‘This Is Us’ Creator Dan Fogelman, Series Finale Finals and Frame, MIA Eulogies and Audio, Randall’s Political Future, Possible Spinoffs and More

this is for it We. Featuring the finale of NBC Family Drama Today’s Emotional Series (you can read more about our resume here), creator and executive producer Dan Fogelman summarizes the episode and answers questions about key moments and scenes, including the finish lines. The decision not to show the three great eologs about the dialogue and attraction and his mother. Also filmed but unused footage discusses Randall’s political future, potential spinoffs, and touches on the fate of the dog’s voice.

As Fogelmann explained earlier, about two-thirds of the ending was written and filmed by him about four years ago. (He had made up the second third long ago.) This included scenes where Jack, Rebecca, and the three older teenagers spend Saturday together at the old house, as well as scenes where Randall and William argue about mortality and the joys of being grandparents.

vote WeFinal lines and plot:

As creator Jack and Rebecca in Nightmare say “I love you” to each other, the finale ends with a montage used earlier in the Season 1 episode where Kevin shows his drawing to his nephews. The camera takes each of the Big Three in turn, and the final shot is from a scene where Randall was a child and Jackie was focused on Jack as the camera watched his family on Saturday.

Fogelman: “I always thought the final dialogue of the episode would be Jackie and Rebecca saying ‘I love you’ to each other… I thought it was an emotionally original love story. It was the right language to finish. ”

Fogelman said the dialogue between Jackie and Rebecca’s final train scene was one of the hardest scenes to write in the finale.

“It really started to impress me, I think at that moment he was like, ‘Well done, you did great.’ The idea for me as a new parent is that at the end of the day I’m going to potentially do something for someone because it’s so hard.”

This is how Fogelman describes the final scene of his screenplay: „Interior: living room. Jackie is sitting on the couch, her parents laughing, wrestling and playing Pin the Tail on the Donkey. takes them. ”

As for why he chose to end with a photo of young Randall and Jack:

“In this shot, Senior Randall points to an adult child or a fully grown child. Y [Jack] At that time, there is a representative of the father, who takes responsibility for the whole family. I just wanted to know the simplicity of the attraction that a child takes a parent to the moment they buy something bigger, and that this child will carry that forward in their own life. It obviously had less to do with these two guys who were the cornerstones of our show, but less with Randall and Jack and more with son and father at the time.

Why did they see the Big Three, but not hear that they would attend Rebecca’s memorial service:

While seeing Randall scramble to praise Rebecca (“Mom was magical” was all she could put on the card), the show chose a musical montage, including a performance of the Big Three, for the memorial service.

Fogelman: “It was written that way, for various reasons. First, most of the last episode was about people’s feelings, people said that to Rebecca, and God knows Randall can perfectly praise the world, but what else is he going to say to his mother at this point that you haven’t said? complete. Has it already been said on the show? So logistically, that was part of it.

But most importantly to me, I lost my mother, sat up all night and decided that people expected perfect praise from me, it had to be the right level of kindness and fun. It should have been well written and well conveyed. In fact, I spent the whole night trying to write a perfect eulogy to my mother, whom I admired, as mad and sincere as a martyr. That day, and frankly my experience a week or two later, as I described in the script, I was floating in space and time and not hearing anything. I worked hard for that song and I don’t remember a single word I said. I remember closing my eyes to my best friend sitting in the auditorium and crying, but I don’t remember anything. And I wanted to visualize that.

The day we filmed these maxims, there was nothing written, the kids didn’t even know they were going to do it. and sterling [K. Brown] and Justin [Hartley] and Chris [Metz]We had ideas about what they could talk to me about, and then they kind of improvised because I wanted it to be the equivalent of a funeral and I wanted people to hear something. But at the end of the day, the doctor never wrote a prescription, referring to the boy swimming at his mother’s funeral as if it were in slow motion.

Randall’s political future and these are our sopranos Moment:

The Big Three shared their future plans in the final. Katie opens more music schools to narrow her vision, Kevin focuses on his nonprofit activities, while Randall, whose burgeoning political career has been tedious for several seasons, searches for a presidential candidate on a trip to Iowa. What happened to Randall and was there a plan to show him on Flash Forward?

