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[bluflamingo]

I'm watching season 4 of The West Wing, which I've never seen before (I stopped watching partway through season 2 when it was airing, I can't remember why, then cried through the end of the last episode, because I'm a sap), and would like to say:

1. Nancy McNally is awesome, and I love how much they all respect her, especially Admiral Fitzwallace. Who is also damn cool.

2. I love CJ. So much. She's amazing.

3. Sam has a different office, right? Or they moved the furniture or something, but I'm sure he used to have a bookcase behind his desk.

4. CJ coming back to her briefing to announce the pipe bomb at the swim meet and all the dead students is possibly the most jarring thing I've seen on TV in ages. There's no indication that it's coming *at all* and then, there. It's very effective.

5. If I was Amy Gardner, I'd have kicked Josh long before now. I do not get what she's supposed to see in him.

Also, halfamoon is running again for the first two weeks of February, for people to post female centric fic, art, recs, whatever. I'm not going to make every day, but I'm hoping to hit 4:
1. The depressing het break-up fic I was going on about before
2. The Simpson/Cadman fic I started ages ago, which, with (1) will complete the Dysfunction verse.
3. Something about Carolyn Lam.
4. Something about Zoey's secret service agent in season 1, Gina.

If you felt inclined to throw Carolyn-centric prompts (anything but something about her and Landry) my way, I would not say no.

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[scrollgirl]

How have you never seen Season 4 of TWW??? It's actually my favourite overall, because of the awesome campaign stuff of the first half, and because I'm ridiculously in love with Will Bailey. (Will totally gets shafted in S5-6, but makes a terrific comeback in S7.)

Sam/Will were kind of the precursor to my John/Cam love in that I moved from the big slash pairing (Josh/Sam and John/Rodney) to a very rare pairing. I even wrote fic!

1) Agreed!
2) So very much agreed!
3) Hmm, I vaguely recall his office set changed between S1 and S2, but I'll have to check my DVDs or screencaps to be sure.
4) I love, love, love "20 Hours in America". Love. "They ran into the fire." *shivers*
5) Heh, true. I don't know if you've finished up the season yet, so I'll just say vaguely there's a moment that I really didn't like her behaviour, but overall yeah--she's way too good for Josh. Though I'll say I prefer Josh/Amy to Josh/Donna. (I have issues with boss/employee "UST".)

Ooh, I would totally love to see what you write for halfamoon! Also, your #4 reminds me that I owe you a Gina fic from, like, three years ago or something ridiculous like that. You probably don't even remember!

[bluflamingo]

How have you never seen Season 4 of TWW???

I've never seen most of TWW - I used to fake it when I still wrote for it :) But I'm getting back into it now.

4) I think it's one of those things that I can't think about too hard, because when I do, it's awful, and it doesn't matter that it's not real.
5) Nope, haven't finished, only seen 4 episodes. I think I want Amy/Donna though, maybe when Donna's working for the new first lady and has broken it off with Josh, and they can both laugh about how much they wanted him.

Also, your #4 reminds me that I owe you a Gina fic from, like, three years ago or something ridiculous like that. You probably don't even remember!

I don't remember, no, though I can pretend I do if you were every inspired :)

[scrollgirl]

I've never seen most of TWW - I used to fake it when I still wrote for it

Seriously? I would never have guessed! Well, enjoy S4. It really has some fantastic eps.

4) Yeah, the pipe bombing isn't too far from reality, unfortunately. I get caught up in the story and forget that sometimes.
5) Ooh, sorry. Well, I suppose it's not really a spoiler to tell you that Bartlet wins the re-election ;)

Amy/Donna post-series would be awesome! I think Amy would really like this new Donna.

I don't remember, no, though I can pretend I do if you were every inspired :)
Alas, no. Which is kind of sad, because it was actually going to be real femslash (instead of genderbender). But I haven't been inspired by TWW in a long while.

[bluflamingo]

Seriously? I would never have guessed!

TWOP was my very good friend. Also vagueness :)

5) Nah, don't worry - I'm pretty well spoiled for the rest of the season, and, yes, I knew he won re-election!

[ames]

If I was Amy Gardner, I'd have kicked Josh long before now. I do not get what she's supposed to see in him.
Heh. I never got what he was supposed to see in her. Basically, they're a terrible match.

[bluflamingo]

Say that again.