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Covert Affairs - Season 3 - Interview with show bosses
Sep 5, 2012
Covert Affairs
Below, executive producers Matt Corman and Chris Ord preview the ramifications of Lena’s betrayal and Annie’s conflicted heart.
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Interesting interview! More of those!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if more people will die, as CHristopher Gorham hinted, when he was asked after Jai´s death, whether further characters would bite the dust.
I feel like the yes Simon is dead we're serious about death and consequences line was really disingenuous. He was in the same state as Annie and obviously Annie isn't dead, so it was a perfectly legitimate question and no you aren't serious about death, you are serious about deaths that are convenient ends to characters that you have no idea how to get rid of and are cluttering up the screen. Killing Simon was the easiest way out to not force Annie to make any kinds of decisions or address the fact that she was in the mud up to her eyeballs and completely outplayed.
ReplyDeleteAnd if Annie doesn't remember the dream sequence stuff, then all it is fanservice for Annie/Auggie shippers and people who are dying to see Christopher Gorham make eye contact. It's another cheap shot in an incoherent season.
I like the season and I think they did it for two reasons:
ReplyDelete1) to establish Lena as the Big Bad (Revenge, etc.)
2) to postpone Auggie-Annie: Annie will grief over Simon´s death an Auggie won´t ask, so they can keep this story up till season 4. i don´t mind that.
Did what? Kill Simon?
ReplyDeleteDon´t get it. What do you want to say?
ReplyDeleteYou said "I think they did it for two reasons." I asked "did what?" As I have no antecedent for "it."
ReplyDeleteOh, sorry. My fault. Yeah, I meant they killed Simon for this two reasons. Pardon me, please.
ReplyDeleteNo worries. I think they killed Simon for a number of reasons, including your two, but most of them were writing problems not coherent plot structure. Simon needed to die because they needed to do something with him, they needed a way to flip the Lena character from mentor to villain, and they needed a way to get Annie away from him without dealing with her emotions and the problems of her "spycraft" comprising solely flirting and sleeping with assets and her falling for them and the fact that Annie is down in the muck where she doesn't want to be as a character, they needed to keep the number of men on the show in love with Annie down to a manageable figure, and they needed a way to bring Auggie into the Annie/Auggie will they/won't they mess. But none of that was organic, it was forced onto an already heavily manipulated plot structure.
ReplyDeleteWell, do we know enough yet, whether they are organic or not?
ReplyDeleteI don´t know if you saw 24 (maybe because Covert Affairs pays hommage to it here and there), but they havbe had many storylines that did not feel organic, but fit into the overall storyline (like the death of Renee Walker in season 8).
Maybe they stick to that kind of storytelling.
First of, I have to agree with everything Isbloom and N27 have mentioned. I really was disappointed that the writers killed off Simon and even more disappointed with the path they have decided to take instead of dealing with the consequences if Simon had stayed alive. But having said that, I accept that the only way it could of ended for the character of Simon was with his death, I just didn't think it should have been so soon, there was so much potential in that storyline. I understand that Lena shooting them was a big reveal, but again they should have saved it till later. I'm not looking forward to the direction where they might be taking us but I guess we should give them the benefit of the doubt.
ReplyDeleteBut like Isbloom has said, I know I won't help but feel a little cheated with the dream sequence. I'm probably in the minority who would rather see them continue just dragging out Annie/Auggie rather than being teased and see them drag out Annie/Auggie anyways.