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West Wing Series 7

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lilibet · 27/03/2006 12:52

So who's watching and and what do you think?

I'm a bit disappointed, there isn't enough White House stuff and too much on the campaign trail. I think that although at the end of the last season I liked both Santos and Vinnick, there is too much of them so far in this.

Vinnick has started being painted as a bit of a baddie after last weeks episode, but I don't feel that bothered about the election as I know that I won't be seeing the winner in the White House.

Santos new advisor Lou is just a watered down Amy, and I don't feel that involved with any of the campaign staff.

What about the leak? Where are Leo, Jed, Charlie, CJ and the rest?

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beckybrastraps · 27/06/2006 22:34

I could not go at one episode per week if I had an entire series on dvd! I'm a binge-watcher.

beckybrastraps · 27/06/2006 22:35

Used to Will?! I LOVE Will!

Ellbell · 28/06/2006 13:23

[After the manner of a very old/wise person speaking slowly and patiently to an impressionable person of tender years...]

Just watch the first 3 series, Becky, and then you'll understand...

Most unlikely pairings...? Well, apart from Will and CJ (which would be funny), Toby and Amy would be pretty unlikely, Margaret and... well, Margaret and anyone really... perhaps Margaret and CJ in a sort of tall lesbian encounter (oops, there goes my mind, boggling again!).

tribpot · 28/06/2006 18:49

Hee hee Ellbell. I had similar thoughts. Will is an okay character, he was better before he became little more than a handy person for random relationship happenings, but compared to the hey days ... remember when Sam is on the telly with Ainsley and Toby and Josh run around to get popcorn to watch him being torn apart? Ahhhh, classic.

Ellbell · 28/06/2006 20:28

OMG tribpot... that's so funny... was going to post that as one of my all-time favourite Sam moments...

Josh: Come and see, come and see... Sam's getting whooped by a girl.

Toby: I'll get popcorn.

I also like: 'I accidentally slept with a call-girl'

Actually, come to think of it... I also like everything!

Ellbell · 28/06/2006 20:29

The 'driven' Will who got a dead man elected to Congress was good. He got complacent when he got to Washington (oh, and the script-writer changed...)!

sis · 28/06/2006 20:47

I couldn't choose my fave moment from TWW - there are just too many! but I have to say the whackiest, even by their standards was when they showed margaret as pregnant - no mention of it before or since so I keep thinking it was a figment of my imagination!

tribpot · 28/06/2006 20:52

Yes - one ep, Margaret pregnant. End of story.

"I accidentally slept with a call girl" "Did you fall down and hit your head?", ahh, we are going to have fun with our rewatch I think.

Ellbell · 28/06/2006 23:58

My best Toby quote is when he's talking to (I think) the female poet laureate-type person (should look this up and see who it really was and in what episide, but it's too late now...) and she says 'You're just being nice', and he replies 'If you ask around, I think you'll find that's unlikely'.

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lilibet · 29/06/2006 08:29

What was on Toby's poster in his office? dh and I have spent ages trying to figure that out.

Oh dear, we really are sad, aren't we?

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lilibet · 29/06/2006 08:44

My favourite Sam moment is when he is showing the group of school children round the White House, and he knows that one of them is Leo's daughter and he asks the teacher which one she is.

Poor Sam.

Not saying anymore for those lucky people who still ahve that joy to come.

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tribpot · 29/06/2006 08:52

Toby's poster - it's an Amnesty one. I admit to Googling on this, although I did know it was an Amnesty poster beforehand

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lilibet · 29/06/2006 09:31

Thank you!!

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Ellbell · 30/06/2006 00:06

Aargh! I have to go down to London tomorrow for a meeting and won't be back till nearly 10. (Dammmit... could have come back sooner, but it was cheaper to leave after 7.30, so I waited to get cheaper ticket.) Will have to watch on Sunday (... sorry kids... bedtime routine is moving forwards by 20 mins!) Will be checking in to talk about it on Sunday night!

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lilibet · 30/06/2006 08:12

Last night dh and I did a bit of back watching, we watched The Women of Qumar, which shows CJ at her absolute finest, followed by my very very favourite episode Bartlett for America.

I do think that Bartlett for America should be compulsory for everyone before we watch this weekends happenings.

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Ellbell · 01/07/2006 00:06

I've seen it! My lovely lovely dh (not a phrase I over-use , but tonight it seems appropriate!), thought to tape it for me so I could watch it straight away when I stumbled off my (delayed... I'd just like to thank whoever it was that vandalised the signals at York, thus throwing the whole of GNER into a state of chaos tonight...) train.

Won't say any more till I know that you ladies have seen it....

Well...

OK...

will just say

lilibet

you'd better get the tissues handy!

Ellbell · 01/07/2006 00:08

Two fab episodes, lilibet. 'Women of Qumar' is definitely (one of) CJ's finest hour(s).

tribpot · 02/07/2006 14:22

Another underwhelming episode, really. The writers (as usual) skirted the major scenes which Aaron Sorkin would have got stuck into with both hands. The funeral next week isn't going to be a patch on Mrs Landingham's, let's put it that way.

Ellbell · 02/07/2006 22:24

Sure, Sorkin would have done it better. But it was still a tense/moving episode. And I thought that, as well as all the obvious stuff, it did also play quite subtly on long-running themes (e.g. to understand why Josh was quite so upset about Leo you needed to know about his sister, the effects of the shooting, etc.). It also added to the poignancy knowing that Leo/John Spencer was really dead (as opposed to just written out) and therefore that the actors' emotions were also 'real'. I certainly felt that Josh's comment at the end was at least as much outside as inside the fiction.

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lilibet · 03/07/2006 08:54

oh how I sobbed

I'm with Ellbell on this one, I thought that they handled it very well, it also occurred to me that as Matt Santos was making his speech saying that Leo was dead he had known John Spencer for 20 years.

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Ellbell · 03/07/2006 10:55

I'm gearing myself up for a sob-a-thon next week, lilibet .

tribpot... is the episode with Mrs Landingham's funeral 'Two Cathedrals'? May re-watch it this week, as dh away.

tribpot · 03/07/2006 10:59

Yes, Two Cathedrals. Sheer quality.

I should add I was upset by this week's episode, must have been quite awful and weird for the actors.

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lilibet · 03/07/2006 12:28

I love Two Cathedrals, the bit to Brothers in Arms at the end is fantastic.

I have no idea of what the Latin is that he comes out with in the cathedral but it's powerful stuff.

Is that the end of series 3?

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tribpot · 03/07/2006 13:06

No, Series 2. End of Series 3 is when the secret service agent is killed (ditto Series 4!)

Ellbell · 03/07/2006 13:52

Will rewatch with an ear on the Latin, as I do understand it a bit....

I did feel that with the latest episode some of the things that one might have done were limited by the fact that John Simpson was already dead (thus no showing Leo in the hospital, or whatever...). Margaret was brave, wasn't she?