Comments on: The West Wing http://soreeyes.org/archive/2006/07/29/the-west-wing/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:27:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: John http://soreeyes.org/archive/2006/07/29/the-west-wing/#comment-22016 John Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:34:41 +0000 http://soreeyes.org/?p=1167#comment-22016 I hadn't noticed Schiff's name disappearing from the titles: considering that relatively minor characters like Mary McDonnell's and Kristin Chenoweth's stayed in the title sequence whether they were in a given episode or not (IIRC), I think it was pretty crappy to omit one of the original cast members. Toby and CJ were a great, great double act: I was glad Toby got his pardon - I can imagine him working with CJ in her new foundation. I think the willingness of Channel 5 to snap up US dramas has discouraged Channel 4/More4 from hanging around for a season to see how a big US show does, so long as it's not in a genre they're not interested in like science fiction. Provided they treat the shows they buy reasonably well (<i>ie</i> <strong>not</strong> the way that Channel 4 has treated so many shows in the past five or six years) I don't have a problem with that. It's strange to think that before John Spencer's death the producers had planned to have Vinick win the election. That would have changed the tone of the last four episodes quite a bit, what with essentially all the characters we knew facing the loss of their jobs and the rejection of the work they did. I hadn’t noticed Schiff’s name disappearing from the titles: considering that relatively minor characters like Mary McDonnell’s and Kristin Chenoweth’s stayed in the title sequence whether they were in a given episode or not (IIRC), I think it was pretty crappy to omit one of the original cast members. Toby and CJ were a great, great double act: I was glad Toby got his pardon - I can imagine him working with CJ in her new foundation.

I think the willingness of Channel 5 to snap up US dramas has discouraged Channel 4/More4 from hanging around for a season to see how a big US show does, so long as it’s not in a genre they’re not interested in like science fiction. Provided they treat the shows they buy reasonably well (ie not the way that Channel 4 has treated so many shows in the past five or six years) I don’t have a problem with that.

It’s strange to think that before John Spencer’s death the producers had planned to have Vinick win the election. That would have changed the tone of the last four episodes quite a bit, what with essentially all the characters we knew facing the loss of their jobs and the rejection of the work they did.

]]> By: bea http://soreeyes.org/archive/2006/07/29/the-west-wing/#comment-22014 bea Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:09:59 +0000 http://soreeyes.org/?p=1167#comment-22014 I was very pleasantly surprised to see More4's ad for Studio 60 - for whatever reason I hadn't expected it to be picked up on a free-to-air UK channel, let alone this quickly. Re John Spencer, I thought it was sweet of them to keep his name in the credits until the end of the run. This was not extended to Richard Schiff for non-Toby episodes. I understand there were some disagreements between Schiff and the writers/producers, which is a shame. I really enjoyed the final interaction between CJ and Toby though. I was very pleasantly surprised to see More4’s ad for Studio 60 - for whatever reason I hadn’t expected it to be picked up on a free-to-air UK channel, let alone this quickly.

Re John Spencer, I thought it was sweet of them to keep his name in the credits until the end of the run. This was not extended to Richard Schiff for non-Toby episodes. I understand there were some disagreements between Schiff and the writers/producers, which is a shame. I really enjoyed the final interaction between CJ and Toby though.

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