16 May 2006
I've just watched the last episode ever made of The West Wing.
For years I've followed this series, more closely than any other.
I've been more inspired, more moved, more elated, more educated by this series than by any other.
I've watched and re-watched the DVDs of this series more than any other.
Without it, I'd never have known how to say Galileo 5, the meaning of Shibboleth, how a filibuster works or that for Bourbon to be Bourbon it has to come from Kentucky. I'd also have got more sleep during the last two actual Presidential elections.
I've held this series to higher standards than any other, and felt more let down by the fallow years than I thought possible... but as with all things, to fully appreciate the good, one must experience the bad.
... but when it was good, it really was, very very good, and when it was bad, it was better than most of the dross available on the tellybox.
If you'd told me when it was first shown that I'd be hooked on a show about American politics I'd have told you that you were crazy, and yet, here I am, feeling all verklempt. It feels a bit like it got cut of at the knees just as the writers got themselves out from under the very long shadow of Aaron Sorkin and started to really get into their stride.
Damn, I'm really going to miss this show.
Agreed :)
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