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Diabolik900 posted:I've been doing my first rewatch of the series lately. Is it wrong for me to assume that Mandy died in the shooting and nobody cared? I like this theory.
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Diabolik900 posted:I've been doing my first rewatch of the series lately. Is it wrong for me to assume that Mandy died in the shooting and nobody cared? That's actually close to something one of the producers (perhaps Sorkin himself) said when asked why they didn't just write out Mandy by having her die at Roslyn. "Nobody would have cared". I'm not sure it's true. My hatred for her was so intense that I may have done a little dance of happiness.
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HorseHeadBed posted:That's actually close to something one of the producers (perhaps Sorkin himself) said when asked why they didn't just write out Mandy by having her die at Roslyn. "Nobody would have cared". I'm not sure it's true. My hatred for her was so intense that I may have done a little dance of happiness. That would have been a really hard plot line to balance. I'm trying to imagine it and I just don't think it could have worked - writing her out with no explanation was probably better. Devoting too much (read: any) screen time to characters being sad over Mandy would have pissed off the audience who were more concerned about Josh but giving too little to her would have felt cheap and would kind of have shown the WW staff as pretty heartless people. 'Oh, Mandy died? Hm. Ok. But Josh'. (This is more than I have previously thought about Mandy in the whole of my life...)
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Oct 29, 2012 11:39
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Boomentum posted:She left after a scandal involving toe sucking and is now a pundit on a right wing news channel. Mandy has really let herself go.
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Dr. Hampton is doing fine. She continued to pull mid-six figures operating as a top end consultant on the beltway throughout the Bartlet administration until she married and had two children, a boy and a girl. She now resides comfortably in Connecticut where he son will eventually row crew and her daughter will go on to be an Olympic figure skater with a fascination with the term 'toe-pick'.
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Oct 29, 2012 19:39
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Mandy got exactly what she deserved; let's just leave it at that. My wife and I finished our West Wing watchthrough a few weeks ago and it's left a huge hole in our TV watching habits. It's funny how the show listed precipitously late in its life, as many long-running programs do; but unlike many other such shows, where you're almost happy to see them put out of their misery, "The West Wing" really left you wondering what might have happened in the Santos administration. Always leave them wanting more....
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TheBigBad posted:Dr. Hampton is doing fine. She continued to pull mid-six figures operating as a top end consultant on the beltway throughout the Bartlet administration until she married and had two children, a boy and a girl. She now resides comfortably in Connecticut where he son will eventually row crew and her daughter will go on to be an Olympic figure skater with a fascination with the term 'toe-pick'. Except for the fact that her father was lost in the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, her life has been excellent.
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Nov 1, 2012 18:13
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It bothers me that Bartlet didn't commute that dudes death sentence.
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Nov 2, 2012 22:13
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Does anyone have a picture of that crazy election map from season 7? With the election 2 days away I'd love to see when Texas is blue and California's red.
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Nov 5, 2012 07:42
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Nov 5, 2012 07:57
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Loving that blue NH yet red VT and Maine.
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Nov 5, 2012 08:07
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They must have had quite a time figuring out the perfect combination of states to let them win their home states, not have any egregiously wrong victories (Santos wins Alabama!), and have it all come down to a single state.
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Nov 5, 2012 08:09
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A blue South Carolina?? Surely a prank on the viewership.
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Nov 5, 2012 08:57
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I always thought they made the candidates unconventional enough that any distribution of states could make sense. But I'm not american so ymmv
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Nov 5, 2012 10:42
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They had a hispanic Democrat from Texas and a liberal Republican from California that totally messed up the regular EV allocation.
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Nov 5, 2012 11:01
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Swap NH and VT, and SC and IA, and Santos would still win 270-268. I mean, didn't Vinick massively bomb his Iowa chances in King Corn?
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Nov 5, 2012 11:08
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az posted:They had a hispanic Democrat from Texas and a liberal Republican from California that totally messed up the regular EV allocation. That was definitely a smart play, made any sort of distribution believable. I also love that they made such a perfect, ideal "Republican" that they had to write in a nuclear power plant meltdown to weaken him.
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Nov 5, 2012 11:08
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Did the meltdown occur before or after Leo died?
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Nov 5, 2012 11:26
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LordPants posted:Did the meltdown occur before or after Leo died? Well before, Leo died on election night.
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TinTower posted:I mean, didn't Vinick massively bomb his Iowa chances in King Corn? No, he gave a passionate speech reflecting his true beliefs and rose above politics. In the West Wing that means you win.
