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Ausiello asks the King's about the final scene of Alicia and Kalinda being shot separately with green screen, and why those characters have been deliberately kept apart on-screen. They keep trying to sidestep the question but Ausiello doesn't let up
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I thought that Ausiello handled it very well actually because the King's seemed very defensive and were pretty rude at certain points IMO when they were acting like Ausiello was just after sleazy backstage gossip on why Archie and Julianna dislike one another, but in fact he was always putting it in terms of how it affected the show that Alicia and Kalinda's character couldn't be in a scene together, i.e "As showrunners, how much of your energy got devoted to keeping these characters at arms’ length — and were there specific instances where it may have hurt the storytelling, like Will’s death and Cary’s imprisonment?"
The King's were constantly side-stepping the question with comments like, "We’re writers and we love writing these characters, so we were thrilled at any chance to have new dynamics." Then when Ausiello keeps bringing up that the issue was in not having the actors film in the same room for the much hyped-up Alicia and Kalinda scene, their response is "we’re making the show every day using tricks, like if you’re in a car and there’s green screen and it looks like Chicago out the window but that’s not exactly where we are" and "Just so we’re clear, Josh wasn’t really killed. We faked those gunshots. We fake everything in the show" Because necessary special effect shots are the same as having to use green screen to get two actresses in a scene together? And your "trick" obviously didn't work if most of the audience immediately picked up on there being something off with the scene
I'm really starting to lose respect for the show, I can't decide whether to catch up on season 6 or not at this point :( And also it's so inaccurate when everyone keeps protesting that the lack of scenes make sense because of Alicia and Kalina falling out in season 2's finale. That would only track if their lack of scenes happen after season 2, instead season 3 sees them gradually repairing their friendship (Alicia was inviting Kalinda to drink in the bar with her again in the season 3 finale!) They weren't besties again of course, but in season 4 they were back on friendly terms, indeed their phone calls in season 5 were always civil enough, so it makes no storytelling sense how all on-screen interaction completely ceased in seasons 5 and 6
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I thought that Ausiello handled it very well actually because the King's seemed very defensive and were pretty rude at certain points IMO when they were acting like Ausiello was just after sleazy backstage gossip on why Archie and Julianna dislike one another, but in fact he was always putting it in terms of how it affected the show that Alicia and Kalinda's character couldn't be in a scene together, i.e "As showrunners, how much of your energy got devoted to keeping these characters at arms’ length — and were there specific instances where it may have hurt the storytelling, like Will’s death and Cary’s imprisonment?"
The King's were constantly side-stepping the question with comments like, "We’re writers and we love writing these characters, so we were thrilled at any chance to have new dynamics." Then when Ausiello keeps bringing up that the issue was in not having the actors film in the same room for the much hyped-up Alicia and Kalinda scene, their response is "we’re making the show every day using tricks, like if you’re in a car and there’s green screen and it looks like Chicago out the window but that’s not exactly where we are" and "Just so we’re clear, Josh wasn’t really killed. We faked those gunshots. We fake everything in the show" Because necessary special effect shots are the same as having to use green screen to get two actresses in a scene together? And your "trick" obviously didn't work if most of the audience immediately picked up on there being something off with the scene
I'm really starting to lose respect for the show, I can't decide whether to catch up on season 6 or not at this point :( And also it's so inaccurate when everyone keeps protesting that the lack of scenes make sense because of Alicia and Kalina falling out in season 2's finale. That would only track if their lack of scenes happen after season 2, instead season 3 sees them gradually repairing their friendship (Alicia was inviting Kalinda to drink in the bar with her again in the season 3 finale!) They weren't besties again of course, but in season 4 they were back on friendly terms, indeed their phone calls in season 5 were always civil enough, so it makes no storytelling sense how all on-screen interaction completely ceased in seasons 5 and 6
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Date: 2015-08-20 01:23 pm (UTC)But that is what it is, and fine. Don't have scenes with them. My bigger issue is that the Kings so stupidly tried to fake that scene and thought we wouldn't know. WHY? Why have that scene at all? I actually thought it worked perfectly to have Kalinda show up at Alicia's and miss her. Because that's life, right? You don't always get the goodbye you'd want. I think that should have been Kalinda's last ep. It was just dumb to have her come back and fake that scene. The ship had sailed seasons ago on Kalinda/Alicia, so why hang a lantern on it?? I will never understand.
I'm also bummed Matthew Goode isn't coming back. I'm hoping Finn will still return in some fashion after he films Downton, or else that whole storyline went nowhere.
SIGH.
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Date: 2015-08-20 02:34 pm (UTC)And I totally agree, I don't see the point of going to all the time and expense of filming the scene separately after they had already worked around not giving them scenes together for two years. My guess is that the King's scripted it in the hopes that it might pressure the actresses to relent and agree to work together for one last scene? It seemed in interviews that the Alicia and Kalinda friendship was something that they saw as the heart of the show in the first three seasons, so I can understand them wanting to do something more with them before Kalinda left, it's just too bad that personal issues couldn't have been put aside long enough to get the filming down. (I mean geez it's not like they even had to speak to one another, they could have just done the whole thing in character, then gone their separate ways!) The King's should have never hyped up the scene so much