KYLE LAST MAN STANDING SERIES
That was the one scene that I wanted to allow the cast members to express their feelings for the series through the metaphor. And then we just saved the emotion until we got to the memorial scene. So that’s why, when Matt came up with the idea of using the truck as a metaphor for the show - something that you loved being taken from you that you worked on for a long time - we were able to kind of do an episode that would have been just a normal episode and wrap it around that.
We wanted to honor it and have it, but not to dwell on it. And then we felt like we would save the goodbye to the series for the second half of the show, and we wanted to confine that as much as possible. We did three storylines where we were kind of pointing the direction of where these characters are going to go on with their lives once the series itself ends, and address that that way. In the first half hour of the show, we told the individual stories. Essentially, what we decided to do was to split it into two halves. That is the big question that we asked ourselves, how do we do this so that it’s not just a maudlin, cryfest of an ending, because I think that would be untrue to what the series was. Our first and foremost job is to bring joy to people. We want to put people through things and get them to some really emotional truth, but always with fun. Matt and I always approached it with the sense that we want to base it on true emotion. TheWrap: How did you decide how heavy to go in the finale, in terms of the tone you wanted to close “Last Man Standing” on?Ībbott: We really like to have emotion in our show.
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