West Wing Icons

[lost_spook]

Not what I was supposed to be doing, but then I thought it would be fun to have a Ainsley Can-I-have-a-muffin icon. 54 other icons later, I did remember to do that...

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[belantana]

Hi! *waves* You will never believe this, but during my last few weeks of scarcity I have been a) drinking a lot of wine and b) watching series 1 of The West Wing, finally! And then I come back to LJ to find these amazing icons. Great minds. :D :D :D

That said, I haven't got very far yet, so I don't think I've heard a single one of these quotes, nor met Ainsley. Currently I am a big happy grinning mess for Toby, Leo and Josh. Which is not to say I am not also a big happy grinning mess for CJ, Donna, the President, Mrs Lanningham, Charlie and EVERYONE, except maybe for Sam, who can go be smug somewhere else and take his patronising attitude to call girls with him. THANK YOU SO MUCH for dragging me into this universe of pure joy!

(Also, I seem to remember you saying something about years of watching Spooks making you expect Bad Stuff to happen all the time on The West Wing? I totally get that! I have to keep reminding myself that there is no way they are going to kill off a main character and I can RELAX.)

[belantana]

there is no way they are going to kill off a main character

Ahhhhhh ok the moment I wrote that I had a paranoid fit. If someone is going to die, can you warn me? Like, just say "watch out for episode 324 I AM JUST SAYING"? I don't think I could deal with it otherwise. I can barely deal with it on Spooks and I am expecting it then.

[lost_spook]

:lol:

Um, bad stuff happens on the WW, too, that's all I'm saying. How serious are you about wanting to know if someone actually dies? Because they do like cliffhangers... And I haven't got there yet, but I'm aware there's a rl event that happens, too.

[belantana]

OH GOD NO, REALLY? ARGH. ARGH. I haven't even finished the first series yet so I haven't encountered a cliffhanger... Usually I am so anti-spoilers, but I don't know... I think what you've just said is enough of a warning, actually. I will be on my guard now. Thanks. :)

[lost_spook]

Yes, they lull you into being all cute and funny, and then they have big political issues.

BTW, I was thinking of you - they lost a spy plane during one of the episodes, and had to phone the Russians to try and get it back. So it reminded me of Spooks...:

Pres. Bartlet (on what he's expected to tell the Russians to explain it): "We were on an environmental mission for Finland?" :-)

[lost_spook]

Random responses some at a definite tangent to your comments(sorry about the spammage):

a) Not in Spooks-league amount of bad stuff, of course. :lol:

b) I want to rewatch S1 in order this time, not backwards.

c) am now wondering again what John Spencer (Leo) was in when he was younger, as I suspect he may have been quite the charmer...

Edit And forgive me for making the spammage worse, but I forgot an important and sensible question: where are you up to? (So I don't accidentally spoiler you.)

/random.

[belantana]

Ha! I'm very much looking forward to the spy bits. THERE HAS TO BE A SPOOKS CROSSOVER. HAS TO BE.

Leo has done all the charming he needs to, never mind his age, I am totally taken. :D

I'm up to... watched 1.14 "Take This Sabbath Day" last night. (And argh, I see what you mean about dark stuff now - that one was a bit of a punch to the guts. Toby! Asking the President for the pardon! Oh my god, heart in little pieces on the floor.)

[lost_spook]

Ha! I'm very much looking forward to the spy bits. THERE HAS TO BE A SPOOKS CROSSOVER. HAS TO BE.

Oh, I know. I started working one out the first time I was ill and in between my watching marathon I carried on where I left off, but I'm not sure where you start with combining two such sets of awesome

[belantana]

YES YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES

What are you talking about! This is a totally workable plot! I would love to have Thinky Thoughts to add to it but I've just watched 9.05 so I have my canons completely confused, and not saying more in case you haven't seen it, but you'll have seen the trailer for it anyway, so let me just say that the image I got in my head whenever someone mentioned the President wasn't in any way Obama.

!!!!! So excited. Especially about Donna having the answer after all! Write it, write it, write it!

