It took our intrepid staff of astronauts 10 episodes and about 1,000,000 sudden catastrophes, however they lastly made it to Mars! Away‘s season finale was a tense, however finally rewarding, episode that might function an honest collection finale, however govt producer Andrew Hinderaker has loads of plans for the longer term.
After safely making it all the way down to Mars and taking a gaggle photograph collectively — as an alternative of the solo certainly one of Yu (Vivian Wu) as requested — the message viewers have been left with because the season wrapped up was finally certainly one of hope. We’re fairly far-off from a contented ending nonetheless, contemplating the mission has actually solely simply begun. If all goes as deliberate, Emma (Hilary Swank) and her crew will likely be on Mars for over a 12 months earlier than heading again on a equally harmful journey again to Earth.
In actual fact, if Netflix chooses to inform the entire story, we could possibly be taking a look at no less than three extra seasons.
“The dream is to inform the whole lot of the mission,” Hinderaker informed TV Information. “It is like eight months there, 14 months on Mars, eight months again, after which there’s going to be a 12 months the place they’re again, and it is going to be so eventful. Alexis (Talitha Bateman) begins our collection as a freshman, and the 12 months that Emma can be residence can be her senior 12 months… the time interval that we’re serious about are these 4 years.”
That definitely appears like 4 seasons price of story to us, although Hinderaker was fast to make clear that wasn’t essentially the case. The time intervals they need to discover transferring ahead will matter greater than a desired variety of seasons or episodes.
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Personally, we’re excited to see what new obstacles the mission encounters whereas on Mars. Spending a whole 12 months as the primary individuals to reside on an alien planet appears like one hell of a visit, but when their first eight months in house have been any indication, the wrestle to outlive is not over but. Based mostly on the preliminary plans for Season 2, we’ll be coping with a good looking, if lethal, new journey for the staff.
“We have been simply talking with the astronaut Don Pettit about Mars, and he was speaking concerning the planet reminding us sunsets there are blue, and that there are two moons, and that there is a Grand Canyon on Mars. It is sort of just like the one on Earth besides if ours on Earth went from Arizona to New York. There are these qualities which might be unbelievably, spectacularly awe-inspiring. Essentially the most beautiful issues that Emma has ever seen and he or she’s seeing them not along with her household on Earth, however along with her household up on Mars.”
Given how visually beautiful Season 1 was, we’re crossing our fingers for a Season 2 renewal simply so we get to see these blue sunsets.
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In keeping with Hinderaker although, the Mars story-arc is not the leg of the journey that he and the writing staff are most excited to inform. As an alternative, they’re crossing their fingers they get to play the story out to the top when the astronauts are safely again on Earth and readjusting to life there.
“The half that we’re most enthusiastic about is when the crew returns residence and what it means to be away now that you simply outline ‘residence’ as being on one other planet,” mentioned Hinderaker. “You recognize, a whole lot of the astronauts we have talked to speak concerning the dislocation. They have been in house, after which they arrive again to Earth, and they need to be so elated, [but] all they need to be is again up in house.”
Away is presently streaming on Netflix.
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