Just finally getting into this show. Been a Sorkin fan for years and I see why the show gets so much hype. This scene in particular with Sam making the new intro is such a standout though cause it uses this little bit of conflict between him and the NASA guy to show the difference between strong and week writers. While the NASA guy is trying to hyperbole and throw in big adjectives to make it seem like a big deal, Sam (and Sorkin) understand that in a moment like this, you don't need to make it seem bigger. He understands that the moment itself is already big, all he needs to do is tell you what's happening and you feel the weight of it all.
I wish so much that we had people like this character in/running for office. Not to ignore that they are fictional characters...we just had that in Orange Tang. But real people that carry a certain membership with the American people. I think of Raskin, AOC, Katie Porter, Tlbaib, and Sanders. Real people. Of the People. By the People. and For the People.
I miss this show and the dreams I had about how the country used to work before 8+ years of Trump and his mob, of sycophants, grifters, liars, and Constitutional deniers...
The is a great example of “show, don’t tell” for expressive writing. The NASA writer was very much expressing what what happening, while Sam’s version is telling the story of Galileo V. The same information, but much more engaging.
Oddly enough, if the experts had been there for the Temperature question, they would also have answered in Celsius as well. NASA, if I recall is one of the only Agencies to Operate on the Metric System in the United States.
The list needs to include the little bitty spot scene from Runaway Train with Jon Voight...... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VTdjoA8HeAM.html
Oh, the writing on this one..... It gives me goosbumps still. Sorkin was extraordinary on most WW episodes, but he created magic in some. Like this for example. (and who better to deliver this hopefull message then Sam :))
I’m so glad these clips always include the intro, there’s something about the way the moments lead up to it, the way the music fades in before the cut and the unabashedly patriotic, grandiose and inspirational aura of it that makes it perfect.
There are very few shows that I made a point to watch throughout my time and West Wing was one of them. Before WW it was Cheers and most recently all seasons of Game of Thrones. Yes I said all seasons!
I hadn't watched The West Wing in a long time. After watching this video, between Sam's stirring speech writing for the Galileo V mission and the soaring opening credits music, I was nearly in tears. This show is really that good, but even more so, it speaks to a yearning to have leaders who are smarter than the rest of us and at the same time are men and women of conscience and good will. Naturally, I immediately found the entire episode on MAX and watched it through... and a few more after that. Aaron Sorkin sure knows how to write 'em good!
This scene simultaneously means so much, understands so much and explains so much, especially now that we're working so hard to explore and colonize Mars. I can never adequately explain how passionate and excited I am about NASA and its missions, but "he said it right."
We all did want to live in a submarine. Not perhaps a yellow one unless The Green Lantern was after us all? Greene Lantern? Just saying. Bliue Meanies wasn't it? Blue Green and Yellow. Never bothered to buy Yellow Submarine album. I think I saw it on TV later. 1968? Yes definitely later.
I have to say, No single show or movie has ever raised my opinion of an actor as much as the west wing raised my appreciation for Rob Lowe. He shows how fantastic of an actor he is during his run
