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New interview with PL. Some of fragments of interview:
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“I wrote the episode thinking that it might be Alex’s last episode and it might be the finale,” Lenkov tells Parade.com exclusively. “I didn’t know for sure until later in the process. The script was already written, but I don’t get word through early spring that the show’s coming back, so I always write an episode that could be the series finale. I’ve done that for almost 10 years. What you’ll see is very much what could have been the end of season 10, and the beginning of season 11, as well. I just made some minor adjustments to it to make it a series finale.”
What struck me when watching was just how much the finale included the new character of Lincoln Cole (Lance Gross), who didn’t really have a place with the team yet, but it turns out that there was a reason for his presence. Lenkov was hoping that CBS would keep 5-0 going.
“You don’t take anything for granted in TV,” Lenkov says. “So, I never take for granted that we’re getting picked up, so I’ve got to plant some seeds to keep the show going, in case the network decides they want to pick it up. Lincoln was the character I wanted to introduce. I thought that he’d make a great add to the family in case Alex didn’t come back. I thought I had another strong character to help carry it into later seasons. That can happen, so I did spend some time introducing that character hoping that that was a possibility.”
By not killing off McGarrett – thankfully, because the finale is a tearjerker as it is – he leaves it open to the possibility that McGarrett, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, will realize that there is no place like home.
“I do agree with you,” Lenkov says. “I think that he is going to come back. Like he said to Danny, and it’s not just words, he said, ‘It’s not forever.’ I think he just needs to go and get some air, and then come back and start whatever the next chapter is. That next chapter may be a family with Catherine [Michelle Borth], may be running the task force and letting some of the younger guys handle the heavy lifting, but I think the idea of those two sitting in the Adirondack chairs as old men looking at a sunset…that is definitely the future if we were going to continue the show. And leaving is not goodbye forever. It’s just a temporary escape to decompress, and to get away from everything, from all the trauma that he’s faced over the last couple years, especially losing his mother, and Joe White [Terry O’Quinn].”
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Full interview: https://parade.com/1018898/paulettec...ale-interview/ |
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