There was another big transmedia event recently with that surprise epilogue. Is that the last big event that we are going to get?
As far as in the story, I think so, but I never want to promise stuff because there’s always the possibility that we’ll pull something out.
I imagine all the Twitter accounts will be hanging around?
They’ll be there. And we know that Gigi is going to Sanditon, and that Gigi’s good friends with Fitz, and has a brother named Darcy.
And he’s dating a girl called Lizzie…
Yeah, exactly. There’s a connective tissue there that still goes with it. What we have accomplished really is we got to Lizzie’s last vlog. And what we have said – well Lizzie has said – is she’s not doing any more videos. We haven’t said this for anyone else, technically. Gigi hasn’t said it, Maria hasn’t said it, Lydia hasn’t said it. So we’re open to other content there, epilogue-ish. But one, I don’t like spoiling stuff, and two, I don’t like promising stuff. I don’t like promising stuff that I don’t know if I’m going to keep.
But it’s not outside the realm of possibility that there will be things popping up on these accounts in the future?
Absolutely. For example, there’s a lot of fan support for having more Lydia videos, and I see it, I see why it should be – but I also see why it shouldn’t be, I also see why it could be later, and also why it shouldn’t be later. Every option was there. I always get asked about the Lydia videos, and here are the options. Number one, We see a Lydia video before the end of Lizzie Bennet Diaires – well we didn’t see that, so that’s gone. Number two, we see Lydia videos after the end of Lizzie Bennet Diaries – still an option. Or, we don’t see Lydia videos at all, ever again – also an option. So we had three options, one is gone, two are in play, we’ll see what happens.
In hindsight, is there a specific character or a storyline that you wish that you could change, or any aspect of the show that you would do differently if you were given another chance?
Before the show started, when it was just Hank and I, we talked about what we wanted to do to make the show unique. And the one thing I remember centering on personally was to have the Jane in LA story, and we didn’t get that. Well, we kind of did, we got it through Lydia, but we really didn’t. I really wish I had figured it out, and had the resources and the time, to do something there. I felt bad that we didn’t.
The Jane character is awesome, and she’s so dynamic especially with the fashion connection, I really thought I could have figured out a way to give her a story that we could have seen as a spin-off. So much that I grabbed that “looksbyjane” YouTube account very early in the story, I grabbed it right after we launched and was like, “Alright, I’m ready to go!” And never figured it out, never got the resources, just couldn’t do it. That’s the one that I’ll look back on, not regretful, but I kind of wish I had pulled that one off.
I don’t even know what it would have been now. If you said, “Timemachine, you’re back then, here’s the money – what are you going to do?” I don’t even know what it would have been. But I really wanted to show you that story somehow, and I feel like we didn’t get to it. People ask if I regret doing this, do I regret doing that. I still feel the sex tape was the only way to go, and so does my team, so I have never regretted that. I understand the criticism for it, I get it, but as a choice to cover the story, it still made sense to me and to the team.
In part 2: Bernie Su talks ‘Welcome to Sanditon,’ the next series, and more
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