odds and ends

[cellio]

I'm registered and I'm voting. Six degrees of voting seems to be an effort to track this. (It shows who's connected to whom and how each person plans to vote, so I suppose if there were a lot more data some sociologist could study clustering or something. If you follow the link, you'll show up as being connected to me.)
The producers of West

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[rectangularcat]

Glad the tape made it to you!

[siderea]

WW:TNG.

[cellio]

*laugh* Dani said exactly the same thing. :-)

[khaosworks]

There's only one way I could see it working.

Get Rob Loewe back, and Sam to run for President. Loewe got top billing anyway (well, after Sheen) when the series first started and it was pretty obvious that Jed was pushing him in the direction of that career path near the end. That way, you could even retain some familiar faces (Josh or Toby as Chief of Staff?).

Aside from that, I don't see it working. I stopped watching it when Sorkin left.

[cellio]

These may be words of heresy, but... I never found Sam compelling as a character. We started watching in season 3 (and back-filled later), and he seems one of the least-interesting title characters to me. I'd much rather watch Bartlet, CJ, Josh, Toby (before this season), or Leo in action. Maybe I'd feel differently if I'd watched the character develop from the start.

We're still watching, but as one reviewer on Amazon put it, season four is the last one true fans will buy new on DVD.

[schulman]

without Bartlet, Leo, CJ, Josh, Toby, and the others, it won't be West Wing.

Feh. Without Sorkin, it's not West Wing, she said bitterly.

I never found Sam compelling as a character.

I liked him a lot as part of the ensemble, particularly when paired with Ainsley Hayes. On the whole, I think all the WW characters work much better playing off each other in a group than they do when they have carry an episode themselves. (Even CJ.)

I've been enjoying Desperate Housewives the past few weeks, but I keep wanting to turn it into a Sorkin show in my head, not least because it reunites Felicity Huffman and Brenda Strong from Sports Night.

(Why no, I'm not obsessive at all.)

I feel so behind....

[dmnsqrl]

I love West Wing but it keeps being on opposite shows I also love... so I rarely get a sense of what's going on _currently_ with the show since I mostly tend to catch it in reruns.... now I wonder what it's going to be like if everyone is saying it seems different after a recent change in writers

I wonder if any of that philosophy on the part of the west wing writers

[dmnsqrl]

is influenced by the fact that initially they had not intended the character of the president to have much of a role. Their mistake casting Martin Sheen, I guess ;)

Re: I wonder if any of that philosophy on the part of the west wing writers

[cellio]

Could be. Not that I mind. :-)