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Nov 5, 2012 12:36
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ShakeZula posted:Well before, Leo died on election night. I thought he was dead in real life something like three or four episodes before they killed him on screen? But even with that, from memory he might already have died later.
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Nov 5, 2012 12:42
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myron cope posted:It bothers me that Bartlet didn't commute that dudes death sentence. This and not supporting a study on remote prayer to pass a foreign ops bill were my biggest Bartlett letdowns. Danny was right, why are Democrats always so bumfuzzled?
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Nov 5, 2012 12:46
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Joementum posted:No, he gave a passionate speech reflecting his true beliefs and rose above politics. In the West Wing that means you win. Even Sam gave up on his seatbelt idea, though. Which brings up the idea of Michigan as a swing state in the WW universe. It's not that deep blue in our universe but it's reliably Democratic.
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Caufman posted:This and not supporting a study on remote prayer to pass a foreign ops bill were my biggest Bartlett letdowns. Danny was right, why are Democrats always so bumfuzzled? Yeah I never really had a problem with that idea. It was $115,000 and they said it wasn't just Christianity based. Fund the drat study and pass your stupid bill.
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Danny Concannon has all the best revelations. I love how he just drops by every few episodes to drop some wisdom.Asiina posted:Yeah I never really had a problem with that idea. It was $115,000 and they said it wasn't just Christianity based. Fund the drat study and pass your stupid bill. Also, that was one of those grating "you're hammering it too much" West Wing moments. "they want 115 thousand" "you mean million" like five times that episode. We get it, 115 thousand is not a lot of money in this context. Once or twice will do, thanks. MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Nov 5, 2012 |
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LordPants posted:I thought he was dead in real life something like three or four episodes before they killed him on screen? But even with that, from memory he might already have died later. John Spencer died in between the airdates of episodes 9 and 10, the nuclear accident happened episode 12. There was a christmas break in between 9 & 10 so there would have been enough time to add the storyline after changed deciding on Vinick winning.
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Because everybody loves a happy story piled on top of another happy story.
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Ratatozsk posted:Because everybody loves a happy story piled on top of another happy story.
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Apparently Romney isn't going to give his concession speech before 1am est because he never wrote one. I'm guessing he also didn't go outside, turn around three times and spit.
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Nov 7, 2012 06:38
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Josh and Donna was one of the last great tv romances. It wasn't sappy and annoying, we didn't suffer from endless will they won't they syndrome. "DONNAAAAAA!"
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Plus they managed to hide, for nearly 7 years, Janel Moloney. The first reveal of her in a bra in the hotel bathroom is quite the revelation.* She's really, really put together. Oh and she can act too so that's important. While I'm sure that at a certain point they decided that Josh and Donna would get together in the end, I don't believe for a second that they knew the arc too far in advance. However, it played out perfectly. It never felt forced, or stalled, it just played out organically over 7 seasons, exactly as it should have. I mean, maaaybe a bit of a stall in season 5, but what wasn't that year. * - edit: the gently caress kind of sentence is that MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Nov 7, 2012 |
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Apparently Romney isn't going to give his concession speech before 1am est because he never wrote one. I'm guessing he also didn't go outside, turn around three times and spit. He fell victim to the wrath of the guy atop the thing!
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LordPants posted:He fell victim to the wrath of the guy atop the thing! The wrath of whatever from high atop on the thing?!
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TheShadowAvatar posted:The wrath of whatever from high atop on the thing?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4rigI3FkwE
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Caufman posted:This and not supporting a study on remote prayer to pass a foreign ops bill were my biggest Bartlett letdowns. Danny was right, why are Democrats always so bumfuzzled?  implication, I'm pretty sure there have actually been studies done on it already.Obviously they don't work
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TheShadowAvatar posted:The wrath of whatever from high atop on the thing?! Yes! That's the one. Great stuff. How much did Bartlett win re-election by, by the way?
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I had my own version of the cold open from that episode yesterday. I work at a casino and we created a promotion where you could come in, pick who you think will win the election and win some money to play the slots. We had no less than 100 people who thought they were actually casting their vote for the election and a few who were upset that they couldn't get the slot play because they already voted and didn't break the law by voting twice.
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LordPants posted:Yes! That's the one. Great stuff. How much did Bartlett win re-election by, by the way? It was something like 419-119. Ritchie won barely any states except for his home state and the deep reds like Idaho or Alabama. Speaking of Toby, guess who was on BBC One/News yesterday morning!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOlSAxwH0gc
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I've just started season 5. I'm... I'm scared. Will it hurt?
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