Dear Aaron Sorkin...
I haven't written to you in a while. Not that I think you've noticed.
I've been composing a letter in my head to you since Alison Janney guested on Studio 60 a few weeks back (thanks for all the scenes with Timothy Busfield... but did you have to have her on a week Bradley Whitford wasn't working?!?). I watched "The Red Mass" that week, from early in West Wing's 4th season. In it, you gave Allison Janney the line "When you can't lower expectations, there's only one thing you can do. You have to meet them."
I'm sure you don't need me to tell you how that quote relates to Studio 60.
Watching you rewrite (relive?) your experience as a television writer post 9/11, I've come to one conclusion. Studio 60 may just be the most expensive course of therapy anyone has ever put themselves through.
I hope it helped. I know you're back with Kristin Chenoweth, which shows that your whole creepy mooning stalking guy gets the girl theme you've got going may actually have some (*shudder*) merit.
While we're on the topic of therapy... I found myself sometime during last week's episode actually hoping you'd let Jordan die. Nevermind that Bradley Whitford has done this story before on ER. I decided that doing anything else would feel like a big emotional jerk around that writers do and that I thought was beneath you (not that I haven't gotten used to you not meeting my expectations).
But then the story became about how Danny considered Jordan's baby to be his daughter, in spite of him not having biological or legal rights, and how he might lose her. And you know what? I already have that theme being played out on another show I watch. And I really don't need it right now. So, do me a favour, and knock it off, mmmkay?
Oh, and these last few shows haven't sucked as hard as most of the episodes did. I don't know whether that's a compliment, or if my expectations have just been seriously lowered.
I've been composing a letter in my head to you since Alison Janney guested on Studio 60 a few weeks back (thanks for all the scenes with Timothy Busfield... but did you have to have her on a week Bradley Whitford wasn't working?!?). I watched "The Red Mass" that week, from early in West Wing's 4th season. In it, you gave Allison Janney the line "When you can't lower expectations, there's only one thing you can do. You have to meet them."
I'm sure you don't need me to tell you how that quote relates to Studio 60.
Watching you rewrite (relive?) your experience as a television writer post 9/11, I've come to one conclusion. Studio 60 may just be the most expensive course of therapy anyone has ever put themselves through.
I hope it helped. I know you're back with Kristin Chenoweth, which shows that your whole creepy mooning stalking guy gets the girl theme you've got going may actually have some (*shudder*) merit.
While we're on the topic of therapy... I found myself sometime during last week's episode actually hoping you'd let Jordan die. Nevermind that Bradley Whitford has done this story before on ER. I decided that doing anything else would feel like a big emotional jerk around that writers do and that I thought was beneath you (not that I haven't gotten used to you not meeting my expectations).
But then the story became about how Danny considered Jordan's baby to be his daughter, in spite of him not having biological or legal rights, and how he might lose her. And you know what? I already have that theme being played out on another show I watch. And I really don't need it right now. So, do me a favour, and knock it off, mmmkay?
Oh, and these last few shows haven't sucked as hard as most of the episodes did. I don't know whether that's a compliment, or if my expectations have just been seriously lowered.