Owen, Tarlos Endings and ABC Spin -Off Planning

Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers from the Serief final of Monday of Fox’s “9-1-1: Lone Star”, entitled “Homecoming”.

After five seasons of life-saving, it is time to thank the 126 for their service and say goodbye to “9-1-1: Lone Star.” In the series-final episode of the Ryan Murphy-created Fox first-responder Drama, a spin-off of the series “9-1-1” (which is now broadcast on ABC), Owen Strand (Rob Lowe) saves the day And all Austin, Texas – by deactivating a nuclear reactor that was deposited by an asteroid collision.

It is the Big Bang-Einde that “9-1-1” franchise fans expected from a show that defies himself on his more and more wild emergency situations, and a heartbreaking to the last moments. After a short fake out, it was revealed that Owen survived his injuries during the emergency situation and left the 126 to return to New York. The station is mourning the loss – but no loss of to live – of his former captain as the title goes on to Judd (Jim Parrack). Owen’s son, TK (Ronen Rubinstein), and his husband Carlos (Rafael Silva) appear to honor the transition, although TK has now been withdrawn from work to raise Jonah, his little-brother adopted son with Carlos.

It is a bittersweet end that Lowe was proud to continue after all the work that Owen has submitted to save the 126 after the death of so many of his original squadrans, who followed his own struggles after losing his team in the 9/11 attacks.

“He had completed his mission, his mission of the show, the conception of the show, and from the very first moment of the pilot, who: rebuild his family, rescue his son and then rebuild the shattered family of the 126 in Austin, ‘Lowe told Variety. “And he leaves the 126 in Austin completely rebuilt, fully functional, a great family – and the same for his son. And now it’s time for Owen to go into, because he goes to the east, the sunrise, not the sunset, and building the next chapter of his life. “

In the meantime, TK has chosen his own path by leaving his boss Tommy (Gina Torres), who has recovered from Cancer (after being very unwell in the previous episode!), And the other EMTs on the 126 for the father /”staying at home /” Dad Bro ”role in his new life with Carlos and Jonah.

“Once we introduced Jonah, you felt that this could be where the direction for Tarlos is going,” said Rubinstein about where we leave the fan favorite couple consisting of TK and Carlos. “For me personally it is extra surrealistic. The show really seems to chase life and to imitate art very often for all my big moments of life. And while we were filming season 5, I got a baby on the road, and I now have a son who just turned four months old. And knowing that the direction of the season would be that I have a son in the show, it is so bizarre.

“I think it is a real cathartic, beautiful complete circle of how I wish we would end the show for these two. And for TK it is really a long and happy for them, and a nice way to leave these characters. “

With “9-1-1” still strong on his new network ABC and “Lone Star” is canceled at FOX, mainly due to complications around Disney’s ownership of the studio of the franchise, 20th television, not the lack of popularity-lough , Rubinstein and Silva has all shown interest in repeating their roles, either on the Los Angeles-Set “9-1-1” or the upcoming spin-off in the works at ABC.

“I never say anything,” said Lowe. “I learned that a long time ago. It is always a function of, what is the story, what is the script, who does it, how good is the show? Is it a cheaper, wannabe version, or does it continue to have the kind of production value that we are really proud of that we have done in our show?

“Who knows?” Lowe concluded. “We will have to see what everything looks like.”

Rubinstein says it would be “a bit impossible to say no”, and Silva thinks there is still “so much good chance of building the world” for their characters. So add them.

Here, “Lone Star” Showrunner Rashad Raisani is talking Variety About how he made the final with co-maker Tim Minear, so that these characters could return to the universe “9-1-1” (Raisani is also a writer and producer on the mother ship “9-1-1”) and what It took to attract that great budget emergency.

There are a few minutes of the final devoted to showing Verizon’s Thor (Tactical Humanitarian Operations Response) trucks. How did this prominent product placement come about in the series “9-1-1: Lone Star” series?

It’s funny, if you try to do things just as ambitious as we are, you are always directly on the line of your financial capacity to do them. And so there is always something that you can give a boost, making it a little more great, I am in favor. And it just happened so that Verizon offered this piece of technology that only kismet, the universe, God put it on the path. It is the perfect thing that fits on what we are going to do, what the stars fall and they knock -out cell towers knockout, and what if there is a huge emergency that nobody can achieve help?

Yes, it was at the end of the day, about the cold, hard money – but I have been part of my career in many years I was once done. Because what is cool, minus a beauty shot or two, this is what would really happen. Like when the fires touch, they really did that Implement the Thors. It actually saves something. So that made me good about it, and to be honest, to be grateful for Verizon for helping both of us on the screen with their technology and the things that really great work, and also financially, to make us a cooler final To let them tell, because we had some of the means to do that. They saved the day and our budget.

You took us out for a minute, but Owen did not died, Tommy did not died – nobody died in the final. Why did you make that choice?

Part of it was ironically that I had decided that I didn’t want to kill anyone in the serial final, because I just had the feeling that I wanted to end this show with a feeling of hope that went out, and that life goes in a beautiful way. Because the world is hard enough and that we are being canceled, just as we touched our prime, it was so painful that we just had the feeling: “Well, ending it will be difficult enough, so let’s end with hope.” And then I thought: “Well, if that is the case, if we will end with hope, let’s let everyone suffer as much as possible until we arrive there.” Because that feeling of joy at the end, it takes you a second to go: “Oh, this is beautiful!” I really wanted that, and it’s how we felt when we break it. Hopefully this feeling is that we broadcast for the public the same that we have, that is that if we can do these scenes in the right way – he is gone, that is sad that he has left. But for these characters they have real conversations when they talk about him, and of course we reveal the audience that he lives all the time. He is just here in a very different capacity than he was for the most part of our series.

Do you bring these characters back to “9-1-1” or set up the new spin-off at ABC?

I hope so. I hope that will happen. I certainly wouldn’t say no to it. That’s one of the beautiful things about life, who knows that? Maybe they come to LA or where this next is set, or someone from those shows will end up in Texas, and we can find a few of our characters who represent the 126.

I would love it. I like to work with each of them. I thought they were all beautifully talented and I felt that we had more stories to tell for them all. So it would delight me.

This interview has been edited and condensed.