The Season 2 finale of The CW’s Beauty and Beast airs tonight. This season has been building up to an epic rematch between Jay Ryan’s Vincent and Hero's vet Sendhil Ramamurthy’s character Gabe.
The show’s executive producer, Brad Kern, recently spoke with TV Guide about the season finale, which will feature an epic rematch between Gabe and Vincent:
“I was hired after the end of the first season, but I personally felt like the Vincent-Gabe beast fight was not as cool as it could've been. With Vincent super-charged this year and wanting Gabe to be super-charged when we get to the end, it's fair to say the battle this year will be a bigger, more intense battle. It has to be if we're escalating Vincent's powers and the emotional energy behind both Vincent and Gabe vis-à-vis Cat; we wouldn't be doing our jobs if we didn't elevate the final battle.”
He went to talk about some Cat’s motivations in the last episode:
“Her concern in this last episode is more about Vincent surviving. The only way for Vincent to defeat this new, super-charged Gabe is to lose his humanity, and if he loses his humanity, he loses their love. Her concern is more about that than about Gabe, and she'll have to reach into her own place in the mythology to find the answer.“
Of course Beauty and the Beast has always been a love story, some might even say that is a “tale as old time.” However, the show’s extended hiatus hurt the structure of the timeless tale, as Kern adds:
“I didn't know they'd suspend the last six and had I known that up top, it would've been a whole different design. They just barely got back together again and then we're off the air for two months. So for me, that gap hurts us in terms of trying to show they earned their way back together again. We tried to adjust episodes 17-22 to have them fight for their love and no longer question whether they should or shouldn't be together because that's been answered. The question from 17 going forward is: How do they save their love and get to enjoy what they sacrificed and risked losing to get it back? That journey will continue now into Season 3.”
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