Drive

[Coffeecakes]

Motherfuckers! They didn't even put the two episodes online.

[whatever]

Here's info from Tim Minear on his website about how the season would have played out. Supposedly the 2 remaining eps will be up on Fox.com next week:



Some revelations:

* Alex Tully’s wife, Kathryn (Amy Acker), was probably working with race organizers before she ever met Alex.

* Eliza Dushku, who worked with Minear on “Angel,” might have been cast as a “Duel”-esque truck-driving sociopathic serial killer.

* In Ohio, Wendy Patrakas (Melanie Lynsky) would have rescued her baby from her husband, only to be captured herself.

* With the unexpected help of Ivy (Taryn Manning), Wendy and her baby would have escaped. Ivy would have bonded with Wendy’s baby on the road, and sacrificed herself to save him.

* Ellie (Mircea Monroe), the soldier’s wife, was secretly having an affair with Bill, the blue-eyed “race monitor.”

* Iraq vet Rob (Riley Smith) would have been court martialed and put in a military brig.

* Bill would have forced Ellie to break Rob out.

* Rob has a “special skill” useful to a race contestant.

* Rob would have hooked up with Leigh (Rochelle Aytes) in more ways than one.

* Rob might have found himself back soldiering in the Iraq desert, where he gets another race clue and is sent back into the race by a high-ranking officer.

* John Trimble (Dylan Baker) wasn’t really dying; race organizers gave him meds to make him feel sick so he would take more risks.

* As soon as John discovered he’s not dying, he would have gotten hit by a truck.

* Wendy was sponsored by an older couple who adopted Wendy’s first child, which Wendy believed dead.

* Wendy would have reunited with her long-lost first kid.

* John Trimble (Dylan Baker) was his own sponsor.

* Winston Salazar (Kevin Alejandro) was sponsored by his father’s trusted advisor, who was seeking to destroy the Salazar family and take control of their business.

* Ivy, Leigh and Susan (Michael Hyatt) were actually sponsorless, “selected by the race company to liven up the competition. Sort of like non-player ‘bots’ in a multiplayer videogame, according to Silverstein.

* Minear says “somebody” would have won the race.

* One episode might have centered on a brutal storm. Another on a 30-car pileup.

* Though Susan was revealed to have a penis in an early “Drive” pilot script, that appendage apparently dropped away somewhere in the development process.

* Had the show been renewed for a second season, a new race would have commenced utilizing old players and new.

[Casino Bride]

whatever said:

Here's info from Tim Minear on his website about how the season would have played out.

Damn! Most of those plot twists would have been so awesome to watch! (Especially Eliza D. - I lurve her.)

Thanks for the info, whatever!

Supposedly the 2 remaining eps will be up on Fox.com next week

I hope we eeeeeeevil Canucks will be able to see them. Last time I tried, Fox said they were only for Americans. Thanks a lot, a-holes; it's not like I pay extra for cable or anything.

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Nope - we Canucks are (most likely) totally screwed, since Global's lame-ass excuse for a website wouldn't be able to handle streaming video. (Assuming you can find it.)

[aibohphobia]

Thanks for the information. I only wish more producers would do that, so at least I might take a chance more often to watch things if I don't have to be afraid of never knowing what will happen at the end because of cancellation before that time.

* Alex Tully’s wife, Kathryn (Amy Acker), was probably working with race organizers before she ever met Alex.

I think I read a few theories about this, but it was so early in the season that there was little information about the wife to go on. There was some speculation that Caitlyn (?) or Katrina (?) or whatever her name was would hook up with Tully, so maybe at some point Tully would have found out and this would have given that relationship an opening.

* Eliza Dushku, who worked with Minear on “Angel,” might have been cast as a “Duel”-esque truck-driving sociopathic serial killer.

I wonder if she would have been the one that killed Susan, or if that would have been another person behind the race that hired someone to do that.

* With the unexpected help of Ivy (Taryn Manning), Wendy and her baby would have escaped. Ivy would have bonded with Wendy’s baby on the road, and sacrificed herself to save him.

Aw man, we would have finally got rid of Ivy had the series continued. Along with Ellie, she was my least favorite character.

* Rob would have hooked up with Leigh (Rochelle Aytes) in more ways than one.

Well, if I couldn't have got rid of Ellie by having her die in someway, at least it would have been nice to have Rob dump her and hook up with Leigh.

* Rob might have found himself back soldiering in the Iraq desert, where he gets another race clue and is sent back into the race by a high-ranking officer.
* John Trimble (Dylan Baker) wasn’t really dying; race organizers gave him meds to make him feel sick so he would take more risks.
* As soon as John discovered he’s not dying, he would have gotten hit by a truck.

The one about Rob's commanding officers being a part of the race seemed believable to me because I figure the race would need people like that to continue doing it for so long. The second one about John Trimble seemed to be one most people theorized on. I didn't see the truck thing coming though. It makes sense since Dylan Baker was never in the opening credits.

* Winston Salazar (Kevin Alejandro) was sponsored by his father’s trusted advisor, who was seeking to destroy the Salazar family and take control of their business.

It took me a minute to remember which was Winston and which was Sean.

* Minear says “somebody” would have won the race.

My money was on the old motorcycle couple that was only seen briefly.

[tamaradixon]

Small consolation: Nathan Fillion is returning to "One Life to Live" on August 17th. He'll be at 'Asa' 's funeral.

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And is joining Desperate Housewives next season, but not even he can make me turn on that show.

[Coffeecakes]

They didn't mention what happened to Sean Salazar?

[Casino Bride]

whatever said:

And is joining Desperate Housewives next season, but not even he can make me turn on that show.

Urgh, me neither! Oh well - they're sure to get cancelled as soon as he joins. ;D

To think that, right now, they're playing some frackin' Bones rerun instead of this. I just don't get it.

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casinobride said:

To think that, right now, they're playing some frackin' Bones rerun instead of this. I just don't get it.

Well, Bones gets better ratings. Which has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that all the publicity for Drive was in January and February, meaning people had to really remember that the show was going to air in April (since I don't remember much publicity around the time that Drive began to air.)