West Wing Series 7

[lilibet]

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?

lionheart, no, the planned rewatch will start after a suitable mourning period for the end of the show The DVD comes out on September 11th but I can help you out with a couple of DVDs recorded off the telly if you can't wait that long?

The thing about free school meals was weird, like it was some achievement by the school?

Ellbell, trying to work out why you would have married a man who can't work a video recorder in the first place

LOL! He's normally quite technically adept, but after that spectacular show of ineptitude, I lost all faith in him. (Any other programme I'd have forgiven... actually, come to think of it, I don't watch any other programme...)

Ummm... how long do you think a suitable mourining period might be? Because I may have to give in and watch my luvverly new Series 1 DVDs! (I have posted my videos to beckybrastraps, so she'll be all set to go soon...)

Anyway... you haven't seen me... I'm packing, honest

I think probably a suitable mourning period would be until your DVD player is unpacked and hooked up Have we decided on a day of the week? I thought Thursday might be more convenient than Friday for those of you actually able to leave the house in the evening?

(I'm still not here!)

tribpot, Thank you very much for your kind offer.
I have given it some thought and decided that I'd better wait until September (my West Wing rituals are totally messed up now ), anyway, but I will gladly participate in the re-watch.

Is E4 now More4 then?

hello

I'm back from France and am not reading the rest of this thread, but my videos are being delivered tomorrow morning

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the end of the series

Welcome back lilibet! Are you looking forward to West Wing Day on More4 today?

Hope you had a good time in France - won't say more about the final eps til Ellbell is back.

It was Weat Wing day??

and I didn't know!! [sobbing emoticon]

or even West Wing!!

They showed a bunch of episodes back to back on Saturday - the pilot, What Kind Of Day This Has Been, In The Shadow of Two Gunmen (I & II), Two Cathedrals and 20 Hours in American (I & II) - all good but clearly whoever chose them just went "what happened at the end of one series or at the beginning of another". The only other thing you missed - at least I hope you did - was a godawful quiz show.

Thanks to Ellbell, I am now primed with series 1 videos. But I'm not sure I can wait for a planned rewatch. I might have to just binge. VERY curious about this Sam fella.

I finally watched the final 2 episodes yesterday. Sob!

I still think they had an 8th series in them. I mean the thought of Jimi Smits behind that desk............. ooh a woman could be all undone!

becky - newcomers to the West Wing are allowed to binge, would be unrealistic to expect you to wait for us! You can rewatch with us as we go

Hurrah!

Kids are going to bed early tonight...

I've watched it and I cried like a little girl

Iknow that we are not discussing it till Ellbell gets back but can I just ask if everyone else thought that it wasn't necessary to do the 'flash forward' earlier in the series? It told me things that I didn't want to know.

and Ellbell, the scene with Toby and CJ made me sob!

On the rewatch can we please do two episodes a week, they're only about 40 minutes long?

Watched the last two and it made me sob as well, especially the scene with CJ and Toby. I agree about the flash forward - the whole stuff with CJ and Danny would have been even more intense if we didn't know what was going to happen. Can't wait for the DVD - September release isn't it? Have you seen the trailers for Studio 66? V pleased with More4 for picking up another Aaron Sorkin series - particularly when there are some favourite actors from WW

So, where is everyone and whn are we starting our re watch? I suggest that we have Fri - Sun to watch our two episodes adn then start discussions on a Monday.

and we still haven't talked about the last episodes? Come on Ellbell!!

I know - come on Ellbell I know you're moving house but surely everything can wait after you've got the telly hooked up and the internet back! (Although when I moved here it took 5 weeks to get the broadband re-connected, what a nightmare).

I am so touched that you've all been waiting for me. I am having problems getting online at home (*!$@ing Tiscali...) and have no internet connection in sight for the foreseeable future (well, at least the next couple of weeks, which feels like forever...). I am at work at the moment, and will be here on and off in the next week or two, but you go ahead without me...

