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Lame. None of them in the same room. It's literally phoned in.
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Mu Zeta posted:Lame. None of them in the same room. It's literally phoned in. Which is weird, considering they were all together in the article talking about filming it.
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Jan 17, 2015 14:49
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It still made me smile and reminisce  make more West Wing!
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Jan 17, 2015 15:19
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You feta believe it!
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This thread has been dead a while, but I'm burning through my first watch, and I feel like I need to express somewhere how incredible this show is. After years and years of political thrillers, it's been very refreshing to see an optimistic view of American politics. It's kind of inspiring. I just started Season 3, with Isaac and Ishmael. I think it's nuts and totally admirable to make a special episode confronting our fear of terrorism just a month or so after 9/11, and it's still totally relevant today what with recent events. Side note, I was almost positive they were going to make a plotline about CJ getting some kind of brain damage due to hitting her head on the ground, what with her being a little more aloof and silly in most of Season 2. I guess they just decided to write her differently?
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It's a very good show, possibly the best ever made. I've never noticed the change in CJ, its the first in hearing of it
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Low Desert Punk posted:Side note, I was almost positive they were going to make a plotline about CJ getting some kind of brain damage due to hitting her head on the ground, what with her being a little more aloof and silly in most of Season 2. I guess they just decided to write her differently? I don't think it is brain damage. Out of canon you can chalk it up to the actress getting more comfortable in a difficult role. In canon you can see her becoming more comfortable with the press, her job, and having a major life change in almost dying in an assassination attempt on her boss and later a murderous stalker who killed her love interest. (Mark Harmon)
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njbeachbum posted:I don't think it is brain damage. Out of canon you can chalk it up to the actress getting more comfortable in a difficult role. In canon you can see her becoming more comfortable with the press, her job, and having a major life change in almost dying in an assassination attempt on her boss and later a murderous stalker who killed her love interest. (Mark Harmon) I think it gets mirrored a bit in what one of the (former Clinton?) staffers talks about in the 3rd season special as the three stages of working at the White House: "Oh God, what am I doing, please just let me not gently caress up the country somehow" "Oh, ok, I've got this, I know what I can handle and what I need to pawn off on someone else like a dead animal" "Oh God, this is how the country works?! AND WE'RE STILL ALIVE?!!"
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njbeachbum posted:I don't think it is brain damage. Out of canon you can chalk it up to the actress getting more comfortable in a difficult role. In canon you can see her becoming more comfortable with the press, her job, and having a major life change in almost dying in an assassination attempt on her boss and later a murderous stalker who killed her love interest. (Mark Harmon) Harmon wasn't shot by the stalker.
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Feb 9, 2015 01:45
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He faked his death in the convenience store and is working for NCIS.
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Feb 9, 2015 21:28
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I'm midway through Season 3 now, and I can really tell that Sam is getting less and less relevant in the narrative. He was basically totally missing for the MS storyline, and he seems to just pop up every so often to complain about things. It's a bummer, I really like Sam, but I know he leaves the show pretty soon and it makes sense. The episode with his cheating father and the FBI was incredible though.
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Feb 9, 2015 22:07
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Low Desert Punk posted:
"New York Minute" is one of my favorite uses of music on the show throughout it's entire run. Such a perfect song choice.
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Low Desert Punk posted:I'm midway through Season 3 now, and I can really tell that Sam is getting less and less relevant in the narrative. He was basically totally missing for the MS storyline, and he seems to just pop up every so often to complain about things. Best part is up until he leaves, his name is first in the credits from memory because hes' the ~star~ (not actually the star)
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Aziz Ansari was on Letterman and said Rob Lowe has the craziest mansion he's ever seen. Lowe even named the place the way Thomas Jefferson did Monticello. And he had a huge staff of servants that wore uniforms with the name of his mansion printed on it.
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Mu Zeta posted:Aziz Ansari was on Letterman and said Rob Lowe has the craziest mansion he's ever seen. Lowe even named the place the way Thomas Jefferson did Monticello. And he had a huge staff of servants that wore uniforms with the name of his mansion printed on it. Disappointed the servants aren't dressed as various versions of Rob Lowe.
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Feb 11, 2015 03:47
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Feb 15, 2015 01:15
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I was watching Alpha House, and not only does season 2 feature Donna as a tea party senator from North Dakota, but there's also a bit at a GOP retreat where her and another GOP senator, played by Josh, debate how the party should best continue over reacting to Benghazi.
