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If having heard the usual way Josh and Hrishi talk to one another / banter with guests, you still think that their comments are "churlish", you might be completely tone deaf.
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If a Gilmore Girls reunion can happen on Netflix then West Wing totally can. They are all still alive including Hawkeye so why not do like a 6 hour mini series.
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Khablam posted:If having heard the usual way Josh and Hrishi talk to one another / banter with guests, you still think that their comments are "churlish", you might be completely tone deaf. Some people demand to be pandered to at all times
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Mu Zeta posted:If a Gilmore Girls reunion can happen on Netflix then West Wing totally can. They are all still alive including Hawkeye so why not do like a 6 hour mini series. Not all of them 
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I never got that reading from that scene, and even now that it's mentioned, I still can't really connect those dots.Mu Zeta posted:If a Gilmore Girls reunion can happen on Netflix then West Wing totally can. They are all still alive including Hawkeye so why not do like a 6 hour mini series. I know you meant everyone who was alive at the end of the show is still alive, but this cuts deep in light of John Spencer. And the main reason I don't really need a reunion. We're good, we had a great run, a solid ending, and it wouldn't feel the same without him.
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thrawn527 posted:I never got that reading from that scene, and even now that it's mentioned, I still can't really connect those dots. I acquit.
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Khablam posted:If having heard the usual way Josh and Hrishi talk to one another / banter with guests, you still think that their comments are "churlish", you might be completely tone deaf. I understand this Donna/Ainsley theory perfectly fine, but like Hrishi said, it's not supported in the text. Sure, it's not directly DISproven, but come on, that's about 10 shades too subtle to be an intended plot thread. WoG fucked around with this message at 16:29 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Nov 4, 2016 16:26
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Can we focus on the fact that they use a casio ratat tat on their redoing of the opening sequence, and didn't upgrade to a real snare like they could have?
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Started watching SportsNight, First I love how like in the West Wing it takes like 5 minutes for there being a "Pot isn't bad and people should be allowed to smoke it" subplot, because, Sorkin. But second, how it has this amazingly relentless charm to it. Goddamn it, I'm already bummed it ends after 2 seasons. 
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Nov 5, 2016 09:05
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Aaron Sorkin and Rob Lowe: if you guys have it in you, a Netflix sequel miniseries about CA Governor Seaborn's presidential campaign with be really nice to watch right now.
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algebra testes posted:Started watching SportsNight, "Quo Vadimus" is one of the smuggest episodes Sorkin has ever written and I kind of love it.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Aaron Sorkin and Rob Lowe: if you guys have it in you, a Netflix sequel miniseries about CA Governor Seaborn's presidential campaign with be really nice to watch right now. Starting a re-watch of WW on January 20th
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Khablam posted:Starting a re-watch of WW on January 20th We started this Wednesday o/
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Yeah I wasn't rewatching along with the podcast but I need a dose of hopeful government right now.
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Yikes, Sports Night's Sally is a really sharp 22 minutes of television. I've enjoyed all the episodes so far (with the requisite cameos from people who will be on the West Wing and got noticed here or whatever), but Sally is the first episode that was a definitive home run. Also the more and more I watch of this sharp funny, insightful 22 minute show about a news gathering organisation, I get mad about the 44 minute show about a news gathering organisation that is not smart, funny and insightful, but rather boring, rhetorical and preachy that I confess to watching every episode of. 
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Sports Night is really good, especially once they dump the absurd-sounding, completely out-of-place laugh track.
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Popero posted:Sports Night is really good, especially once they dump the absurd-sounding, completely out-of-place laugh track. It was shot in front of a studio audience, so they had to laugh track it to cut it together.
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Stephen Colbert worked a day at the Butterball hotline. I didn't know it was a real thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLCCFqFmzYY
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Mu Zeta posted:I didn't know it was a real thing. "My god, I love my country."
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Billy the Mountain posted:Phil Beharrd? I gotta work on the names.
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I do commercials for.... products.
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It comes from growing up there, but that scene always rubs me the wrong way. Most of the North Dakota scenes seem written by someone who had never been there and was phoning in a "rural nowhere" reference. They don't even get the zip code right!
