Monday March 6th, 2000
Ray gets asked a lot about Locklear's death, particularly his reasoning for making it occur 'off-camera.' Here's what Ray has to say (so stop asking him!):
I was done with Locklear. Originally he was a foil for Jimmy's character development, and with where I was heading with the character of James, Locklear was 'flattening out.'There wasn't anything more I wanted to do with him.
I killed him off camera, in much the same way I killed Roland off, 'off camera' because not everyone gets an heroic death.
One thing I would do differently would be add a line or two more on the emotional reaction of James and the others to the news, as it was almost nonexistent in the text.I underplayed that too much.
