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October 23, 2003 12:24 AM
I can stay silent no longer. After suffering through another interminable hour, I have to shout to the world . . . THE WEST WING SUCKS! Really really bad. Watching it is like watching a roadside car wreck with fatalities. It curdles my intestines. I want to turn away, to stop watching . . . but I can't. I'm frozen with shock. Comparing the end of last season to the beginning of this season, it appears that the characters have all been labotomized in some group procedure over the summer. They have each returned missing about 50 IQ points and 60% of their usual vocabulary. And CJ has been turned into a moody doormat. That really pisses me off. I had a friend in college who was obsessed with "Gone With the Wind." She had read the book several times. When the sequel, "Scarlett," was released in the early 90's, she read it. And she wept. "Margaret Mitchell's prose is so sharp and powerful," she cried. "This . . . this is like OATMEAL!" Now I know how she felt. In tonight's episode, there was even a "silly mixup" subplot, where senior White House staffers sort of jokingly wrote disparaging remarks about someone and whoops! the insults somehow managed to actually get on the President's teleprompter . . . without ANYONE NOTICING. What the fecking hell? Is this a sitcom now, with wacky misunderstandings and comic mayhem around every corner? Can we expect Janet and Chrissy to show up soon? I LOVED this show. It's about the only thing on TV that COMMANDED my viewership. I feel like it has been taken from me. DAMN THE GODS!!!
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