come.) In the
fourth alien episode, an alien would appear to Fi, and they would touch
fingers, as Molly foresaw in "Roswell". The alien would then start
speaking, and Fi would run get her alien-English translator, which would
work imperfectly, but well enough. The alien would explain that it, too,
was a teenager, and had lost a parent, as she lost Rick. It would tell her
that the same thing was happening on every planet in the universe that had
sentient life on it -- Evil, in other words, is invading the entire
universe -- and that she is the destined leader in that fight against Evil.
The alien then has to leave, and Fi asks how she can contact it. The alien
points at her web browser -- the Star.Dot.Star Universal Gateway -- and
tells her to upgrade.
In a later episode, Fi then goes to find Tad Raxall, and tells him she needs
him to turn the Universal Gateway browser into a REAL universal gateway. He
harnesses SETI, making it into a transmitter instead of a receiver, and
works in the translator, so that Fi can email the aliens for information.
(This is made possible by using the 4th dimension as the "internet" of the
universe.)
Well, you get the idea. Turns out Rick and Molly were destined to get
together and have Fi, and Jack was destined to be Fi's protector. Fi fights
the force of Evil, wins, and -- if we could get away with it -- manages to
pull her father back from the afterlife, as compensation for the fact that
he was killed before his time. And if there were MORE seasons, it went on
from there!
Q: The whole Fi story didn’t end -- the show never said why he was pulled from his body.
A: We never got to finish the series arc because we left the show. Rick was investigating a war in the spirit world between good and evil and was pulled from his body by the forces of evil, before his time. My daughter raised the ultimate question one night when we were talking about this; she asked: Where was he going the night he died? Ultimately, that's the question Fi would have had to answer, and then she would have retraced her father's footsteps and come into contact with the forces that killed him.
Q: So what was Rick on his way to find when he died?
A: In "Nightmare", Rick takes the keys and leaves -- we hear later in the episode where the Wisp returns (“Destiny”) that Rick didn't die in the crash; his spirit was yanked from his body, and THEN the car crashed. So where was he going, and what would he have found there? I never came up with that, specifically, but it was something that would have revealed the true face of Evil in the universe, and that would have allowed
Rick to tip the balance for Good. But it was all predestined; Molly -- the
latest in a long line of witches that included Fi (in a small way -- usually
just a sixth sense that we showed occasionally, as when she sensed Rebecca's
appearance before looking around) -- was always destined to meet Rick, the
crusader, and have Fi, the child who would be the key to the battle between
Good and Evil.
But what Fi would have found -- I don't know.
Other tidbits: Did I mention that Jack was a knight (in a previous life)
who had volunteered to be reincarnated as Fi's older brother, to protect
her -- so she wouldn't be killed before her, as her father would be? That
was the source of his Arthurian value system, seen most sweetly in his pure
love of the girl from "Angel" (a long distance relationship they sadly
abandoned in the third season). If you watch the intercut in "Banshee" when
Fi walks down the castle hallway, you'll see that the editor dissolves from
the suit of armor to Jack, searching for Fi.
That was the real purpose in bringing Rebecca back -- in the episode that
got killed by the network -- Jack was to start having past-life visions in
the third season, of a castle back in Arthurian times (the same castle Fi
saw in Banshee). Fi tracks down a castle that seems to be the one Jack is
remembering, but it's in ruins, so there's no way to verify if what Jack is
seeing is real or just a dream (Jack is skeptical, obviously). So Fi
contacts Rebecca, and it turns out Rebecca was in Wales with her parents
when she was only a few hundred years old, and met the knight who would
later be Jack -- not a coincidence, just more predestination. Rebecca
herself was always destined to be in Molly's life, even though Molly
wouldn't be born till centuries later.
Did I mention that we DID plan for Fi to bring Rick back into this world, in
the 65th episode (or later, if the series ran longer)
The lyrics to "In TheDarkness" were to be a prescient vision (by Molly) of what Fi would
literally have to go through -- demons, etc. In other words, Fi would have
to go to Hell to bring her father back into our dimension. That was the
reason to keep Molly from ever getting together with any other man; perhaps
she was prescient about that, too, somehow knowing deep inside she'd see her
husband again.
Anyway, I guess I haven't answered your question. I guess the fans will
have to make it up!
These are just some of the questions and answers, I was going to post the whole thing. But it would take alot of pages. so >>here<< is the file, it's in word pad
