Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-92.238.137.64-20140207205913/@comment-13965604-20140215064448

128.172.245.5 wrote: LadyX wrote: 128.172.245.5 wrote: I know everyone is saying they're angry that JD would kill off a main character or that the female:male ratio would get out of whack (prob just pull Kira and Malia in, though), but when JD was talking about it he said they were "losing" a character/actor, and I took it to mean that it was the actor/actress' decision. I dunno...I feel like it's gonna be Crystal, just because she seems the most likely to want to move on. If an actor/actress doesn't renew his/her contract, JD really doesn't have a choice but to kill them.

Didn't kill Jackson. Lol, but no, seriously I get what you're saying. Well, he thought Jackson was coming back initially, I believe. He didn't really have an actor to do a death scene. I mean, he could have made it humorous and said he fell into a well offscreen or something, but then he'd have to spend time having his main characters mourn, and I don't think he wanted to dedicate any time to that with all the story lines he was doing.

They actually filmed both scenarios. And negotiations were rocky, at the least, before the episode aired, if they hadn't already fallen through. I'm not sure of the exact timeline of those events, no one does except the people involved. They only wanted Colton for, like, 12 of the 24 episodes, and he wasn't going to be 'in the first few episodes' at all.