#30- picspam: five season four west wing reactions
There's not much of an introduction to make except to say that I am still working my way through The West Wing for the first time, relatively unspoiled. After I finish a season, I make a picspam featuring my thoughts on it. These are those picspams.
Previous West Wing Reactions: Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3
1. Rob Lowe, why did you have to be a jerkface and leave?
Do you not understand that I love Sam Seaborn? Do you not realize how much I wish Sam was working on speeches with Toby again, and sparring with Ainsley Hayes (who also disappeared!), and joking around with Josh, and etc. etc.? It just isn't fair to me, that you had to think everything was unfair and leave! And then you mock me on your Twitter account reminding me about all the good times, like when the Whiffenpoofs sang, and talking about Bartlet and health care! I should censhure you forever in a corner, but you are going to be on Parks & Recreation, and that's one of my favorite shows so I forgive you, Sodapop.
Barely.
2. I am ambivalent to the existence of Will Bailey.
Will Bailey's cute and all, and I enjoyed the little running an election with his stepsister for a dead person at the expense of Sam Seaborn arc, but once he stepped into the West Wing, I could not muster up an ounce of ability to care either way. And they gave us every opportunity to get behind the guy. He rewrote foreign policy! He had a crack team full of interns named Laura! He housed a goat in his office! He's with the Air Force reserves!
I don't know, it's almost like the Josh/Donna situation where I want to care, but I can't. (And I guess, I'll admit it now... I still don't ship Josh/Donna. I'm the odd ball out. I realize that.)
3. I really hoped the election would've gotten more play than it did.
As I mentioned in my first picspam, one of the few things I do know about how the rest of the series turns out is that Alan Alda comes in and gets a few Emmys in another election storyline. Between that knowledge and the way Season 3 played up the election, I thought we would've spent more time on that then we really did. There ended up being no tension at all with it, huh? Bartlet just whooped about taking reelection in a landslide and making a pretty decent storyline, into one with a lot of missed opportunities. It saddened me.
4. It was so good to have Danny back, making a journalistic ruckus as he should.
Danny is my favorite minor character, and not only because I think CJ/Danny is cute. In fact, my major reason for loving Danny is he manages to get to the bottom of stories that nobody else in the press seems to have the ability to, and he makes the West Wing stand on their toes trying to deal with him and he's journalistic skills. And boy did he deliver this season! He was on screen for less than five minutes and he already had leads on the assassination plot!
And whoever told me to have patience for the fallout of the plot after that last season deserves a pat on the back, because when part of that fall out is Danny Concannon being AWESOME and the worlds best reporter, I'm in! (I'm not kidding, when I say that I would watch a show just called Danny Concannon: BEST REPORTER EVER, where he just goes around getting in everybody's business being an awesome reporter. CJ can make frequent guest appearances, and if we could fit Leo and Charlie in there too, I'd be okay with that.)
Also? I'm glad that before Danny even came back, the show gave him a shout out mentioning that he finally won his damn Pullitzer, and talking about how no reporter could ever be as talented as him except Woodward and Bernstein, maybe. (I love it, because it's true.)
5. Douchebag!Boyfriend plot just made me roll my eyes in frustration.
This whole plotline just felt ripped from a really bad romantic comedy, and therefore I just could not get invested in it. From the jealous ex-boyfriend to the "Don't mess with my douchebag boyfriend, because we broke up Charlie!" to the "I'm confused about whether I'm in love with my douchebag boyfriend because he's a douchebag!", it just all felt weakly written. Charlie deserves better plot lines, writers! (Remember when he was dealing with his guilt about being the original target when Josh got critically wounded? Or that awesome prank war he had with CJ?)
Also, Trent Ford, between this and The Class you have officially become the epitome of the douchebag boyfriend. I hope you understand that.
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