"Da Vinci's Demons" season 3 premiere has gone down, almost one year after its second season ended.
As promised, the pilot episode of the STARZ TV series' third and final run picked up exactly from where it left off in last year's season finale. Leonardo Da Vinci (Tom Riley) discovered his mother was on the ship they are about to attack with a canon. The fuse has been lit and he has to make split-second decision whether he will fire the canon.
People who saw "Da Vinci's Demons" season 3 premiere know what Da Vinci's decision was. He did the unthinkable. He went on to bomb the Ottoman ship and sacrificed the chance to be with his mother who he has been searching for all his life.
Tom Riley said this decision of his character is what will set off the whole third season of "Da Vinci's Demons" and Leonardo's journey.
"The decision that Leo makes as a result of seeing his mother on that ship is the thing that causes every action in the final season," Riley told Comic Book Resources. "It ripple effects from that decision onward."
Show developer David S. Goyer, who was also present in the interview, teased that this season will see new elements they were supposed to do in later seasons if only they were not canceled.
"We always knew Season 3 was going to revolve around the siege of Otranto, which is when the Ottoman Empire invaded Southern Italy," Goyer said.
"Season 3 is a bit different than any other season in that it takes place in a much more compressed timeline. That siege gave us a natural structure, but we didn't know going into this season that it would be our last. That kind of helped as we were finishing up. I pulled some things forward that would have happened at the end of later seasons."
A few days ago, Tom Riley revealed they reshoot some scenes to give fans a more satisfactory ending.
"It goes out with a bang - it's huge and expensive, so it would've always been great," he told Digital Spy.
"But now we've just added the icing on the cake, to make it feel like more of an end."
What do you think about Leo's decision on "Da Vinci's Demons" season 3 premiere?
