SEAL Group ended its sixth season, leaving us questioning the place Bravo goes from right here, contemplating that your complete crew — and different SEALs — spoke up as Jason Hayes (David Boreanaz) confronted command after going public together with his TBI.
However we have now extra burning questions for a possible Season 7 than that. (The sequence has but to be renewed by Paramount+, neither is there any phrase about that film that was introduced in February). Was the episode wherein Clay died the final time we’ll see Max Thieriot? What modified because of killing him off? We turned to showrunner Spencer Hudnut to get solutions to these and extra.
Is it doable we’d see Max once more in a flashback sooner or later?
Spencer Hudnut: We’ve completed issues like that previously. I simply suppose a part of this choice was that simply to complete Max’s work this season was such a wrestle. The thought of with the ability to plan forward and determine that out simply appears arduous, however we’ll by no means say no to something. Clay’s legacy will dwell on throughout the present. And yeah, if there’s a chance the place we may do one thing like that, I’d be all for it as a result of he’s such an enormous a part of the present.
How a lot would Stella (Alona Tal) be a part of Season 7?
I believe she will certainly be a part of it. In making that call, if Clay and Stella drove off from the sundown, you [would] lose each these characters. One of many outstanding issues concerning the navy is the way in which this household and group come collectively and exhibiting that, exhibiting how individuals step up in occasions of tragedy. One thing we’ve type of misplaced on this nation is that sense of group. Highlighting that and exhibiting these individuals coming collectively for one another, which is what makes the larger navy household so particular, is one thing that we positively wish to do. And I believe there are issues we wish to do with Ben [Joey Pollari] that’ll clearly tie in together with her. So yeah, my hope is that we see a good quantity of her.
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Is there something you may share about the way forward for SEAL Group that’s new since we final spoke?
No. As I speak about Season 7, it’s all hopeful. It’s solely in my head. So I hope for everybody that we’ll get excellent news prior to later. On the finish of the day, if we get to make extra SEAL Group, that’s improbable. I actually really feel like our followers who’ve made this journey over to Paramount+ with us deserve the chance to see these characters by their journeys. We on the present actually need to have the ability to ship that to them. So yeah, this isn’t the supposed ending of the present. If on the finish of the day, the brotherhood, the blokes stepping up for Jason and exhibiting that love and connection they share, is the very last thing we do, I’ll be OK with it, however there’s much more story to inform and we’re hopeful that we get to try this.
What else are you able to say about your plans for a Season 7?
We’re so early within the course of. Due to the uncertainty round Max, we began the season with Clay dropping his leg. Sadly, we killed Clay within the eighth episode. There was a darkish cloud over the season in numerous methods. Clearly, there’s at all times gonna be adversities, there’s at all times gonna be traumas. This can be a present about battle and its impression on the women and men who battle it and their households. However I believe shifting ahead, we wish to present hope. These guys have gone by a lot. We wish to spotlight their victories. This was a really arduous season, not simply from a manufacturing standpoint however on the viewers. And my hope is that possibly a Season 7 could possibly be a little bit lighter, have a little bit extra hope, and see our characters proceed to work in direction of getting themselves into higher locations.
What are you able to say about your plans for Clay and for Bravo that you just needed to change since you needed to write him out?
Going again, even from the beginning of the present, it felt like — I usually speak about this with Chris Chulack as a result of from his ER days — to us, Clay was virtually just like the Noah Wyle character [Dr. John Carter]. It’s from his POV of him becoming a member of Bravo crew. It felt like he would clearly at all times have an enormous position within the story and no matter occurred with Bravo crew. So yeah, it’s dramatically impacted my roadmap of the place I believed this could be going. However in a means, as a author, you type of like these challenges. You want to color your self right into a nook after which get your self out of it.
Jason will at all times be the heartbeat of the present. That was by no means gonna change. And so I believe there’s numerous good story to inform. As I preserve saying, it’s unlucky that we ever obtained on this state of affairs with Max, however we’re very happy with what he’s doing [on Fire Country], and we’re enthusiastic about what we are able to now do at SEAL Group. So it’s numerous great things nonetheless forward for us, hopefully.
Did the plan for Bravo, usually, this season keep just about what you had? Or did you modify something due to writing out Clay?
If Clay had pushed off into the sundown, I believe it could be arduous for a few of these dominoes to fall the way in which they did. There wouldn’t be a battle to select up for Clay [for Jason]. So no, all of it form of had a domino impact. I believe it could be arduous to get these characters and Bravo crew into this case had Clay not died so tragically, and so it positively had an impression.
So the op and the place Omar (Raffi Barsoumian) landed with the crew would’ve stayed the identical, although?
Sure, we had been at all times gonna be in Syria. The hunt for the final was at all times gonna be the identical. Omar got here in earlier than we knew Clay’s destiny for positive. We knew Clay wasn’t gonna be on the crew. However there was a world clearly the place Clay was gonna work his means again. With him being the star and govt producer of a 22-episode community present, that wasn’t ever gonna occur. So it had an impression on how we ended for positive.
And Omar is now a everlasting member of Bravo if there’s a Bravo?
Yeah, he proved himself to his Bravo teammates. I believe Omar hopefully proved himself to the followers. We hinted at a pair issues about his backstory, however shifting ahead, we’re gonna get to know Omar on a way more private stage. And he and Jason fashioned a bond in the previous couple of episodes. I believe he’s a part of the Bravo household shifting ahead.
Did you ever contemplate killing off one other member of Bravo within the finale? They didn’t have a lot cowl through the shootout…
No, they didn’t. Yeah, they had been clearly in jeopardy, however I believe seeing them come collectively was at all times the purpose. No, I couldn’t abdomen one other [loss]. The Clay choice was so painful. This can be a present about battle, and I believe it could be naive on our half to count on there to be no extra bloodshed shifting ahead, however the lack of Clay was simply too highly effective. To lose one other character on the heels of that may be overly merciless and painful for all of us. That’s to not say it might’t occur down the street.
With these characters that we’re invested in, we are going to proceed to indicate them wrestle, but additionally hopefully overcome any obstacles of their means and hopefully get them to locations the place they’re joyful of their lives.
