Hmmm...

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I 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.

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Spoiler Warning in This Post - Part 2

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In the course of the airstrikes against Kumar, six (or maybe eight) American soldiers were killed. It showed President Walken having to make the phone calls to the soldiers' families and Deborah Fiderer (Lily Tomlin) came in to deliver something. He asked her when they got to the fun part of being President. She said "Fun part, Sir?" And he said, yea, you know, riding Air Force One, getting a good golfing tee (at some club). Deborah smiled and said she doubted he had a hard time getting a good tee anywhere. They had a little talk about Truman and Eisenhower, turns out they were both Truman fans. Eventually President Walken says he never wanted to be President and Deborah says "Neither did Truman".

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!