Chris
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Ok, having watched this I have to say: I was rooting for West Wing to hit a homerun. I truly enjoyed WW's first season, was pretty dissapointed last season, and had hopes that maybe things would turn around.
Tonight's episode (IMHO) was not a home run. Probably a standup double, at best, a sliding triple.
The layout of the show was well done, the conversational format was well played, executing several sides of the case, and the issues were laid out in a relatively interesting manner.
The big problem I had with WW last year had nothing to do with it's acting.. which was once again exceptional. Nor did it have anything to do with the story format; also good this year. The problem that they had last year had to do with fact checking, in which the WW had a tendency to sometimes create facts in order to serve it's purpose.. something that Sorkin later said was needed for "creative purpose" and then, over the summer promised would be gone from this year's set. (Good for him, IMHO, again)
Tonights episode was fairly well researched, with only two errors (though they were relatively big ones) which didn't impact the storyline. The problem with the errors last year was that they impacted the storyline.. this year, it was somewhat like quick spouts of facts which were in error, but quickly run by.. so it didn't impact the overall story.
The students provided a good sounding board, and the method of presentation was also solid.
I give it a *** out of ****
Tonight's episode (IMHO) was not a home run. Probably a standup double, at best, a sliding triple.
The layout of the show was well done, the conversational format was well played, executing several sides of the case, and the issues were laid out in a relatively interesting manner.
The big problem I had with WW last year had nothing to do with it's acting.. which was once again exceptional. Nor did it have anything to do with the story format; also good this year. The problem that they had last year had to do with fact checking, in which the WW had a tendency to sometimes create facts in order to serve it's purpose.. something that Sorkin later said was needed for "creative purpose" and then, over the summer promised would be gone from this year's set. (Good for him, IMHO, again)
Tonights episode was fairly well researched, with only two errors (though they were relatively big ones) which didn't impact the storyline. The problem with the errors last year was that they impacted the storyline.. this year, it was somewhat like quick spouts of facts which were in error, but quickly run by.. so it didn't impact the overall story.
The students provided a good sounding board, and the method of presentation was also solid.
I give it a *** out of ****