If you’re reading this I’m going to bet you already know tonight’s the two hour season finale of TSCC. In case you don’t know, well, you do now. These two episodes were never supposed to be the end of our season, but there was this little thing called the writers’ strike, and there you go. As it happens, if we were going to end somewhere, these two episodes aren’t a bad place to do it. Dumb luck, really. But I’d rather be lucky than good any day. (And I am.)
Dan Thomsen, one of our youngster staff writers, wrote “Vick’s Chip.” Dan’s the kind of guy who doesn’t speak in the writers’ room for a week and then he’ll mumble some piece of genius insight that’ll turn my head inside out. This script was one of the toughest for us to crack—it’s got a deviously challenging structure to it—and I commend Dan for his intelligent work on it.
Ian Goldberg, another one of our staff writers, penned “What He Beheld…” This is probably one of the only seasons in television history where the last two episodes of the season were written by staff writers (the most inexperienced writers on a show). Then again, I’d never written an episode of television before this year so what’s it matter? Both of them were under intense pressure to write quickly and I can’t praise them enough.
This episode features the only non-score music of the entire year and is the only time we’ve cut an action sequence to a piece of music and not vice-versa. I sort of love how it turned out. I’m such a fan of this particular artist that my son’s middle name is the last name of the singer.
As to the ending of the episode…well…there’s some stuff going on in the last five minutes and I’ll leave it to everybody to try and puzzle through the various references both pop and Biblical.
As of this writing it’s unknown whether we’re coming back for Season 2. I’m very proud of Season 1 and I know I speak for John and James when I say how much I appreciate everybody’s intense interest in our show. Hopefully we’ll have the chance to come back and do it again.
Peace,
Josh