I’m a person who loves tropes and I love sort of spinning them and [there was a trope that I wanted] to spin on its ear. There’s always a feeling that for a story to have a mythic power —for us to feel that it mattered and that the people mattered — well, then they have to die, because life and death is that important. But if death is all that is important, then I think you’re selling life pretty damn short, and I don’t want to do that. Right now, given the state the world is in, I don’t want to be part of that negativity.
I believe in these characters. I love the journey they’ve been on. I’ve loved watching the villains become quasi-anti-heroes and the heroes be challenged. And I don’t see why they have to die just because a lot of conventions within storytelling tell us that we need death to feel that there’s weight. The weight on this show has always been about love, and it’s always been about hope and family and those things shouldn’t have to end.
Michelle Lovretta (Killjoys creator and executive producer)
(via banrions)