The West Wing: 7.17 Election Day Part II

[chasingkerouac]

Such a wonderful weekend. I got to go down and visit with friends from college (one of whom just bought a house and got rid of her loser boyfriend so it was definately time to celebrate). So we stayed at her house, drank too much wine and played Scattegories - which was extremely amusing by the third bottle *lol* As well as Scene It! Movies - it takes a special kind of person to be able to pull out 'Carl Sagan' after... um... well, I don't remember what glass of wine that was, but it was rather far along. I can't help it that I have a head for random facts even when toasty. It's one of my more endearing qualities. But it was so much fun getting to see people again and getting to spend the entire day with Nat beforehand just talking about everyone and roaming around Podunk, North Carolina with her as we got ready for the evening. Makes me want to move back down there, not to Podunk but back to Raleigh. Might just have to do that.

Although I did get back home just in time to see West Wing last night and oh was it a Kleenex type of night.



I knew this one was going to get me. I love the character of Leo and I've been waiting with hesitation ever since John Spencer died in December. I was worried about how it would be handled, just because I'm a Sorkin girl myself, but I wasn't dissapointed. The reactions from Josh to CJ to Jed were all so authentic, they had to have let they're feelings about John slip through when talking about Leo, so it just made it all the more real. And I had to feel for Josh. He lost his biological father on Election Day eight years ago with the Bartlet campaign and he loses his idealogical father on Election Day with the Santos campaign. Honestly, if I were him, I just wouldn't get out of bed on Election Day anymore, but that just wouldn't be the same Josh we know and love. I even cried a bit when Josh started crying because that was just hard to watch.

But the best part of the ep was the very end. With Josh in the dark room and Donna just watching him and letting him have his moment, because this was the moment he was supposed to have to show Leo that he could do it - this was going to be his 'finally a man' moment for lack of a better term. Josh had found his man and made him into a winner, but Leo wasn't there to see him do it. For the first time in eight years, he was down the hole alone with no one to jump in and show him the way out if he got panicky. So we get the shot of the picture of Leo and Josh's final little 'Thanks, boss' which means so much more than just the sum of those two little words. 'Thanks for showing me how to do this', 'thanks for being willing to jump in that hole with me', 'thanks for making me take a chance when I found the guy', 'thanks for being a father to me for the past eight years'...

And next week is the funeral. Another Kleenex night for sure.


And since I was busy having my West Wing moment, I had to download The Simpsons because 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore' finally lets Patti and Selma kidnap MacGyver. And I just HAD to see that *lol*

Comments

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

Where is Podunk? My parents keep threatening/planning to move to Asheville. That's the only place I know in NC... (Er, the point of those three statements being, I think, where is Podunk relative to Asheville?)

I was amused at The Simpsons. The whole episode I kept going "It doesn't sound like Jack, but I know they wouldn't do this unless they had Richard Dean Andreson guesting..." He sounded so quiet! I don't know, it was weird.

[chasingkerouac.livejournal.com]

Ah, Podunk is my nickname for Johnston County which is rather out in the country *lol* It's near the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) in central NC... maybe a few hours east of Asheville. It's in the piedmont whereas Asheville's over in the mountains (and oh, I do love Asheville. So pretty.)