Yaasss! Lol!

Reading too deep, definitely!

Seems really petty and unprofessional though, to ruin a character because of bad blood with the actor. Aren't they the ones always telling fans that the actor is not the character? Very hypocritical.

Right, but given that the scene was a final goodbye, and would predictably leave Mickey (on the show) and the fans (in real life) heartbroken…..why on earth did they think it would be ok to include an odd joke here?

Well, probably because they wanted to show "growth" for one of their main protagonists, while not caring so much about a 2 episode guest character or the viewers' opinions.

Exactly. It's odd, but the character doesn't feel real anymore. You can see the writer's machinations so clearly behind everything, it's difficult to get invested in his storylines.

Agree. A 1000 times agree.

I remember someone saying that Trevor would have called in to the station about Ian being sick, so that he's not fired, lol.

That felt totally unnecessary, by the way. Probably another inside "joke" in the writer's room, like the 6x01 'ian galager' tattoo.

Completely understandable that the actor playing an important character leaving abruptly puts the writers in a bit of a bind. But, and here's a big but, they are professional writers, on a show that forgives ridiculous storylines. They could have had the breakup go a hundred different ways, without totally shitting on…

Just in case they don't have season 8, will be interesting to see how they plan to end it in the next episode. Would they have seen shot alternate versions for a possible series finale? Hopefully they had the foresight.

Again, they didn't 'show' a maturing Ian. The maturity just came out of the blue. So it felt like the same thing again - the show show shoving something down the viewer's throats. No subtlety at all, pretty lazy writing.

Oh, but you forget, it's a "comedy". Can't be going too deep into anything now!

Right?! With how "shameless" and unpredictable this show claims to be, the only shocking thing about this storyline was it's extreme predictability.

Oh please please please someone pitch a Mickey Milkovich in Mexico spinoff to the powers that be at Showtime!

Oh yes, you're right! Forgot about that, my bad.

It's subtext. And gives the writers one more thing to point to as proof later on - "look, we gave you hints that Ian was manic, you can't pretend to be blindsided, you should have seen this etc. etc."

I think she was just trying to match Etta's groove, not show off her own moves.

But he did care though. Even wanted to keep in touch with him from jail. Then suddenly, nothing. Again, another example of the show not staying true to his earlier character development.

Actually, he's a natural red head. He just dyes it blond.