Was that just a way to introduce characters? Was it changed to a serialized format because it wasn't getting ratings? Or was it always meant to play out the way it was? I am only on season 1 episode 5 and I was confused with the episodic format. I almost gave up on it until I read that it becomes more serialized later in season 1.
shareThey were waiting for Walton Goggins to become available full time.
Essentially what happened is they shot the pilot, but instead of Boyd surviving, Raylan kills him. That didn't go over well with the test audiences, who noted the best aspect of the episode was the chemistry between the two. They reshot the scene with Boyd surviving plus the scene with Boyd in the hospital. Goggins went to film Predators, which took precedent as he wasn't under contract for Justified, for a few months. Once he was available around mid season, they started the overarching story with the Crowders.
Funnily enough, the same circumstances happenened with Goggins on The Shield, but instead of him being busy with other work, the heads at FX wanted him fired after they shot the first episode because they wanted a bigger named actor playing an important part like Shane. Goggins was able to convince them to let him keep his job when Shawn Ryan invited him down to set to see his performance in the interrogation scene of episode 2. He was so good in The Shield that they begged him to do Justified!
Goggins went to film Predators, which took precedent as he wasn't under contract for Justified, for a few months.
Interesting. I saw Predators long before I saw Justified but I didn't remember the actor in Predators...but I knew he looked familiar when I started watching Justified.
I saw Django Unchained some months before I started watching Justified so that might've been where I remembered him from.
I haven't seen The Shield yet. It's on my list. I've already seen some potential spoilers on this forum but I've avoided them so far.
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I didn't know that, that's pretty interesting. Goggins in an incredibly good actor though so I guess it's not that surprising. It's funny how Breaking Bad had a similar thing happen where they originally intended to kill off Jesse in the first season before either test audiences or the showrunners (I'm not sure which, maybe both) realized that would be a mistake.
shareJesse in the first season before either test audiences or the showrunners (I'm not sure which, maybe both) realized that would be a mistake.
wow is this true, I mean you got a source for this, promise?
I mean that changed Justified from being a another mediocre procedural with above average daialogue to one of the best series on TV, just like that, because some test audience liked Walton Goggins lol
kinda funny "best dialogue on TV" was just a coincidence
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Boyd's character dies in the book "Fire in the Hole" which the pilot was loosely based on. Graham Yost has admited to keeping Goggins becasue how test audiences took to his character
http://www.tvguide.com/news/justified-series-finale-postmortem-walton-goggins/
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