00:00What if I'm alone?
00:13What if I'm the only one?
00:14However, you're not alone.
00:15Someone out there wants me to find them.
00:16Time to jump!
00:17Ever!
00:18I think that's the great thing about science fiction, having talked to many people who
00:41have started or made it, it's about that optimism, it's about looking forward with a sense of
00:45hope, which is beautiful, and I've seen that a lot lately.
00:50Can you talk about using genre to do, specifically animation, to show these worlds and how they
00:56do it?
00:57Because obviously looking at these, how much did you understand the visual of what you
01:01were shown, what was going to happen versus the books?
01:05Because those are, it's two different things in your mind's eye.
01:08Totally, to an element you're thinking, okay, I know this creature is a water bear, and
01:14I can imagine that's really big, but then to see the renderings come back and to see
01:20the, then get them animated, it was, oh my God, it was, it's just like the best gig ever.
01:26You feel like, you know, you're literally in the ideal expression of like, what would
01:29it get to be an actor?
01:30And that's like, what would getting to be an actor look like?
01:33And it's like getting to live in imagination, and it does sort of feel like everybody is
01:37just like a kid in this collaboration.
01:39Everybody's so excited about, ooh, what if it did this, or what if it made this sound?
01:44That's all just so fun to get to be a part of realizing, you know?
01:49But I am absolutely drawn to science fiction.
01:52And I think right now is a beautiful time in our world for us to sit with science fiction
02:00and to allow it to help us to go, the world is changing.
02:03We feel always as if we're on a precipice of some sort or another, and whether we are
02:06right now in 2024, you know, with technology and AI and everything is obviously up for
02:12debate, you know?
02:12But when I look back historically, we've always felt like we're on a precipice of something.
02:16So to sit with your kids and assure them that the world is changing, but there is every
02:23reason to be hopeful, and they are equipped to handle and adapt and thrive.
02:28I feel like every generation is the right time for sci-fi, but I'm partial that right
02:32now feels like a specific, particularly important time.
02:34Hey, he's a friend.
02:36A friend?
02:37Uh-huh.
02:38Then what is his name?
02:39His name's Sheena.
02:41Right, Sheena?
02:42Oh, Shisha, vile human and that evil machine.
02:47Oh, we have had a day.
02:50Eva, where are we?
02:51It is against my programming to be out of Sanctuary.
02:54Ooh, too late for that.
02:56I'm not sure I compute what's going on here.
02:58Have you found the other humans?
03:00No, I haven't, but he has a Dynasty's patch.
03:04The aspect of story development and structure, you know, it's changed in the past 20 years.
03:10Oh, yeah.
03:11And how it needs to be approached.
03:12Can you talk about that, looking at the evolution of storytelling, not just because this is
03:17Apple TV+, but just in general, from your perspective?
03:21Well, that kind of falls into the category of episodic television versus serialized television
03:30and this sort of blending of what is a feature and what is a series now.
03:35And that's, you know, so in this case, having a quality, deep story, layered story and quality,
03:46you know, images in the world is going to elevate it up to being almost, you know,
03:51we really were aiming for feature quality.
03:53But unlike a feature, we're not limited to just, you know, an hour and a half or two
03:57hours, right?
03:57So, we can actually run multiple storylines.
04:00So, in this case, I had a bigger writer room than I've ever had before.
04:05Bigger sort of just production values that I've ever had in regards to the number of
04:11environments that we're creating for the show.
04:14So, but I think from a storytelling involvement, it's mostly about we're not limited to episodic,
04:21but we're also not limited to the time a feature would have.
04:23So, it's been very exciting for me because I've never done that before.
04:26Everything before this was mostly episodic.
04:28He is not human.
04:29Yet, we seem to understand him.
04:31Oh, that?
04:33Jar gum!
04:34Alien gum.
04:34Tastes like dirt, but magically makes you understand.
04:37I used it to fix you, which is probably why.
04:39Did you scan it?
04:41Of course.
04:42Did I scan it?
04:45Obviously.
04:46Alien substance was not scanned.
04:49Eva, what about him?
04:50Has he been scanned?
