Comments on: What’s the West Wing gonna do? http://www.monkeylaw.org/2005/12/18/whats-the-west-wing-gonna-do/ A webcomic for the highly evolved Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:41:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: monkeyangst http://www.monkeylaw.org/2005/12/18/whats-the-west-wing-gonna-do/#comment-11 monkeyangst Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:05:04 +0000 http://www.monkeylaw.org/blog/2005/12/18/whats-the-west-wing-gonna-do/#comment-11 I'm told TWW has 14 of 22 episodes in the can for this season, and that Leo was supposed to be in 5 of the remaining 8. I guess the writers are pulling all-nighters right about now. I wonder if Sorkin left any crack in his desk... I’m told TWW has 14 of 22 episodes in the can for this season, and that Leo was supposed to be in 5 of the remaining 8. I guess the writers are pulling all-nighters right about now. I wonder if Sorkin left any crack in his desk…

]]> By: MDT http://www.monkeylaw.org/2005/12/18/whats-the-west-wing-gonna-do/#comment-10 MDT Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:54:23 +0000 http://www.monkeylaw.org/blog/2005/12/18/whats-the-west-wing-gonna-do/#comment-10 Caught this entry in the Metro Express today, and boo I say to you, because you must be one of the legions of Emmy voters who wouldn't tune out The West Wing for The Sopranos for years. The same situation occured with The Sopranos when they lost Nancy Marchand, who played Tony Soprano's mother Livia, in the third season. (If you're DVD-inclined, it's Season 3, Disc 1, "Proshai, Livushka", I believe.) To give you an idea of how they dealt with it: for the funeral episode, there was CGI and editing work done (somewhat sloppily)... but the episode turned out as one of the best of the season. More troubling was the fact that the season required an extensive re-write as it happened during filming; I'm not sure where TWW is in their production schedule right now as far as this season and the next go, but it will be interesting to see how TWW handles it. Still, as the Sopranos showed, the loss of a great actor is tough but survivable. Caught this entry in the Metro Express today, and boo I say to you, because you must be one of the legions of Emmy voters who wouldn’t tune out The West Wing for The Sopranos for years.

The same situation occured with The Sopranos when they lost Nancy Marchand, who played Tony Soprano’s mother Livia, in the third season. (If you’re DVD-inclined, it’s Season 3, Disc 1, “Proshai, Livushka”, I believe.) To give you an idea of how they dealt with it: for the funeral episode, there was CGI and editing work done (somewhat sloppily)… but the episode turned out as one of the best of the season. More troubling was the fact that the season required an extensive re-write as it happened during filming; I’m not sure where TWW is in their production schedule right now as far as this season and the next go, but it will be interesting to see how TWW handles it.

Still, as the Sopranos showed, the loss of a great actor is tough but survivable.

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