WARNING! THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS ABOUT THE ROAD HOME SERIES FINALE!The series finale of The way home answered several of the show’s most burning questions, but one thing it didn’t reveal was the origin of the pond that allows the Landry family to time travel, which showrunners, mother-daughter duo Heather Conkie and Alexandra Clarke, now reveal was their choice. All the way through The way homeLandry family members, sometimes accompanied by their friends, were able to travel back in time to different eras, meet their loved ones and often cause events that directly affected their present-day lives.
The way home came to a satisfying conclusion in its series finale, revealing the true identity of KC Goodwin (Vaughan Murrae) as the child of Jacob Landry (Spencer MacPherson) and Abby Goodwin (Holly Deveaux) and the shocking truth that Tessa Cooper (Megan Follows) survived the explosion in the Lingermore tunnelswhile Fern Landry’s (Bianca Melchior) love, Cliff Kane (Dan Jeannotte) perished.
Additionally, Jacob and Abby got married, Kat Landry (Chyler Leigh) and Elliot Augustine (Evan Williams) got engaged, Alice Dhawan (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) and Max Goodwin (Dale Whibley) kissed, and Del Landry (Andie MacDowell) got closure with her late husband, Colton Landry (Jefferson) by traveling to 19 more minutes with her, giving her 9 minutes with him to move forward in her new relationship with Sam Bishop (Rob Stewart). The final scene of The way home showed Alice and Kat jumping into the pond together, though fans will never know where (or more accurately, when) they ended up.
Although The way home The series finale answered many questions, fans hoping for the pond’s origin story, wondering how the mysterious and magical body of water came to be. Now Conkie and Clarke explain why they never intended to tell that story.
The Way Home Showrunners didn’t want the show to be science fiction
Although the premise for The way home was based on time travel, in an interview with TV Linetold Clarke that the purpose of the show was not to create a science fiction world, but rather to show how the pond helped heal a family. She stated, “I think our show is unique because it’s a very traditional multi-generational family drama — but it also has this pond. It’s there as a tool for healing, a tool for getting different perspectives, maybe of a shared tragedy, or getting perspective on another era of your family and what they went through to come back and bring your own family back together.”
Clarke continued, “That’s the purpose of the pond for us. It was never about why the pond is the way it is. It was more about how the pond can help this family. If we had gone the route of dissecting why the pond is the way it is … it would have skewed a little too sci-fi. It would also have felt like the magician revealing their tricks.”
In an interview with BlackClarke explained, “The moment you start dissecting what the pond is and why it is the way it is, you take the air out of the magic and the mystery of it. Our show is not sci-fi. Our show is about a time-traveling pond that helps heal a family. Our show is about how the pond can help, not why the pond is.”
The Way Home Showrunners believed that revealing the pond’s origin story would destroy its magic
In it TV Line interview, Conkie explained why she and Clarke believed that revealing the pond’s origins would destroy its mystery. Conkie said, “It takes away from the magic. It makes it sci-fi to know the origin of the pond. It feels more special if it remains a mystery in itself. I don’t think that’s our show.”
The Way Home Showrunners wanted fans to come up with their own ideas about the pond’s origins
In it Black interview, Conkie revealed that she and Clarke would leave it up to the fans to come up with their own theories about where the pond came from. she said “We need to know that it’s forever. Yes, it was created for a reason, and there could be several reasons. No one would really say why the pond is the pond. It’s nice for everyone to have their own theory instead of us feeding it to them.”
Although some fans were frustrated by the lack of an answer about the pond’s origins in the series finale of The way homeConkie and Clarke’s explanation for why they decided not to reveal it makes sense. Heart off The way home were always its familiesand an explanation of the pond would have delved more into the science fiction genre, which was something they wanted to avoid. Still, it would have been fascinating to find out how the pond came to be. Instead, The way home fans can come up with their own theories about how the pond began.
Sources: TV Line, Black
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2023 – 2026-00-00
- Network
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Hallmark Channel
- Directors
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Grant Harvey, Shamim Sarif, Norma Bailey, John Fawcett, Michelle Latimer
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Andie MacDowell
Share Landry
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Evan Williams
Elliot Augustine
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Sadie Laflamme-Sne
Alice Dhawan
