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thebartlets · 19 hours ago

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#aaron sorkin #why do you insist on throwing these feral couples at me #my heart can’t take it #the newsroom #will mcavoy #mackenzie mchale

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thebartlets · 1 day ago

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THE WEST WING ❆ 1.10 ’In Excelsis Deo’

#merry chrysler my little nutmegs #for my northern hemisphere friends:#we’re halfway through the dark #the west wing #christmas #josh lyman #jed bartlet #charlie young

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thebartlets · 3 days ago

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I try very hard to be normal at work but they know..

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thebartlets · 8 days ago

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#he’s committed #jed bartlet #the west wing

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thebartlets · 10 days ago

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it’s me hi i’m the problem it’s me

#he is me and i am him #bringing this back #the west wing #toby ziegler #west wing #richard schiff

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thebartlets · 13 days ago

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West Wing meets Parks and Rec

#no because this works #the west wing #parks and rec #cj cregg #leslie knope #allison janney #amy poehler #donna moss #ann perkins

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thebartlets · 22 days ago

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Date guys who are taller than you. Date protective guys. Date guys with a giant army of orcs and an unquenchable desire for the one ring. Date Sauron.

#silmarillion fans are never late #we arrive precisely when we mean to #lotr #the silmarillion #tolkien #sauron #melkor

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thebartlets · 23 days ago

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the writers were so determined to heighten the drama and raise the stakes that they eventually turned all the characters against each other, made them bitter.

which might be “realistic,” but realism is not what the west wing is about. it’s about dreams for social improvement and courage and friendship, and it’s incredibly discouraging that they decided to play against that right as CJ, who we’ve seen grappling with misogyny ranging from outright offenses to the more subtle dismissive attitudes of men she considers her friends and colleagues, finally ascends to a position of real authority.

CJ’s career peaks just after the writers began to really drop the ball, and the whole thing is soured by it.

I'm rewatching Liftoff, my favourite episode I think, and god I wanna cry seeing CJ's utterly defeated look when she leaves Toby's office. Him saying following her direction is a colossal waste of time (just because he's purposefully making it a waste of time by picking candidates to review he already knows suck), outright mocking her with the "it's what? An order?" and her simply having to recognise "we all think I can't handle foreign policy. Had you thought any differently, you'd have said so." And you just !! God you can see her face fall while talking to him and then she walks back to her office and she just looks so done. It breaks my heart. The promotion of her damn life and even her closest friend doesn't think she's any good at it her first day. It's just so painful.

#the west wing #discourse #cj cregg

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thebartlets · 24 days ago

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