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TheBigBad posted:It doesn't and that's the point. Thanks for your help. I've already made it clear it wasn't actually an issue. Just got to Mrs. Lanningham's new car episode. drat. e: and went ahead and watched the episode after, the season 2 finale. That's probably one of the better single episodes of TV I've ever seen. The writing, acting, directing hell even the music was great. Joey Freshwater fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Deadpool posted:Ed and Larry are pretty much the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of West Wing and it makes me sad that we never got an episode about them with poo poo going down around them. TOBY No one. Ed and Larry. BABISH Who? TOBY They stuck their heads in, wanted to run something by me, I told them to go away. BABISH Did you discuss the leak or the investigation in any way? TOBY We didn't discuss anything. I was curt and dismissive, as instructed. BABISH Yeah, I'm going to need their full names and extensions. It was *RIGHT THERE*, damnit. And then nothing.
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So Josh and Donna are in Alpha House.
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Finishing up my rewatch, liking the campaign stuff. Just saw the "As Good Day" episode, the one where the Canadian ranchers trap the American hunters. The whole invasion plan conversations were hilarious.
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As has often been said, a true friend tells another friend the truth. And on some issues, we must speak candidly, or we could not in all honesty hold the great honor of being known the world over as Indonesia's friend.
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Also doing a full rewatch, and I still don't know what the hell the director and cinematographer of Here Today (7-5) were thinking. The shots, the lagtime-- I get that they're trying to build tension, but an unforgivable number of the angles that got used were downright ridiculous. Besides that, the talking-to Jed gave Toby seemed unnaturally harsh. I think I'd just kind of fair-weather watched S7 before, because I never caught how caustic that whole scene was. I can understand why Schiff was so pissed off about it. It didn't make a lot of sense to me that the resignation wasn't accepted, besides. I get that there's some butthurt going on, but goddamn. Talk about hanging the man out to dry out of loving nowhere, saying nothing of how out of character it was for Toby to give up that kind of information. Loving Alan Alda as always, but I'm a tried-and-true MASH fan, so seeing him in pretty much anything is automatic love. All in all, I'm glad I took the advice of another poster on this thread re: 'seasons 5 through 7 aren't as good as the first four, but West Wing being mediocre is still better than most shows.' It's true, but I think the hellish low-point is Here Today, without question. Old Boot fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Nov 7, 2014 |
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I thought the hellish lowpoint was the reality TV episode in season 5. Which makes the high highs of "The Surpemes" even more perplexing.
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The writers hosed Toby in the rear end like fresh meat at a penitentiary.
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Man, watching Newsroom, and there's gonna be a plotline about a something in Equatorial Kundu. Like, c'mon Aaron, you couldn't make up another name for a fake African country?
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FISHMANPET posted:Man, watching Newsroom, and there's gonna be a plotline about a something in Equatorial Kundu. Like, c'mon Aaron, you couldn't make up another name for a fake African country? I like that about his shows. Little easter eggs can be fun.  e: Also, poo poo, I completely forgot to make a Newsroom thread.
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JohnSherman posted:I like that about his shows. Little easter eggs can be fun. IIRC correctly there's a Santos campaign poster hanging in someone's office in Studio 60. I also might be the only person on this planet that liked Studio 60, but 30 Rock is the better show, and there's only so much room in the NBC lineup for "shows about FakeSNL"
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FISHMANPET posted:Man, watching Newsroom, and there's gonna be a plotline about a something in Equatorial Kundu. Like, c'mon Aaron, you couldn't make up another name for a fake African country? I'm surprised - I thought the Newsroom was supposed to be about fictional news people covering real events?
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They also do fake news. Last season they reported on something that turned out to be a hoax.
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Mu Zeta posted:They also do fake news. Last season they reported on something that turned out to be a hoax. Still based on a true event, though...
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withak posted:So Josh and Donna are in Alpha House. I had to look up who Josh was playing because holy crap I didn't notice that. It's not a very big part anyway. Meanwhile Donna as Stanchion was amazing. I know these people have real names but they're always going to be Toby and Sam and CJ to me. CJ was in season 2 of Veep, as it happens.
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JohnSherman posted:I like that about his shows. Little easter eggs can be fun.
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Antti posted:I had to look up who Josh was playing because holy crap I didn't notice that. It's not a very big part anyway. On Veep, her character says "Access?! Who brags about access?!" and I believe that's a reference to the awful West Wing episode of the same name and will stand by that if I ever meet anyone who gives enough of a poo poo to disagree with me.
