Here's an article by TVLine's Megan Masters, which gives some scoop on the rest of Revenge's second season directly from the creator of the show, Mike Kelley. In the article, Kelley talks about his plans to solidify Victoria as the main villain on the show. He also talks about his plans to clarify The Initiative's role in the show, while also once again emphasizing the idea that the show is supposed to be about Emily and her quest for getting revenge on the people that ruined hers' and her father's lives. Here's an excerpt from the article:
“My big goal [for the rest of] this season is to reset the revenge element between Emily and Victoria, and to really solidify Victoria as our villain once again,” creator Mike Kelley shares with TVLine. “She’s quite gray in a lot of ways this year. She’s evolving, which is good, but when her back is truly against a wall, she’s capable of some pretty terrible things.”
And terrible things we’ll see throughout this latest batch of episodes, which find “Emily and Victoria forced to work together for their own purposes — even [as they are] keeping secrets from one another,” Kelley previews. Ultimately, he adds: “Everything we’re [currently] doing between the two of them is leading toward greater conflict in order to reset and refuel the series for some time to come.”
Also receiving a slight tweak in the second half of Revenge‘s sophomore run is the increasingly twisty — and at times convoluted — Initiative plot. Kelley is firm in his belief that there “needs to be a heavy, dark force” on Revenge — which this evil corporation (?) no doubt is — yet concedes that “the show was never meant to be about a grand conspiracy in Alias or Homeland terms. It’s a smaller story about a girl out for vengeance to get the people who killed her father. What she really needs is the identities of those people and she’s going do anything she can to get them; that’s what her goal is here.”
Which means that the focus of the show will now be to “make sure that [The Initiative] is not as nebulous; that we understand, specifically, what they’re doing as it unfolds, as well as how it involves Nolan, Padma, Aiden, Daniel and everybody… It will tie everyone together.
Link to the full article:Revenge Season 2 Spoilers — Victoria and The Initiative Changes - TVLine
My thoughts: I have to say that I'm very pleased with what Mike Kelley has to say about his plans for the rest of Revenge's second season and the series as a whole. While I don't hate the whole thing with The Initiative, I definitely enjoyed the show the most when it was focused primarily on Emily's plan for getting revenge on everybody who was involved with framing her father for a crime he didn't commit before The Initiative was introduced. Personally, I think if the writers want to have The Initiative continue to be a part of the show, then they should have that be secondary to Emily's plan for revenge instead of having it become a major part of the show. Like Mike Kelley said, this isn't Alias or Homeland, it's Revenge, a show about a girl seeking revenge/justice for what was done to her and her father, not a show about a massive conspiracy.
That being said, I'm glad that Mike Kelley is planning to make Victoria the show's primary villain rather than act like The Initiative and the people who work for the organization are supposed to be the main antagonist of the show. I really feel like by solidifying Victoria as the main villain of the show, it will really help Revenge get back to its' roots and what the show was like when it started, Although, a part of me is worried that by doing that the writers run the risk of making Victoria too unlikable and not a character that people can feel sympathetic towards. Fortunately, I feel like the writers have already done a pretty good job of striking enough balance between having all of the characters on the show do questionable things while also being characters that are sympathetic and that viewers like, so I'm not too worried about that.
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