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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Yep, saw a few people using it on Facebook. I shared it on Facebook myself, this morning. Woke up with it going through my head.
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To bump this thread with happier news, West Wing is on Netflix Instant finally and I'm doing a total rewatch, forgot how great this show was.
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Nope I'm dumb, it is. sexpig by night fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Dec 26, 2012 |
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Welp, there goes any chance I have of getting work done today.
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Glitterbomber posted:To bump this thread with happier news, West Wing is on Netflix Instant finally and I'm doing a total rewatch, forgot how great this show was. Unfortunately, I still have to do research. 
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Josh Lyman posted:Thank loving god it's winter break and I'm not teaching. Well if you teach American civics...
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Watching Moonrise Kingdom last night, the studio executive from season 1, Ted, who threatens to cancel the fundraiser if Pres Bartlet doesn't come out in favor of gay marriage, plays a central role. First time I'd seen him since that episode, so it took half the movie to figure it out, but there he is.
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Glitterbomber posted:To bump this thread with happier news, West Wing is on Netflix Instant finally and I'm doing a total rewatch, forgot how great this show was. Finally! I did a watch through a few months ago on Amazon Prime, but their player is just not up to Netflix's quality.
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This is a reminder that the West Wing has the best Christmas episodes of any show.
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JULIAN ASSANGE posted:This is a reminder that the West Wing has the best Christmas episodes of any show. 
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JULIAN ASSANGE posted:This is a reminder that the West Wing has the best Christmas episodes of any show. "Toby, if we start pulling strings like this don't you think every homeless veteran will come out of the woodwork?" "I can only hope so, sir." Easily one of my top five favorite episodes.
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If you guys have the DVD set another good Christmas episode is Noel in season 2. Great directing, great acting, and the best part is that it has one of the better commentary tracks with Martin Sheen and Bradley Whitford. They comment several times about how they all thought the assistant psychologist was super hot.
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Josh Lyman posted:When Mrs Landingham tells the story of her sons in Vietnam...
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Mu Zeta posted:If you guys have the DVD set another good Christmas episode is Noel in season 2. Great directing, great acting, and the best part is that it has one of the better commentary tracks with Martin Sheen and Bradley Whitford. They comment several times about how they all thought the assistant psychologist was super hot. I've got the big box set of the West Wing but I've never watched any of the commentaries, are they any good? Funny? The firefly ones are my high bar.
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I've watched 5 or so of the commentaries. They're not on every episode, and they're generally not that good. They don't really give interesting information but instead just have the director, writer, and producer congratulating each other for the great job they did.
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Delzuma posted:I've got the big box set of the West Wing but I've never watched any of the commentaries, are they any good? Funny? The firefly ones are my high bar. Most are bad and if Aaron Sorkin is on it then it's especially boring. I would never have guessed Sorkin would be so awful on commentaries.
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Delzuma posted:I've got the big box set of the West Wing but I've never watched any of the commentaries, are they any good? Funny? The firefly ones are my high bar. ^ what they said, re: the WW commentaries, but if Firefly's your high bar, check out Mr. Show and Futurama.
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In the same vein, The Simpsons commentaries are fantastic. They're every episode, give a lot of interesting information about the writing and animation process, and in general are hilarious. It's funny because all the writers and show runners are nerds who know the show inside and out, but whenever they have members of the cast on, they often don't really know all that much about the series.
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I'm a commentary junkie and West Wing junkie. That being said the West Wing commentaries are awful. Don't waste your time.
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There's a really obvious and really easy way to get Aaron to do commentaries on every single episode over the course of a single weekend and I'm disappointed that the studio didn't try it.
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Joementum posted:There's a really obvious and really easy way to get Aaron to do commentaries on every single episode over the course of a single weekend and I'm disappointed that the studio didn't try it. I don't think I get what you're referring to even though you say it's obvious... Mind explaining?
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Superrodan posted:I don't think I get what you're referring to even though you say it's obvious... Mind explaining? Aaron Sorkin is famous for his drug habit, particularly during the writing of The West Wing. Lock him in a room with a bag of coke, a mic and a TV playing The West Wing in sequence. A few days later you'll have the best DVD commentary ever produced.
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I just want everyone to know that since it was announced that West Wing was on Netflix I've gone and fired it up. Now I see that all of Magnum PI is on there too. Thank god it's winter break cuz I'm never leaving the couch.
