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HORATIO HORNBLOWER posted:That would have been really cool. Along the same lines, Allison Janney may in fact be my alternate universe wife, but CCH Pounder would have kicked all kinds of rear end as press secretary. But Eugene Levy as Toby? Somebody was smoking crack that day. You've obviously never seen Mr. Levy's work on stage.
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Mu Zeta posted:Watching season 1 in HD and in widescreen on Amazon Prime is freaking me out Yeah, it's great. Too bad they can't be arsed to include subtitles. I have to crank the volume way up to understand what everyone's saying and then dive for the remote when the credits music starts up.
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The complete series is on sale for $88.99 today only as Amazon's deal of the day: http://www.amazon.com/The-West-Wing...XWK9VR7JN8SQ27D I can't recommend this enough, if you don't own this already jump on it!
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Sep 3, 2012 13:56
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I wouldn't buy it. Spend the $80 on an Amazon Prime account instead.
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BobTheCow posted:The complete series is on sale for $88.99 today only as Amazon's deal of the day: http://www.amazon.com/The-West-Wing...XWK9VR7JN8SQ27D Thanks for posting, I've been searching for a deal on this box set. My wife and I want to rewatch the series. She did not really watch it when it first aired but she likes the reruns when they come on. Glad I checked into the thread today.
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I can't even imagine CCH Pounder as press secretary. She would just glare at the journalists until they agreed to write whatever she wanted.
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I was thinking today about the episode where josh is freaking out about the poll that says x number of people think foreign aid is too high and y think it should be cut. His break down is awesome.
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I used that scene to explain to my wife why I could give a rat's about public polling. Although, it is a little trick that West Wing uses maybe a little too often. They love to mention something once, twice, three times - but never a context. That way when the reason they're mentioning it finally comes up, it's now a big reveal rather than just, a thing. They also love to make dialogue one step more understandable on each mention. The one that comes to mind is the episode about the nuclear weapons test detection in season 5. They call it everything they can to avoid calling it a nuclear test, that way they can say nuclear right before the credits so it'll be super dramatic.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I used that scene to explain to my wife why I could give a rat's about public polling. So you're a big fan of having a select few people in government guessing.
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TheBigBad posted:So you're a big fan of having a select few people in government guessing.
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My wife and I just started watching the DVDs. I forgot how much we start the show mid-stride in the administration and backfill along the way.
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tomapot posted:My wife and I just started watching the DVDs. I forgot how much we start the show mid-stride in the administration and backfill along the way. And, of course, the major flashback info dump episodes (In the Shadow of Two Gunmen and Bartlet For America) are among the very best couple of the series.
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Trying to get through season 5. So hard. Blargh. I hate Toby's new assistant. Where did Ginger and Bonnie go? (My wife's quick-on-her-feet answer: they got new jobs during the shutdown and didn't come back.) Help me, Jimmy Smits, you're my only hope.
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I decided to try out Sports Night and I love Sorkin but man I'm just not sure if I can handle shoe horning political story lines into a sportscast (especially when I can't stand sports, I totally agree with Dan's interpretation of soccer, except I feel the way about all sports).
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FISHMANPET posted:I decided to try out Sports Night and I love Sorkin but man I'm just not sure if I can handle shoe horning political story lines into a sportscast (especially when I can't stand sports, I totally agree with Dan's interpretation of soccer, except I feel the way about all sports). I'd keep going, there's really not much of that after the first run of episodes. I love Sorkin, and I know the West Wing is objectively better, but something about Sports Night really works. You don't have to care about sports, believe me, the character interaction is really great.
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Ninja Bob posted:I'd keep going, there's really not much of that after the first run of episodes. I love Sorkin, and I know the West Wing is objectively better, but something about Sports Night really works. You don't have to care about sports, believe me, the character interaction is really great. This. You will find no better Sorkin characters in my book. I really, really love Sports Night.
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thrawn527 posted:I've been working through a rewatch with my wife, thanks to this thread. We're about to finish season 3, and I noticed one thing that's off. Does anyone else (who can remember it) think the episode "The Two Bartlets" (Season 3, episode 12) is just really weird and off? The direction seems to be completely out of place compared to the rest of the series. It's rather darkly lit, and there's a lot of long camera shots with the action taking place in the background. By which I mean, in over half the shots over half the screen is taken up by something blurry in the foreground, with the characters in the back ground, barely noticeable, and off to the side. This is an ooooold post, but I've just started watching this through for the first time and was reading through the thread, and I'm watching this ep now, and I'm pretty baffled by it too. Lots of very long shots of one person in a two-person conversation, with the other person completely off-camera or out of focus. It's interesting, but it doesn't seem like the content of the episode is particularly dark or different in a way that would need that.
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HORATIO HORNBLOWER posted:Trying to get through season 5. So hard. Blargh. I could be imagining things, but aren't Ginger and/or Bonnie in the last episode? I am sure I remember them standing there during the President's last walk through the West Wing.
