"Wayward Pines" ended season 2 without a bang and without much fanfare, but did raise more questions among fans.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Executive Producer Blake Crouch broke down scenes from the finale.
"Wayward Pines is very focused on the idea of human evolution and humans evolved into Abbies, but that does not have to be a static thing," he said.
"Evolution has always pushed forward, and [the scene] suggests that the Abbies are changing also. The Abbies will evolve into something else. And we wanted to just drop the notion that perhaps when these residents of Wayward Pines emerge from the pods, they're going to find a very different world than the ones they left behind."
When asked why CJ hasn't been the leader of Wayward Pines, Crouch explained that the character was a "relectant" leader who despite having the institutional knowledge and memory of Wayward Pines, questions whether he or anyone else should be there as Pilcher's grand project fall's to pieces.
"Those aren't the questions of, in my opinion, of a leader. Those are the questions of a conscientious objector".
He also acknowledges that Theo never volunteered, but is "doing the best that he can in an incredibly tense and fraught situation."
"But he hasn't had the years and years of breathing the air of Wayward Pines that CJ has," Crouch says. "There's nothing he can do. They're stuck in their fate."
Speaking of the direction of the series, he explains that producers are attempting to show is that Abbies are aware, and not just a few stray Abbies.
"Margaret has sent Abby scouts far and wide to tell their species that there is this species living in this valley who shouldn't be here. That was the thrust of what we were going for."