I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that 'primary' take.

The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.

There was a time in my career when my hackles would really get raised if someone came in and said, 'We need you to do this or that.' But the fact of the matter is, you're working in a shared universe, and all elements of the universe are, ideally, going to mesh and work together. That's my goal. I want to be on the team.

The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story.