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I can neither confirm nor deny that speculation. e: God, I watched the episode where Toby's brother commits suicide, and it indirectly leads to Toby and Josh getting in a fight. I preemptively poo poo on it because they should never be fighting because this isn't CSI, but in my haze I completely forgot about the amazing moment in that episode. Toby on the couch, crying while he tells CJ that his brother killed himself. CJ: Do you want me to get you some water? Toby: No CJ: Do you want me to get you some scotch? Toby: No CJ: Do you want me to leave? Toby: No All while crying his eyes out. Man, Richard Schiff can go MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Sep 18, 2012 |
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I really enjoyed the fight scene, and the episode as a whole. And then the way they sort of half-assed made up later on was really sweet. I also like the reason they're angry is that not only did Josh quit, but he didn't ask Toby.
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Hillary Clinton posted:"I said I think we can do better than that, Mr. Speaker" Unfortunately, I don't think we can.
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Working my way through season 3. Can I watch 4 and then skip to 7? I'm a big Sorkin fan and I don't have the most time in the world right now. Id rather read the Wiki summary of season 5 and 6 than slog through watching it.
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drawkcab si eman ym posted:Working my way through season 3. Can I watch 4 and then skip to 7? I'm a big Sorkin fan and I don't have the most time in the world right now. Id rather read the Wiki summary of season 5 and 6 than slog through watching it. I'd just watch everything, but you absolutely cannot skip after about the fourth episode of season 6 and know what's going on in season 7; the huge election arc that starts in early-mid season 6 carries the rest of the series.
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You're going to have to watch the first few episodes of season five anyway because there's a teeeeeensy cliffhanger at the end of season four. But those episodes have John Goodman, so you'd want to watch them anyway.
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drawkcab si eman ym posted:Working my way through season 3. Can I watch 4 and then skip to 7? I'm a big Sorkin fan and I don't have the most time in the world right now. Id rather read the Wiki summary of season 5 and 6 than slog through watching it. You can just watch the first few episodes of season 5, maybe The Supremes, and skip the rest of that. With season 6 go on IMDB and see which episodes have Jimmy Smits or Alan Alda. If they aren't in it then skip the episode. Watch all of 7. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Sep 20, 2012 |
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Or just watch all of it. Yes, there's a dip in quality in season 5, but it's really not as big as it's sometimes made out to be.
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All right, you guys have convinced me- I'll watch 5 and 6 and with these lowered expectations hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.
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If you absolutely must skip around 5 and 6, here's the episodes I would describe as must-watch due to either being very good or containing important plot developments: Season Five 5-1: 7A WF 83429 5-2: The Dogs of War 5-3: Jefferson Lives 5-7: Separation of Powers 5-8: Shutdown 5-9: Abu el Banat 5-10: The Stormy Present (marginal import but I like the episode) 5-15: Full Disclosure (could be skipped) 5-17: The Supremes (this is one of the best episodes of the whole series) Season Six 6-4: Liftoff (I think everything in the season five cliffhanger into season six arc of import gets rolled into the previously ons here) 6-6: The Dover Test 6-7: A Change Is Gonna Come 6-8: In The Room 6-9: Impact Winter 6-10: Faith Based Initiative (this is where the show kinda splits in two for awhile with alternating campaign/governing episodes, the governing-only eps with no campaign interludes are skippable) 6-11: Opposition Research 6-13: King Corn 6-15: Freedonia 6-16: Drought Conditions 6-17: A Good Day 6-18: La Palabra 6-20: In God We Trust 6-21: Things Fall Apart 6-22: 2162 Votes
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I've been thinking about this anyway, but it would be a fun project to do an edited down version of the West Wing. The best exchanges and moments from each episodes, and what's important to the plot but maybe not so good (ie, Josh's season 5 infertility, Leo's heart attack, really anything having to do with Toby in season 7). Reduce each episode to like 6-8 minutes for those of us who can't figure out how to stop rewatching the series.
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Matt Santos defeated by surprise, unconstitutional third Bartlett Term!?
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It took everything I had not to squeal at this. Unfortunate that it's a campaign ad, but it's almost new West Wing. e: Little too much fourth-wall leaning, too. e2: "Movie-star handsome Louis C.K." Never mind, fourth-wall leaning owns.
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drawkcab si eman ym posted:Working my way through season 3. Can I watch 4 and then skip to 7? I'm a big Sorkin fan and I don't have the most time in the world right now. Id rather read the Wiki summary of season 5 and 6 than slog through watching it. I keep seeing posts like this in TV-IV. Seriously, what the hell? It's a TV show, not a loving chore, guys. Just watch the whole drat thing. If you get bored with an episode, skip it, I guess?  If you know anyone who's a registered voter in Michigan, spam the hell out of this on Facebook or whatever.(Had never heard of Bridget McCormack before today) Real Name Grover fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Sep 20, 2012 |
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I have never once understood skipping parts of a serial in any medium. People on the internet always talk about skipping chapters in books and stuff. It baffles me, other than the 9/11 episode there isn't a single self-contained episode in the entire show. Skipping stuff on re-watches is completely understandable, but why would you willfully ignore parts of the story?
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Since it's not on the white house set, yet still has the seal all over the building, I'm going to assume they've all gone crazy and rented and office and continue to play president.
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Eikre posted:I am stunned at how well Allison Janney has held up and how well Bradley Whitford has not. Richard Schiff too, the only difference is the gray in his facial hair.
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Eikre posted:I am stunned at how well Allison Janney has held up and how well Bradley Whitford has not. I think playing Detective Stark ruined his fine figure forever. Richard Schiff on the other hand... 
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