#andrew chambliss

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 #12 (2008)

Art by: Jon Foster

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Dollhouse ran for 2 seasons and 27 episodes. The final episode aired on January 29, 2010. The final episode took place in 2020, where Echo and the Dollhouse survivors attempted to try to save what was left of mankind. ("Epitaph Two: Return", Dollhouse, Sci Fi TV Event)

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Troy's Return Explained by the writers

Where did the idea come from to resurrect Troy, because this is an actor in Daniel Sharman as well as a character you guys had never even worked with?

CHAMBLISS: It was something that lan and I threw out half-seriously when we were trying to think of ways that we could have an antagonist who would really put the question front and center to Madison, to Strand, to Daniel: Have you guys really changed? Have you really escaped your past? Can you really move forward? And it felt like having someone return from their past seemed like the way to do it.

And the more we talked about it, the more excited we got about that persor being Troy Otto. And you're right, we'd never written for the character. We had never worked with Daniel Sharman. So we scheduled a phone call with him and we introduced ourselves and pitched him what we were thinking and why we wanted to bring the character back, and what it is that he would get to explore with Troy Otto. And we had a really great conversation, and Daniel said he was a character that he loved to create and always wished he could explore more, so he was excited to come back and were able to make it happen

GOLDBERG: We were just huge fans of his and the character, even though we had not worked with him before. And then what was really exciting is when we knew that he was in and Daniel was interested in coming back, we talked about it with Colman and Ruben and Danay [Garcia] and all the people that had been on the show when he was in it previously - and their excitement was huge as well. Everybody was excited to revisit this chapter of the show and to expand the Madison-Troy story, especially Kim and Daniel. They loved the dynamic and the dance that those characters did together in the past. And so they were really excited to get in there and explore this next chapter for Madison and Troy.

Honestly, I'm just happy Daniel was equally excited to come back as Troy. You can see in his S3 interviews how much he loved Troy even after Erickson axed him in S3 to get his closure because he would be replaced. I do hope we'll get Daniel Sharman's insights about Troy because it's his views that made me understand Troy better from an emotional and personality standpoint than what Erickson then gave us about him. It's complex and not cookie cutter and Daniel is known to play such characters and choosing these types of roles (Isaac Lahey, the Weeping Monk, Kelly Lord etc,).

Also the writers are a joke. They could've done this with Troy so much sooner since they seem to like Troy too. But yeah 4 episodes to go.

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rewatching ftwd s4 and i still can’t wrap my mind around how the producers in charge thought epic fantasy writers were the best choice to showrun a zombie horror??? the tone is so pretentious and different. i hate it. are we ever gonna address the hot air balloon?

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Here’s How Fear the Walking Dead’s Showrunners Responded To Fan Backlash

Do Fear the Walking Dead's showrunners understand why everyone is mad about the state of the show? (Hint: no)

Season 5 of Fear the Walking Dead has come and gone, and thankfully we don’t have to wait long for the “good” Walking Dead show to come back, as season 10 of the OG returns next week (and it is good, trust me, I’ve seen three episodes).

But this week’s Fear finale did nothing to satisfy fans (or critics) who have been lambasting this entire season for being terrible, and really, have felt this way about the entire series ever since Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg took over as showrunners, and the pair have been a frequent target of fan hate ever since.

The backlash to the current state of Fear is not something that can simply be brushed off. A recent Talking Dead tweet soliciting questions for the showrunners brought literally nothing but a torrent of “why did you choose to ruin the show” type responses. But brush it off, they are, as Insider’s Kirsten Acuna got to pose the backlash question to them directly in the wake of the finale. Here’s the exchange:

Acuna: “I have to ask, because I know that I’m going to hear it if I don’t, but the season has been faced with a lot of backlash and a lot of criticism, not just from fans, but also critics. I’m wondering what your response has been to all of it? Has it made you look at what you’re trying to do with the show any differently, or maybe how you’ll approach next season?”

Chambliss: “You know, we told the story that we believe in and we’re proud of what we did and in terms of going forward, the show is changing and that’s always been part of the plan. You know, it changes every season and every half season and we’re very excited about the direction it’s going and a lot of the tough challenges that our characters ahead are going to be facing.”

You can’t see me right now, but I’m rolling my eyes.

This is a non-answer that essentially says “We made the show we wanted to make and we like it and if it’s changing, it’s because we want it to, not because fans are asking for change.” I think it’s interesting that the show brought up how it changes “every half season,” as I think that was really demonstrated in the two wildly different halves of season 5, the first of which had to do with a plane crash and saving a bunch of kids that quite literally didn’t feel connected to the second half of the season at all, and like that entire storyline could have been skipped with nothing of value lost.

