With no sixth season ordered, the production team saved budget finances throughout the fifth season for a final fight, but it was spent on "Eye of the Storm". Insiders have suggested why this happened. Executive producer Bill Dial, suspecting the Sci-Fi Channel's lack of interest with the program without the formerly given corrective notes, tested to see if the scripts were actually being read by submitting a script involving someone's head being blown off by a gun despite the Channel's anti-gun-aimed-at-the-face stipulation. Like the cliffhanger, it was disregarded.