I can understand her wanting to have a baby but her timing couldn't have been worse. Just when the show is struggling to keep viewers and trying to build towards a season finale the writers are forced to come up with the ridiculous FBI story line so they can hide her behind a desk. Don't think she will be getting many xmas cards from the rest of the cast and crew.
shareThe FBI story line was pathetic, I agree, and adding Gabrielle Union is worse than being set on fire, but this show was going to be canceled at the same time either way.
They shouldn't have just shown her from the chin up then, either, she looked awesome...
On Alias, when Jennifer Garner got pregnant, it was the opposite. She looked very bad, trying to do kung-fu with a bloated face and teary eyes, and that killed it off, when the series would have been acted better without her ever being on it in the first place.
Sarah Shahi looked flawless either way, and it fit the character, anyway, seeing as how she was always doing it...
iirc the writers had already planned for her to be parted from Dameon for a number of eps, so it's not like the baby caused the split. But generally it must peeved writer off no end if they've crafted a whole seasons worth of intricate story arc only for all their well thought out plans to be thrown outta da window cos the lead actress is with child.
iiuc ages ago a woman was hired to be the sex bomb in the show only for her to turn up all pregnant and stuff. She was then fired and there was a big court case - very hazy on the details. And what about that lass from Ugly Betty, the secretary type lady. Was to star in her own series as a virgin, only for her to get pregnant, stall the series and possible kill it off before it even got to screen.
re: Alias - a show built around a lady who kicks ass, jumps thru windows and scales down walls, just falls apart when she can't do dat no mo.
The only series I can recall in which a baby didn't destroy it was 11th Hour. Marley Shelton got pregant in (iiuc) the last ep, and the writers had her shot with an arrow and would have thus spent her baby time in hospital recovering from the arrow wound - had the series return for another series, though since it happened last ep, then I'm guessing by the time they started filming the next season the baby would've already popped out and Marley'd be ready to film. Guess it's the luck of the draw.
Something I seem to remember reading about was re: The Bionic Woman, and how the lead actress had to sign some kinda "I won't get pregnant" contract. Don't know if this is true, or even illegal, but I thinking the series I've written about 29 celebate 20-30 yrs old nuns living on a deserted island, will never get made, though I guess those habits would hide the "gonna happen" baby bumps.
Sarah Shahi wasn't a good character on the show. I get the premise "yeah this show is about this guy , ex cop thrown into prison and now got acquitted and goes back on the force". Well he's a detective so naturally he'll need a partner... let's throw a woman in there for kicks, hey it worked on star trek! and those shows were all about equality and stuff.
But I suppose it is a woman's right to get knocked up whenever she feels like but at the same time isn't it enormously careless to her job and everyone else that depend on her character working out on the show?
Do they have the right to yell discrimination and sue if the writers have a problem with this directly interfering with a show?
I mean, in the planning stages before they film a series do they have to include a fallback plan in case of the token female character in case she'd get pregnant during the shows filming?
I'm all for fairness to both sexes but it seems like it's a safer bet going with male actors which probably isn't helping equal rights and equality.
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1. She didn't like the way the show was treating her character.
2. Ratings were poor so it appeared it would be canceled anyway.
3. There was a writer's strike so nobody knew when they would be coming back to work, if ever.
4. Shows work around pregnancies all the time.
5. She's a steadily working actor who wants a kid. It has to happen some time. We have no idea about the circumstances of whether or not it was easy for her conceive.