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Antti posted:I had to look up who Josh was playing because holy crap I didn't notice that. It's not a very big part anyway. CJ is awesome on Mom though, and i love that Janney has a chance to show her comedic side. She does deadpan so loving well it's scary.
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Josh Lyman posted:Newsroom is not worth the trouble of making a thread. What, i'm loving it.... I have loved everything Sorkin has done though, including Studio 60 and Sports Night.
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willie_dee posted:What, i'm loving it.... I have loved everything Sorkin has done though, including Studio 60 and Sports Night. Even Sorkin doesn't think they're that good: “I’ve loved every minute I’ve spent in television. And I’ve had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I’ve done four shows, and only one of them was The West Wing.”
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Sports night is probably my least favorite, but I'll eat up any show that Sorkin does, regardless of how good or bad it is. I also loved Studio 60, but agree there's no way NBC could handle two behind the scenes shows. Even though they were totally different, at first glance I lumped them together.
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Episode S1E19 "Let Bartlet Be Bartlet", while great, feels like a missed opportunity. Much of the episode is concerned with a damning opposition memo Mandy writes about the Bartlet administration. I realize it's meant to spur the titular thrust of the episode, but in retrospect it was a chance to give Mandy a sympathetic end. Fire her for letting the memo leak. The staff are mad enough to make that action believable. Meanwhile the viewers are, for the first time, sympathetic towards Mandy, as her firing is a naked covering up of their own mistakes. Danny even mentions this outright: not immediately asking her what they need to fix. I understand why none of this happened, that axing Mandy was a between-seasons decision, but whatever.
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So I get to S1E10 "Noël" and remember that this is the only episode of a Sorkin show centring around a session with a psychologist that I actually enjoy. Then the story credit comes up and it's someone else. I guess I don't enjoy any Sorkin episodes with psychologists.
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The Newsroom's finale episode is going to be called "What Kind of Day Has It Been". I think we all knew that was coming.
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I haven't watched the Newsroom, but I think it would have been kinda neat if it shared its universe with the West Wing, and occasionally you'd get the media's POV on major WW events.
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pokeyman posted:So I get to S1E10 "Noël" and remember that this is the only episode of a Sorkin show centring around a session with a psychologist that I actually enjoy. Are you saying that Freudian slips are not the be-all and end-all of psychology? 
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Slashrat posted:I haven't watched the Newsroom, but I think it would have been kinda neat if it shared its universe with the West Wing, and occasionally you'd get the media's POV on major WW events. No it runs a year behind real world events.
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Aaron Sorkin was on Seth Meyers last night, which lead to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzlQTeUzC4s
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Why is the walk and talk considered a Sorkin thing when Tommy Schlamme (Chris Misiano?) came up with it as a way to engage the viewer during the interminable scenes of nothing but dialogue in the scripts written by, yep, Aaron Sorkin. It's an invention known for its mother. (Also that sketch was great!)
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pokeyman posted:Why is the walk and talk considered a Sorkin thing when Tommy Schlamme (Chris Misiano?) came up with it as a way to engage the viewer during the interminable scenes of nothing but dialogue in the scripts written by, yep, Aaron Sorkin.
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Josh Lyman posted:TV shows tend to have multiple/revolving directors, and ultimately, television is a writer's medium. After all, do you think of West Wing as Sorkin's show or Schlamme's show? Both, honestly. But not everyone's listened to all the DVD commentaries, so your point is well taken.
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The work Tommy Salami did on Sports Night is incredible. I had no idea that was one huge set and that they filmed in front of a studio audience.
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If you're into production you know Schlamme invented it. If you're not, Sorkin is the hero or the goat, and thats why he's famous.
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pokeyman posted:Both, honestly. But not everyone's listened to all the DVD commentaries, so your point is well taken. Some of us live in countries where the dvd boxed sets were $90 per season and didn't even have commentaries.
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The Lord Bude posted:Some of us live in countries where the dvd boxed sets were $90 per season and didn't even have commentaries. The MP3s are findable. I highly recommend it.
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willie_dee posted:What, i'm loving it.... I have loved everything Sorkin has done though, including Studio 60 and Sports Night. Sports Night is actually Sorkins best show. Even if the repeating dialogue in season 1 did get a bit old.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/17/politics/twitter-republicans-outside-groups/index.html?hpt=hp_t1quote:Washington (CNN) -- Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination.
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