"* ""The Carnivàle story was originally intended to take place over three cycles, each one lasting two seasons, for a total of six seasons."" 
 * ""HBO budgeted approximately US$3.5–4 million for each episode, considerably more than what most television series receive."" (it's the price here that is important) 
 * ""Carnivàle was deliberately written to be open to interpretation to some extent, including the interpretation of the writer."" 
 * ""Knauf would not release a detailed run-down of intended future plots to fans, explaining that his stories are a collaboration of writers, directors and actors alike."" 

 If DK mentions something like this in one of the convention panels that are on DVD, could you please please transcribe one or two sentences each and list them here? 

 Furthermore, if you want to have a real task, you can try to source the following from the CarnyCon via DVD, which according to the Gospel of Knaufias says: 

  

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 From DK: 

 - Second ""book"" takes place in 1939-1940, third ""book"" in 1944-1945. 

 - Lodz, while merely a human, has the unique perspective afforded by having interacted with both Houses. He is at heart a pragmatist, and has come to the conclusion that *both* Houses, Light and Dark, have in essence been keeping mankind in subjugation. His primary agenda is to gather power to himself to change this state of affairs. DK has plans for Lodz throughout the entire saga, but HBO wanted somebody to die at the end of the first season and that 
 person ended up being Lodz. 

 - The money Lodz had was what remained of the pot he and Scudder amassed in Europe entertaining the nobility. 

 - Justin has in essence been waging a war against his nature. While he has seemed to accept it by the end of the second season, that doesn't mean the decision needs to be permanent. This is in contrast to Scudder who rather than waging a war against his nature, was just beating a retreat, and while he might seem like a good man, bad things would always keep happening around him. This is true of CoDs in general: bad things just happen around them, 
 even when they are trying to do good, sort of an ""aura"" of badness around them. 

 - When they shot the mauling scenes they weren't really thinking of whether Belyakov was a Prophet or not. If it became important to the story to show Belyakov getting his boon, they would just establish that his father was still alive at that point of time and show Belyakov doing his thing after this point. 

 - Iris is certifiable. She was inculcated by her mother that Justin was special and that Iris needed to take care of him. Her agenda is now independent of Justin's. She didn't *know* what was happening at the end of the season, but she could certainly put 2 and 2 together. 

 - In the midst of a nervous breakdown, Belyakov knew there was something wrong with his infant son. Plemina walked in on Belyakov throttling the infant Justin in his crib. While Belyakov was in the asylum recovering from his breakdown, she fled with the children to America. There was no pursuit. 

 - Justin was in some way responsible for the train crash due to the ""aura"" of the CoDs. As the train was coming off the bridge, the engineer saw something on the tracks [spec: a manifestation of Justin?]. The train was stopped to clear the way ahead, and during the delay the bridge collapsed with the train on it and almost everyone died. If the train hadn't stopped, there would have been no accident. 

 - While personal moral alignment seemed to be clear at the end of the season, things would become much more complex again in future seasons. The Avatara are in essence just adolescents at the time of the end of the season. 

 - Scudder's love for Ben transcended the fact that they were of opposite Houses which is why Scudder was helping him. 

 - Wounds inflicted by an anointed blade don't fully heal, so both Justin and Ben are now marked with such wounds since the both the scythe and the dagger were such weapons. 

 - The migrants in New Canaan would have quickly moved on and rationalized the events of that night. In their minds it would have quickly just become the night of the riot. If