Comments on: Studio 60 http://wongablog.co.uk/2008/08/03/studio-60/ like balloons, only with dancing Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:49:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Kate http://wongablog.co.uk/2008/08/03/studio-60/#comment-52871 Kate Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:35:09 +0000 http://wongablog.co.uk/?p=3124#comment-52871 I never watched West Wing but I too loved Studio 60 and was sad that it was not renewed. I liked the casting of Amanda Peet. I agree that she is beautiful but still interesting-looking too - not too 'Hollywood'. Matthew Perry's character is already more well-rounded than Chandler was after 10 seasons (although I do understand that Friends, as a sit-com, was not meant to produce intricate or layered characters). This is a show I will definitely want to watch again at some point (perhaps using Lovefilm?!). I never watched West Wing but I too loved Studio 60 and was sad that it was not renewed. I liked the casting of Amanda Peet. I agree that she is beautiful but still interesting-looking too - not too ‘Hollywood’. Matthew Perry’s character is already more well-rounded than Chandler was after 10 seasons (although I do understand that Friends, as a sit-com, was not meant to produce intricate or layered characters). This is a show I will definitely want to watch again at some point (perhaps using Lovefilm?!).

]]> By: Andrew http://wongablog.co.uk/2008/08/03/studio-60/#comment-52064 Andrew Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:19:54 +0000 http://wongablog.co.uk/?p=3124#comment-52064 I quite agree. I actually think The West Wing is my least-favourite thing Sorkin has ever done (which still of course makes it one of my all-time favourite shows). It doesn't help, of course, that I saw it years after it was made. With a politics-based show you'd think that'd kill it dead but frankly very little seems to have changed. (Until series five or so when the remaining writers appeared to forget that they weren't supposed to let Bartlet just fix everything and mend the world <a href="http://wongablog.co.uk/2008/08/02/arugula-and-eagles/" rel="nofollow">like McCain promised so laughably to do</a> in your earlier post I think the biggest difference is that in TWW 9/11 never seemed to happen -- hell, I'm given to understand that in the episodes we're coming up to on <i>our</i> LOVEFiLM DVDs <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/21/barackobama.uselections2008" rel="nofollow">they're about to start electing a character based on Barack Obama</a>!) That said, Yes Minister still seems worryingly current, so maybe it's a systemic thing. Personally, though, I just like the lighter tone of Studio 60 and Sports Night. It seems easier to relate to things that involve people than things that involve finding 62 votes by sunset including at least four republicans because dammit we lost Sen. Notarealperson (D). That, you know, and with Sports Night I don't have to keep shouting at the TV "What? Please tell me they made that up. The US government can't REALLY be set up that way, can it?!" I don't care if Draft Day was devised by morons. That can't cripple our economy. Much. Probably. I quite agree. I actually think The West Wing is my least-favourite thing Sorkin has ever done (which still of course makes it one of my all-time favourite shows). It doesn’t help, of course, that I saw it years after it was made. With a politics-based show you’d think that’d kill it dead but frankly very little seems to have changed. (Until series five or so when the remaining writers appeared to forget that they weren’t supposed to let Bartlet just fix everything and mend the world like McCain promised so laughably to do in your earlier post I think the biggest difference is that in TWW 9/11 never seemed to happen — hell, I’m given to understand that in the episodes we’re coming up to on our LOVEFiLM DVDs they’re about to start electing a character based on Barack Obama!) That said, Yes Minister still seems worryingly current, so maybe it’s a systemic thing.

Personally, though, I just like the lighter tone of Studio 60 and Sports Night. It seems easier to relate to things that involve people than things that involve finding 62 votes by sunset including at least four republicans because dammit we lost Sen. Notarealperson (D).

That, you know, and with Sports Night I don’t have to keep shouting at the TV “What? Please tell me they made that up. The US government can’t REALLY be set up that way, can it?!” I don’t care if Draft Day was devised by morons. That can’t cripple our economy. Much. Probably.

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