Simon Racioppa(showrunner and executive producer) said this about the first 4 episodes “Hopefully, they make you think for the next few weeks or… months… to just make you reflect on it, so that you don’t just forget it. That’s what I’m hoping people will take back.”
At the rate this is progressing, we’ll finish the story by around the year 2300
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