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multimetaverse · 6 years ago

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Road to the Finale

Josh’s confirmation that S3 will only have 21 eps clarifies a lot of things. I guess we should divide S3 into 3a, 3b, and 3c now for starters. Although his confirmation that what they filmed this past week was 3x19 confuses things as Trent had said that the Wedding episode was 3x19.

The wedding in what is either 3x18 or 3x19 is the real wedding and Bex and Bowie get married there. It’s possible Trent misspoke because the wedding is an hour long but it seems very odd to have an hour long wedding a couple eps before the finale and then have a half hour long season and series finale. Their filming schedule got super messy in October and November: they filmed 3x15, then two weird weeks of which one should be 3x16, 3x17 we know when they filmed because of the Rachel and bowling extras casting call, and then the wedding in either 3x18 or 3x19 before thanksgiving. There was a leak that the title for 3x17 was ‘’I Do-Over’’ which I think is likely true. This suggests that Bex tries for a courthouse wedding in 3b and it fails and then she later decides to accept Celia’s wedding plans.

Muffy is canon by 3x18 or 3x19 depending on when the wedding is. The reason that the show went so hard with Muffy in eps 16-18/19 is because they had no other choice. If Buffy’s mom returns in 3c it’s likely between eps 16-18.

Terri’s original plan was to canon Tyrus before the wedding and when that got scrapped Josh started downplaying expectations. Cyrus is either alone at the wedding or Amber is his plus one. Cyrus’ dance class seemingly disappears after ep 9, perhaps because it was supposed to pay off at the wedding as part of the original Tyrus plan.

Tyrus has to canon in either ep 19 or 21, there’s no other time for it to happen in 3c. In ep 19 it looks like Jandi and Tyrus are at a game together. This may possibly be the 3rd times the charm group date that finally goes well. If Tyrus is allowed to have an actual textual confession than this would be the place for it to happen. If the Wedding is also in an hour long 3x19 though then they won’t canon in that ep. If Disney is going to make Cyrus go alone to the wedding then I’d hope they’d at least not have TJ be in part of the ep before the wedding.

A plus one wedding invite is off the table which limits the shows options. One possibility is that with Amber being in 4 eps in a row including ep 19 she let’s slip for whatever reason that when somebody looks back at you it means they like you and that spurs Cyrus to talk to TJ, if there’s a double Tyrus lookback in eps 13/14 then this becomes much more likely. More unlikely but possible is that Jonah mentions what a look back signifies as he’s the only character other than Amber who knows what they mean. Josh answered an ask about what Cyrus meant when he called TJ oblivious at the swings scene 2.0 and given that he would have read the final scripts by now this could mean that it does in fact pay off and Tyrus has another flirty quarrel that ends in a confession.

Part of the finale will likely focus on Buffy’s last game. The reason why the basketball team in general and Kira as a character have such large gaps in appearances is because the show had to choose between Muffy or basketball. It’s likely that Kira won’t be all that developed and that the Kira and Cyrus and TJ friendship they set up in 3b doesn’t really get off the ground.

Amber being in seemingly in every ep between 16-19 is likely to wrap up her redemption arc and because she’s taking up some of the screen time, especially at the wedding, that would have gone to TJ in Terri’s original plan.

The other major plot line in ep 21 will probably be Jandi getting together. If Disney allows a textual canon for Tyrus then it would flow very well to have canon Muffy in 3x18 or 3x19, canon Tyrus in 3x19, and canon Jandi in 3x21. If Tyrus doesn’t canon in ep 19 then they’ll be reduced to a Korrasami style subtextual get together in the shadow of Jandi’s reunion. I’m sure all the other ships will have their moments in the finale as well as will the GHC.

Jandi is going to have quite the wild ride in the last 14 eps: Jibby sinking, Jonah’s home life being explored, Andi learning about his panic attacks, growing closer, and finally getting back together.

The show spending a 3rd of S3 having Andi and Buffy’s friendship collapse will rank among their biggest mistakes when all is said and done. We can also rule out TJ’s mental health story line being anything major, there just isn’t enough time for anything big. Cyrus’ parents likely won’t be in the series finale so if Cyrus isn’t allowed some sort of coded ‘’we’ll always love you Cyrus no matter what’’ moment with his parents then he’s never coming out to them. We now know why the show never bothered to keep Wandi alive or introduce a new love interest for Andi or keep Jibby afloat past ep 9, there just wasn’t time. Giving 5 eps to Walker certainly seems like a waste of screen time now. And why they didn’t end the series with the wedding I have no idea.

The total budget for 26 produced eps in S2 was $18.8 million while the total budget for 21 eps in S3 was $19.4 million. That works out to an average ep budget of almost $924 000 compared to an average of $723 000 an ep for S2. Some of that goes to Trent’s increased salary as a series regular and the rest has gone to the great on location filming they’ve been doing.

Disney did a similar thing with GMW, they raised the ep order for S2 then went back to a regular order for the final season. And with the low ratings they likely can’t afford to spend this much on a potential S4 anyways.

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