The West Wing - The Debate

[IggyWH]

Anyone watching the show tonight? I always forget about it but I'm expecting this to be a good one.

[BWebb]

Been watching every week. I'll get the WC tape delay.

[IggyWH]

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Been watching every week. I'll get the WC tape delay.

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I thought I read somewhere that they were doing it live again for the WC?

Anyways, it was a great show. If only the real debates were like this we'd be a lot better off as a country.

I do have a new found respect for Alda as an actor. He was spot-on tonight.

[Duffman]

It was a good debate, but I would've much rather seen an actual episode.

[shadow29]

It was good, but I missed Bartlet's eloquence.

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"I'm tired of it. Year after year after year, having to choose between the lesser of who cares. Of trying to get myself excited about the candidate who can speak in complete sentences. Of setting the bar so low I can hardly stand to look at it."

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Sucks that Sorkin was such a cokehead. Because I missed those phrases about having America reach the dizzying heights of human potential, etc.

[CrazyEyez]

To call that cheesy would be an insult to cheesy. What did any of that have to do with The West Wing? Anyone who knows a little about politics could have written that episode.

[Dominic]

I'm gonna be watching it...I love this show...and I think this season rocks.

[meep_42]

I was underwhelmed by the episode.

-d

[youtalkfunny]

Good news, Sorkin is planning a new show.

The Sports Guy says the pilot script is making its way around LA, and it's incredibly good (according to TSG). Think "Larry Sanders Show", only it's backstage of an SNL-type sketch show.

(In the same article, TSG recommended a book about the backstage history of SNL's early years. I found a copy on Ebay, and I'm about 150 pages into it. It's good.)

When Sorkin left TWW, I tuned out. Tough to believe a show with a cast that good could get unwatchable, but it was.

[youtalkfunny]

I received a copy of Aaron Sorkin's spec script, "Studio 7" -- his secret project that caused near-chaos in Hollywood when he suddenly started shopping it a few weeks ago. Everyone loved it, everyone said great things, and after reading it ... I couldn't agree more. It's already my new favorite show even though they haven't started casting it yet -- like "Larry Sanders," only if it was about "SNL." In a viciously clever way, Sorkin's pilot script pretty much obliterates SNL and everything that happened to the show over the past few years, as well as TV networks and the post-Janet Jackson/FCC Era in general. It's a masterpiece. It's perfect. I can't say enough about it. When this show debuts next year (or whenever), it will be impossible to take SNL seriously anymore. I'm telling you.

--The Sports Guy