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cassy_gI just finished watching the conclusion to the three part The West Wing.
For those that haven't seen it yet, I won't write any spoiler (today). Let me just say, I personally was loving the show up until the last ten minutes. It really fely like it petered out. They totally anti-climaxed themselves.
I suppose we will see how next week goes.
For those that haven't seen it yet, I won't write any spoiler (today). Let me just say, I personally was loving the show up until the last ten minutes. It really fely like it petered out. They totally anti-climaxed themselves.
I suppose we will see how next week goes.
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Date: 2003-10-02 01:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-02 01:33 pm (UTC)The show was really excellent until the last ten minutes. I think more than anything they should have just ended this episode before that last ten (or so minutes, believe me, you'll know where I am talking about when you see it) and done the rest in the next episode. Instead of leaving us with a really powerful moment, they tried to wrap up the loose ends and they didn't have time to do so.
Other than that, it was good. Dialog seems to be popping back and forth really good still - which I think was everyone's major concern with Mr. Sorkin leaving the show.
As always, the acting was phenominal.
I am a little concerned on the Admiral's front, I think the actor's name is John Amos. I really love his character, but he mentions yet again in this episode to Leo (John Spencer) that he hopes they find a replacement for him soon. Leo says something like "You were serious about that?" And Admiral Fitzwallace responds with (or something close to this), "I promised my wife a house over looking the beach for our honeymoon. After 32 years, I think her patience is wearing a little bit thin."
Apparently, Charlie (Dule Hill) did an interview on 99X on Tuesday morning, and I completely missed it! Did you happen to catch it by any chance?
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Date: 2003-10-02 02:47 pm (UTC)What happened in the end? I did not tape it. You can send it to my e-mail if you like! :)
Spoiler Warning in This Post - Part 1
Date: 2003-10-02 03:24 pm (UTC)Well, I put a spoiler warning in the subject, if people neglect to listen, it's their own fault. :D
Ok, let's see if I can summize the episode.
As you know, President Walken (John Goodman), Mr. Radical Right Wing Conservative(yes, I wanted to slap him on a regular basis, great acting John!) had decided to bomb Kumar, knowing full well it would likely get Zoey killed.
Leo met secretly with a reporter (very cloak and daggerish, in an underground parking lot, kind of reminded me of the show 24). She was giving him the ratings etc. for President Bartlet, saying that even though his numbers were up, in the end he had walked away when the chips were down and that eventually the numbers would show that. Leo said that Josh thought they should be polling, and she told him the White House couldn't get caught polling right then, and Leo just nodded. She said she would take care of it, so I assume it means she was going to initiate an independent poll. As Leo was leaving, she said, "If Zoey's found dead, it puts his approval rating through the roof." Needless to say, Leo didn't look thrilled about that.
Josh accused Steve (Charles Noland) of trying to forward the Republican Agenda while there was a national crisis going on. Steve pretty much told him that right then, the Republicans were scared to death of President Bartlet because he had put his country ahead of himself, and even given over the office, however temporarily to the "opposition". Then he said, no matter what you think about us, we aren't stupid, if we try to make policy now, we look manipulative, uncaring, and unfeeling.
In the mean time, Leo met with the Ambassador of Kumar and warned him that they were going to be bombing his country, even if it was after they had already started their strike. The Ambassador basically said that we didn't have many friends left over in the Middle East and we should carefully consider if we wanted to get rid of the few we had. Of course, he blatantly denied that there were any terrorist (Bahi) camps, or that there was any involvement of the Kumar government with the kidnapping of Zoey. He left in a bit of a huff, but told Leo that he had a daughter too and to let President Bartlet know that Kumar's sympathy was with him and his family.
President Bartlet showed up in Toby's office and kind of half spoke to him a little. He asked if he could read the speech, and Toby told him it wasn't finished yet.
Toby and Will (Joshua Malina) had an argument earlier in the day about the tone the speech should take, defiant or not, and Will eventually said he would work on the other speech (the one for if Zoey was found dead), Toby stormed out with an "You already are".
President Bartlet asked to see the other speech, and for a while Toby tried to deny that there was one, eventually he gave in and handed it to him. President Bartlet broke down a little as he was reading it, crying a little and asked who wrote it. When he left he took the "if she was dead" speech with him.
Spoiler Warning in This Post - Part 2
Date: 2003-10-02 03:25 pm (UTC)The terrorist Bahi group came on taking responsibility for kidnapping Zoey and showed a picture of her holding that morning's newspaper. She looked rather drugged and beaten on in the picture. They were making the same demands about releasing the Bahi prisoners, etc. and said that if every American soldier wasn't out of Kumar in 24 hours they would kill Zoey.
It's kind of convoluted as to exactly how, but a call came into the FBI with a possible finding of Zoey. The next thing you know they are informing Leo, and then it shows President Bartlet and Abbey Bartlet on a helicopter being flown to the scene. Zoey's alive, and the short lived conversation between the detectives and Leo is that they killed all three or four people that had been in the house holding her, that they had found her locked in a closet with a broken clavical, that she didn't seem to have been sexually assualted but that she was still very drugged.
Then it shows President and Ms. Bartlet at the ambulance with Zoey. Could have ended here as far as I was concerned, it was really pretty dramatic, the bringing back together of the family, etc.
However, in the last ten minutes, they went ahead and signed over the other letter, removing President Walken. President Bartlet thanked him and asked if he was going to run, because if he did he would come campaign for him. President Walken said (jokingly) he didn't think that in his districts, President Bartlet would be much help, and that he honestly didn't know if he would run or not.
They went through the whole getting ready for President Bartlet to make his coming back into office speech. Toby offered him the finished speech, and he said he didn't need it, he was using the one Will had written, though he'd made some changes to it and hoped that Will didn't mind.
It ended with them all going out to the lawn for the speech and President Bartlet starting it, then switched scenes to the hospital where Zoey was laying in bed, her mother got up and went to a window, almost like she was refusing to watch her husband's speech.
And that's essentially it - by the way, I suck at "short summaries". :D
Needless to say, the last bit just seemed like they wanted to rush through and get back to business. I really hated that. I mean they could have just pushed that to the beginning of the next episode or something.
Anyway, I am waiting to see next week in dealing with the aftermath of getting Zoey back, plus everything that happened while they were "gone" (ie out of office).
And yes, Dule Hill is indeed very shaggable!