![]() Rather than the character losing her powers as punishment for greed, Alina's fate may be much darker. She also brings Mal back to life using Merzost (dark magic), something that doesn't happen in the books. One such important storyline involving Alina is a complete shift from the books, because the character does not lose her powers when Mal sacrifices himself so she can receive the third amplifier, as written in the trilogy. So, it was about having a lot of mouths to feed really." "And when you have a cast list as big and exciting as ours, we knew right away that we needed to find as aerodynamic as possible a story that allowed us to hit on the moments with Alina's development and her arc but then allowed us to shift over to any of Nikolai's team, or the Crows, or any number of other new characters that we had introduced here. "The discoveries we made in the first five weeks of the writers room, when we were looking at Season 2, were major tectonic shifts for us, in that we realized so much of Siege and Storm-because it's solely through Alina's point of view-didn't give us much interaction with other major characters," Heisserer said. Heisserer explained that streamlining the story to include plotlines from multiple books "came down to necessity" given the show's large cast. Season 2 of Shadow and Bone adapts the last two books in the titular trilogy, named Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising respectively, and it takes elements from Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom while also setting up the story for the King of Scars duology from Bardugo's series. Showrunner Eric Heisserer spoke to Newsweek about the show's unexpected twist relating to the two characters. Jessie Mei Li (L) and Ben Barnes as Alina Starkov and General Kirigan, aka The Darkling in "Shadow and Bone" Season 2. 'Shadow and Bone' Showrunner Eric Heisserer Explains Alina's Dark Finale Twist Warning: This article contains spoilers for Shadow and Bone Season 2. The Netflix hit's new season sees Alina Starkov (Jessie Mei Li) and Mal Oretsev (Archie Renaux) join forces with ally Nikolai Lantsov (Patrick Gibson) in order to find the final two amplifiers she needs to increase her powers to take down General Kirigan, aka The Darkling (Ben Barnes), and tear down the Shadow Fold.Īs she does this, the Crows -Kaz Brekker (Freddy Carter), Inej Ghafa (Amita Suman), and Jesper Fahey (Kit Young)-plot revenge against Pekka Rollins (Dean Lennox Kelly) with the help of Nina Zenik (Danielle Galligan) and Wylan Hendricks (Jack Wolfe).īut Alina's story in particular takes an unexpected turn in the finale, and Heisserer spoke to Newsweek about the decision and why other major changes were made to the original books. ![]() Shadow and Bone Season 2 doesn't follow the exact trajectory of Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse novels but certain changes were necessary to make, showrunner Eric Heisserer told Newsweek.
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