The West Wing....In The End

So.....very good ending...sad as it is to not have any more eps to watch. I guess it ended well.
It was very nice, and end of an era.

I was a little confused cause I thought that they jumped forwards again at the end...but they didn't.

As far as my predictions went.....
I did guess that Sam would be Deputy COS...cause really what else would Josh give him...he's too good for anything lower.
I did guess that Charlie would go to Law School...which was pretty good, seeing as I had NO idea, and there were no hints given in the flash forward!

I guessed Annabeth or Donna would be Press Secretary or media relations/communications (director or deputy in Annabeth's case)...so I was close. Annabeth did become A press secretary...just for The First Lady.
I never would have imagined that Donna would become Helen Santos' Chief of Staff...an excellent position for her though...all growed up with her own office...twice the size of Josh's :P
- but shall I mention the mirroring of her and Amy.....cause I'm also guessing that Josh took her to Tahiti...he likes it apparently.

-Kate should go work for The First Lady...apparently that's where all the blondes are :P

I was off with CJ, I guessed she'd end up back in PR or some random government position.
I never would have guessed that Toby would become...well we're not exactly sure what he is...but I'm guessing a lecturer or something, all they said was he was at Columbia...I'm gonna assume the school and not the country :)


also my DVD set arrived today......can I just say how fitting that it came on Aaron Sorkin's birthday!

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Carlie

A follow up

So I had a few more comments to make on the whole 'getting to the end of WW' thing...

Over the past year...my TV viewing has taken a huge change in nature. -I discovered the beauty of Wicked and Pushing Daisies within the same week I think. And then everything just catapulted from there. See I have Kristin Chenoweth to blame and thank for everything almost.
I always knew I'd love Wicked. -I'd been waiting for it to come to Melbourne for a long time.

I'd forgotten about Kristin -who I'd seen in other things, and knew I liked, but with the strike and other things going on, -I'd forgotten about her. Then the Emmy nominations came out....and I figured I'd better watch Pushing Daisies. After 1 ep I was hooked!
Then I made it my mission to watch anything Kristin I could get my hands on. Ness and I even did our Kristin movie night.
We were even contemplating watching just her eps of The West Wing.....wow oh wow what a mistake that would have been!

I think Kristin was the final straw that broke the camels back when it came to us watching The West Wing....it was one of those shows that was WAY over my head at the time, and I probably wouldn't have been able to find it on Aussie tv anyways.
But with not much left on tv, or nothing overly interesting, we decided to give it a shot. -We LOVED Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. We loved Bradley....Allison...Rob Lowe....and a bunch of the people who guest starred over the years.
Within 1 ep we liked it....and slowly started to get used to all the political stuff...then we developed a love for everyone else. Janel, John, Martin, Richard, Dule....Moira....and then it snowballed into obsession.

And the rest is history.
On October 4th 2008....our lives as we knew them changed.

While I can't wait to watch the last four eps and see how things end up....I'm SO sad for it to all be over. The excitement, looking forward to new eps, and the fear of spoilers, and the thrill of knowing the things we did know.
So I'd just like to thank Aaron Sorkin for creating this wonderful show....and thank GOD for DVDs. Without them we would have missed a rare jewel of a TV show.



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Carlie

And then there was Four....

So there it is, we're down to the final four episodes of The West Wing.

Its really pretty impressive that it's taken us this long to watch it. But we didn't want to rush through it, and also, we had to break down the episodes a little.
Last weekend we did the very sad, but extremely well done, death of Leo McGarry episodes. -Which just happen to coincide with the whole, Josh and Donna finally getting together episodes....figures.
One thing I'm very glad about is the fact that they did it pretty early in the season, and not just in the last episode...which while would have been closure, tends to pretty much piss you off cause you don't get enough time for sweetness.

So anyways...back to The West Wing...

By the time we finish season 7....it will have taken us 7 weeks to watch all 22 episodes. Which is quite impressive....some seasons only took 3 or 4 weeks....

But I always get sad when a series is over. Here's hoping I don't bawl, shouldn't happen in public.....but I'm not making any promises. I've cried for every finale I've seen, even Cold Feet which I only watched random eps here and there - and the last few eps ever.
I just get sad when things are over.

-Aaron Sorkin you better get working on another TV series so I can have something new to watch. There's a severe lack of smart stuff on tv these days.

Well at least when it's over, I'll have watching the whole thing over from the beginning to look forward to - I finally ordered the dvd box set. YAY!

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Carlie