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"After the explosive season one finale of The Following, who knows what could happen in the future episodes? We certainly don&amp;#039;t, but thankfully we&amp;#039;re here at San Diego Comic-Con waiting to see what the stars and writers have to say about it all! If you&amp;#039;re intrigued about what could be coming up, then check back at 3.15pm PT / 6.15pm ET / 11.15pm BST as we bring you updates from the panel...  15:59Well, that&amp;#039;s a wrap on the Following panel! Now we just have to wait until January for the new episodes... 15:59Did Kevin B ask for more sarcastic Ryan lines in season two? &amp;quot;We have talked about that,&amp;quot; he replies. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ll try our best to get some sarcasm in there.&amp;quot; 15:58Kevin W says the show is supposed to be a &amp;quot;page turner&amp;quot; - hopefully it will keep that spirit. He wants it to be a &amp;quot;crazy thrill ride&amp;quot; every week. 15:57Kevin W says no-one has been cast yet, but there will be new characters. There will be some new leads - good and bad. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;ll be a brand new cast that will move along with these guys,&amp;quot; he says. 15:56&amp;quot;I enjoyed every single scene that I shot,&amp;quot; James smiles, adding that all of his co-stars are &amp;quot;marvellous&amp;quot;. 15:56Valorie has two favorite scenes - the first was her very first scene that she shot, the flashback to the book store where Emma meets Joe, because it laid the groundwork for &amp;quot;everything&amp;quot;. She also liked the scene where she&amp;#039;s reunited with him at the mansion. &amp;quot;It was very emotional,&amp;quot; she says.   15:55Kevin B says he was always running around in the show, so it was nice when he was forced to stay still in the farmhouse - he liked the &amp;quot;intellectual gameplay&amp;quot;. 15:54Shawn loved the Fight Club stuff he got to do. &amp;quot;For me it was what broke Weston,&amp;quot; he says, adding that he loved playing the &amp;quot;darker road&amp;quot;. 15:53Kevin W says they learned a lot from season one - they keep evolving and are just trying to make the show better. &amp;quot;We just keep moving forward, telling new stories,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to have the fun of last season, the pace and the thrills and the twists and the turns, but it&amp;#039;ll give us an opportunity to tell a new story.&amp;quot; 15:52Kevin W says the FBI are the &amp;quot;underdogs&amp;quot; in the story but they got &amp;quot;too underdoggy&amp;quot; - he recognises that they were &amp;quot;a little dumb&amp;quot;! He admits it was a no-win situation because they couldn&amp;#039;t catch the bad guys, which is why season two will be less of a chase. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a brand new story - we&amp;#039;re sort of resetting,&amp;quot; he says. 15:51James says he&amp;#039;s excited to give the characters &amp;quot;more depth&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;more substance&amp;quot;, saying that the viewers will have a &amp;quot;much better time&amp;quot; with that. 15:51Will we get to know more about Joe&amp;#039;s backstory? Kevin W promises more flashbacks - he says there&amp;#039;s so much in these characters we haven&amp;#039;t seen. &amp;quot;Where were the seeds of evil planted?&amp;quot; he asks. &amp;quot;Nature vs nurture... we&amp;#039;ll flashback and maybe see some of his family life when he was a young child, when he was a young adult... We&amp;#039;ll explore all those areas.&amp;quot; 15:50James says that the show focused on a specific area last season... but there are Followers everywhere! Is that a hint? 15:49James jokes that Joe &amp;quot;just needs to open up and make some friends&amp;quot;. Kevin W says the Edgar Allen Poe stuff &amp;quot;didn&amp;#039;t work out so well&amp;quot; - so he&amp;#039;ll need to figure out a new way. 15:49So what has Joe Carroll been up to for the past year? James suggests he&amp;#039;s been doing some &amp;quot;soul-searching&amp;quot;! &amp;quot;I suspect he&amp;#039;s trying to see where the plan went awry and will come back with double the strength, double the force,&amp;quot; he adds. &amp;quot;But I think he&amp;#039;s going to have a bit of time on his own out of the city.&amp;quot;   15:48Kevin B says Ryan is never too far away from &amp;quot;some kind of stuff that&amp;#039;s in his soul&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;He lives with a lot of guilt and a lot of pain and we&amp;#039;ll have to see where that starts to rear its head,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;I think it&amp;#039;ll certainly come out in some ways, sooner or later.&amp;quot; 15:47Kevin W adds that we&amp;#039;re going to learn about Ryan&amp;#039;s family and background a little bit more in season two. 15:47He adds that the relationship is interesting because there&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;father-son&amp;quot; kind of thing to it. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s way too old to be my son,&amp;quot; Kevin B jokes. 15:47Kevin W says the writers fell in love with Weston and Ryan. He suggests that the first season was the &amp;quot;prologue&amp;quot; and now the relationships can be explored more. He wants to see what the relationship is like now they&amp;#039;ve been through so much together. Will they be friends? Hostile? 