What am I going to do now...?
May. 21st, 2006 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caz963... because - no new West Wing to d/l tomorrow, analyse to death and bore my flist with!
But - aha! I live in the UK and we're still running S7 and so I've decided to live in denial a little bit longer. There are also some stalwart fellow Brits on my flist who have shown incredible self-restraint and have been following the series as it unfolds on UK tv - I salute you! (I couldn't have done it!)
So... I watched Internal Displacement tonight (again) which is the half way mark of the series. What a great episode. OK, so I know Brad wrote it so I'm naturally biased, but even the man of the house was chuckling away and thought it was a great episode, so it's not just me! I said this about 7.21 - Brad and Debora Cahn seem to be the only writers who can really write CJ - his episode last year, Faith Based Initiative was CJ centric (and brought the funny). This had a real feel of "old-skool" West Wing about it (which is hardly surprising, I suppose, seeing as Brad has spent a number of years speaking "Sorkinese" in various giuses) - in the way it was dealing with some pretty serious situations one minute and making you laugh the next. The first scene in CJs office with Will is hysterical -
"Close the door."
"I didn't do it."
"Close the door."
"Toby did it."
and then, when she tells him about Doug Westin's... indiscretion
"Jeez, I didn't want to know that. Why did you tell me that?"
"Because you deal with the press and I don't want you to get blindsided."
"Exactly! I work with the press. I do my best work when I'm the least-informed person in the room. You taught me that."
and then Brad's payback for the now infamous Valentine's Day joke...
"I can't act! I'm a terrible actor!" hee...!
Also not surprisingly, Josh was acting like, well, Josh again, instead of the insecure neurotic of recent weeks - he was confident, self assured and knew what he wanted... and brought the snark -
"We're going to need some people left in the building to, you know, run
the country."
"Yeah, I don't care about that."
(Wow - I don't think I've ever quoted so many actual lines before, but there were a lot to choose from this ep!)
We had a lot of political juggling going on here - CJ trying to do something about the situation in Darfur, whilst not antagonising the Chinese and damaging the already fragile situation between China and K/Stan - her line at the end about "how dirty do my feet have to get in order to get an inch of what I want done" is actually a well-known quote from an interview Brad gave years ago, speaking about Josh - so the boy likes to recycle!
Add to that the about Bartlet's son-in-law, who's running for Congress in NH, and CJ's having a pretty crappy day, I guess.
I also loved the scene with Kate where she's deliberating whether or not she should tell Liz about Doug's affair - this is nice "girl-talk"; in fact, one of the things I did like that happened over the past couple of seasons, was the relationship between CJ and Kate - they felt like friends and I thought there was a really good dynamic between them. Kate's line here -
"No. No, no, no. Now's the time everybody just looks at her funny until she figures it out." - was priceless.
The scene with Danny at the restaurant was fabulous - it's nice to remember what an incredibly beautiful woman Allison Janney is, because there have been times this season when she really hasn't looked it. Danny's speech about "holding hands on the way down" after they've jumped/been pushed off the metaphorical cliff is really sweet. Of course, we know from the teaser for The Ticket that they end up together, but it was nice to see the beginning of the end, if that makes sense - their start down the path that puts them together finally.
And then... disaster... near meltdown in CA - worried faces... fade to black!
This ep makes me realise what a shame it was that Brad didn't get to write another one this season - I know I'd read somewhere that he was going to write a couple, but I guess his (probably) hectic filming schedule didn't allow for it. But he clearly can write, and I really hope he gets to flex his writing chops at some point in the future.
So, until next week... more denial...!
And ooh - look! A nice, shiny new PRETTY mood theme - thank you![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coloneljack! *HUGS*
But - aha! I live in the UK and we're still running S7 and so I've decided to live in denial a little bit longer. There are also some stalwart fellow Brits on my flist who have shown incredible self-restraint and have been following the series as it unfolds on UK tv - I salute you! (I couldn't have done it!)
So... I watched Internal Displacement tonight (again) which is the half way mark of the series. What a great episode. OK, so I know Brad wrote it so I'm naturally biased, but even the man of the house was chuckling away and thought it was a great episode, so it's not just me! I said this about 7.21 - Brad and Debora Cahn seem to be the only writers who can really write CJ - his episode last year, Faith Based Initiative was CJ centric (and brought the funny). This had a real feel of "old-skool" West Wing about it (which is hardly surprising, I suppose, seeing as Brad has spent a number of years speaking "Sorkinese" in various giuses) - in the way it was dealing with some pretty serious situations one minute and making you laugh the next. The first scene in CJs office with Will is hysterical -
"Close the door."
"I didn't do it."
"Close the door."
"Toby did it."
and then, when she tells him about Doug Westin's... indiscretion
"Jeez, I didn't want to know that. Why did you tell me that?"
"Because you deal with the press and I don't want you to get blindsided."
"Exactly! I work with the press. I do my best work when I'm the least-informed person in the room. You taught me that."
and then Brad's payback for the now infamous Valentine's Day joke...
"I can't act! I'm a terrible actor!" hee...!
Also not surprisingly, Josh was acting like, well, Josh again, instead of the insecure neurotic of recent weeks - he was confident, self assured and knew what he wanted... and brought the snark -
"We're going to need some people left in the building to, you know, run
the country."
"Yeah, I don't care about that."
(Wow - I don't think I've ever quoted so many actual lines before, but there were a lot to choose from this ep!)
We had a lot of political juggling going on here - CJ trying to do something about the situation in Darfur, whilst not antagonising the Chinese and damaging the already fragile situation between China and K/Stan - her line at the end about "how dirty do my feet have to get in order to get an inch of what I want done" is actually a well-known quote from an interview Brad gave years ago, speaking about Josh - so the boy likes to recycle!
Add to that the about Bartlet's son-in-law, who's running for Congress in NH, and CJ's having a pretty crappy day, I guess.
I also loved the scene with Kate where she's deliberating whether or not she should tell Liz about Doug's affair - this is nice "girl-talk"; in fact, one of the things I did like that happened over the past couple of seasons, was the relationship between CJ and Kate - they felt like friends and I thought there was a really good dynamic between them. Kate's line here -
"No. No, no, no. Now's the time everybody just looks at her funny until she figures it out." - was priceless.
The scene with Danny at the restaurant was fabulous - it's nice to remember what an incredibly beautiful woman Allison Janney is, because there have been times this season when she really hasn't looked it. Danny's speech about "holding hands on the way down" after they've jumped/been pushed off the metaphorical cliff is really sweet. Of course, we know from the teaser for The Ticket that they end up together, but it was nice to see the beginning of the end, if that makes sense - their start down the path that puts them together finally.
And then... disaster... near meltdown in CA - worried faces... fade to black!
This ep makes me realise what a shame it was that Brad didn't get to write another one this season - I know I'd read somewhere that he was going to write a couple, but I guess his (probably) hectic filming schedule didn't allow for it. But he clearly can write, and I really hope he gets to flex his writing chops at some point in the future.
So, until next week... more denial...!
And ooh - look! A nice, shiny new PRETTY mood theme - thank you
coloneljack! *HUGS*
