Yesterday's Gone: Season Three (THE POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIAL THRILLER)

questions answered.
    All Hurley Birds must be shot from the sky.
    Yet, because we started without any definitive plan as to our ultimate number of seasons, we started snagging our story on simple questions such as how much of our story to tell, and when precisely to tell it. We didn’t want to drag the story a page past its welcome, nor did we want to leave the world of Yesterday’s Gone before we were ready.
    We all have our favorite shows that we would have loved that much more if they’d only had the sense to end a season or two earlier. Yesterday’s Gone would not be one of those shows.
    We started season three with the loose idea that we would write Yesterday’s Gone for four seasons. That was the number Dave was happiest with. I wanted five.
    We knew how we wanted Season Three to end, but had a ton of heavy lifting to neatly tie a bow around the third season. Our story was slightly scattered, and we had to start threading elements so we could pull them into something tight enough to be unforgettable.
    We spent the first several episodes of this season drawing everything closer, conscious of how much story we wanted to deliver, how many questions we wanted to answer, and how important it was to give everyone a satisfying conclusion.
    No Hurley Birds.
    We were so focused on shooting the Hurley Birds from our story, that by the time we got to the final two episodes, their bodies were littered all over Black Island, and floating in the ocean around it.
    This presented us with a brand new problem.

    WHAT NEXT?
    With so many of the original mysteries now resolved, stretching the series into a fourth season would seem ludicrous, an add-on, unnecessary; stealing time from our readers and ourselves, and delivering redundancy when we could be delivering a different story altogether. After all, Dave and I write and publish a new story each week — there’s no sense in delivering something that doesn’t serve our readers, and us, 100%.
    As we neared the end of this season, we found ourselves with a phenomenal idea — a way we could finish our time in the world of Yesterday’s Gone while serving all masters.
    We know exactly how we plan to end the Yesterday’s Gone saga. And while it’s great to have an end in mind, what matters most is how you travel. For us, it’s always been about the characters and the adventure of it all. And we weren’t ready to leave this world. But staying inside without a story to serve us is like staying a houseguest after you’ve been asked to leave.
    We appreciate readers who gave us their time through the first three seasons, but wanted no one to ever feel like they had too many unanswered questions, so we’ve crafted a scenario that, we believe, does all things well.
    But, in order to continue the series, it must do a few things moving forward.
    It MUST be a different story. We don’t want to repeat ourselves. We believe we’ve come up with a great idea that keeps some of the characters you’ve come to know but allows you to see their worlds differently and to experience a new phase of the tale.
    It MUST be easier for you to return to. Season Three by its nature was a complicated beast. We had a lot of dots to connect and mysteries to resolve. And the shifting timelines and alternate universe characters made things a bit confusing to wade through. You had to remember details from early on in the series. While we included Author’s Notes and new chapter headings which stated when something happened, (before or after) “the event” on October 15, it was still complex.
    But we don’t want you to feel like you’ve gotta remember everything that happened before in order to return for Season Four. Yes, it will make the book more enjoyable, but we’re writing it in a way that’s friendly to newcomers and for those who don’t remember every detail of the story so far.
    We want you to be able to jump right in, whether you read the whole series or are just starting it, and enjoy it.
    So we’re making what comes next simpler through a more standard timeline, and without all the alternate versions of people running around. The story will still be epic, but it won’t require you to keep your own set of notes just to follow along.
    The only problem, and it’s actually a good one to have, is that we can’t tell the rest of the tale in just one season.
    So we’re taking Yesterday’s Gone to six seasons.

THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
    In other words, if you only wanted to stick