15:46Marcos says Valorie will have &amp;quot;multiple looks&amp;quot; and will be &amp;quot;in disguise a lot&amp;quot; because Emma&amp;#039;s on the run. 15:45Is Emma the new Joe Carroll? &amp;quot;No one could replace Joe Carroll!&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s my girl,&amp;quot; James jokes. But Emma hints that Joe could have some competition... 15:45Valorie points out that Emma kind of lost everything in season one, so jumping ahead in the new season she has to learn &amp;quot;to live without that protection and that infrastructure of the cult&amp;quot;. She suggests Emma may have &amp;quot;met some new friends&amp;quot;... ominous! She&amp;#039;s excited to see what happens to Emma when she&amp;#039;s left to her own devices. 15:44Kevin B suggests that everyone we meet in season two is in a &amp;quot;really different place&amp;quot; in their lives. He suggests that Ryan will be more &amp;quot;at peace&amp;quot; than we&amp;#039;ve ever seen him. 15:43Shawn likes how Weston began as a &amp;quot;shiny penny&amp;quot; but got progressively worn down - he thinks Parker&amp;#039;s death will &amp;quot;really affect&amp;quot; him. And he&amp;#039;s also sure there&amp;#039;ll be repercussions for his actions with Hardy in season one. 15:41Kevin admits that the show got a little too violent sometimes so they pulled back, although it got a bit &amp;quot;generic&amp;quot; sometimes. But he wants to make sure that the show displays the effect and impact of death, and to make it emotional.   15:41Kevin says the idea of violence on television is subjective - people have different views. He admits he gets &amp;quot;squeamish&amp;quot; but this is make-believe: &amp;quot;I do believe we should be able to write... It&amp;#039;s all fiction and if you can&amp;#039;t tell the difference between fiction and reality, you&amp;#039;ve got a problem.&amp;quot; He sympathises with an alternative view, but he doesn&amp;#039;t think it&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;responsible&amp;quot; for anything. 15:39James says he was &amp;quot;gobsmacked and amazed&amp;quot; with every script! As for Kevin B, he agrees on the neighbors twist from the pilot. He admits he often doesn&amp;#039;t see the twists coming. 15:38Valorie says the &amp;quot;infamous shower scene&amp;quot; was the biggest surprise for her! She says she liked seeing how emotional and vulnerable Emma could be. 15:37Which plot twist surprised Shawn the most? It was Emma and the neighbors in the pilot for him, because that&amp;#039;s what got him hooked on the show. &amp;quot;That was what established the twists and turns of the show,&amp;quot; he says. And he likes that the idea that you couldn&amp;#039;t trust anybody was planted in the pilot. 15:36Is it true Kevin B suggested killing off Ryan? &amp;quot;I was having a couple of bad days,&amp;quot; he joked. But he does say anything can happen in television. &amp;quot;It becomes extremely important to us not to spoil things,&amp;quot; he adds. 15:35Kevin Bacon says he loved working on the first season and praises his co-workers. &amp;quot;I really like the pace and I really find it exhilarating to spend 16 hours a day walking in Ryan&amp;#039;s shoes,&amp;quot; he says. And he&amp;#039;s thrilled with the reaction from fans of the show. 15:34What will the new season&amp;#039;s storyline be? Kevin Williamson says the show will move away from the FBI a little bit - it&amp;#039;ll be &amp;quot;more of a character-driven thriller&amp;quot;. 15:33Marcos says they were very aware of the things they could do better in season one, but now they&amp;#039;ve had time to work on those. He says the new episodes are better than the first season. 15:33The season premiere will finish that cliffhanger scene, but then jump forward a little bit in time. Kevin Williamson also reveals he&amp;#039;s looking forward to season two because he can learn from previous episodes and now they have their &amp;quot;sea legs&amp;quot;. 15:32On Joe&amp;#039;s fate: &amp;quot;I guess he might be alive,&amp;quot; Kevin Williamson says. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t want to give too much more away.&amp;quot; He promises Joe Carroll will play into next season, but he doesn&amp;#039;t want to spoil the fun. 15:31Kevin&amp;#039;s phone rings - rude - but it turns out that it&amp;#039;s Joe on the other end of the line! &amp;quot;You didn&amp;#039;t think you could do a Comic-Con panel without me, did you?&amp;quot; he purrs. That&amp;#039;s right - James Purefoy is here!   15:30Well that clip was certainly illuminating - it picks up right from the finale, and reveals Claire&amp;#039;s fate. We&amp;#039;ll keep it quiet for now so as not to spoil you! 15:25Ooh, we&amp;#039;re about to see some never-before-seen footage that answers some questions and is a little sneak peek at what&amp;#039;s in store... 15:25Here we go with some panellists - Valorie Curry, exec Marcos Siega (on crutches!), Kevin Bacon (to huge cheers), exec Kevin Williamson and Shawn Ashmore take to the stage! 15:21We&amp;#039;re just about to start the Following panel, but first off, we&amp;#039;re getting a little video reel to remind us of everything that went down...   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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