Well that's a bummer. I like Snapper with his Danish eating Stealth Mentor way, he's no Cat but I'll take what I can get.
they could recast snapper, get a new boss, have james actually work at catco. lots of options
Yeah, James taking over Cat's position never did make much sense. His first day at CatCo was the pilot. He was there for only a year! Suddenly he's acting CEO. That makes no sense
They didn't even have to have Cat leave CatCo. They could have just kept her off screen, like Maris on Fraiser, or Vera on Cheers or Howards mom on the Big Bang Theory
And they could've had Eve reach out to people for Cat, ya know like Kara used to do. Maybe they could have Cat yelling off screen. They could probably have Calista use a sound studio in LA to record her lines and add it in post. (They could have even used it as a running gag, with Cat yelling for Eve and Eve mentioning some ridiculous task Cat set for her i.e. I have to check on that shipment of emus Cat wanted Fedexed to her.)
There's a reason (with the exception of Kara's promotion) we never see Cat go to James' or anyone else's office in season 1. Cat doesn't have to do that because she can have Kara/Eve summon anyone she needs to talk with. If we stipulate that Cat's daily meeting is only attended by department heads, then there you go a perfectly logical explanation as to why we haven't seen Cat lately.
But instead they had Cat leave and promoted James so he has less time to spend in the field then when he was department head. Argghhhh
And now we might be losing Snapper too? It feels like he just got here (he is waaay underutilized)
What are they going to do now? Are they going to get Cat's distant cousin Lou Grant to take over for Snapper?