I am not surprised that Chambliss does not seem to care about the criticism nor take any of it to heart. If he was able to understand that the show was bad, we would not be where we are right now. Instead, the burden should land on Scott Gimple and AMC to find someone else to take over and right the ship, possibly the guy who made the series worthwhile in the first place, Dave Erickson, the former showrunner, who left after the high point of season 3.

But as I’ve said before, it might almost be too late. AMC has already greenlit season 6 under the direction of the current showrunners, and there’s no reason to have any faith things will improve now that the “big change” has the cast all split up in a million different ways, which will subject us to things like a June episode and a Charlie episode no doubt in the future. I worry that too much damage has been done to the show and these characters already for the series to recover. There are only a handful of characters even left from the “good” era, and they’ve all been dramatically transformed into worse versions of their former selves over the last two years. I fear that another season like the one we just had will kill the show outright, though perhaps that just for the best at this point.

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HUFFLEPUFF: "What you get back when you love someone far outweighs the risk." –Andrew Chambliss + Bill Wolkoff (Snow White: Once Upon A Time: Ruby Slippers)

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another thing i noticed about the andrew chambliss and ian goldberg (the guys who now are now showrunners ftwd) also worked on once upon a time and they really love their white feminism and demonize any black women when they get the chance.

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Fear the Walking Dead showrunners preview Dwight crossover 

Fear the Walking Dead made headlines when it beamed Lennie James’ Morgan over from The Walking Dead mothership for season 4. Now the show is adding another original recipe ingredient into the mix, as Austin Amelio’s Dwight will make the trip down south from Virginia to Texas in season 5 (which premiers June 2 on AMC). Like Morgan, Dwight definitely has some sins to atone for, and his own journey plays right into season 5’s theme of redemption. We spoke with showrunners Ian Goldberg and Andrew Chambliss to get some scoop on Dwight’s arrival, as well as what else we can expect in the new season. 

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What’s the story coming up in season 5 of Fear? IAN GOLDBERG: We ended season 4 with our group coming together and rallying behind this shared mission of helping people out in the world, and that was a mission that we saw come together over the course of season 4 with people like Madison and Polar Bear. It was about seeing our group of characters come together, this unlikely family, and using those philosophies that Madison and Polar Bear began in their own ways and using them to go forward and to help people out in the world, both as a way to make up for the bad things that our characters had done, and also just a way to make the world a little bit better. 

That’s where we left season 4, and when we come in in season 5 it is a couple months later, and we’re going to see how that help mission has been going for our group. We’re going to come in right in the middle of one of these help missions, and we’re going to see that the group has gone to some pretty extreme measures to carry out their goals to help someone in need. It’s going to take them to an entirely new and strange and dangerous environment that they’ve never been to before. It may involve a plane, and we’re going to see the difficulties that their mission presents, but also the internal things that our characters are dealing with that are maybe preventing them from fully living. That’s where we start the season, and those are the things that we’re going to be exploring. 

Will this season be broken up into two eight-episode stories similar to season 4, where you had the Vultures in the first half and then the truck stop and boxes in the second half? Or is it more just one straight story? ANDREW CHAMBLISS: It’s a little of both, and what I mean by that is there is a definite story in the front half that we will see a conclusion for, but then it is going to spin our characters into a story for the back half in a way that is very different than we did in season 4. There’s going to be a through-line in the entire season in terms of our characters’ overall mission, but how it affects them and how it affects others, that is something that is going to change from the front half of the season to the back half of the season. 

What can you say about the introduction of Dwight and how he’s going to factor into things? GOLDBERG: We love Dwight. We love Austin Amelio. We’re huge fans of his character and his work on The Walking Dead. When we started to talk about bringing Dwight over, it started in the same place for us emotionally as when we were talking last season about Morgan, and that is: Emotionally, what’s the story we’re telling on a bigger scale this season? 

This season is going to be about our characters grappling with the things they’ve done in their past and looking for redemption through the things they’re doing now, and for anyone who knows Dwight’s story on The Walking Dead, he is someone who did a lot of bad things over his time as a Savior. He hurt a lot of people, he did a lot of things he regrets, but he was given a second chance by Daryl at the end of season 8 when Daryl spared his life and sent him away and told him to find Sherry and to make it right. That’s the last we saw of Dwight on The Walking Dead, and we’re going to see how that’s been going for him and if he’s been able to achieve either of those things that Daryl told him to do.