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.

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I feel so behind....

[dmnsqrl.livejournal.com]

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

Re: I feel so behind....

[cellio]

The change in writers was before the last season. Sorkin wrote seasons 1-4, then got booted out; season 6 starts next week.

We just got season 4 on DVD. That's the last one I plan to get new. :-) (If season 5 eventually turns up cheap enough on the used market, maybe...)