The time jump was necessary for two reasons. One, we wanted to advance the story to the point where Lori is about to give birth. We felt that it applied a tremendous amount of pressure on the group. Two is production-related. We pick up shooting in the summer and we didn’t feel that it would be plausible to try to fake winter or something like that.
I am interested in shooting a winter sometime and perhaps if we change the production schedule in a future season or whatever, I think that would be interesting. This time I felt that it was worthwhile to have the time jump and let the audience try to catch up.
I’m not interested in going back and doing any flashback episodes about what happens to this group and how they got there. You’re seeing the story that we want to tell and we have a great story for Season 3 that we’re excited about. I think we’ve picked the right entry point and the story is about moving forward in the next 15 episodes.