BartlettNet - The West Wing Appreciation Society - May Contain Spoilers!

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A thread for the discussion of West Wing - the best tv show ever made!

If you haven't seen all 7 Seasons be aware that this thread may contain spoilers!

I've met David Tennant, he kissed my cheek.

You've gone from loving me to hating me now, haven't you?

MsTeak - hate you?
No, no. Really no.
No.
Did I say no?

[gives MsTeak the evil eye]

My book arrived! Very pretty, but most of it is just descriptions of the episodes. Some interesting bits though. Apparently Aaron Sorkin gave the President MS on a whim to make the episode where he collapses more interesting.

Jason Isaacs accent was terrible!

Grandhighpoohba I am most jealous. My clampet helpful royal mail man gave my book "to a neighbour", which is fine, however I live in a block of flats. He didn't say which neighbour and it is noone on my floor!

Our postie is similarly crap, so you have my sympathy!

TinyPawz - I loved his accent, maybe I'm just deaf or too distracted by the visuals and liked the character.
So is the book worth buying?

Yes I'm afraid Jason could have been doing his Lucius Malfoy accent, claim to be from Belfast and I would still have been happy. The blond wig might have been a bit much to take, mind you.

As a Belfast native I thought he accent was dire. More of a generic NI accent.

Book still being held hostage be a "neighbour"

*his

Tribpot, oh yes. Though agree about the wig.

TinyPawz, I'll be in Belfast next month, would happily have Jason along for accent analysis. To quote Josh "If wishing made it so..."

fiderer on the off chance that Jason is busy next month and not able to make the trip, watch the episodes he is in on your return. You'll see/hear what I mean.

Coming to Belfast for a citybreak?

TinyPawz I know I just want to enjoy. Shallow I am and shallow I shall remain. His accent, however inauthenthic, is just

Am visiting family.
Only cos Jason is busy. And he's not from NI. Am rejoining the real world.
Reluctantly.

Jason will be on the silver screen next month of course, blond wig 'n' all.

Oh my, yes. Only he could carry that wig off, tbh.
Showing the depths of my shallowness, so to speak.

Yes, ever since his first "play nicely, Draco" said with an enormous quantity of menace he has held the prize for 'only man ever to make a Pam Anderson wig look sexy as hell' - imagine if they'd given him a He-Man bob .

Hair trivia cont/d

CJ - the 1st Bartlet campaign frizz = least said the better.
Anna Wintour bob = too harsh.
Later longer darker = nah.
S4 (?) just above shoulder-length, lighter colour, feathered (is that a term?)
suits her.

Also she always had v unflattering glasses.

On the subject of political dramas, did anyone else catch The Kennedys over the weekend?

I have to say I rather liked it, though i know others did not think the same.

Her outfits in s5 (iirc) were particularly bad. The episode with Big Bird sticks out in my mind for her horrendous ensemble.

The Kennedys was on a lot of weeks ago on the History channel. I thought it was very good. He was portrayed as abit of a spineless git, at least as far as his father was concerned.

There is a fantastic scene between the mother & father, I think in episode 2/3 about revenge.

I get the impression that Americans don't like to hear criticism about JFK - he is their golden boy. I wonder if they would hold him in such high regard if he had not been assainated?

Joe snr was a real piece of work. DH's mum told me what he did to his poor daughter . How can a parent do such a thing?

Are you talking about the lobotomy? Or did he do something else to the poor girl?

Yes the lobotomy. I read the Wikipedia article about her (presuming it is all accurate).