The following post contains the main spoilers for Blind pointThe end of the series. Proceed with caution!
At the end, Blind point concluded in the same way It started: with Jane Doe stuffed into a bag in the middle of Times Square. This time, however, it wasn’t coming out of an unmarked bag; rather, the police were putting her in a body bag when the show came to an end.
The NBC drama aired its 100th and final episode on Thursday night, culminating in an (apparently) devastating turn. Despite the fact that Jane and Weller successfully deactivated a ZIP bomb that Ivy Sands had planted in New York, which would have erased countless memories across the city, it was revealed in the final scene that Jane finally succumbed to the ZIP poisoning she had found in the End of episode 10.
Although Patterson had given Jane an antidote after they put ZIP on her, the cure simply wasn’t strong enough for Jane, who had been exposed to so many ZIP years ago that this new dose affected her far more than the average person. . To that end, as a result of ZIP poisoning, Jane spent the entire finale hallucinating people from her past, and we’re practically talking all the world who once appeared on the show, including Roman, Shepherd, Dr. Borden, and many more.
Jane was a little scared by the visions at first, knowing they were a sign of her impending ZIP-induced death. But when she realized that hallucinations were Help once he figured out Ivy’s plan, he decided to forgo a second injection of Patterson’s antidote and avoid hallucinations … until, apparently, it was too late to receive the ZIP cure.
For series creator Martin Gero, however, Blind pointThe end is not so black and white. TVLine spoke to the EP after screening the finale, and he offered some insights into Jane’s fate, as well as the “overwhelming” experience of filming an episode that brought back dozens of previous cast members. Read on to see his breakdown of Blind pointThe final hour.
TVLINE The | You’ve talked about your initial plan before Blind pointIncluding the big twists you had envisioned the first time you launched the show. How much of the end was in your head from day one? Did you always know how you wanted it to end?
I did, and it has grown and transformed over the years. Certainly, there were elements of the ending that I had in my head that are part of the show, mainly going back to Times Square. But the exciting thing about working on a TV show is that when you start, it’s just you. It’s you, alone, in a room, and then thousands of other people come into contact with him and add his incredible intelligence and art. It would be silly not to let the show grow in directions that you hadn’t envisioned to accommodate your incredible ideas. So parts of it, absolutely. But this really is a collective achievement of the room.
TVLINE The | My interpretation of the ending was that Jane was dead, and the dinner at the end was perhaps her version of heaven. That is how you Do you want viewers to interpret it? Do you feel like it’s more open than that?
I don’t think there it is A correct interpretation of it. Obviously I have my intention, and I and the writers have a strong idea of what we believe. But we wanted it to be a Rorschach test, and I can’t believe how effective it is. Fifty percent of people [who saw the finale ahead of time] they think she is definitely alive, and 50 percent of people think she is definitely dead. We wanted it to be everything for everyone.[[[[Laughs]We wanted to do the things that U.S I wanted to do, but we also knew there were some stuff from fans that they desperately wanted to see, at least for a moment on the show. We made a great list and said, “OK, in our dream In the end, what is all we could put into it? And then we try to honestly put as much of that as possible, as you can see. It is a very complete episode. But we wanted everyone to have an ending that they could feel good at the end of 100 episodes.
TVLINE The | The episode also throws up some hints about alternate universes and multiple event iterations. Should that influence how we see that final scene?
I will let you interpret that however you want.[[[[Laughs]
TVLINE The | So there seems to be some ambiguity here as to whether she really died or not. Why did you decide to take that approach, instead of tying everything up with a bow in your last episode?
I won’t talk about whether she’s dead or not, but I think the ambiguous endings … here’s the thing. This will not be an ambiguous ending for most people. Most people will believe it is one way or the other and will have evidence from both sides to present that case. What we tried to do was, yes, it is ambiguous if you step back. But in reality, the viewing experience will be very clear in one way or another.
TVLINE The | As a point of clarification: All those scenes that take place between the bomb being deactivated and Jane realizing that she’s dead, did they really happen in any way, if Jane didn’t really survive? Patterson’s farewell scene with Zapata and Rich, for example?
