I remember the house fire but this I don't. I thought I saw the finale. The doctor said she died in a helicopter crash. I guess I better be rewatchīng some stuff.
shareI just fast watched the DVR of the finale of season 7, in the last 2 minutes, she was having dinner with the family before it rolled the credits......I hate when they kill off characters without any explanation and some long winded BS about how they died......all we know is Danny's a mess because of it, but no indication of how it got to that point by how she died....more lame writing IMO.
shareIt was stupid, but apparently the actress wanted out.
shareI also thought i had missed something from last season's finale and was like WTF?. what an odd way to kill off a character.
shareI guess that when an actor's contract is up and they decline to renew, that's it for their character. In a way, though, the manner in which they announced her death - a disclosure 35 minutes into the episode - was more powerful because of the sudden shock. I don't think Linda's death would have hit viewers so hard if they had announced it (or shown it) up front and everyone knew it was coming. The focus is on Danny's emotional wreckage four months after the death. Donnie Wahlberg is not my favorite actor on the show, but I thought he did a masterful job last night. His pain was palpable.
shareAmy Carlson decided to not renew her contract. Their way of dealing with it was to have her die in a lifeflight helicopter crash. You didn't miss anything. They're just disrespecting the fans, in my opinion.
shareShe left between seasons. There was no opportunity to give her a sendoff.
shareDon't they renew their contracts by the time the show is announced as renewed? I mean, CBS renews Blue Bloods, and say, Selleck is still in negotiations. They don't meet his demands, and the show starts shooting without him.
Wait. I seem to remember some show where something like that happened, and they were left in the lurch having to cobble together a hasty re-write to explain the absent character.
The all-time worst solution happened in Alias Smith and Jones, where they just replaced Pete Duel with Roger Davis and pretended he'd was Pete Duel's character without so much as an explanation. Pete had killed himself before finishing an episode, so a voice actor had to finish dubbing some lines that the mike didn't pick up in that episode, then the next week it was Roger Davis as Hannibal Hayes. They may as well have spit in the fans' faces.
Ouch, that's rough
I remember Alias Smith and Jones and recall the leads and that whole debacle.
But it's tough to relive it.
When Jennifer Esposito left the show she had a final appearance. She told Danny she was burned out, cleaned out her desk, hugged Danny and left. And Esposito had been fired from the show. We fans deserved a more graceful exit for Amy Carlson.
shareFor those who may not have seen it, the cast spoke about their reactions to Amy Carlson's decision to leave at last night's Paleyfest NY: http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/17/blue-bloods-cast-reacts-amy-carlson-exit/
thx for the link.
shareWhat a bunch of whiners! The writers did an excellent job of writing the character out of the show. Do you have no imagination and have to have every little detail of ever story spoon fed to you with visuals? Her death was explained in a very natural way. The characters have had a couple of months to grieve so we were not subjected to months of episodes with everyone crying all the time. If you don't like how they handled the actress leaving stop watching.
shareGolly. That's right up there with, "The show isn't real, people!" We're simply saying it was jarring. You don't even know she's dead until the middle of the episode. It was ham-fisted. Now, you liked it, and we're all happy for you.
What's going to make me quit watching is a limp season like last years' that has so much going on in the real NYC and police departments across the country, and we're treated to soap opera. My husband HAS quit watching, and I didn't think anything would make him quit. I'm hanging in for morbid curiosity's sake, 'cuz frankly, I don't think they're going to improve. Just less Danny (fine with me) and more Joe (which had the girls on Facebook swooning for some unfathomable reason) and lots of soap.