FYI:
The style I tried
to shoot for with this episode was Brian DePalma's style, from the
movies "Untouchables" and especially "Mission: Impossible."
The idea behind the
conversation Blough and Delta have is that Blough never ordered Delta's
death and that Ghost went behind his back to kill Delta. Ghost
disliked Delta because he still outranked him, even though he was really
messed up.
We finally got to
do our first montage: training.
Josh's training was
extremely hectic. It was what led to his character getting killed
off. Basically, Josh needed to go through the training for it to
seem believable that he could take the World Crime League down by
himself. Josh hated the training and the exercises he had to do.
He didn't want to work at all. When we got out there to film, I
myself was feeling pretty down about The Saga and even wondering if we
should keep making them, nobody seemed to care at all. This
combined with the fact that Josh was being difficult didn't make things
better. So when Nic suggested killing him off, I saw the new
possibilities for The Saga. And by Josh dieing, he becomes a
tragic figure, and the viewer automatically sees the tragic figure's
fiend as more of a fiend and their mentor as more of a hero.
Basically, after
Josh went through his training, he would get new sunglasses and guns,
and he and Nic would take the WCL down.
After the montage
ends, Nathan can be seen flying across the sky. I took a small
picture of Nathan and had it transition across the screen. I've
heard it looked like a kite and a playing card.
It was Matt Czapar
who yanked Josh back.
Originally, Nic
yelled, "Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahn!" just as a joke. Then
we realized that we needed to dub something over it since Nic would not
yet know who Kahn even was.
I wanted the first
shot of Jordan to tell the viewer a lot. First, he's smoking.
The truth is that Tim has cancer (medicinal marijuana), and that is why he was such a great
fighter in Vietnam, because he wasn't afraid to die. After some
time, he has become adjusted to it and no longer wants to die, and thus
is afraid to die. Secondly, he has a gun in his hands, meaning he
is afraid. Jordan is no longer a warrior like Nic, he was kicked
out because of the drugs.