I think it actually makes more sense for a new audience than the old show did because we're focusing on one character at a time. It's all conjecture why somebody didn't watch, but one of the theories was that there was just so much information, even in the trailers and promos, of all these different people.
Mitchell HurwitzWhat you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.
Mitchell HurwitzThe TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.
Mitchell HurwitzThere were a couple times when we started working out the stories - and I was doing this with Jim Vallely and our friend Dean Lorey, who was on the show originally - and we were working on a movie. There would be some fan fiction things that would scoop us. It happened a couple times, where I thought, "Well, we can't do that!"
Mitchell HurwitzIt's very easy I think when you're a creative person to wait for the right thing and to start getting self-conscious about how you are going to express what you do and what's special about you. I would say in general, a lot of times the answer is that you just dive into something and you find your own voice through that process.
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