Interview: ‘Prodigy’ Showrunners On Giving [SPOILER] Closure And Sitting At Star Trek’s “Adult Table”
Dan and Kevin Hageman discuss season 2 spoilers and setting show up for the future.
Dan Hageman: We just thought it would be nice to bring someone else new to the group so it wasn’t like our group is closed, our clubhouse is closed, no more. We want to be able to grow this group because I feel like at season 6 they may have a full crew
Hopefully he knows something we don't, though it's probably just off the cuff optimism /wishful thinking. Would love to get 6 seasons.
One thing I did really like about S2 was that it was 20 episodes. It was still the same 10 hours we get with other streaming Trek shows, but with shorter episodes, they had to be a little faster-paced which allowed some detour stories along the way.
Hopefully he knows something we don’t, though it’s probably just off the cuff optimism /wishful thinking.
Unfortunately, I think it's probably the latter - previous interviews have been...I would say fairly pessimistic about future seasons happening on Netflix. But maybe something has changed now that S2 has been out for a while?
There was a fairly recent interview where he acknowledged getting another season on Netflix was practically a statistical impossibility because even the best shows don’t get one. I’ll see if I can find it. Bummed me out cause I liked the idea of a SW Rebels run.
Dan Hageman: Season 3 is called “The Kim Collective,” so we’ll see. [laughs]
Eh, it's been done.
Borg King (Actual rank: ensign)
I would say they did Wesley Crusher wrong–how they finished Wesley Crusher on TNG
Is that really the point where you'd feel the writer's room let Wesley down? I can honestly only think of a few TNG episodes where he didn't feel stilted and out of place. And that's from day one of watching the show as it aired, when I was only a few years younger than the character.
With all respect to Wil W, who had done nice work as a child actor in roles where he would more or less be expected to play a regular kid — I never felt he had the chops to spew 24th century technobabble in a way that sold Wesley as a genius level prodigy. And at the same time, the writers rarely gave him relatable teenage stuff to work with, so he was sort of in a catch-22.
(I know of some of the BS that Wil has had to deal with through his adolescence and career, and I sympathise. I just don't think his character was ever written to his fortes as an actor, which probably led to the unfortunate spread of the "Shut up Wesley" meme)
As for Prodigy, if you wanted to bring back a grating nothing character that has already had too much screentime, Neelix was right there...