Josh was genuinely helping Danny with the Goldfish advice: Josh knew it would make CJ laugh, and she’d think Danny was sweet. That’s a home run with CJ.
The Danny/CJ ending scene about CJ not knowing how to be in a relationship and Danny hitting the homerun with basically; I don't tell you what to do, we figure it out together. We talk it out and figure out what it means and how life will adjust. We listen and understand and make plans to move forward. This is top tier relationship advice that SOOOOOO many haven't figured out.
This is another example of the exceptional casting of this show. Cast the best people for the role and get out of their way. Danny is a bright spot on the show, and it was really hard not to root for him with CJ.
I honestly thing Danny was too good for her sometimes but then CJ was one of the brightest and fastest people in that office, with her issues being her inability to trust anyone enough to let them get close. Danny was just strong enough to get there.
The slow burn to CJ realizing that Danny knows he is the second fiddle and doesn't care so long as he gets to be with CJ no matter what even after her being behind the most powerful people on earth and resenting it just breaks me.
Danny and CJ are the best love story ever told. I mean, I kind of knew that, and I've watched The West Wing at least three hundred and fourt two million times, but your distillation was amazing! Well done!
In my country, everyone has played cricket at least once, you start when you can walk and every kid plays it. Every adult watches test cricket - the weeklong (or longer) matches, each day of test cricket starts at about 10am and can stop as late as, basically, whenever the players want. It's usually 10 or 12 hours depending on the score and the weather. There's The Ashes every year, the Boxing Day test, and everyone watches cricket all summer, every summer, or they listen to it on the radio, or their phones. Probably half the nation couldn't live without cricket, the other half would go crazy without it. It depends on what games you watched (one dayers, 20 over matches, test matches, etc) but: If you can figure out baseball, you can figure out cricket. Baseball came from cricket. -- I'll try to explain it in in broad terms: You've got a bowler (like the pitcher in baseball), a batsman (batter), and a wicket, and a bunch of fielders (like in baseball, I don't know baseball that well but I think they have fielders). Bowler bowls the ball. If the ball hits the wicket, the batsman is out. If the batsman hits the ball, and it's caught by a fielder, he's out. If he hits the ball, he runs, like in baseball, to the other end of the "pitch" (it's just 1 line, not a triangle like in baseball). It's played on an oval, with a small rope circumventing the edge of the oval. This rope is called the "boundary". If the batsman hits the ball over that rope line, and the ball doesn't touch the ground, he gets 6 runs. If he does it, but the ball hits the ground on the way to the rope but still goes over the rope, it's 4 runs. If he gets a 6 or a 4, he doesn't have to run, physically run. If he hits the ball anywhere else on the oval, fielders try to get the ball, retrieve it. Depending on where he hits it, he will choose whether to run or not. If he does run, he's running to the other end of the pitch. If a fielder retrieves the ball while the batsman is running, he'll try to throw it at the wicket. If he hits the wicket while the batsman is running the batsman is "out" or "dismissed". -- Now there's lots more about it (there are always two batsmen, one who is "at bat", because the pitch is a horizontal strip, If the batsman runs to the end of the pitch and makes it there, he is "safe", and has scored 1 run. But in that situation, there'll be nobody at the end of the pitch, the batsman now being at the opposite end from where he started running. Which is why there are two batsman who run simultaneously. The second batsman is not "at bat" unless the first batsman hits the ball, runs to the end of the pitch (the other batsman must run to the end of the pitch from which the first batsman came, at the same time, thus ensuring there's always someone "at bat". -- I won't go into overs, or much more detail and stuff but you think of it as baseball, with the wicket standing in for the catcher, a single horizontal line as the pitch (similar distance to say, the distance between two points on the baseball triangle). There's no pitchers mound. There are always 2 batsmen, standing at opposite ends of the pitch, one at bat and the other not, they run at the same time and co-ordinate whether they'll run, the batsman "at bat" (the one the bowler is bowling to) will make the call as to whether it's safe to run or not. He will say "go" or "run" or "yep". There's no home run for a big hit- it's just 6 runs for the batsman and his side. Commonwealth nations except Canada all play cricket but only Australia and England play in The Ashes, and each year that is played in either England or Australia. The rules are a little esoteric but it's like us, we see baseball as hard to understand. Eg a "ball" in baseball is not a concept in cricket. If the ball hits a batsman, and glances off him, it's called a "bye". If it hits his leg it is called a "leg bye". A batsman can run at any time after the bowler has bowled, though if a fielder or the wicket keeper (fielder who sits right behind the wicket) has the ball, the batsman is not going to run because the chances of the fielders throwing the ball at the wicket and hitting it are too high. If a batsman hits the wicket with his own bat by accident he's out. If a batsman steps past a line on the pitch, he's not "safe", and can be dismissed. (Ie the fielders can hit the wicket with the ball and thereby dismiss the batsman even if the bowler hasn't bowled. Each time a bowler bowls the ball it's called a "ball" and there are 6 balls per "over". A "one dayer" is usually 50 overs. Bowlers bowl the ball very quickly. There was a scandal during the Ashes about 60 years ago, it's still remembered with anger to this day - we had Don Bradman who was just such a good batsman that he was scoring hundreds of runs every time he was at bat. The English couldn't get him out. So they decided basically to bowl the ball AT Bradman, and the other top Aussie batsmen, instead of at the wicket, to hurt Bradman and hurt the batsmen. Bowlers bowl very very quickly, and in those days nobody wore helmets. Bodyline caused a huge outcry here and lead to political scandals, it almost destroyed our relationship with England, that's how important cricket is here, it can actually disrupt politics and