They drooped it because what sense would make to have 4 law enforcement officers on the same 5 person squad involved in a sexual or romantic relationship, that would be a bit far fetched.
Sex or a romantic involvement always changes a relationship, and it always affects a person's judgment. For obvious reasons, having two people involved with one another and doing this type of job is usually forbidden, and someone would have to transfer out of the squad, in this case if the top brass found out and these things always get found out, they would have to have two people transfer out of a squad that apparently work well together.
That's just my take on why they did it, and network executives like to add women to these series to bring in more female viewers, and Ms. Helfer is one those women that other women find attractive, having Ms. Helfer and Mr. McDermott's characters romantically involved also helps to attract female viewers, at least that's what the marketing people say, and a lot of men like her as well.
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mbwlng
14 years ago
You're probably right,but the Dean/Jamie relationship is what hooked me onto this show and now that it's been erased in favor of one where I have no buy-in, I'm only turning in out of habit.
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knight_sentinel
14 years ago
I was doing some searches about her casting, and she was specifically cast to be a love interest, and a member of the team. So you have to figure TPTB already had plans to nix the other relationship.
I actually find it interesting how TPTB come up with some of their decisions, and how they do all marketing research to cast a series. I don't always like their decisions but I find it interesting when they explain how and why they cast certain actors.
Ms. Helfer is tall and has beautiful yet intimidating looks, although in real life most law enforcement officers who are female never look like female actors or super models, most women that look like that can find better and safer jobs, making a lot more money, although I have seen a lot of female district attorneys that look like actors or models.
I actually liked Nikki Aycox better when she was on "Supernatural" she was good in the role of a demon.
Ms. Aycox doesn't seem to get a lot of screen or story line time this season, unfortunately. i started watching the series because of Ms. Aycox.
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catcmack
14 years ago
According to the episode description for the second to last episode, Dean asks Jaimie out on a proper date. So I find all this talk about how they dropped Dean/Jaimie kind of funny. Not shoved in our faces like Alex/Carter =/= totally over and done with. Considering this week is a Jaimie episode, I'm guessing we'll get something.
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knight_sentinel
14 years ago
All I can say is look at the TNT site, and see who the two actors featured heavily on the Dark Blue page.
I'll put it like this, if I were just surfing around and came across that page, and knew nothing about the series, at first blush, I would assume that it was series about two detectives who were partners, one being male and the other female, and the female isn't Nicki Aycox.
http://www.tnt.tv/series/darkblue/
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catcmack
14 years ago
I...have no idea what that has to do with the spoiler I posted?
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knight_sentinel
14 years ago
Well I didn't see a description of the episode on the TNT site, just the name of the episode is entitled "Dead Flowers", and I'm just pointing out they're not trying to make Jamie and Dean a couple, they're promoting McDermott and Helfer's characters as love interest on the series.
I'll put it like this, any time "Dead Flowers" is in a title of anything, it's synonymous with a love affair gone bad or a bad situation in ones life.
There is even a site that a person can send dead flowers to the person that dumped, cheated or divorced them.
The name of the episode says a lot, and one of these couples is going to have a bad break up.
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Rena_Mahone
10 years ago
I agree... Dean x Jamie is waaay better than Carter x Alex. Really, her addition was so uncalled for.
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