What is the season/episode creation process?
A very involved question. Simply put, we begin with the plotting. We have a general idea for where we want the season to go and what the season’s theme is, which is mixed in with that season’s Big Bad. With that general framework we move to each character’s emotional arc and start brainstorming ideas for individual episodes. Getting any more detailed on the initial planning stages is really difficult … sometimes ideas come out of “Oo, this line is funny! Now let’s make an episode around it” and other times it’s a deep thematic purpose. It’s a strange thing.
