Warning: This article contains spoilers about the season 1 finale ofLocke & Key.
Well, how about THAT twist, huh?
Any viewers familiar with the source material may have noticed a significant difference in character dynamics on the show.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Dodge is Gabe!
Dodge has not been thrown through the Black Door.
Joe embraced it when we pitched it to him.
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For a variety of reasons it just felt like this was good.
Just to be specific: Gabe is always Dodge.
Gabe is an identity created by Dodge.
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This is not something you missed, this is just something were clarifying.
The Identity Key allows you to assume a new identity, but not the identity of an existing person.
Every time Gabe exists in our story, it is as Dodge.
Its just such an epic, epic key.
We always knew we wanted that.
Luckily we had an incredible director in Vincenzo Natali, who we collaborated with on this.
She has a plan all perfectly laid out and it works exactly as she hoped.
It was a lot of tricky choreography, but I think we really pulled it off.
Its tricky because you want everyone to be clever.
You want our heroes to think theyve defeated her, but also Dodge outsmarted them.
Our writers room knocked it out of the park.
Poor Ellie got thrown through the Black Door in Dodges place.
Lets just say there is more to come on that whole story line.
Its not fully resolved.
Darby is so fantastic in it.
Its such a creepy, gruesome sound effect.
Whats the story there?CUSE:Thats our producer, Rauf Glasgow.
Ive worked with him sinceLost.
He was responsible for creating a lot of the iconic sounds inLost.
Rauf spent a lot of time with sound designers on how to articulate fantasy in terms of sound.
Thats something you dont think about a lot.
We think about fantasy in terms of visual imagery.
But the sounds of fantasy are just as important.
Hes responsible for coming up with those sounds like that.
When Meredith and I heard them, we were super happy.
I really like the depiction of Rufus in the show.
The writers and actor Coby Bird really captured what I loved about the character in the comic.
We asked our amazing casting director, April Webster, to go on a huge, huge search.
He really had exactly what Rufus has on the page.
We just believed in him and Bodes friendship so much.
Coby has autism, and we think it was really important to us to cast it that way.
Coby did such an amazing job on the show.
Similarly to your question about Ellie, we hope to tell stories with him in the future.
It feels like his friendship with Bode is really special and important to the show.
But theres still more left.
Theres a murder mystery, theres family drama, theres teen drama, theres fantasy, theres horror.
We love so many of the relationships that have been created.
I think thats an achievable goal.
