#jac schaffer

Studio heads don't take risks and will often do what is tried and true and that meant playing it safe, and not offending anyone by never really confirming or denying certain relationships or their backgrounds. It isn't the same but I remember the days of swanqueen and supercorp

So I think Jac and Kathryn has talked in depth about her character's relationship with Rio and Nicky and both of them approached the story line with the assumption that Rio is the father

HOWEVER, Jac has to toe this very delicate line of appeasing the studio execs by not outright saying it because there will be too many questions and notes that it'll never fly, so she doesn't say it. actually shes adds in the script for Agatha to say Nicky is 'made from scratch', so you can possibly assume Agatha is the only parent. Throughout the show, they've insinuated as much as they can without outright stating that they're a family. Get as much past the studio and hopefully the audience can read between the lines.

But NOW? with the massive success of the show and knowing that studio execs probably won't have much to say since confirming it won't affect future storylines (assuming Nicky is really dead), Jac says it and confirms it. out loud.

It was all intentional. Casting a kid that looks like Aubrey, having Agatha give birth near a river (rio), having Nicky say "my 'mother' needs me home", showing how unphased Nicky was upon seeing Rio, Rio asking Nicky to kiss Agatha twice before leaving and Rio being offended with Agatha walking the road with another woman's kid. It was all intentional

It's so unexpected and I assume why Kathryn looked so emotional. Because they've had to quietly navigate this tricky line of telling the story they want to tell but also pacifying the people above. Jac did it!Not only are these two characters queer but she's also saying that they love each other so much they have a kid together. The how isn't important, it just is.

Jac wants us to follow the clues and figure things out. The secret isn't for secret's sake. It's for character and story's sake.

Other shows would keep the secret of Teen's identity until the penultimate episode, but not in this show. In this show, the revelation is the beginning.

And I love that for us.

In fact, they seem to skip over anything regarding the good doctor save for a few mentions here and there. They don't even devote a chapter to him in their Phase 3 section of the book FFS!!! I don't know, maybe it's just my copy of the book, but I feel like there were certain things they couldn't include because of Disney and/or Marvel trying to block them. Who can say?

There were two things of note regarding MoM I found interesting, though;

Apparently, Dan Harmon did an uncredited re-write for Multiverse. I don't know how much of his draft is in the final film, but that might explain some of the cynicism present in that movie. Don't get me wrong, I love Community (a show about how people are made better by being/growing with other people), and I think Dan's a great writer...it's just I feel that the further his career has gone on, the more nihilistic he's become and it reflects in his writing. Or maybe it's the writers he works with on Rick & Morty who reflect that, I don't know.

2. Apparently Michael Waldron and Jac Schaffer became friends during production of their respective shows and actually talked about how best to hand off Wanda from her show to his movie, breaking Marvel's Top Secret rule for each production…which is so strange to me.