West Wing

[falafel_musings]

So I just watched '17 People'.

My God! the tension, the laughs...amazing episode!

I think I loved this episode as much as Noel. It was such a brilliant balance of intense drama mixed in with snappy comedy. Every minute of this episode was just gold, totally engaging.

Further thoughts....
 
- I still adore Josh/Donna. I want them to stay as a platonic pairing (because I'm the anti-shipper), but I doubt they will. But I'm really enjoying this period with them as a cute comic dream team. 

- CJ wasn't in this episode! How can I love '17 People' without CJ?! It must have been damn good.

- OMG, I am impossibly in love with Toby Zeigler, his enormous brain and his rubber ball of simmering angst. Toby Vs Bartlet is the scariest thing ever. Clash of the Titans. If I was Leo I would have been hiding behind the couch.

- Sam, you are so adorkable. Ainsley, you're a sex kitten. I love all the characters!

- I've made a bet with myself that Charlie knows about the MS. He works so closely with Bartlet and is cool enough to keep it under his hat. He must know. Charlie is still the coolest character on the show, aside for Mrs Landingham. 

And people say the S2 finale is even better?! I'm gonna have to brace myself....      
 

Comments

[millari.livejournal.com]

I don't remember which one this is...but they're all so good, really. It's not the one with the Peters Projection map, is it? I love that one. That might also be the one with CJ doing "The Jackal", which is also awesome.

Can you tell I just love CJ to pieces?

[lls-mutant.livejournal.com]

Toby/rubber ball = West Wing OTP :) If you couldn't guess given my older son's name, Toby is one of my all-time favorite characters EVER. (Trevor's lucky we weren't too deep into BSG when he was born or he might have been stuck as Felix.) I always wanted to do a WW/HP crossover where Toby taught Muggle Studies at Hogwarts and had an office next to Snape's. Especially with the ball.

I have to be the only person in the fandom though whose WW OTP isn't Josh/Donna. I like them okay, but frankly I think Donna deserves better than how Josh treats her. My WW OTP is CJ/Danny (something about that relationship is just adorable), with Jed/Abby in a very, very, very close second.

If I was ever going to write a BSG/WW crossover, though, I think it would be fun to give Charlie and Felix a buddy comedy, or have Hoynes and Zarek scheme against each other :) Or have Adama and Roslin and Tigh at a state dinner with Jed and Leo.

::sigh:: I miss West Wing. I ought to pull the DVDs back out!

[elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com]

17 people is an excellent episode and the long term ramifications for everyone, espcially Toby, linger into the third season. The rest of the season is excellent.

Margaret is one of my favourite of the supporting cast. I love the Josh/Donna banter, and liked it with them as friends. Although I'm not really a shippy person, part of me was into the idea of Toby/CJ.