Thread:Ttowen/@comment-1037137-20140802192156/@comment-1141831-20140803231010

Yeah, my source. Sorry I would love to reveal more about them, but I honestly can't; it's a journalist thing.

I think it's simply a case of them realizing they screwed up, but not wanting to admit their failure to Tom and Jen; who entrusted them with their 'baby', so they decide it best to cover their tracks and put it out anyway to make the air date.

I wish I was kidding, but it's right there in black and white. Marco has mentioned it on occasion and I wouldn't be surprised if it factored into Jon Cor leaving as well.

I'd say it played a major part in it. Typically development companies won't release important crew members just for an accidental slip; if that were the case, Christian Potenza would have been gone after the accidentally spoiler-filled tweets were sent out, or ending their partnership with CN after the site hack, or any other station after they air eliminations in commercials. I think if anything it was a case of him about to be reprimanded and deciding that with everything that had been happening, sleep deprivation included, that it would be better for him to just walk. He negotiated himself out of his contract, similar to what Chris Evans is doing with Marvel Studios, and went elsewhere (Young Justice and the like)

It's even worse because the VA's get little say in what happens to the characters. It is all supposed to be planned out when they map the season in pre-production. Sadly, they spend so much time fighting that any consistent storytelling is victim to harsh, last-second re-writes. I can't imagine what Peter Ordling went through in WT, or even Cle Bennett. Typically a show will only undergo re-writes during a hiatus, which since TD is an animated show, rarely happens in the genre. The first half of a season is used as an indicator of what works and what doesn't. An example of this is in The Walking Dead; Andrea was meant to make it through season 3, but due to her derailments in 2 and 3.1, they saw she was no longer working and killed her off in the reshoots.

This is, and it is the reason why RR is the last thread holding Hicks, Oliver, and Terry up. This is Hicks and Oliver's project they have been begging to do since the end of WT, now that Tom and Jen see that something must be done they are giving the duo one last shot to execute their dream project. Terry was placed in a high up spot for the very same reason.

Julie is now listening to us, which is great and all, but it is seriously far too late at this point. Change needs to happen yesterday, so hopefully we get some response in RR

Sure, just look me up on DeviantART: Ttowen1. I have episodes 1-12 of season one up right now and am working on 13. The Application is also there.