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Wasn't that show always designed to basically be musical chairs in regards to the cast? The only constant is Sara and I don't even think she's immune to that.
Once again, it doesn't make sense to punish the cast (let alone the folks behind the scenes from the key grip to the kraft food services people) for the decision of one person. If all you got as a counter is a show designed to be shuffled from time to time, I'd have to point out various examples outside of CW. One of the most popular is of course, Spin City. Babylon 5 comes to mind. Irregardless of why the lead left (story purposes, actors didn't want to return, etc), it doesn't necessarily mean new cast. LEAD left, not them.
It depends on how they do it. Its all speculation but the more info that comes out about the situation the worse it seems and thus a lot of people have no faith they can pull this off in any way that makes narrative sense.
That I get. So I guess it boils down to execution, cause it could be done cleverly, clumsily, or somewhere in between.
My only contention is history itself (shows outside CW) has shown that the lead leaving doesn't necessarily mean new cast. One of my favorite examples, even though he returned for a few eps in the final season, is William Boone in Earth: Final Conflict. He was "killed" in the opening of season 2, and Liam Kincaid was used as the new lead for the rest of season 2 all the way to the end of season 4 (he returned in season 5 for the series finale). But he "inherited" the existing cast, and they had to shoehorn in connections between himself and them. Did it work? Mileage varies but I think so. It can, in theory, work here, too. Practice, though, is another thing.
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I'm very curious on how the writing team will solve this, same with Hartley Sawyer's departure over at The Flash.