The Midnight Club could have been disbanded for good, however its creator Mike Flanagan has delivered on his promise to disclose every part in wake of the present’s current Netflix cancellation.
In a Tumblr put up Friday, Flanagan spilled all of it, answering followers’ questions that have been left hanging from that relatively open-ended Season 1 finale and revealing what would’ve been your entire arc for Season 2.
After noting his “disappointment” that Netflix determined towards pursuing a second season (Flanagan and his accomplice Trevor Macy have inked a manufacturing cope with Amazon Studios), the author/director started by detailing Season 1’s massive cliffhanger: Dr. Stanton’s bald head and previous. The physician was enduring chemotherapy for her personal sickness, however that tattoo? She was a part of the unique cult throughout her teenage years!
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(*2*)“Dr. Stanton is actually the daughter of the original Paragon cult leader, Aceso,” wrote Flanagan. “Her nickname was Athena, she wrote the Paragon journal that Ilonka found in Season 1. She turned on her mother and helped the kids escape, but because she was part of the cult in her teenage years, she had the tattoo.”
The initials Ilonka discovered carved within the tree (G.B.) stood for Georgina Ballard — the doc’s maiden identify. But the physician’s illness would’ve gone into remission, and he or she would’ve continued to look after the terminal children at Brightcliffe.
As for the creator’s tease about who Death was? That would’ve been the janitor (performed by Robert Longstreet), however nobody however the dying children noticed him. He served to supply them type phrases earlier than they handed on. And the Shadow? That was an thought taken immediately from Christopher Pike’s Remember Me novel.
“The Shadow is THEMSELVES,” he revealed. “It’s the Unknown. As it engulfs someone, in the last moment of their life, it takes them through a place of understanding and catharsis, preparing them for the next step. THIS is what happened to Anya in Season 1 when the Shadow finally reached her — that’s why she fantasized a life beyond Brightcliffe, which ultimately let her find acceptance of her death. It looks different for everybody, depending on their mind-set — because it is simply an extension of themselves.”
The Mirror Man and the Cataract Woman have been, after all, Stanley Oscar Freelan and his spouse, who initially constructed Brightcliffe.
As for the Season 2 that may by no means be, Flanagan supplied the next particulars for followers to chew on:
* The starting of the season would’ve closely targeted on Amesh’s deteriorating well being, as his glioblastoma rapidly superior. A love story between him and Natsuki would’ve developed, however Amesh would’ve ultimately died, adopted shortly by Natsuki.
* In a determined ploy to maintain Kevin alive a short while longer, Ilonka would’ve informed the membership the story from Remember Me with — look forward to it — Anya (Ruth Codd) portraying the primary character! That story would’ve been stretched throughout 5 episodes. “Remember Me is one of my all-time favorite Pike books,” stated Flanagan. “It tells the story of a teenage girl who is pushed off a balcony and awakens as a ghost. She has to navigate being a spirit while trying to solve her own murder…. We were going to use it as a vehicle for Ilonka to try to come to terms with the fact that she is going to die, and to begin to trying to wrap her head around being a ghost.”
* Advancements in HIV therapy within the late ’90s would’ve given Spence a very completely different prognosis. He’d “ride the swell of antiviral advancements,” and by the tip of the season, would now not be terminal. He’d depart Brightcliffe simply as Sandra did to dwell out the remainder of his life.
* Both Kevin and Ilonka would’ve died on the finish of the season, however right here’s the place it will get complicated. “There’s a reason that Ilonka only sees Stanley in the mirror, and sees the Cataract Woman whenever she looked at Kevin. This is something else we took from Pike’s original book… these aren’t ghosts, but glimpses of PAST LIVES. Ilonka WAS Stanley Oscar Freelan, and Kevin WAS his wife. They’ve lived many lives this way, and are true SOUL MATES — they always find each other, and they always fall in love. In this life, they knew it would be a short one, so they agreed to find each other in the house they built.”
Back in September, Flanagan informed TVLine, “If you haven’t read The Midnight Club, the epilogue of the book is very important to us. That’s as much as I can say about that.” (Well, that explains that!)
How do you are feeling about how Season 2 would’ve formed up? Did Flanagan preserve his promise to offer us solutions or what? Leave your type phrases of mourning within the feedback under.
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