[lost_spook]

Aw, thanks. Unfortunately, I only believe I can write this (and have any clue about the finer details) when I have a temperature, apparently. :lol: In the real world, as I said, I lose my nerve at the thought of writing both of these. It's on my list of fics to write when I get six weeks off at once some day. (I don't know when that happens ever unless you get made redundant or are a teacher, though.)

I am all behind on Spooks, although I have managed now to watch 9.04 (being as I had a temperature and was not fit to be watching shows like that at 9pm on an evening at the time.) I need to catch up with 9.05 and then I can speak to you about Spooks again. :-)

[belantana]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, so, THANK YOU SO MUCH for your warning about cliffhangers. I got up to the end of series 1 the other day but then I remembered your advice, and I waited until I had series 2 actually in my hands before I watched the finale. And ARGH! I would have probably died if I'd had to wait longer than the ten seconds it took me to change the dvd, and as it was I nearly died during 2.01 with all its ridiculous flashbacks holding out on telling me if Josh was going to live, ARGH JOSH NO. ARGH.

*takes deep breath*

So now I'm well into series 2 and have calmed down a bit, and also I have met Ainsley, who is great. And I will definitely make sure to have series 3 in my hands before watching the series 2 finale!

Also I did some stumbling around for fic recs and the very first thing I came across was this with zombies, omg. You will love it!

[lost_spook]

:lol: Well, I remembered how it felt when I watched S1, finishing about this time last year and had to put S2 on my Christmas list, and then wait till I got back home to watch what happened next...

Glad you're still enjoying it. I wasn't sure about Ainsley at first, but I grew to like the way she always leaves Sam looking kind of shell-shocked after talking to her. And I like her insane love of all food. It's a bit like my little sister.

And I am so amused that you instantly found WW zombie!fic! What was more, fun zombie fic by netgirl_y2k who writes some of the best DW humour fics around. And also amused that you found a comm called apocalyptothon, too. Not surprised, of course, just very amused... :-D

It was a good fic. I am just worrying now. (Donna can deal with zombies, right? I mean, Josh'd probably do something dumb while talking a lot, but Donna'd cope. They'll survive, out in Wisconsin, and live happily ever after once everyone else has eaten everyone else's brains? *wibble*)

[belantana]

I have no idea how you survived waiting that long to find out what happened. (Possibly by being less involved than I seem to be... oh dear, how did this happen?!)

Yeah, I wasn't sure about Donna at first either, but now she has grown on me in a very big way! I'm excited to see she has a spot in the titles now. Though what happened to Mandy? Maybe I missed her exit but it looks like she got shafted the same way Sam did in Spooks.

Re the fic, YOU ARE WELCOME. My first stop-off for fic recs is always delgaserasca's del.icio.us, so I cannot claim credit for randomly digging up zombies and apocalypses in relation to everything, sorry. :) As for whether or not Donna and Josh make it, probably the only way you will ever know is if you write a sequel. *unsubtle hint

[lost_spook]

Write a sequel? I know NOTHING about Wisconsin! :loL:

Besides, I was too busy writing zombie!fic for Press Gang, because... I was idly thinking about this post and your love of zombies and... there was Lynda and Spike and Colin and zombies in my head. I had to get them out of there at once.

Yeah, I think Donna gradually gets more and more to do, and the more that happens, the more awesome she is. :-)

:lol: Mandy just vanished - she is the only character to completely disappear with no explanation whatsoever so far in TWW. She and Sam should probably compare notes. I mean, at least we know there's a possibility that Sam's sedation just went horribly wrong with Spooks...

[lost_spook]

Hi!!!! Well, I'm glad your weeks of scarcity have been filled with relatively nice things, at least so far as you're saying here, anyway. I have been watching my way through S4 and S5 while being ill

[belantana]

Well actually it was weeks of stress and little sleep, which I think you guessed! But I have been healthy, so I'm sorry to hear you're not - get better soon, and enjoy your medicinal telly. :)

He was in The Glass Menagerie?? I studied that for my final exams, too, but we stuck to the text version. I guess he was Tom? Or the Gentleman Caller? Ha, it feels like a nightmare to me too!

I am very much looking forward to how everyone changes as I go along. And new characters sound like fun! Oh hmm, I'm not sure I like that it stops being light-hearted, but I will definitely wait and see. Enjoy the rest of your weekend! ♥