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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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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.