Just watched "Posse Comitatus", or however it's spelled, and the DVD commentary with it. So much great camera work/editing in that one. Examples:
--Bartlett tosses something fragile to Fitzwallace. Just as it's about to hit Fitz' hands, smash cut to Toby loudly bouncing a ball off of Sam's window. I can't do it justice talking about it, you gotta see it.
--Roses everywhere in this "Wars of the Roses" episode. In meeting rooms, in Mumbles' apartment, and especially around Mark Harmon's final shot.
--Shot of Mrs Landingham's empty desk as Lily Tomlin enters.
--The incredible, fantastic shot of Bartlett and Leo as Bartlett gives the order to kill Sharif.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tG9_...ailpage#t=357s
--Finally, in the commentary, as the young black kid runs out to the stage and sings like an angel, director Alex Graves told about the rehearsal where Martin Sheen grabbed him and urged him to listen to this little kid in jeans and a tshirt sing. Graves then made a sarcastic remark like, "Oh, I'm sure he's got no future in show business." Sorkin laughed, and replied, "I *guarantee* you that right now, he's in the National Touring Company of SOMETHING."
So on a whim, I googled him.
http://www.the-signal.com/archives/39049/
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Originally Posted by punkass
I think Toby's character changed a lot too.
Richard Schiff sure thinks so! I saw an interview he did (I must have got the link from this thread) where he says he hasn't watched an episode that was made after Season Four, and his disdain for what they turned his character into is manifest.