Tim Kring Reveals that Volume 3 to Begin the Middle of Season 2!

This is a surprise. In an interview at the 2007 Comic Con, Tim Kring revealed some details about the upcoming Season 2, and how it relates to the show’s “volumes”, namely that Volumes 2 and 3 will not follow the pattern set by Volume 1, which took the entire season 1 to conclude. Instead, Volume 3 could possibly begin in the middle of Season 2, meaning that Volume 2: Generations will only last half a season.

Here’s the portion of the interview dedicated to Season 2:

CCI: What do viewers have to look forward to in volume two?

TK: Volume two may not last an entire season. It will pick up a few of the questions that will be left hanging in volume one. But you can look forward to the introduction of a new character and a villain and the idea of the show having a kind of global feel is only increased in volume two.

CCI: When you say volume two will not be an entire season, do you mean you’ll start volume three in the next season?

TK: Yes, volume three will start in the middle of the season or toward the end of the season. There is a complete season next year, with about 23 episodes, but the idea is that the show is told in volumes and each one is sort of looked at as one book in a series of books, and then we move on to another volume. This allows us to not get caught up in one giant story that needs to be dragged on. One of the lessons we’ve learned from other shows is that that you can’t (let the show) get wrapped up so tightly around itself that it doesn’t have any breathing room left. You can’t introduce any new concepts because you’re so busy on the freight train that is that story. The story becomes a big giant engine that gets harder and harder to hop off.

You can read the rest of the interview here.