But she presumably had--it was simply that her maternity leave prevented her from appearing in all of the episodes. That's different from not being contracted to appear in all of the episodes--as we're seeing this season. As for second season, they needed two episodes to write Aiden out, otherwise, we probably would have seen Lindsay in every episode there, too. But it didn't make any sense to bring in the replacement before the person being replaced had left.
Not necessarily -- Jesse on Miami was brought in before Eric left. Obviously the circumstances were very different, Jesse wasn't being hired as a replacement, but I'm just thinking that Eddie Cibrian
was slated to appear in each episode of Miami's S8 and therefore has (well presumably, so far anyway) has; even when his character technically wasn't there. I don't think Belknap's contract was the same, I think there's always been some degree of variety as far as her contracted episodes go. It's not just Season 2, it's also 5.05.
Well, it doesn't really--aside from the fact that Lindsay has been almost totally marginalized as a character. For those of us who think she stinks up the screen almost every time she's on it, that's a good thing. In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really "matter"--it's just interesting.
For those of us who think she's awesome, it's really not a huge departure from the norm, either
I mean, yeah it sucks that she's not in each episode because at least they usually give us the courtesy of
letting us know when she won't be in one :shifty: But I'm not seeing marginalization. I mentioned earlier on the thread that Lindsay's always been one of those characters who gets screwed out of decent screentime. This was true in Season 2 and it's still true now. If we compare her as a series regular in S2 to the other regulars in that same season, she would've already appeared marginalized -- she barely had five minutes of screentime in "Trapped" and "Fare Game".
I don't think her rep even commented on that--why would the rep comment on that?
It was a press error in the CBS releases.
Well, I wasn't around for that, admittedly I don't know for sure.
Wonder what her rep is saying now that she's been written out of Melrose Place...
LOL, I so didn't even know she was on that show :lol: I thought she was sticking with singing after Point of No Return?
A "no comment" invites plenty of speculation, actually. Like what's going on here.
What ever is said, or not said, people are going to speculate either way. That's the beauty of the internet.
Oh yeah! But the speculation's hardly out of control now, since the "no comment" didn't really change anything we didn't already know -- and I seriously doubt it's going to be anytime soon. Whereas I think being pelted daily with questions like "do we know
for sure if Anna's coming back next year?" would start grating even on Ausiello's nerves
Not to mention Anna's herself, which is why I could see how "no comment" might be more attractive to her than a confirmation about her personal time-off. Especially with the way she seems to cherish her privacy.
I had completely forgotten the absence from 5x05--when she isn't sucking, she's such a non-entity in my book--but maybe the episode order cut happened last season, only we didn't realize it because of her maternity leave. So she was out four last year. The season is just half over and she's already been out for three episodes. I wonder how many more she'll miss. Let the speculation begin...
:devil:
Lol, okay :lol: (it was five last season, though, and I might start worrying if her disappearances reach that level and outnumber any of the others'. But probably not before.) The other fact I can't get over is that we've never seen
one of the original regulars miss a single episode, ever, so I can't think it's a total coincidence that they're the only ones who haven't gone missing now. I don't think their contracts allow them to. But I can't read anything special into the fact that Buckley's, Joy's, and Belknap's
do allow them to do that.
ETA:
Originally Posted by JellyBelly:
Personally I lean toward it likely being a bit of both on each side. The network made no secret of their attempt to save money with news during the hiatus that CBS was negotiating pay freezes with the actors. Also, tptb when questioned about adding a new character after offing Angell made reference to having saved money in other ways, therefore being able to bring in the 'fresh' new character to spice things up!
I imagine that tptb were looking at ways to save money, and I imagine that Anna Belknap was looking at ways to juggle a new baby, a toddler and her work. I suspect this arrangement suits both sides.
This is what I think it might've come down to, also; I think it would've had to have been at least partly her choice. Because even if her contract was originally supposed to include every episode, would TPTB be able to change that without her agreement? Every other time she's taken a hiatus, it's been by her choice, and I can't see how this one would've been different.
It's happening to a lot of actors from the networks (I kind of wanted to bring up Katherine Heigl/Izzie Stevens from Grey's, as one actor who's been a regular from the first but has since had her screentime cut -- but I'm ninety-percent sure that things work differently on the set of Grey's than they do with CSI).
EDT. Technically Anna/Lindsay wasn't 'absent' from 5:05 - she was only in it very briefly but she was still there - very different from being completely absent from 3 episodes so far this season!
I don't remember her showing up at all (though I have to watch it again, I guess!)...what scene was she in?