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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

The Good Wife Creators Break Silence on 'Kalicia'-gate, Insist 'There Was No Attempt to Dupe Viewers'

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)
From: [identity profile] bigboobedcanuck.livejournal.com
Sigh. I know. I freaking LOVE this show, and I will keep watching, but this whole debacle is so STUPID. To say "we fake things all the time!" is beyond asinine. Yeah, faking a shooting it totally on par with faking two people sitting at a bar. *nods* I really don't know what could have happened to make Julianna refuse to be in the same room with Archie (since Julianna is the one with the power, I presume it's her choice). Plenty of actors have not liked each other, but have still sucked it up and done their scenes. It's truly bizarre.

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 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/
It makes very little sense for TV Line to publish this interview outside of the bigger piece that they're announcing, since there's nothing new here. The way the whole thing was handled was bad, but the writers don't want to badmouth the actress(es), which makes sense professionally speaking. Let's just hope the new season will be better than Season 6, because that was not the only problem there was.

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Date: 2015-08-20 06:13 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] yourlibrarian
I plan to watch the show at some point, but even I have heard about this issue. I agree that it's a major issue affecting longform storytelling (not just on this show but any show), how much the availability or cooperation of different contributors to the show end up affecting what gets told.

No one balks at show runners complaining about network interference or acknowledging that a recurring actor whose career has taken off somewhere else has changed what they can do. It's undoubtedly awkward to address but many an actor has ruined their shows for reasons of ego, going through the motions, or conflicts with others.

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Date: 2015-08-20 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malicat.livejournal.com
As if this whole situation wasn't ridic enough,this interview takes it to a new level. All their answers (or well,non-answers) are total BS and really condescending and insulting the intelligenc of the viewer's. Like,yes I get it,they can't really reveal anything openly and that's fine but this interview did even more damage than just a 'no comment' would have done and I honestly lost almost the little respect I still had completely. I will still tune in for season 7 but it needs to improve FAST then! Unfortunately I fear that sidelining Diane and Cary in 6B was only the first sign and it will be even better next season :/

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Date: 2015-08-20 08:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 12-12-12.livejournal.com
"Just so we’re clear, Josh wasn’t really killed. We faked those gunshots. We fake everything in the show"

LMAO OMG

Nice try with the false equivalence, LOL. Oh dear.

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Date: 2015-08-20 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sakuracorr.livejournal.com
Oh all the things I would have to say about this, if I hadn't already exhausted my capacity to care by the bullshit surrounding it.

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Date: 2015-08-21 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ever-neutral.livejournal.com
"Just so we’re clear, Josh wasn’t really killed. We faked those gunshots. We fake everything in the show"



Amazing.

(I'll still watch next season tho, lol.)

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Date: 2015-08-21 10:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] waltzmatildah.livejournal.com
I've largely abandoned the show (haven't watched since the mid-season break) due to increasing issues with the Kings, and this really just takes the cake, doesn't it?! Like, nope. Nope, nope, nope.

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Date: 2015-08-29 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] woodycakes.livejournal.com
awww this is so sad. I'm only season 5 in my marathon and there are signs that they're mending fences as characters so these lame excuses suck. wow these showruners are pretty crummy.