Fumarama

Wow, so I am really risking turning my little blog into just commentary on the West Wing. And I totally don't mean to do that, especially since I don't even think of the West Wing as one of my top must watch shows. But at least this is better than me turning this into a blog about how much I now I hate the OC. (I saw Thank You For Smoking, and Adam Brody is a one trick pony and the trick has lost its charm)

Anyway, back to Toby. As of the last episode, he is going to jail. For five years!!! Now next week is the series finale, so something might change, but if not, he is going to jail. So here is the problem, I like these characters, and I want to believe that when they leave me, they will live happily ever after. Hence, my joy that Donna and Josh got together, and CJ and Danny, and Sam is engaged...in my imagination they will spend the next 40 years, hanging out and engaging in witty dialouge. But Toby? The idea of him in the next 5 years in an orange jumpsuit is just so so sad. And after he gets out, what will he do? Who will hire him? He will end up alone and depressed. It is just such a sad sad ending for such a great character.

TV is not great literature. In the end of the day, it is escapism. If toby going to jail said something great about the universe I might understand, but this is pointlessly heartbreaking.