[ SECRET POST #3037 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3037 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's, in some sense, difficult because it feels sometimes like most of the people who still care about West Wing at this point are the people who do love it pretty unreservedly.

I agree, though, it's a really deeply flawed show in ways that are really interesting to trace. It also happens to piss me off in precisely the same amount as I love watching it. Which is always interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

I tried to like The West Wing but the sentimentality was too much for me.

As a Brit, it worries me that the only way I can take my political drama is with a huge dose of cynicism, but the other way just repels me. It seems so self-deluding and simple minded, and in fact more open to abuse. Idealism makes me much more nervous than outright self-interest.

[intrigueing]

Uh...as a huge West fan..."unreservedly"? Haha....um, no.

The West Wing is like the political equvalent of a superhero movie. It is not meant to be remotely related to reality. It's about superficial wish-fulfillment fantasy and great characters. And you know what? I've never seen a fan of it claim otherwise. All the ~b-b-but idealism is so dangerous!!11~ concern-trolling has come from non-fans who seem bizarrely convinced (without any justification I've ever seen) that fans take this shit at face value and think politics is really like that. When actually, the concern sounds like telling people that superhero movies are awful and dangerous because that fact that they posit some people have powers that are superior to others promotes racial supremacy or something. It's just gonna get you a blank stare from fans.

If there's something WW fans *are* annoyingly over-serious about, it's Sorkin's dialogue. It's fun, but 70% of its quality comes from the actors managing to deliver really weird-sounding stuff with conviction. You only have to compare the scene clips with the transcripts to figure that out...