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I was given giles; swfc; west wing
Giles - Rupert Giles, Buffy Summers' very English Watcher. I think he found USian teenage girls more mind boggling than any of the monsters, demons and gods he encountered.
SWFC - As the saying goes - there are two teams in Sheffield, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield Wednesday reserves. Currently bottom of the Championship, due to having points deducted for some infringement of the league rules. But they have scored more points than the Red Scum on the other side of town, who haven't won a game so far this season and are bottom of the Premier League. Pa isn't interested in football, so I wasn't brought up with any allegiances and made my own choice. At the time I first took any notice of football, Wednesday were somewhere in the lower reaches of the league and United were in the (old) first division. The only team in the first who played in all blue were Chelsea, so I picked them to support. But even though I lived on the red side of town and several utd players lived on our estate (one had a kid at the same junior school i went to and came to parents' evenings and open days), I only ever supported teams in blue, so it had to be Wednesday.
The West Wing - Aaron Sorkin's second TV series was born out of the left overs from one of my all time favourite films - The American President. Set in the White House, it was supposed to be about the staff who worked there and the President wasn't going to be a major character. I was too busy to watch when it first came on uk telly, then it was only on channels I didn't have access to in Daventry. When C4 finally showed it at a time I could watch, the first episode I saw was about a bunch of staffers getting left behind on the campaign trail (S4E1) and falling foul of the fact that Indian didn't observe daylight savings time. Quite apart from it being well written, well acted and funny, I was hooked because I worked for a company based in Indiana and had had the same problem when flying home from Cincinnatti and not changing the time when crossing the state line.
TWW finished in 2006, but I would still argue it's one of the best tv shows of all time. It struggled in S5 after Sorkin left the show and John Wells butchered the characters, but it picked up again in S6 with the campaigns for the next POTUS. It's pure fantasy politics, but does reflect a lot of USian political life. Mostly, it has an awesome cast, characters you want to root for, and a quote for pretty much every occasion.
I own 2 copies of the DVDs, but most of the single season boxes have disappeared on loan. I haven't watched it for some years, as I find S5 too depressing to wade through and have to be in the right mood. But I can, and do, quote it at every opportunity. And I tend to watch most things that the main cast members crop up in, when I get the chance. This entry was originally posted at https://hooloovoo-42.dreamwidth.org/2050164.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
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I was given giles; swfc; west wing
Giles - Rupert Giles, Buffy Summers' very English Watcher. I think he found USian teenage girls more mind boggling than any of the monsters, demons and gods he encountered.
SWFC - As the saying goes - there are two teams in Sheffield, Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield Wednesday reserves. Currently bottom of the Championship, due to having points deducted for some infringement of the league rules. But they have scored more points than the Red Scum on the other side of town, who haven't won a game so far this season and are bottom of the Premier League. Pa isn't interested in football, so I wasn't brought up with any allegiances and made my own choice. At the time I first took any notice of football, Wednesday were somewhere in the lower reaches of the league and United were in the (old) first division. The only team in the first who played in all blue were Chelsea, so I picked them to support. But even though I lived on the red side of town and several utd players lived on our estate (one had a kid at the same junior school i went to and came to parents' evenings and open days), I only ever supported teams in blue, so it had to be Wednesday.
The West Wing - Aaron Sorkin's second TV series was born out of the left overs from one of my all time favourite films - The American President. Set in the White House, it was supposed to be about the staff who worked there and the President wasn't going to be a major character. I was too busy to watch when it first came on uk telly, then it was only on channels I didn't have access to in Daventry. When C4 finally showed it at a time I could watch, the first episode I saw was about a bunch of staffers getting left behind on the campaign trail (S4E1) and falling foul of the fact that Indian didn't observe daylight savings time. Quite apart from it being well written, well acted and funny, I was hooked because I worked for a company based in Indiana and had had the same problem when flying home from Cincinnatti and not changing the time when crossing the state line.
TWW finished in 2006, but I would still argue it's one of the best tv shows of all time. It struggled in S5 after Sorkin left the show and John Wells butchered the characters, but it picked up again in S6 with the campaigns for the next POTUS. It's pure fantasy politics, but does reflect a lot of USian political life. Mostly, it has an awesome cast, characters you want to root for, and a quote for pretty much every occasion.
I own 2 copies of the DVDs, but most of the single season boxes have disappeared on loan. I haven't watched it for some years, as I find S5 too depressing to wade through and have to be in the right mood. But I can, and do, quote it at every opportunity. And I tend to watch most things that the main cast members crop up in, when I get the chance. This entry was originally posted at https://hooloovoo-42.dreamwidth.org/2050164.html. Please comment there using OpenID.