04:52Alien life form has not been scanned.
04:53Quiet!
04:54Mother!
04:55Please, let me handle him, okay?
04:57Listen, why don't you scan the area for other sanctuaries?
05:02Very well.
05:02That is the protocol.
05:05It's very lyrical, you know, and obviously with your dance background, all that kind of stuff,
05:09you know, but also being a Cuban American and everything like that, you understand sort of
05:14the rhythm, the idea, but also perspective and perception.
05:18How you have to perceive the world and the perspective within it.
05:21Can you talk about that within the guise of Eva and what she wants?
05:26What her goals and desires are, but what she needs to accomplish in your mind?
05:32Is it just survival or is it thriving?
05:36Man, I mean, I hope for everybody that they could move past survival and get to live and
05:43thrive, you know, and thriving.
05:45I think for Eva, she's so mission oriented.
05:48I think as young people, we are.
05:49We're so excited about what it is we're setting out to do and to contribute and to be a part
05:54of something bigger than ourselves.
05:57And, you know, the challenge just becomes even bigger for her when she emerges onto
06:03the surface of Rabona.
06:04She realizes I'm actually not prepared at all for this world.
06:08I don't know how to interact with it.
06:10But what I loved was that she approached interacting with it with compassion and curiosity.
06:18And she doesn't have a nature of destruction.
06:21You know, it's I think that's true to us.
06:24I think we don't that isn't our nature, you know, and the found family that she forges
06:30on that way.
06:33She doesn't in the great tradition of sci-fi, you know, she this as a genre, she does not
06:40see it as something that's just tolerated.
06:43She sees it as something to be celebrated, the differences that she is encountering and
06:47all these alien species.
06:49And I love the family that she forges sort of ragtag group.
06:53It's so good.
06:54I don't have information on restricted areas.
07:02Wanda, is someone looking for me?
07:08Intruder in sanctuary.
07:10What is that thing?
07:11I do not know.
07:11This vent shaft leads to the surface.
07:14Go!
07:16Whoa.
07:19Where am I?
07:20But that's what and then taking it to obviously what we're seeing today, because everything
07:24else influences everything else, you know, all your experiences, but it's like bringing
07:29in the aspect of mother of what, you know, computer intelligence can offer us, but where
07:34empathy sort of falls short, and you need those real life explorations into the unknown.
07:40Could you talk about that?
07:41Because that thematic and that mythology is so important to the story of Eva.
07:46Yeah, you know, it's funny, you're hitting on a couple different things.
07:48I mean, when I set out to write it in the book, mother, again, as a new parent, mother
07:54was like the helicopter parent, right?
07:56That was me going, will I be a helicopter parent?
07:58Like, I'm worried.
07:59Or will I be more like my dad was in the 70s, which is Rovender, which is like, hey, be
08:04home when the streetlights are on.
08:05Don't get hit by a car.
08:07You know, I'll see you for dinner.
08:09And, you know, the truth is, as parents, we're kind of wrestling with both of these things
08:13and trying to find the best, be the best parents we can be.
08:16But what I didn't anticipate was how quickly AI would become ever present and that here
08:24we are, you know, and I think within another decade, you know, we're going to see some
08:29insane things, maybe for the better, maybe not so much.
08:34But the idea of a robot caretaker doesn't seem that far off now, does it?
08:43I mean, it doesn't.
08:44I feel like we could see that in our lifetime.
08:47And so and at the time, I was trying to think of way beyond, you know, where we are now.
08:53So it is a fascinating concept of, you know, man makes machines and then the machines help
09:04make the man, you know, by raising us and informing us and educating us.
09:08But they're only, I think, as we're seeing in AI, they're only limited by what input
09:15we've given them.
09:16And AI doesn't lie, but it doesn't know the truth from non-truths either.
09:25She is a human.
09:28Okay, someone had a little too much to drink.
09:32No one have seen human for a long time.
09:34If this is Earth, what happened?
09:37And where is everybody?
09:39You are looking for answers.
09:42I want to know what happened to the humans.
09:44Oh my.
09:47Something so fragile should not be so bold.
09:50Perhaps that is why you're the last of your kind.
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