I really enjoyed the siege episodes. What made you deide to choose Noah as the person who dies? What made you pick him over the other people who were in the siege, or the other people who were departing the show (eg Rhys, Max, Dani, etc)?
Asked by LukeI really felt someone had to die who the audience really cared about. I also wanted it to be a character whose death would have very long term effects on the show. I also didn't want it to be anyone connected to the Sutherland family. I felt that they'd been through so much that killing one of them would either irritate the audience ("What else can go wrong for them!?") or illicit indifference ("So much has happened to them so far, I don't care and don't believe.") It was a very melodramatic story as it was. To have made a Sutherland the victim would have made it even more so in my opinion. I preferred to lose Rhys and Max through a very human story of a man falling in love with his first wife again. And you'll see how Dani goes soon, as the natural consequence of her major flaw - her selfishness. I chose Noah as I knew it would break the audiences heart as well as Hayley's, make for fantastic drama and open Hayley up to a whole new raft of good stories. Beau had also been with the show for a long time and was ready to move on to new professional challenges elsewhere.
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