foreign relations. It's massive in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan too. Even some Pakistani Taliban played it during the time they weren't fighting. It's big in the Caribbean or "West Indies" as we call their team. Zimbabwe, South Africa and some other nations play it. -- However one more important concept about the culture of the game. Cricket is "the gentleman's game". In Australia if you do something bad or, say, cheat at something, like, cheat at a video game or whatever, people say "that's not cricket". There are very very rarely any fights during cricket. I've never seen one, and I've been watching and playing it, for as long as my memory extends. Since I could first walk. Violent conduct will get players banned for years or even life from playing. Players "sledge" each other (this means, they'll insult each other or try to annoy opponents to rile them up, but you cannot hear it from the stands (the stands are where you watch cricket from if you're at a cricket match), and you cannot hear sledges on television often. But it is an old sport, harkening back to who knows when. At least 200 years, probably more, and it hasn't changed much since it started, only there are more types of matches. If you understand it and watch it, play a few matches in your backyard, you'll get hooked very quickly. Despite it seeming slow and boring, it's actually extremely exciting when you get into it - no other sport I'm aware of has matches that last for weeks. A summer without cricket in Australia is like a winter without snow in Europe. The last time international cricket was halted here was probably 80 years ago, during WW2. Even then, local matches still went on. -- I never used to understand tennis, with it's games, sets and matches, etc, but now that I do, I like it. Cricket is the father of baseball, though never caught on as baseball did, in Japan. I'm guessing this is because American GIs occupied Japan after the war, and so spread baseball there. -- Also, women's cricket is very popular here too. The men's international team is like the men's football team in England, but, unlike in England where people deride women's football, over here, few people deride women's cricket because it's as fun to watch as men's cricket. There aren't as many massive hits, like big 6s. But it's still good stuff. Girls play cricket here as kids too. Everyone does with a few exceptions, and I would go as far as saying almost everyone has played it at least once, or some derivation of it. People play it on the beach, at home, on the side of the road, and naturally on ovals. The smallest towns always have cricket pitches somewhere. -- So that's cricket, I hope that helps you understand it a bit more and I hope you watch it a bit more too. Listening to the commentary helps for people new to the game. It's something that makes you just genuinely happy. Or it does for Aussies, and for us here sport is pretty important. We are a nation with many different people from all over, and of all the big sports here, whether rugby, rugby league, football (soccer), boxing, MMA (more and more), basketball (to a lesser degree), and field hockey, cricket is the most culturally and historically significant, I think, because all you need is a bat and a ball. Even if you don't have a wooden bat you can get a cheap plastic cricket set anywhere and you're golden. The one thing I didn't like about the West Wing was when Tribbey threatened to smash or attack people (hyperbole yes, but still) with his cricket bat - given to him by the Queen. In America I know you could use a baseball bat as a weapon, but a cricket bat is shaped differently, it has a flat open face, it's more awkward and heavier than a baseball bat, but most importantly... If the Queen (or the King now) gave me a cricket bat it would be stored in glass and never touched. Here if we see someone carrying a cricket bat, we "awesome, he's up for a game". most of us here ddon't use cricket bats as weapons here. That's just not cricket ! -- Anyway I genuinely do hope you have a look at a few cricket matches. Maybe start with some highlights from the Big Bash League (20 overs per game). They've got a few weird rules in there about fielder placement but, it's a good way to get started, highlight on RU-vid. Maybe like "best 6s in the Big Bash League" or "Best catches in the Big Bash League". Or "Best Women's Big Bash League / Best Women's Cricket".
There's also mixed men's-womens cricket too. I met my wife playing cricket, she was giving me stick the entire game. It was gold, she was cracking me up. She's a country girl who can shear sheep, dip cattle, she's a surfer and a cricketer and she beats me at cricket by so much, she's better at every sport than I am, she's smarter than me, I honestly wonder sometimes how I was so lucky. I fell in love with her that game. Her words were basically unprintable, but she was telling me how much I suck. She was as beautiful then as she is today. Without sounding boorish, which I hope I dont, cricket makes girls 50 times more attractive (they wear the same stuff as the guys, a shirts and long pants) but she is spun from gold. She is an organic chemist like I am, but we went to different universities. She's just a way better chemist. I work on small molecules and she writes these huge protein complexes and then makes them. She's sick now. But she's hard as nails and even with the medication, and the therapy, she hasn't lost any hair. She's got wonderful hair. I hope that's a good sign. She can't sit down because of the burns on her from the radio therapy. Every time I get worried, and I am terrified, she's the one to tell me to suck it up. She's in horrible pain but she is so optimistic. The first thing we're gonna do when she's better is go for a hike and a swim and then when she's able to we'll play backyard cricket. Until then it's just a long grind. She can't sleep normally because of the pain so I read to her, I move her around and stuff so she's as comfortable as she can get. But yeah that sounds a bit maudlin. She's my best friend. Every day she teaches me new stuff. But yeah anyway cricket and fun go hand in hand, cricket is great, and yeah, check it out and come back to my lengthy comment if you wanna know more, or just ask. I hope you have a good day !
Great job. I really could do without the music (though your choice was not bad) - any music. And you should have - at least - turned it off before #46. But great job otherwise. I really liked this character. ☮
Number 12 is very ironic. She she thinks the father who doesn’t support his gay son is awful but her character also supports killing babies so it’s weird
