JamesG
06-20-2010, 02:56 PM
Neil Flynn on "Scrubs"
by Piet Levy
posted Jun 20th 2010
Flynn talked to TV Squad about his feelings on the end of "Scrubs":
Give me a sense of your thoughts as to how "Scrubs" ended.
It came to a natural ending for the season eight and then stayed around for an extra season, ultimately to be cancelled.
You could say it slowed down and stopped; the wheels just stopped turning. But no matter how you look at it, it was on the air for 8 and a half years, and that is a huge accomplishment.
I was happy the whole time. It's so hard to get a pilot shot, let alone to stay on the air for eight years. I can't help but see anything but a silver lining. It's all a silver lining. And yeah, it was supposed to be over. We shot it as a season finale. Everybody went their separate ways, except suddenly they tried to get people back to start again.
And it's not because people were afraid to move on or thought the show was better than ever or anything like that. Primarily it was because a lot of people's income was derived from the show being on the air.
And it's a credit to Bill Lawrence, the show's creator, as a person, that even though he could have walked away long before that, he stuck around and kept guiding the show and kept it on the air partly because it meant a paycheck for a couple hundred people.
But it did come to what seemed like a natural, satisfying conclusion, but then it came back.
From a story perspective, what was it like to see the show come to that conclusion, to see your character come to a conclusion, then to see the show come back and played out only to be cancelled?
There's really nothing to say there. It was a little bit of a different show, and it was. There were different characters and different lead characters even.
But I think everybody knew it was a 50-50 proposition as to whether it would stay on the air. I don't think anyone was shocked when it was time to go. There was nothing sad about it. It lived far beyond any reasonable expectations.
In the early years, the cast was surprised every time we were going to get to do another season. But by the time it got to season eight and nine, it was far too late to feel bad about anything.
It had been a great success. Victory was already signed, sealed and delivered. The rest was just icing on the cake.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/06/20/neil-flynn-on-the-middle-scrubs-and-why-he-never-wants-his/
by Piet Levy
posted Jun 20th 2010
Flynn talked to TV Squad about his feelings on the end of "Scrubs":
Give me a sense of your thoughts as to how "Scrubs" ended.
It came to a natural ending for the season eight and then stayed around for an extra season, ultimately to be cancelled.
You could say it slowed down and stopped; the wheels just stopped turning. But no matter how you look at it, it was on the air for 8 and a half years, and that is a huge accomplishment.
I was happy the whole time. It's so hard to get a pilot shot, let alone to stay on the air for eight years. I can't help but see anything but a silver lining. It's all a silver lining. And yeah, it was supposed to be over. We shot it as a season finale. Everybody went their separate ways, except suddenly they tried to get people back to start again.
And it's not because people were afraid to move on or thought the show was better than ever or anything like that. Primarily it was because a lot of people's income was derived from the show being on the air.
And it's a credit to Bill Lawrence, the show's creator, as a person, that even though he could have walked away long before that, he stuck around and kept guiding the show and kept it on the air partly because it meant a paycheck for a couple hundred people.
But it did come to what seemed like a natural, satisfying conclusion, but then it came back.
From a story perspective, what was it like to see the show come to that conclusion, to see your character come to a conclusion, then to see the show come back and played out only to be cancelled?
There's really nothing to say there. It was a little bit of a different show, and it was. There were different characters and different lead characters even.
But I think everybody knew it was a 50-50 proposition as to whether it would stay on the air. I don't think anyone was shocked when it was time to go. There was nothing sad about it. It lived far beyond any reasonable expectations.
In the early years, the cast was surprised every time we were going to get to do another season. But by the time it got to season eight and nine, it was far too late to feel bad about anything.
It had been a great success. Victory was already signed, sealed and delivered. The rest was just icing on the cake.
http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/06/20/neil-flynn-on-the-middle-scrubs-and-why-he-never-wants-his/