Trivia / So Weird

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• California Doubling: The show was shot in British Columbia.
• The Danza: Mackenzie Phillips as Molly Phillips.
• Descended Creator: Executive Producer Henry Winkler as Fergus McGarrity, antagonist of the Halloween Episode "Boo".
• Executive Meddling:
  • The Disney Channel execs wanted something lighter for Season 3. If Fi's actor had stayed, Word of God says that they would have finished her Myth Arc by having her go into Hell to save her father.
  • The scrapping of the unproduced episode "Chrysalis" that revolved around alcoholism and its connection with a parasitic caterpillar creature.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Was once a pretty infamous example. It was removed from reruns in 2003, only two years after its finale premiered, and never saw the light of day again outside of TV rips circulating online until it unexpectedly showed up on Disney+ as part of the extensive effort they took to release as much of their back catalog as they could on it.
• Screwed by the Network:
  • Disney's Executive Meddling to make the show Lighter and Softer, rejecting the executive producers' original plans for season three in favor of making the show more like Goosebumps (1995) and Eerie, Indiana, backfired in spectacular fashion and caused the entire creative team to quit at the start of season three, followed soon after by the lead actress Cara de Lizia (though her departure, according to the producers, was for unrelated personal reasons). While the Disney Channel's infamous 65-episode policy saw the show canceled at the end of the third season, fans are generally divided on whether this was either a damn shame or a Mercy Kill.
  • Disney+ originally posted the season two episodes Out of Order. Their solution involved removing the season from their platforms, until they figured out the right order. Considering how many launch titles remain available despite jumbled episodes, this tactic seemed unfairly extreme and gave fans a difficult test of patience. It ultimately took Disney+ weeks to put the season back up, and even then, the episodes remained out of order.
• Technology Marches On: The computers and the way the internet websites look all became pretty dated within a decade.
• What Could Have Been: The executive producers have been pretty open about how the third season would have originally gone had Disney not put the kibosh on it and demanded the lighter third season that came out instead. To detail:
  • Instead of "Avatar", there would have been "Chrysalis". "Chrysalis" would have had a similar Fi-lite adventure in which Carey would have turned out to have an alcohol problem alongside playing host to a parasitic caterpillar, and Jack would have helped him out.
  • At the same time, the title character from 1x09 "Rebecca" would have returned, where she was going to make contact with Molly through email and Molly’s backstory as an alcoholic would have been explored. This was all to be set up for Rebecca's role in the original Season 3 plans.
  • 2x26 "Twin" would have had Rick reveal Fi had some special destiny and would have ended with the wraith taking him out, leaving the threat of an evil alliance out there and giving Fi the motivation to investigate it to rescue her father.
  • In Season 3, Jack would have been revealed as the reincarnation of some ancient heroic knight, thus explaining why the dragon was afraid of him in 1x08 "Strangeling", and why a shot of him fades into an O’Siannon suit of armor in 2x11 "Banshee". Rebecca would have shown up to explain who Jack was in this past life, having known him personally. With that, Jack would have joined Fi to fight the evil alliance.
  • The aliens, who never do anything in the first two seasons besides being cryptic and mysterious, would have played a bigger role over time, revealing that their worlds were also being targeted and attacked by the demonic alliance and Fi has some special genetic makeup that makes her and various beings like her throughout the galaxy specifically qualified to help people. She would have befriended an alien girl who also had a father stolen by the forces of evil, and would have helped her with information throughout the season.
  • Molly's witch powers would have also been explored further, with the reveal that some of her songs are prophecies.
  • Bricriu would have possessed Fi herself, and Molly’s priest brother would have exorcised her. Bricriu would ultimately switch sides because he doesn’t like being in a hierarchy.
  • The series would have ended with Fi traveling into Hell, defeating the evil alliance, and rescuing her father. Because the alliance took Rick before his time, he would have been allowed to stay on Earth with his family. This was all foreshadowed in the theme song "In the Darkness".

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