However, I have seen the final two episodes and, yes, I too cried like a baby, especially at the CJ and Toby scene. Oh and also at the end with the napkin (which I just knew was what was going to be in the package, but even so it still got me...). And I also knew that Santos was going to say 'What's next?'. Fab! Fab! Fab!

Watched the first episode on More4 last night too. Bartlet's first appearance (when you just hear his voice, saying, 'I am the Lord your God, thou shalt have no other God but me...') has got to be one of the best ever first lines spoken by a character. Makes me go all shivery....

(Stupid question though, re. Donna's ultra-glam new office. When Amy was CoS to the First Lady, didn't she have a much more 'ordinary' office? I remember something about her trying to put up a certificate of some sort which kept falling down....???? I know this doesn't really matter, in the scheme of things, but...)

Anyway, better get back to work. Will check in again when I can, but don't hold your collective breath...

PS Marsy... did think of you when Jimmy/Santos was discussing his 'long underwear'

Welcome back Ellbell - it seems broadband problems are the norm when moving house, bloody ridiculous if you asked me.

Well, I didn't cry at the Toby and CJ scene but there we are. The package thing was good, although yes, knew it was going to be the napkin.

Amy did have a more modest office, all her certificates (degree, etc) kept falling down because her staff were loosening the nails in protest at her appointment - and then I think the door fell in as well. The normal suite is out of commission though so perhaps Donna's had an upgrade?!

Things not resolved:

• Charlie and Zoey
• identity of Sam's fiancee (poss not very important though)
• Santos' alleged love child that's really his brother's (or not)
• Kate and Will (but who cares as it was a stupid plotline)

Although I did like the scene between Martin Sheen and Renee Estevez (his daughter):

MS: How is your mother doing?
RE: Much better, sir.
MS: Good, tell her I am looking forward to seeing her soon

Chortle.

Ah, you're a hard woman, Tribpot. I knew Lilibet would be sobbing along with me. (But I've always thought that there was a bit of a spark between Toby and CJ... Also, Toby was being so heroic [swoon]). All scenes involving St Charlie had me a bit tearful too!

Charlie and Zoey... very unsatisfactory, I agree. Couldn't care less about Will and Kate, though the implication was that she wouldn't be moving to Oregon (or wherever it was) in a hurry (though she also seemed not to be getting a job in the Santos administration). Also don't really care about the Santos love child (presumably Vinnick won't pursue it now that he's Sec. of State, although I still maintain that a man of Bruno's, ahem, integrity [?] would have made a photocopy). But I am very curious about Sam's fiancee. Would have loved it to have been Lori of 'I accidentally slept with a call-girl' fame! Sam didn't even have a speaking part in the final episode.

Work... must concentrate on work.... Aaargh!

The love child was definitely his brother's. That's why Vinnick didn't pursue it.

Charlie and Zoey.... I told her not to go off with that french bloke. Ended in tears. She should be with Charlie. Talking of Charlie, I thought he was going wherever CJ went.

I think the flashback was done before Leo died in RL and that it changed some aspects of series end. I agree though... would've been better without it.

Kate I imagine will follow Will and become the perfect politician's wife until finally after the birth of her third child it will be discovered that said child is not Will's. The child is a direct result of her punishing Will for taking her away from her non-exsistent career.

Hello Ellbell!!

Knew you would be attacking the kleenex with a vengence

I have always thought that were was a bit of something between Toby and CJ and really think that it's all credit to the writers that they haven't developed the characters along the lines of ER where everyone has to sleep with everyone else.

Chalie was going studying Law, wasn't he? When Bartlett gave him the book, sob sob! Reminded me of the episode where he gave him the knife.

so, our rewatch, can I suggest that we watch two each weekend and then have Monday to Friday to discuss, which will fit in with Ellbell only having internet access at work at the moment?

come on, I'm champing at the bit here, I want to see all the wonderful, wonderful early stuff again.