Fumarama

Back in college when i loved the West Wing, and my biggest dream was to be a character in Aaron Sorkin's imagination, I remember having a discussion with my roommate on how it has always struck me as a little disconcerting that so many of my favorite tv shows are written by committee. I thought the West Wing model was better, one genius sitting in a room producing brilliant stories and writing, like a novel. Like with a novel, I liked the idea of connecting to another person's imagination or mind or something through a medium, in this case a television screen, as opposed to connecting with a mini-beaurocracy as you do with most shows. Now that i have sat through every god awful episode of Studio 60, I have changed my mind. Maybe if Sorkin had another mind to bounce against he would have produced a less obnoxious view on religion, or war, of for fuck's sake, comedy.

Take for example the whole Harry trying to explain to Matt and Danny about prayer. Her arguments just sounded off to me. I felt like Sorkin does not pray, he is not religious, he actually has no idea how to create a realistic Christian character and explain the virtue of prayer. I mean if only he had a writer on staff who did understand and could have actually written that section himself or herself.