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We also bought season 4 of TNG today (we had one of those extra 15% off stickers from B&N). It's the last season we needed of TNG. We've been buying them during the buy two get one free thing they do periodically. We're nowhere close to done collecting DS9 and Voyager. And I assume that now that we have all of TNG I'll start hearing something about how there are plans to release it on blue ray (maybe they'll wait until they've finished releasing TOS, which we're also slowly collecting). If that happens, I guess we can just sell them (assuming that they do as good a job on a TNG re-release as they seem to have done on the TOS episodes). Actually, what I'd really like to get on blue ray would be The West Wing. Amazon has a notify me thing up but other info seems to be scarce.
As for the supposed Aaron Sorkin/pseudo-MSNBC type show... I'm really beginning to think that he just has a crush on Kieth Olberman as Sports Night came from watching him on Sports Center and he's described the new idea as being based on Olberman's show on MSNBC. Yeah, Sorking just has a thing for Keith. I'm just hoping that it doesn't turn into a bad remake of Murphy Brown (but with a male lead, more gender issues and the devaluation of any religion other than Judaism and Catholicism). Just let it be the good Aaron Sorkin and not the bad one.
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what do you consider bad sorkin?
Good Sorkin is A Few Good Men and The American President and Sports Night and (most of) The West Wing (though I have some problems with how he deals with some issues, re: the comment on religion).
Bad Sorkin is definitely Studio 60 (though it had some good moments, particularly toward the end). Charlie Wilson's War was kinda laughable too.
imdb says he has some things in development. I have to say, with how he's handled the internet before, I'm not optimistic about The Social Network. Follies might be interesting, as Sondheim seems like he would be one of the few writers of musicals that Sorkin might respect. Barring The Lion King, which most people think he put into Sports Night to appease ABC, his characters can't seem to enjoy anything more 'trivial' than Gilbert and Sullivan. The Trial of the Chicago 7 seems right up his alley, but then you'd think Charlie Wilson's War would have been too.
i loved studio 60. it did tend to get a little preachy at times, but i think that's just sorkin. plus, i have my own religious issues (i live in alabama and grew up both southern baptist and gay) so i'm rarely bothered by other people pointing out hypocrisy in christianity.
i had trouble sleeping for about a year and during that time comedy central was running sports night at 1am -- i always looked forward to that and it's always been my go to for insomnia since then.
i've only seen seasons 6, 7, and part of 1 of west wing, but i love it so far (6 and 7 more than 1.)
i didn't see charlie wilson's warm but i didn't realize it was him -- i'll have to catch it soon.
My problem with Studio 60 is the same as almost everyone else's, that it was supposed to be about a sketch comedy show and none of the sketches were funny. And I think he pushed it too far with the idea that protestantism is nothing but hypocritical and it's followers are all idiots.
I don't have issues with him pointing out the hypocrisy, I grew up Southern Baptist and gay too. My problem is that you see Jewish characters and Catholic characters have profound religious convictions and profound relationships with God, i.e. Bartlet and Toby and those relationships are treated with seriousness. Almost all of his main characters, if they express any religious views, are one of the two. But his nuance just goes out the window the second you mention any kind of Protestantism. It's all the same and it's all latter day evangelical. There's no differentiation between Lutheranism or Episcopalianism and Southern Baptism. They all get lumped together and are universally denigrated. The underlying message is that serious people, thoughtful people are either Jewish or Catholic and woe betide those who are not because clearly the are not serious people. They are all sheep who flock easily to whatever charismatic televangelist happens to be on the air that Sunday and we do not have to listen to them or respect them.
He paints all protestantism with one brush and ignores any history of the movement that occurred before 1950.
And maybe I could deal with that from someone else, but his shows are too smart for that. I expect more.
His treatment of women really breaks down when you start looking at it closely (despite some great moments: The Supremes makes me melty (of course, he didn't write The Supremes)). But that rant is long enough for it's own entry and I'm just going to stop for now.
I must've missed something about The American President, because it really didn't impress me. Granted I think I also fell asleep halfway through, but that doesn't say much for the movie, I figure. I dunno.
If it happens though, I can guarantee I'll watch at least the first handful of episodes, no matter how terrible it is. Baaa! Sorkin sheep! ;)