Congratulations to Benioff and Weiss, who finally got what they wanted on the show: Balon Greyjoy emerging as the last survivor of the Five Kings.

Like any book-to-TV/movie adaptation, it's worth reading to get more background on the characters, and there are some semi-interesting subplots that will probably be excised from the miniseries, so if you really are enjoying the show go ahead and read them (they're not very lengthy books anyway).

Blake Crouch, who wrote the books, hinted that there could be more if the demand was there (and the books end with the door slightly ajar).

It's not a rumor!

Some of the people in it. There was probably always a rotating crew of people that froze/unfroze throughout the 2000 years that made sure it was running.

The more detailed explanation would be that they woke the core people up first - those who were behind it all and/or knew what was going on - to build the community, then woke other adults up to populate the town and run certain services - and then got around to waking up the kids.

The miniseries is covering all 3 books. The "reveal" came at the end of Book 1.

It only appeared to us on the show that it was done after Ethan was awake in WP. As I recall, the conversation was Hassler telling Pilcher that Theresa & Ben were going to go look for Ethan (after he was taken for freezing), so perhaps at that point the decision was made to freeze them as well.

He looks like a teenage David Letterman.

Because Pilcher didn't freeze himself until many years later, heck he was probably the last one to be frozen.

1. They forgot to freeze crickets to bring to Wayward Pines.
2. Pilcher's minions, I would think.
3. The latter, I suppose.
4. Big-ass warehouse. I mean a REALLY big-ass warehouse. I'm sure they do some farming as well.
5. Guess they unfreeze people as Pilcher et al feels they're needed.
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Apparently all the technological advances between 2014-2094 came in the field of cryonics.

They probably unfroze the adults first to set up the community and then unfroze the kids.

There's no time machine, they were all put in cryo-stasis or something such, with certain people periodically waking up to make sure everything was still running and then going back to sleep until the pre-determined time to wake and start building the community.

I would think he probably went in a few years later, with an ample supply of ice cream.

I would imagine they were stored in that giant Sam's Club warehouse we saw a couple of episodes ago along with the hibernation pods.

Maybe you can have yourself put in a hibernation chamber for 13 days and then it'll seem like the next episode is tomorrow.

The difference between this and Lost is that Wayward Pines is a 10-hour mini-series, and Lost was a series that for the first few seasons had no end-date, per the 2004 model of network television.

I'm not even sure you could say the VC guy was sexist - he asked if either of them had kids, but that could just as easily apply to a male as well. His point was that he wanted to see if they'd sacrifice everything for the company.

Not only did Tom take Walt from Sawyer and Michael, but he tried to kill them both by firebombing the raft. I can see where Sawyer was coming from.