what happened to eve in last man standing

Spoilers beneath for the final episode of Last Man Continuing, so be warned if you haven't yet watched!

The past yr has been a wild and bumpy 1 for Play a trick on's Final Man Standing, which brought its time-jumping 9th and final season to a close with an episode that managed to mostly bring Kaitlyn Dever's Eve Baxter dorsum while serving equally a reflection of the season premiere. The second episode in the one-hour finale, "Go on On Truckin'," wasn't able to physically become Dever back into her family'south arms, but showrunner Kevin Abbott & Co. did indeed go along Eve's history and human relationship with Tim Allen'due south Mike at the forefront. Plus, as CinemaBlend learned from showrunner Kevin Abbott, there's a adequately surprising story backside how her Zoom call appearances happened.

The final episode'due south plot revolved around Mike's long-treasured and long-tinkered-with Ford F-100 being stolen and eventually stripped for parts, inspiring the family to come together for a memorial scene that doubled as a chance for the cast to say their goodbyes to Last Human Continuing itself. That scene marked Kaitlyn Dever's beginning appearance in the finale, mourning the truck she'd worked on many times with Mike, not to mention having learned how to bulldoze in it. Then, just before the final vlog scene, fans got a sweet terminal family moment with Mike (and Nancy Travis' Vanessa, of course) being proud of Air Force Eve for breaking the sound bulwark.

When I talked to Kevin Abbott alee of Last Homo Continuing's final episode always (at to the lowest degree until another network hopefully steps up to the Outdoor Man-branded plate), I asked him how of import it was to requite the concluding spotlight to Mike and Eve, with Kaitlyn Dever unable to be physically there for the episode. In his words:

Yeah. Obviously, we wanted to get Kaitlyn whenever we could. She's simply an enormous part of the show and our family over in that location. Before COVID, what we had working against us is that she'southward a phenomenal actress and gets a lot of piece of work. [Laughs.] She was always wanting to do the prove, but she merely was working a lot. And and then of course, COVID comes in and that's really hard. . . . Only when it came fourth dimension for the serial finale, she was working on something in Atlanta, and unfortunately, we were not going to be able to get her back in time and to go through all the quarantine protocols. So we tried everything we could, and nosotros were simply able to get her on Zoom on the testify. But you know, I thought that really worked pretty well considering it gave us a head-simulated ending in the memorial scene and then a really compelling, emotional moment between Eve and Mike. You know, Tim feels very fatherly towards Kaitlyn, so that also had a personally large meaning to him. So information technology all worked out. We would have loved to accept had her, and had we been able to guarantee that, nosotros would take written the scene differently. Only I was just as happy in terms of the end product to go the mode that we went.

When Terminal Man Standing was picked upward past Fox following the ABC cancellation, fans were ever so grateful that Kaitlyn Dever didn't join old stars Molly Ephraim and Flynn Morrison in exiting the sitcom. And though Eve definitely hasn't been effectually as much every bit viewers would take wanted in the past three seasons, it'south always nice to know how much care is taken to brand sure the storylines hinge on her begetter-girl relationship with Mike.

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Now, if yous were perhaps similar me and assumed that Kaitlyn Dever was far away and in the eye of another project when she filmed her final Final Man Continuing moments, showrunner Kevin Abbott said that wasn't the case at all. It turns out Dever was actually in that location on the bear witness'southward set to flick those Zoom calls, only as it went for several botched attempts to secure the actress earlier in the flavour before she actually appeared in Episode 914, timing and COVID safety got in the way of a more upwardly close and personal catastrophe. According to the executive producer:

We were able to get her on the stage for the filming of that. She couldn't be with the bandage, because the bandage was all going to be maskless, and nosotros couldn't get all the protocols done for that. But for the crew, which was all masked up, we could. She came in Monday to shoot that the day before our final solar day of taping. We were able to physically come across her, just nosotros couldn't put her physically in the scene. There was a big push to try to crook and put her in that scene anyway - [Laughs] - which we resisted, Because I idea the scene had been written a certain way, and it would have been written very differently if she was going to be in the scene. Somebody of Eve'due south presence, of Kaitlyn's presence, would emotionally change the scene if she walked into information technology, and so you'd have to have addressed that. Not that we couldn't have, but information technology worked the style information technology did. So it kind of was the best of both worlds where she's in the show, and the cast and writers who were there got to come across her again for i last final time, and that was slap-up. It was really special.

While Kevin Abbott didn't go into full-on details about how they would have had to cheat to brand Eve's physical appearance work, it likely would accept involved an bad-mannered filming situation with shots of an obviously alone Kaitlyn Dever intercut with shots of everyone else together without Eve. While that probably would take been fine for some people, it'due south all-time to only avoid that kind of Idiot box fakery and get with something more organic. Similar going faster than the speed of sound in a jet. [grunt grunt grunt]

Plus, one should always count their blessings in situations where in that location are no guarantees, so information technology's awesome to take learned that even though audiences didn't go to see it, at least Tim Allen, Nancy Travis and quite a few other bandage and crew members were able to gloat the final episode with Dever in person rather than over a laptop or tablet.

Last Human Standing has now officially wrapped its non-topical Flavor 9, with all 194 episodes available to stream on Hulu (opens in new tab). While waiting for more than from our interview with showrunner Kevin Abbott (and to come across more from Kaitlyn Dever in the upcoming drama Honey Evan Hansen, call back in that location are tons of bang-up shows coming to the 2021 Summertime Idiot box schedule,

Nick is a Cajun Country native, and is oft asked why he doesn't sound like that's the example. His love for his wife and daughters is almost equaled by his love of gasp-for-breath laughter and gasp-for-breath horror. A lifetime spent in the vicinity of a television screen led to his current dream task, as well as his noesis of too many TV themes and advertizement jingles.

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Source: https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2567756/last-man-standing-series-finale-kaitlyn-dever-eve-tim-allen-mike-nancy-travis-vanessa

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