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FISHMANPET posted:I was watching Alpha House, and not only does season 2 feature Donna as a tea party senator from North Dakota, but there's also a bit at a GOP retreat where her and another GOP senator, played by Josh, debate how the party should best continue over reacting to Benghazi. Yes, it's amazing. She is awesome in that show.
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Asiina posted:Yes, it's amazing. She is responsible for the best thing that show has ever done. And my favorite moment of TV last year. It's great. She's great.
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Feb 15, 2015 21:00
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Just watched the episode where Toby and Charlie get arrested for punching the guy at the bar in OC, and I think this is like the 3rd or 4th time in the show Charlie has kicked/threatened to kick somebody's rear end for honor. I love how he went from "gee golly mister" in his first appearance to banging chicks on the reg and drinking beers with senior staff in like a year. He might be my favorite character.
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Feb 16, 2015 22:14
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And the time he ran the pool table on Toby.
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Feb 16, 2015 22:22
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Remember the time where he marries the President's daughter.
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Asiina posted:Yes, it's amazing. "Goddamnit, Peg, stop makin' up rights."
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TheBigBad posted:Remember the time where he marries the President's daughter. No. God drat show runners.
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Feb 17, 2015 00:56
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I never bought Dule Hill in that role. He's better on Psych playing the goofy guy.
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Feb 17, 2015 01:08
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Charlie is a great character when he actually has something to do, but there are like half-season spells where he just does nothing but walk in and out of the Oval Office. Matthew Perry's character is really great, but the show seems to have a bad habit of having awesome small characters that immediately vanish.
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Feb 22, 2015 19:08
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I just watched Olympus Has Fallen. I found myself completely offended the entire time because of how many times I've watched The West Wing.
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Low Desert Punk posted:Matthew Perry's character is really great, but the show seems to have a bad habit of having awesome small characters that immediately vanish. They really should've used more John Larroquette as Chief White House Counsel. Not to say Oliver Platt didn't do an amazing job during the whole MS plot line, but I always enjoyed Larroquette as an actor after watching Night Court as a kid.
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I really want to get my parents into the West Wing but it's really bothering me that the end credits completely ruin the tone of half the episodes. Are there any versions available that have the original broadcast end credits intact.
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Feb 24, 2015 04:45
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Can you watch it on netflix so the credits get cut off?
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Ravel posted:I really want to get my parents into the West Wing but it's really bothering me that the end credits completely ruin the tone of half the episodes. Are there any versions available that have the original broadcast end credits intact. Is there some version other than the original broadcast end credits? The original ones completely ruin the tone of some of the episodes, too.
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Feb 24, 2015 06:28
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thexerox123 posted:Is there some version other than the original broadcast end credits? The original ones completely ruin the tone of some of the episodes, too. I think you're both talking about the same end credits. The DVD and Netflix releases use the same jingle, and the only way to avoid it is to anticipate it. Assuming the West Wing's original broadcast was like most shows, the credits would just be minimized so that the network can show the preview for the following program.
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Feb 24, 2015 06:52
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There's only really five or six episodes in the whole series where the credit music ruins the tone imo. I'd say the cheesiness/colour saturation/hairstyles in season 1 are the biggest hurdle to get over for new viewers.
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Feb 24, 2015 14:46
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I didn't watch the series on original broadcast, was the ending credits music a licensed song or something? I can't find it on Youtube.
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Feb 24, 2015 16:03
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No, it's just this really upbeat peppy orchestral number. You can actually hear it in the first few episodes of the series since they weave it into the background music.
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Feb 24, 2015 16:06
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Just hit pause when the EP credits come up at the end of the episode. Best you can do I'm afraid.
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The scene where Leo has a heart attack in the woods at Camp David just kind of looks like he's a werewolf and the full moon is out. It's also kind of uncomfortable to watch, knowing what happened to Spencer. That being said, if Leo was just a werewolf in the last 2 seasons, better show.
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For such a dramatized show, this final election is pretty realistic. The nuclear accident totally wasn't Vinick's fault and he was right about how it shouldn't matter, but that sorta thing really would happen. They're handling Vinick pretty well in general. They do a good job of making him sympathetic and likable, just on the other side of the aisle. Until the debate, I could see myself voting for him, and I'm a hardcore liberal. Ritchie was just an rear end in a top hat.
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Mar 5, 2015 21:39
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Ritchie was also a not so subtle stand in for dubya.
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Do you guys think Josh was good at his job? I know each of the senior staffers have duties that largely go unseen, but it seems like Josh fucks up really often compared to everyone else. We know he's incredibly gifted in large-scale political process from what the characters tell us and how he runs the Santos campaign, but it never seemed like he fit very well as DCoS.
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