::sniff sniff::
Well, NBC made it official today. The West Wing will get the ax in May.
This isn't the way it should have gone down. It either should have ended with/shortly after Aaron Sorkin left OR been allowed to try to eke out another season with Jimmy Smits or Alan Alda at the helm.
Instead, it's limping, one of its best stars is dead, and it will end in the middle of some of its best work in years.
It's nice that it will go out on a creative high note, instead of when the asteroid was about to strike. (Even though we're going to have a reactor meltdown this week -- here's hoping it's a well-done episode and not another John Wells melodramafest.)
The problem has been that, with a few exceptions (most notably the wonderful "Han," some of the episodes after Leo's heart attack and the whole space shuttle/leak thing), The West Wing has become a normal drama, not the humming, soul-lifting (if a bit uneven) mix of comedy and drama that Sorkin perfected.
Here's hoping the rest of the ride is as fun as the first six and a half years have been.
This isn't the way it should have gone down. It either should have ended with/shortly after Aaron Sorkin left OR been allowed to try to eke out another season with Jimmy Smits or Alan Alda at the helm.
Instead, it's limping, one of its best stars is dead, and it will end in the middle of some of its best work in years.
It's nice that it will go out on a creative high note, instead of when the asteroid was about to strike. (Even though we're going to have a reactor meltdown this week -- here's hoping it's a well-done episode and not another John Wells melodramafest.)
The problem has been that, with a few exceptions (most notably the wonderful "Han," some of the episodes after Leo's heart attack and the whole space shuttle/leak thing), The West Wing has become a normal drama, not the humming, soul-lifting (if a bit uneven) mix of comedy and drama that Sorkin perfected.
Here's hoping the rest of the ride is as fun as the first six and a half years have been.