On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:30:38 GMT, "Sandy McDermin" <mcdermin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> From this week's Ask Ausiello at:
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>> http://www.tvguide.com/ask-ausiello
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>> Question: What is Alexis Bledel up to these days? - Maria
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>> Ausiello: Beats me, but had Gilmore Girls been back this season, she
>> would've been (wait for it) spending time with ex-leading man Matt
>> Czuchry! No lie. Czuchry recently confirmed to me that despite Rory
>> and Logan's series-ending split, he quietly inked a new deal with the
>> show last spring that - if Gilmore was renewed for an abbreviated,
>> 13-episode eighth season - would've called for Logan to return.
>> "Contractually, there was an agreement that I would come back for a
>> certain amount of episodes," reveals the upcoming Friday Night Lights
>> guest star, who insists TPTB didn't clue him in on why Logan would've
>> returned. "I don't know [what would've happened], because those
>> episodes were never written. There were a lot of hypotheticals about
>> what those 13 episodes would be." At the very least, the return
>> engagement probably would've given Rory-Logan a better send-off than
>> the forced breakup we got. Looking back, even Czuchry concedes the
>> duo's split felt rushed. "I felt like that particular episode, where
>> he asks her to marry him and then they break up and it's done, just
>> felt like too much at once considering that this relation****p was
>> something that had evolved over three seasons." That said, he
>> acknowledges that Gilmore producers were in a tough spot creatively
>> because "when they shot the episode, it wasn't known whether it was a
>> season finale or a series finale. I think that if everybody would've
>> known that it was a series finale, things would have went
>> differently."
>>
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>This pisses me off. Why bring him back only to say goodbye again?
Because at that point, since *they thought that the show was going to
end with season 8, *they hadn't finished his story yet.* The clear
implication, IMO, is that given certain storytelling conventions, the
s8 *real* series finale was going to end with Rory and Logan back
together, if not also either engaged or married.
>And, if
>that wasn't their intention -- considering the total precariousness of a
>"season 8" -- they did a piss poor job of communicating any other kind of
>ending between Rory and Logan but a bleak one.
Sorry, can't blame that one on the writers -- Bledel had agreed in
principle to come back for a 13-episode s8 even though the contracts
weren't signed. Even given that the fate of the show was up in the
air at that point, *she* had given them the signal that she was going
to be coming back, so they plowed ahead with their original plans for
Rory and Logan and *then* she started welching on the deal. By that
point, the season finale was so close to being shot that Lauren had to
order a last minute rewrite in order to have the show work as either a
season finale *or* a series finale -- and ultimately, upon reflection,
she decided that the episode didn't work -- and admitted so publicly
at her GoldDerby chat.
Here's the thing to remember: Alexis put the show in an untenable
position creatively. Because she *didn't* give them a straight answer
either way until *beyond* the last minute (two and a half weeks
*after* the season finale had wrapped filming, mind you), the rest of
the cast and crew did NOT know whether or not the show was going to be
back this fall until The CW walked away from the table in frustration
and put the show on indefinite hiatus (I refuse to use anything
resembling the term "cancellation" until Amy's done with the show,
BID..)
When an actor is giving mixed signals, the default is NOT to assume
that the show is ending, the default is to go ahead with what is
factually known, which is, business as usual. You make the minimal
adjustments that you have to, but the reality is that unless you know
for sure that the given show is ending, you *have* to ignore such
amateurish maneuvers and write the story as though it's going on --
after all, the actor *could* have simply been playing for a much
bigger salary and there's no way of knowing for sure one way or the
other until a concrete resolution has occurred. And that's among any
number of reasons why you don't do anything other than business as
usual in filmic storytelling until told otherwise.
There are simply too many jobs at stake to assume anything other than
business as usual until the conditions have actually changed. And
let's say that the writers *did* make a more concrete resolution to
the series in the season finale (such as, say, Lor and Luke getting
married) and *then* Bledel didn't welch on the 13-episode deal. Then
what you've got is the last season of Dawson's Creek, where everyone
had expected the show to end and then the show got unexpectedly
renewed at the last minute, resulting in a season where *no one*
wanted to be there.
>Rotten network, rotten showrunner, rotten writers, and misdirected
actors.
Indecisive actress, indecisive actress, indecisive actress and, oh
yeah, indecisive actress.
It really is as simple as that.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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