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Farerb wrote: CoolDudeAl wrote: Farerb wrote: Lady Junky wrote: Adam does what he wants. if him and his team want to consider STM as 408a/b, ABC should have follow them. Adam works for ABC. Not the other way. But ABC doesn't decide what happens on the show. They can deside they don't want the shows to be TV-MA, so someone has to dial it back, they can decide to cancel a show that is not doing well, they can decide when and how to schedule a show, but they can't decide the plot of the show nor should they. You are absolutly right. It still doesn't change that Adam is the one working for them. And like you said, they decide how to schedule a show - They decided to air Smash the Mirror as it was aired (not Adam) - that's why they are the ones that decides the viewing order (not Adam).

Adam and Eddy are the ones deciding the plot and how the episodes are produced and the order of their production. But they do not decide in what order the episodes are to be viewed (Take for example - Firefly).

You'd be amazed at how much power ABC has over the show that can affect the plot of the show. They decide the budget (which rumor has it that budget was not enough to include Sean McGuire as regular cast member - most of it went to the Frozen cast and effects). They can decide whether or not they want to hire/fire an actor on the show (which rumor has it that they didn't want MRJ anymore and that is why his charater had to die). And they can decide when to end the show. - All that I've stated are thing that do affect the plot eventually. The creators don't even know when the show is going to end. ABC decides the budget, but Adam and Eddy are still free to write what they want, and it's other people's problems to figure out how to do it and stay in budget. And I think Sean was not staring cast simply because we did not need him to be staring cast, he's not needed in every episode this year. Pretty sure ABC does not get to choose who to hire and fire, they can give input, like "this actor might be a serial killer" or "this actor is a huge racist", but it's still up to the casting department on the show who they cast. As far as the characters being on once cast, that is up to Adam and Eddy, but also up to the actor and their agent. If the actor doesn't feel they are getting paid enough, and they are not under contract, they can pretty much leave a show at will. Obviously, you don't want to screw over the writers, because then you will be blacklisted, but still that is something that is out of both the writers and ABC's hands. And Neal needed to go to advance the plot, it doesn't make sense ABC wanted him gone and it just happened to affect all the main characters. And true the network can cancel a show, but that is not truly ending it. The writers decide when a show ends, and when their story is finished being told. Any series that had a proper ending, you will see it is because the creator decided the story was done, and rarely has to do with the network.