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Noah took Alison away from a marriage that was very much in trouble, then ultimately didn’t love her as much, or in the way that Cole did. TVLINE | I never doubted that Noah loved Alison, but it was a very different kind of love, which Noah himself suggested to Helen during the previous episode. Of course, Alison is her own woman, and she made her own choices, but he didn’t. The idea was that he failed her mother at a certain point in his life he was young, he was thinking about himself and he was selfish, and he failed to basically send Alison home and back to Cole. TVLINE | And why was it important to have him reconnect with Joanie? It seemed like he should be there at the end. He was the first character we see, so he was always going to be the last character we see. In a lot of ways, this was always Noah’s series. TVLINE | Why did you have Noah show up in the future timeline? I think it gave us a much more interesting story to tell. Then I don’t know if it was the writing, or the acting, or both - probably both - but it just started to feel like the real love affairs were between the original couples, which is great. When we first came into the show, I thought the concept was, “What happens to two people if they’re both married, but they think they’ve met their soulmates?” So originally it was going to be that Noah and Alison were soulmates, but that’s just not how it evolved organically, which I found really interesting. So that was the original conceit, and as the show evolved, it evolved to include Cole and Helen’s perspectives. They were going to start off in this hot and heavy love affair, and in the end, they were going to basically find their way back to the same sort of staid marriage they both felt they had come out of.
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It was only going to be Noah and Alison’s POVs. When we initially thought of the show, it was a three-season arc, and the idea was that it was going to be kind of a Take This Waltz scenario. TVLINE | Were Noah and Helen always destined to find their way back to each other, even when you first conceived of the show? Or has the ending evolved a little - or a lot - over time? In finally going back to Alison’s deposition and hearing it again through her perspective, it leads him to this awareness of how he must have treated Helen, which leads to their reconciliation. He then starts to think about what it must have been like for Helen. He finally understands what was happening for her in that moment. So when he says, “Alison, I’m so sorry,” I think that’s what he’s apologizing for. What she needed was a friend, or some kind of support. He sees a woman who had just lost her child and was suffering, and who probably didn’t need a lover at that point. And when he it again through her perspective, instead of seeing this wild child, or this fantasy that he had of as this free, expressive kind of lover that he had, suddenly he sees a woman in grief. But in order for a character to quote unquote change, specifically for the Noah Solloway character to change, we thought, “What would it take for him to see something through somebody else’s perspective? What if Noah were to go back and re-remember what happened all of those years ago, but this time see it through Alison’s perspective?” That was the idea behind it. The idea for Noah Solloway, and the show as a whole, is that everybody sees things from their own perspective, and that everybody is trapped in the prism of their own perspective, so we see events radically different from other people based on who we are, where we came from, what our own memories are… All of that influences the way that we see a scene. Can you talk a little bit about the significance of that scene, and how it set up the end of Noah’s arc? You also included flashbacks that were previously part of Alison’s perspective. TVLINE | Before we dive into the finale, I wanted to circle back to penultimate episode, wherein Noah listened to Alison’s Season 1 deposition. (For Part 2 of our post mortem about Alison and Cole, click here.)
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It was the dance he choreographed for Whitney’s wedding, and the song was a heartwarming cover of The Waterboys’ “The Whole of the Moon,” as performed by Apple.īelow, series co-creator Sarah Treem divulges on the fates of Noah, Helen and Joanie, reveals why Ben was never brought to justice for Alison’s murder, and explains the significance of the last scene. Then, in the very last scene, Noah trekked to a bluff that overlooked the ocean and started to dance - but it wasn’t just any dance, or any song. The Affair EP Laments Cole and Alison's 'Fairytale Love,' Suggests That They Were Always 'Doomed'Īffair EP Says That 'There Wouldn't Have Been Enough' for Joshua Jackson to Do If He Returned for Season 5