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Tonight's Episode of The Good Wife
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 10:31 pm
by silverscreenselect
Wow! I did not see that coming.
RIP Will Gardner
Re: Tonight's Episode of The Good Wife
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 8:31 am
by Catfish
Indeed.
Was the episode written by George R. R. Martin?
Re: Tonight's Episode of The Good Wife
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 4:17 pm
by Ritterskoop
There are two in-depth interviews (with massive spoilers, obviously, so don't go there if you haven't seen it) on this plot development on tvline.com, from the writers and a key actor (I use actor as one who acts rather than only males who act, so this is not in itself a spoiler).
Re: Tonight's Episode of The Good Wife
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 4:52 pm
by jaybee
Hats off to them for being able to pull this off. I like the show, mostly because it's so well written and has so many interesting characters. Neither I nor Mrs. Jaybee saw this one coming. That made it all the better.
Re: Tonight's Episode of The Good Wife
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 5:30 pm
by ghostjmf
Why would anyone have seen this coming?
Unless they read which actor had the short contract; apparently people did know, but didn't read what they could have into it.
I think its a cheap shot & that it sucks.
I also didn't like a similar "plot development" on Person of Interest recently.
Kalinda's husband who "suddenly disappeared", now, that's a card the writers are waiting to play. But that you can see coming.
Re: Tonight's Episode of The Good Wife
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:10 pm
by silverscreenselect
ghostjmf wrote: I think its a cheap shot & that it sucks.
On Person of Interest, they hinted very strongly that someone was going to die on that episode, but they made it appear that it would be Officer Fusco, who was captured and tortured by the crooked cop organization HR. And when Reese and Carter had a few moments together earlier in the episode that was a pretty good clue too. On The Good Wife, they didn't drop any hints in the promotions for the show that anything at all like this was going to happen.
Re: Tonight's Episode of The Good Wife
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:43 pm
by SpacemanSpiff
ghostjmf wrote:Why would anyone have seen this coming?
Unless they read which actor had the short contract; apparently people did know, but didn't read what they could have into it.
Sometimes the short contract causes the cliffhanger. The "Who Shot J.R.?" stunt, which was ratings and social buzz gold for the series, was primarily because Larry Hagman's contract was up. This gave the studios/network leverage that either the character would die (unlikely) or, more probably, be shot in the face, require extensive plastic surgery, and come back looking like Robert Culp.
Re: Tonight's Episode of The Good Wife
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:15 pm
by Ritterskoop
The contract ending in this case was at the request of the actor, who wants to spend more time with family. The actor and producers agreed on 15 episodes as long enough to tell a story but not be a full season. The person will still be in the next episode in flashbacks.
Re: Tonight's Episode of The Good Wife
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:04 pm
by silverscreenselect
SpacemanSpiff wrote:ghostjmf wrote:Why would anyone have seen this coming?
Unless they read which actor had the short contract; apparently people did know, but didn't read what they could have into it.
Sometimes the short contract causes the cliffhanger. The "Who Shot J.R.?" stunt, which was ratings and social buzz gold for the series, was primarily because Larry Hagman's contract was up. This gave the studios/network leverage that either the character would die (unlikely) or, more probably, be shot in the face, require extensive plastic surgery, and come back looking like Robert Culp.
Ironically, on the new version of Dallas, they had to kill off Hagman's character a second time because of his death.