The flashbacks too open the second season were storylines I never expected, but they add so much to the story going forward, and when I rewatch the series first season.
Many congratulations on your nuptials Fi, though from the opening of this ep I feel like I should congratulate you both 😄 Re John Hoynes: yes, yes, of _course_ he's the character you love to hate, but for me, on every rewatch, if I see Tim Matheson's name in the opening creds I know without doubt it's going to be a good one. I think this is because it's easy to get lulled into the happy-familiness of the regulars, and from time to time you need them to be reminded quite nastily that they wouldn't be where they are without the slick, Beltway-game-playing career politician who, let us not forget, won them the South. And I think Aaron Sorkin knew quite well that the audience could be seduced by his idealised liberal fantasy and needed to remind them - and himself, probably - that if such an administration as the Bartlet one came to be, then its existence would hang by the slenderest thread.
The flashbacks too open the second season were storylines I never expected, but they add so much to the story going forward, and when I rewatch the series first season.
Many congratulations on your nuptials Fi, though from the opening of this ep I feel like I should congratulate you both 😄 Re John Hoynes: yes, yes, of _course_ he's the character you love to hate, but for me, on every rewatch, if I see Tim Matheson's name in the opening creds I know without doubt it's going to be a good one. I think this is because it's easy to get lulled into the happy-familiness of the regulars, and from time to time you need them to be reminded quite nastily that they wouldn't be where they are without the slick, Beltway-game-playing career politician who, let us not forget, won them the South. And I think Aaron Sorkin knew quite well that the audience could be seduced by his idealised liberal fantasy and needed to remind them - and himself, probably - that if such an administration as the Bartlet one came to be, then its existence would hang by the slenderest thread.
Oooohhh we looooove to hate Hoynes!