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When Sorkin is high you get West Wing. When he's not high you get Studio 60 and Newsroom.
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The Season 4 synopsis on Netflix:quote:In the fourth season of the Emmy-winning political drama, President Bartlet has more than just re-election to contend with: For starters, the nation of Qumar is getting larger, and Ainsley Hayes is quitting.  What? The first point doesn't make much sense, and Ainsley never "quit" (and I don't think was even mentioned until "Evidence of Things Not Seen" when Josh said something to Joe Quincy)
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The SARS Volta posted:The Season 4 synopsis on Netflix: It makes more sense when you remember that all during that season the fog was getting thicker.
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Ainsley quitting off-screen sets up the Joe Quincy storyline which ends up turning into the Hoynes storyline.
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ninjahedgehog posted:"Toby, if we start pulling strings like this don't you think every homeless veteran will come out of the woodwork?" The House is right now introducing legislation that would authorize the VA to provide a dignified burial to veterans with no known next of kin.
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I forgot that West Wing had one of the few 'reaction to 9/11' episodes that doesn't make me cringe. A plot is the staff on lockdown while having high school students confused and needing education in the situation, B plot is Leo being kinda a racist rear end in a top hat to a suspected terrorist and getting shown to be totally wrong after the suspect calmly endures his insanity.
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Glitterbomber posted:I forgot that West Wing had one of the few 'reaction to 9/11' episodes that doesn't make me cringe. A plot is the staff on lockdown while having high school students confused and needing education in the situation, B plot is Leo being kinda a racist rear end in a top hat to a suspected terrorist and getting shown to be totally wrong after the suspect calmly endures his insanity. You may be the only person on earth who finds that episode in any way laudable.
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They also have the guy vaguely threaten Leo by saying something like "I can make you regret that" or something equally preposterous to say while locked in a room with secret service. The b plot of that episode is best ignored, I think.
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Glitterbomber posted:I forgot that West Wing had one of the few 'reaction to 9/11' episodes that doesn't make me cringe. A plot is the staff on lockdown while having high school students confused and needing education in the situation, B plot is Leo being kinda a racist rear end in a top hat to a suspected terrorist and getting shown to be totally wrong after the suspect calmly endures his insanity. I think we watched completely different episodes. Between the high school kid asking if all Muslims are terrorists with a straight face and Leo acting nothing like he had been for the past 40+ episodes I thought it was awful and by far the worst episode aired to date.
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HORATIO HORNBLOWER posted:You may be the only person on earth who finds that episode in any way laudable. He isn't the only one. Just because most of tv iv is a hive mind doesn't mean 'it' is right.
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I dunno, maybe I've become battered by Bones doing a straight up 9/11 episode in 2012 and other just total garbage piles, an episode coming out in early October (I'm pretty sure?) right after 9/11 mainly being about 'ok let's show the government explaining that people who do this poo poo are nothing at all like Islam and the dangers of a witch hunt mentality' hit me as decent. Note that 'a 9/11 episode that doesn't make me cringe' isn't exactly saying it's a great episode.
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Honestly, I only seen this episode once and skip it every time I re-watch the series (yes, I can`t control myself an keep coming back to it). Because of all the motives already pointed here, and the fact that it doesn`t fit really anywhere in the show timeline or progression always put me off of it. edit: for spelling
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I enjoy Isaac and Ishmael fine for what it is presented as: a play fully outside of the regular continuity of the show. It might be a bit simplistic and heavyhanded at times, but I think it says some things that needed to be said at the time. It's actually not even close to being my least favorite episode of the Sorkin years. Hansen85 fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Dec 31, 2012 |
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The first thing they say is that it is a stand alone morality play and that it has nothing to do with what came before and after- and the first criticism out of the gate was how Leo would act like that in context to the previous episodes. Its laudable that they took the time and made something of significance to help a population, who was angry and scared and has traditionally turned these feelings into malice and prejudice, learn to look beyond the color of ones skin, their country of origin, or their religion, etc. They took the proceeds and directed them to the 9/11 responders fund, and it was a fund raiser for it as well. It has less meaning now eleven years later because its out of context, but its still better than most dramatic episodes of anything on NBC nowadays. Edit: Beaten ^^^^
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