It is open to your interpretation.[[[[Laughs]Sorry. We are very happy with the balance at the end, and these are conversations in which we want the public to make decisions.
TVLINE The | Let’s talk about the large number of people you brought in for this ending. Is it safe to say that the only major absence was Bethany Mayfair?
Yes, unfortunately it didn’t work in terms of programming. [Marianne Jean-Baptiste] She’s an incredibly sought-after actress, and we couldn’t get her to work.
TVLINE The | I have to imagine it was a logistical nightmare bringing so many people back, especially for group scenes.
Yes, it was a sisifana feat performed by both the production and our casting department. We had this idea towards the end of season 4, and I just made the calls. I called everyone up and said, “Hey, we can’t afford to pay your full fee.”[[[[Laughs]”Please come back. Can we find a way to recover for a day? And everyone He said yes, which really speaks to the kind of environment that our team has created in the last five years. People were just excited to be included, and they were excited to come back and hang out once more before this very special collection of people went their separate ways.
One of the things we did was shoot for two months. We filmed this episode from early September through mid-November, in part to accommodate everyone’s schedule. For example, that Big Bad collection was very difficult to achieve, for everyone to be in the same room. In fact Tom Lipinski [who plays Cade] I was in Snowpiercer, and the reason why he’s in the first scene and not the second scene is that he took an overnight flight from Vancouver, he was able to film with us for four hours just to film his cameo, and then he took a flight and flew back to Vancouver, so you would only lose a day of filming for your TV show. It was so overwhelming to have these people [back], for Lou Diamond Phillips to perform for three hours in the middle of the night in Times Square and be so excited about it. Everyone returned for these little moments.
That many people probably do not do it notice, when you see it for the first time, it is found in all these flashbacks, many of the background players [are also former cast members]. For example, the people in the cathedral, those are all guest stars from previous episodes. We have a rep for each of the 100 episodes featured, at least somehow, in the finale.
TVLINE The | That is really incredible. And I also appreciated your cameo in that wedding hallucination. (in the photo on the right)
[[[[Laughs]Thank you! Joe Dinicol [who plays David] He was the officiant at my wedding, so I felt it was right for me to officiate his wedding with Patterson. I tried to darken it as much as possible and correct the color to be as subtle as possible, but yes thanks.
TVLINE The | The other scene that seemed like a huge chore was that fight sequence in the cathedral, which at least looked like it was filmed in one shot. Can you explain what it was like to produce that?
That fight scene was filmed in a fairly large two-day sequence. There is a stitch [where a new take is used]. I will not go where.[[[[Laughs]Exist Some cuts. But it was truly a feat of our team of specialists and our production design team. We knew we were going to do one last big fight with Jane, and we had been talking about it since the beginning of the season. It became very clear that to do it the way we wanted, the production design team would have to design a space in concert with our team of specialists. And then, to her great frustration and joy, I kept saying, “It would be great if one of them caught fire!” And then, “Oh, what if, when they caught fire, the sprinklers went off! That would be incredible! It was all this giant set that we ended up building on stage.
And then Heidi [Germaine Schnappauf]Our stunt double for Jane, who has been our stunt double since season 2, has really done an amazing job. This is your true master letter. The physical effort it took to do that sequence over and over and over again until we got it perfectly right in these individual shots was one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen. It’s very dangerous
And our camera operator A, Pyare Fortunato, is in the choreography with him. He had to go in and rehearse with the camera crew before we could film him, just trying to find out: “Where is it safe for me to be? How do we capture this? I’m glad you liked that sequence. That really speaks to what I’m going to miss the most, which is this incredible team that had this incredible attitude of power. One of the things I’m so overwhelmed all the time is that there is nothing but trouble in television production.[[[[Laughs]Things always go wrong, things never go as planned. It takes extreme ingenuity of hundreds of people on a daily basis, sometimes hourly, sometimes per minute to never finish these things Seeing that team do what they did for five years was the biggest professional thrill of my life.
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