Can I Have That Muffin Please?

[lost_spook]

Spoiler free and (hopefully) fun clips and quotes from The West Wing, which I have been watching all week in lieu of being able to do much else. I remembered writing random fic last time this happened. This week there were icons, instead - and this

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[paranoidangel42]

That's so made me want to watch The West Wing again. But there's so much of it I can't face it because it'll just take over my life for months.

[lost_spook]

:-)

Heh, that's the problem (or the good thing?) about US shows, isn't it? You could just snatch an episode or two, I suppose.

[paranoidangel42]

The trouble is it'll start with an episode or two and then end being all of them as I remember how good it is.

[lost_spook]

Yeah, you're probably right. :lol:

Just one wouldn't hurt... Oh... Where did the year go? ;-)

[alto2]

OH MY GODS MY LOVE FOR THIS SHOW KNOWS NO BOUNDS. And that last clip is the BEST SCENE EVER I swear I melted right here on my couch the night it aired. Just. DIED.

I really, really, really need to find the time to watch this show again.

[lost_spook]

:-)

It's certainly my favourite Josh/Donna scene so far. They're pretty much indescribable as a TV couple. I am watching my way through the series via DVDs for the first time. I don't know what I'd do if I'd been actually watching for 5 years (I've just finished S5) in real time, and was still waiting for the two of them to get together! I might be ready to commit actual murder or something.

But yes, I had heard it was a good show, and I've found that to be more than true so far. I am totally hooked & now I need S6. :-)

[alto2]

Ah, see, as far as I'm concerned, the series ended after S4. I kept watching through about half of S6, and then just lost interest. The Sorkin-ness of it was gone, and it just seemed so bland to me as a result. I know plenty of people who made it the whole way through, though, so my experience is not necessarily representative!

[lost_spook]

Yeah, he is definitely conspicuous by his absence, but I have to see what happens to everyone. And S5 has certainly had its moments evens so.

I had hoped he might come back again, but I take it that's mere optimism, then?

[dbskyler]

I confess that I never caught on to the awesomeness of West Wing until the Toby-and-Josh-and-Donna-get-lost-on-the-campaign-trail episode. Then I couldn't believe what I had been missing out on. I've since seen the later seasons, but I'm still spotty on the earlier ones, and you've just reminded me that I really ought to go back and watch the whole thing from the beginning.

[lost_spook]

*nods* Yup. You really ought to. I've been thoroughly enjoying watching it so far.

Heh, I know that feeling - wait, is that what this show is like?! I did that with Jonathan Creek and a few others I forget. Getting to catch up isn't always easy, either.

[librarylover82]

Excellent choices! I love this show so much. I agree that it wasn't as good after Sorkin left, but a mediocre episode of The West Wing is still better than 99% of TV drama.

[lost_spook]

Yes, there are shows that are like that - not at top form they can still beat most other shows out of the water, and I definitely think TWW is among them now. Besides, how can I not want to know what happens to these people?!

[lost_spook]

No, I hadn't!

He's a dwarf?! He's a DWARF?!

(Sorry, excuse me while I fall off my chair in amusement at this. I mean, I know digistal wizardry means there is no height bar to these things, but LOL at the idea of mini-Richard...)

Mind, I suppose I can see Martin Freeman playing a character who's a younger Ian Holm. That could work.

Thanks for that. It amused me mightily...

[lost_spook]

Oh, yes, I mean, Thorin; it could come off. It's just I have this awful feeling that I can't be trusted to see it in the cinema without giggling a lot now. (Which may not be a bad thing...)

:Lol: - they like a challenge, maybe?