Congratulations NBC. Just as I feared, you turned The West Wing into ER. You’ve got another show where the dialogue has no flourish but exists only to serve the plot; with anguished close-ups and spinning camera moves, and that ends with a montage set to a song on the soundtrack. Another hour-long drama that goes through the motions and is by the numbers. I hope you got what you wanted, and I’m even more pleased that all four years of Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing were honored with Emmys. Bring on November 18!(And did it seem that this episode had more commercial breaks than usual? [Or was I just impatient since nothing seemed to be happening?])
I guess I liked it more than you did, huh? I expected the tone to be a bit more like ER, since John Wells is in charge of both shows. But since I’ve always liked ER, that doesn’t bother me.