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[bewitched]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Walt is the best evidence that the writers made all this up as they went along.

Any show that knows they are going to be reshooting the same scenes over and over again, even 5 years down the line, is NOT going to cast a child. He couldn't even stay young enough to last more than a short while. As a result, we may have a split timeline but we are not going to see Walt and Michael in LA X, unless they go the soap opera route and cast the role with a new kid.

It's a bummer, since I liked their story a lot.

The writers vehemently argue that they always had a story to tell and that they knew it would take them 6 seasons to do it (and in fact told the network that at the begining).

Having said that, I don't think having Walt in the original story means anything (re them not knowing where it's going). The sideways timeline is clearly not a continuation of what would have happened had the plane never crashed, things vary like Shannon, Michael and Claire not being on the plane. There is every possibility that in the sideways timeline Walt never existed in Michael's reality.