Entertainment Weekly hat sich mit EP Alex Kurtzman über John Noble unterhalten und einige interessante Dinge erfahren:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: We know from our finale postmortem that Henry Parrish (John Noble) being the son of Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison), as well as the Second Horseman of the Apocalypse, was actually part of the initial pitch to the network. How early in the season did you realize that would be revealed in what is, essentially, a nine-minute monologue from John Noble?
ALEX KURTZMAN: We knew from the beginning of the season that it was going to be a monologue from John. And I think we were dreading for the season, “Oh my God, how are we going to sustain this incredibly long monologue for what could ultimately be more than an act of television? How are we going to keep the people interested in it? And how is it not going to feel like just the biggest exposition dump in the history of TV?” So we were quite nervous about that, but I think because we were so nervous about it, we’d given a lot of time to how we were going to construct it. One of the things that started to emerge as we got closer to the end of the season was the idea that the information was going to be divided between all the different characters, not just John. Given the fact that the story fractures into a bunch of different pieces by the time you’re in the last act of the show, each piece is going to start speaking to the next as an intercut. It was ultimately going to build in information, and that was the way to keep the audience interested in it.

Did the network have any notes on the length of the scene?

To give Fox an enormous amount of credit, their note was, “This is f—ing awesome.” That’s the note we got from them. Because the information was functioning in such a Swiss watch kind of a manner in that everything had to link, we sat down and wrote a much, much longer outline. We usually send in two or three page outlines, and the outline that we gave them [for the finale] was almost 25 pages, because when you get into the last act, the only way to follow the information is to see how it’s intercutting. So it was really more of a scriptment than it was an outline. They were able to follow it, and they loved it. I mean, it was the shortest notes call I think we ever had. I think they were excited about being bold with it rather than, “We’ve got to dumb it down or dilute it,” which obviously we were super grateful for. Knowing that we were building to that from the first episode allowed us to, in a weird way, be writing in our heads from the beginning of the season.

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