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Apparently Lin-Manuel Miranda is a West Wing fan and worked with the podcast guys to make this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TTD5-3fuZE Superrodan fucked around with this message at 05:08 on Jan 19, 2017 |
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Lin is basically THE west wing fan. His sendoff when he left the show was the orchestra playing the West Wing theme for him. There's a straight up Sorkinism in Hamilton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4RlZtcGPS8 "So long as you come home at the end of the day that would be enough"
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On his episode of Drunk History he was talking to Christopher Jackson (who was Washington in the Hamilton OBC) and he said "as long as I got a job, you got a job" When's he going to be a guest on the show is my question
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"The line is 'thanks Josh', you don't wanna gently caress him. Okay?" *storms off* The Rob Lowe interview was great on TWW.
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algebra testes posted:"The line is 'thanks Josh', you don't wanna gently caress him. Okay?" *storms off* He's such an entertaining guy to listen to. That was a great one.
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ninjahedgehog posted:Aaron Sorkin and Rob Lowe: if you guys have it in you, a Netflix sequel miniseries about CA Governor Seaborn's presidential campaign with be really nice to watch right now. With occasional appearances by President Bail Organa
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The best part is when Rob does impressions... well. It's hilarious.
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"You guys are like the jewish Cheech and Chong" Holy poo poo 
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To bring back up a slightly older discussion. I just happened to watch THE PORTLAND TRIP, which has that Donna/Ainsley scene and...I don't see the subtext that people are talking about. Only because I think people are ignoring the context of it. Donna sees Ainsley because she's bored and she's restless and as she says, there's no one else around. And later when she mentions the date to Josh, she points out that he was basically just a dick. All Donna does is make a joke about their appearance, that's all. If you take the scene in isolation then...sure, maybe? But it's not written that way and it's not delivered that way. Also, one of the sad things about watching the show now is how much of a fantasy it feels like. There's still a hopefulness and idealism that I find kind of moving but it seems such a huge leap from where the world is now.
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DrVenkman posted:Also, one of the sad things about watching the show now is how much of a fantasy it feels like. There's still a hopefulness and idealism that I find kind of moving but it seems such a huge leap from where the world is now. I hope Netflix leaves it up for as long as possible so it hopefully gets a few people to run for public office positions in some form.
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FYI, Aaron Sorkin was on the podcast again. And he said there are regular meetings at NBC about how to bring it back in some way. But it all depends on him, and he's not against it, but only if he comes up with a good idea. Because "No one wants A Very Brady Reunion". Also it's a really good episode.
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Kirsten Nelson's interview was great, especially her Kathryn Joosten impression.
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thrawn527 posted:FYI, Aaron Sorkin was on the podcast again. And he said there are regular meetings at NBC about how to bring it back in some way. But it all depends on him, and he's not against it, but only if he comes up with a good idea. Because "No one wants A Very Brady Reunion". Start it off with Josh, Sam or Toby running for president. Actually, I have a better idea - Stockard Channing is the president. Perfect escapist fantasy to see people through Trump.
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Sam/Ainsley running against incumbent President von Tromp (played by Vincent D'Onofrio) in the 2018 general.
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Bartlett just can't be topped. From his "I am the Lord your God" opening, Martin Sheen knocked it out of the park. (gently caress it, though we've all seen it, go ahead and watch it again. "On the other hand, I think five dollars is too high a price to pay for pornography," indeed. The ever-increasing discomfort on everyone's faces was great acting too, and really sold it. It's like the visible humiliation on Dr. Jacob's face during the Bible Lesson rant -- if she hadn't done such a good job the scene wouldn't have worked, but instead without saying a word she just wilts.) It's hard to imagine someone able to give us the same utter heft of character as the man who later yells at God in Latin. Don't get me wrong: I love pretty much the whole main cast, but I just wouldn't want to see anyone else in the Oval Office. While it's almost laughable to me now even to consider a POTUS who is educated, and wise, and compassionate, and great yet flawed, that's the sort of person the show needed in order to have the rants and the speeches and the lectures work instead of come across as schlocky. (Take The Newsroom to see how it could go wrong.) So nope: POTUS in The West Wing has to have a Bartlett to work.
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And so I walked up to the priest and said "Excuse me father, I just want you to know that in this scene he's going to curse god." And he said: Yeah I know, it's gonna be great 
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