When Sam left the West Wing? I pretty much never watched it again. And it's not because Sam was my favorite character, Josh was, but because of what Sam was to the show itself. Sam was the heart, he was the moral compass. Where everyone else asked "what's the best thing to do here?" Sam would ask "what's the right thing to do here?" and I really felt the show needed that. And that no new character could have that same impact because Sam had been one of the group from the beginning.
So I think it's not only a matter of how much I love a character, but also how I think a character affects a show that is my deciding factor.
(I also stopped watching Angel after Doyle was killed off because I had issues with Wesley and didn't love Cordelia or Angel enough to bother staying. Wesley had been used as a cheap joke during most of his Buffy tenure and it irritated me then and his Angel premiere was much the same so I didn't get to see his character evolve which is a little sad for me in retrospect because I gather Angel turned into an awesome show.)
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When Sam left the West Wing? I pretty much never watched it again. And it's not because Sam was my favorite character, Josh was, but because of what Sam was to the show itself. Sam was the heart, he was the moral compass. Where everyone else asked "what's the best thing to do here?" Sam would ask "what's the right thing to do here?" and I really felt the show needed that. And that no new character could have that same impact because Sam had been one of the group from the beginning.
So I think it's not only a matter of how much I love a character, but also how I think a character affects a show that is my deciding factor.
(I also stopped watching Angel after Doyle was killed off because I had issues with Wesley and didn't love Cordelia or Angel enough to bother staying. Wesley had been used as a cheap joke during most of his Buffy tenure and it irritated me then and his Angel premiere was much the same so I didn't get to see his character evolve which is a little sad for me in retrospect because I gather Angel turned into an awesome show.)