Vogelmann: “I think Randall’s next political journey is probably the closest thing to us. soprano The end of the episode is getting dark and you have to choose your own adventure, how you think, what will happen to it. Will he eventually decide to run anyway? If he escapes, how much garbage does he take? Will he win?

I think I know what will happen to Randall and his family, but he pretends to respond and just makes a promise and then I think the audience decides what happens to Randall next. Did we look at the origin story in a way that couldn’t understand that we were looking at one of the future leaders of the free world? Or is it the end of Randall’s story, who didn’t jumpstart his career and put him in a role he’s comfortable with? I think Randall chose to go further and further because his mother has now set him free to do what he wants and he has made a big decision if he wants to do something like that.

But we were never eager to move forward. There was really a lot of talk about how we ended up at the end of Randall’s political journey. We all felt that if we were hypothetically jealous of Randall sitting in the White House, it wasn’t a show, it would spoil it a little, a little. So, without going all the way, we’d love to end with a hint of the promise of this special and extraordinary character.”

Perfect shots that can see the sunlight

It turned out that almost all of the footage shot for the finale four years ago was in the episode. Almost.

Fogelman: “Towards the opening of the finale, you see three young children waking up to interfere with their mother’s three adult children waking up the morning of their funeral. Then Jack’s voice calls them down to breakfast. I wrote some stuff that we barely wrote about, turning Jackie’s pancakes and making pancakes, and then flipping pancakes and making pancakes with her parents, Randall, who was much younger in the old house. At the end of the episode to which the entire series is dedicated, it was so gripping and talked about that you carry these things with you in ways you never thought possible.

But it was a little abstract. The kids were younger, you were on different dates with Randall and he was just as charming, I thought we talked better at the end of the episode so I couldn’t catch up but I was very attractive and the kids were so young. And I think at some point I’ll put it online.”

Inevitable We Leaving Question:

Fogelman: “I think I’m in a pretty good mood. I think this show has always been about this generation of families and their extended family at that time. Clearly, there are potentially more stories to tell about the adult lives of their children and grandchildren, but that was never the point of the series. Family romance across all generations can come and go, and it can go even further if you want to. “We had start, middle, and end points where our lead times started and ended in the middle, and that was the plan.”

This Is Us: The Story of Randall and Deja Vu?

For Randall and Deja’s story, she took this little girl to end her journey by naturally and casually calling her father and saying, “I am pregnant with my childhood sweetheart and I will name my son after his father.” Who was so influential… what is it to finish this journey?

There will always be another part of the story if you continue, that’s the whole theme of our show. But now the jewelery is pretty dry and I think we just wanted to finish it when we felt we were at a creative point in our creativity before it got too tiring and difficult to think about keeping the show special and exciting. So I feel like we’ve reached the right end point and who knows what changes the mid-term crisis will bring, but I feel like we’ve been planting these stories now and of course for quite some time.

Keep the ending simple and fluent

however We Known for its sudden twists and turns, beginning with the announcement of Jackie’s death at the end of the pilot episode, the series finale was a relatively simple episode in terms of design.

Fogelman: “It always felt like the end of the show, and all the talk the show really went through was in the context of death, death, and house fires and appliances that caused the fire, just with it. family and other things. He said the family was investigating. I always thought that the bravest and safest step and finish of the show would be to perform a magic trick at the end. And then there’s a big, emotional, sad ending, and let the final episode be just a reflection of family and time.

I think, to some extent, this is the most difficult topic. The irony is when you always want to make sure you’re doing it right, the most ambitious and the hardest have always been easy. And he’s also the most profitable, so for us, he’s probably just as proud as I was on the show’s episode, even though there wasn’t a lot of bells and whistles in the final episode.”

loud happy queues

There were many fans online about the fate of Kate and Toby’s son, who has not been on the show for a long time.

Fogelman: “The dog is there. Nothing happened to him. We dealt with 15,000 screaming kids last season and the sound is very comfortable. I think after Katie and Toby divorced they shared custody and lived happily ever after after a very long and happy life.