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Originally Posted by Pretty in Punk
She got him fired? Was she overruled because of a drop in ratings?
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Yep- Garner, Affleck (who also has connections with ABC), and a producer named Ken Olin (who's currently working on Brothers and Sisters) got together and went to the studio with the plan to kill off the character of Vaughn.
They thought having an ex-boyfriend play the father of the baby when she was married to someone else just wasn't a great move, and everyone assumed that people only watched "Alias" for Garner. They got the surprise of their lives with that fan movement and the ratings drop.
As I understand it, they actually had to pay Michael Vartan more per episode than Jennifer Garner to get him to return for those final episodes of the fifth season.