Interview: "Bryan Fuller: How Pushing Daisies ends-and how it was supposed to end"

[mad_pac]

I've found this interesting interview, which sheds some light on Fuller's immediate plans for the remaining 9 episodes of the season, and why the series was cancelled in the worst moment possible! He also talks about the comic book, and some things he says makes the comic idea make much more sense than it did before to me.

By the way, now I just

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[applegrass_wolf]

So there were originally meant to be 22 episodes in series 2 like a normal American season..? FUCK YOU, ABC! D:

[mad_pac]

Yeah, it looks that way. And I'm trying to imagine the wonderful surprise those final 9 episodes would have been.

[applegrass_wolf]

This makes the fact it's been cancelled worse - I thought it was genuinely the end of a season, BUT NO, it was the BLOODY MIDDLE. I thought what would have been the ep 13 cliffhanger was a season 2 to season 3 cliffhanger, not an episode 13 to episode 14 cliffhanger :(

[mad_pac]

Yep, and the final chapters would be all about Ned and Chuck, the main plot, the core of the show. The last 3 episodes before the final arch would put secondary characters out of the way for thge big finale. Perhaps we'd've seen a real leap forward in the story.

The silver lining is that we might see that in the already famous comic.

[applegrass_wolf]

We surely HAVE to see that in the comic... :(