Warning: Spoilers ahead for the eighth season finale ofBlue Bloods.
Well,Blue Bloodsfans, they finally did it.
In this case, it was Jamie, bringing Eddie alongand announcing their engagement.
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Read on below for all that and more.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What made you decide to finally bring Jamie and Eddie together?
KEVIN WADE:The writers recognized early on that these two actors had a terrific chemistry together.
I think we played that out.
Then the question becomes, “Are you going to throw the baby out with the bathwater?”
there’s nothing there for the audience.
I think it needed to change.
The audience was also waiting for this.
There was some sense of audience expectation, which is part of my job, too.
How did Will and Vanessa react when they heard the news?
And it was a great scene to shoot.
We’d never, in 170-odd family dinner scenes, introduced a new character into that Sunday dinner.
It did feel almost poetic that this engagement was announced there.
What was the mood on set like?
The mood is very much reflected in what you see onscreen: a genuine sense of, “Wow!
We’ve never done this before, how do we deal with this?”
The actors reacted in character.
In Donnie, there was a twinge of “happy for him and sad for himself.”
And then when they go, “Well actually, that’s not written anywhere.”
And he’s like, “Well, okay.”
You’re headed into season 9.
Why do you think the show continues to resonate with viewers?
If I knew, I could probably do it better.
I don’t know exactly.
It’s a very last centuryor even century before thatsmall-town way of living, and a small-town values system.
They’ll have to deal with a couple of things.
