Despite being on a farewell tour, the Scorpions will not break up, reports AZCentral.com. Though the band announced that their massive tour behind their 2010 album Sting in the Tail would be their last, the German rockers have reconsidered their future.
“We called it the farewell tour thinking – believing – it would be the last time we would play the U.S.A., that wherever we played, that would be the last time,” said guitarist Matthias Jabs.
“But the tour is still going, due to demand from the audience and promoters.” Jabs revealed the Scorpions will give up “the constant touring, into the studio, out of the studio, back on the road,” but confirmed, “The Scorpions will not break up . . . We have so much film material.
We will work on something like an anthology, some kind of box set. And nobody has said we’ll never hit the stage again, for one show somewhere in the world.
Why not?” Jabs also admitted that the band was approached to perform at the opening ceremonies for the 2014 World Cup, but said it was not confirmed.
The Scorpions, who will close out their current world tour in December, follow artists including Cher and KISS in recanting their retirement after farewell tours.
CBS’ genius drama said goodbye to one of the show’s beloved characters on Monday’s episode and did it in the most heartbreaking way possible.
Suffering from multiple sclerosis, Walter O’Brien’s sister Megan (beautifully played by Camille Guaty) succumbed to her fatal condition by hour’s end — changing the lives of everyone around her forever.
The most poignant moment, though, may have been Walter’s reaction to Megan’s death as he stood by her hospital bed – a simple “Oh, OK.”
“That’s an example of an actor being given four letters, three syllables and putting all the meaning behind it, which is ‘I know how to process advanced mathematical theorems, but I don’t know how to process this so all I can do is say, ‘Oh OK,’” executive producer Nick Santora tells ETonline.
The impact of Megan’s death will have an immediate impact on Team Scorpion, most notably Walter (Elyes Gabel), who will be struggling with the “emotional fallout.”
“We’ll see early on that Walter’s way of dealing with his sister’s passing is to not deal with it, and that will cause consternation and concern with the other geniuses and especially Paige (Katharine McPhee),” Santora says.
“Eventually, and not too far after [this episode], Walter’s refusal to deal with Megan will come to a head two episodes later.”
“We’ll see that Megan has given Walter the greatest gift he could ever hope for, which is pure unadulterated love and advice that he carries with him. Walter grows as a human and it brings him and Paige closer and him and the team closer,” Santora continues.
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“He’ll do something in episode 12 that we never thought we’d see him do — and it’s all because of his sister.”
But don’t expect Megan’s death to drastically shift the team’s outlook on life, though their emotional and social ineptness will improve bit by bit.
“We’re trying to inch them towards a different humanity than they started off with,” executive producer Nicholas Wootton tells ETonline.
“Now, we’re bringing them into a life where they are brilliant on the one hand but where they can also deal with life on life’s terms. This is one step on that way.”
Megan’s death also greatly affects her husband Sylvester (Ari Stidham), who takes an opposite approach from Walter in the aftermath.
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“What’s incredible is after her passing, where Walter shuts down Sylvester gains a newfound sense of gratitude,” Santora says.
“He is so incredibly thankful for everything he experienced with Megan – true love, true compassion. He’s able to say that Megan taught him to have no regrets.”