Thread by @michaelrianda

This we added late + was SO valuable- having moments where Linda+Aaron wanted Rick+Katie to work it out- made the audience want it more!

Plus anyone with a dysfunctional relationship in a family knows- it affects everyone in the family!

#TheMitchellsVsTheMachinesWatchParty

It gave the whole movie more emotional reality! Because the emotions of one family member always affect the others!

We had the Furby scene in the movie forever- and it always worked as a funny, psycho scene- BUT- it didn't always work as a story.

Chris and Phil helped shape it a ton (1/3)

#TheMitchellsVsTheMachineswatchparty

We realized that the scene needed to be about the relationships- so we had this moment of Rick and Katie slowly bonding.

(10 and 2 is a fly fishing move- my own dad taught me)
(2/3)

Then- it was important to see the family come together here.

Especially since the last action scene (at Dinoland) was such a disorganized disaster- it gives the family a win here.

So you feel like the story is moving forward! And the family is connecting more! (3/4)

But then you needed to pull the wool out from under the family and make things like 10 times harder! If we didn't have this beat- again the movie feels like it would be over.

They'll have to go to Silicon Valley into the belly of the beast itself! Stakes=RAISED!