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 Wing are talking about the next administration. I had always assumed that the series would end when Bartlet's presidency ends; apparently that's not the case.

I think continuing on, following the next administration, would be a mistake. The draw of the show is the characters, and if you're going to even pretend to be realistic, most of them are going to swap out with a change in president. Even if the next president is from the same party, he'll have his own staff (mostly) and the current folks will have been in high-stress jobs for eight years.

So they can do another white-house-centered show, and even call it "West Wing", but without Bartlet, Leo, CJ, Josh, Toby, and the others, it won't be West Wing.

Thanks to rectangularcat for the tape of the season finale for 24! (Your card made me laugh.)

I owe a couple of interviews and some icons. I'm working on them.

Comments

[rectangularcat]

Glad the tape made it to you!

[siderea]

WW:TNG.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

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.

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

[dmnsqrl.livejournal.com]

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 ;)

[mrpeck.livejournal.com]

I don't even watch West Wing and I was wondering how they'd pull that off when I saw that CNN article. That would seem to be a totally different show, although I suppose it could be considered a spinoff.