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11-26-2006, 05:13 PM
...this no-TV guy finally got to watch how The West Wing wrapped up.
Did anybody else get into this stuff?
I thought the Vinnick/Santos stuff was better than I expected, but not too riviting. The debate episode was kind of limp; it didn't feel real very much at all.
The outgoing/ingoing White House families stuff was interesting. I'd never really thought about it, but yeah; pack 'em up, get 'em out, get 'em in. The efficiency of it, potentially, would be impressive.
Santos' wife was turning into a bit of a witch, though, but that felt REALLY real. I can totally imagine a First Lady starting to get more than snippy as she realizes life changes an enormous amount with that job. I've seen it in ministers' wives, where they thought the idea of a "life of service" was a noble, polite thing, then grow to realize it can pretty much consume the whole family setting, demanding almost unrealistic sacrifice -- and yet, that's what you signed on for.
Josh and Donna -- okay, fine. Good luck with that. CJ and Danny -- yeah, I hope that one works out, even if he's written a little "perfect." Busfield did a great job with that role.
The last episode was a little too creaky; I was hoping to really feel sad that it was over. Probably the fairness of giving the Santos/Vinnick material so much weight had already separated us from the Bartletts.
My favorite shot, probably, in the whole thing, was the morning when Vinnick goes out in his bathrobe to get the morning papers -- his first day as a civilian, probably -- and a lady walking a dog looks at him kind of ambiguously -- maybe she's embarassed for his election loss or something. And he doesn't muster a "good morning" for her, either -- it's like he's been caught, but he hasn't done anything; he just lost. And that's failure, with us -- that's embarassing. Nice moment.
So it doesn't seem like the series flamed out or anything, just kind of sputtered, but was still good. Seasons two and three are reason alone to justify all seven, I think. I wish they had never written off Ainsley Hayes (?), the blond Republican lawyer who was so great. I don't even quite remember how she got axed. That was a shame.
Anybody else a fan? What'd you think?
Did anybody else get into this stuff?
I thought the Vinnick/Santos stuff was better than I expected, but not too riviting. The debate episode was kind of limp; it didn't feel real very much at all.
The outgoing/ingoing White House families stuff was interesting. I'd never really thought about it, but yeah; pack 'em up, get 'em out, get 'em in. The efficiency of it, potentially, would be impressive.
Santos' wife was turning into a bit of a witch, though, but that felt REALLY real. I can totally imagine a First Lady starting to get more than snippy as she realizes life changes an enormous amount with that job. I've seen it in ministers' wives, where they thought the idea of a "life of service" was a noble, polite thing, then grow to realize it can pretty much consume the whole family setting, demanding almost unrealistic sacrifice -- and yet, that's what you signed on for.
Josh and Donna -- okay, fine. Good luck with that. CJ and Danny -- yeah, I hope that one works out, even if he's written a little "perfect." Busfield did a great job with that role.
The last episode was a little too creaky; I was hoping to really feel sad that it was over. Probably the fairness of giving the Santos/Vinnick material so much weight had already separated us from the Bartletts.
My favorite shot, probably, in the whole thing, was the morning when Vinnick goes out in his bathrobe to get the morning papers -- his first day as a civilian, probably -- and a lady walking a dog looks at him kind of ambiguously -- maybe she's embarassed for his election loss or something. And he doesn't muster a "good morning" for her, either -- it's like he's been caught, but he hasn't done anything; he just lost. And that's failure, with us -- that's embarassing. Nice moment.
So it doesn't seem like the series flamed out or anything, just kind of sputtered, but was still good. Seasons two and three are reason alone to justify all seven, I think. I wish they had never written off Ainsley Hayes (?), the blond Republican lawyer who was so great. I don't even quite remember how she got axed. That was a shame.
Anybody else a fan? What'd you think?