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...course, earnestness has reigned for two years running in the fictional administration of Josiah Bartlet. So it was unsurprising, if a little disappointing, to see the show's creator/writer, Aaron Sorkin, taking the grave events he was inspired by as license to ratchet up the show's already problematic preachiness to levels you couldn't reach with a 50-foot pulpit...
...better or worse, The West Wing has always been a didactic series, but it took finally the urgency of the recent news events for Aaron Sorkin to write an episode that was literally didactic - that is, teacherly - by setting it in what was for all intents and purposes a classroom. The set-up: in response to a reported security breach, the White House "crashes" - no one is allowed to enter or leave - just as aide Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford) is speaking to a class of honor students...
...class decamps to the basement; the nervous kids only want to ask Josh questions about terrorism. And from here on out, for the bulk of the episode, class is in session for Professor Sorkin, who doesn't need to bother even with the scanty dramatic figleaves he usually knits together in order to deliver himself of soliloquys through his characters. Here, the kids just serve up one setup question after another - "Why are they trying to kill us?" "What do we do now?" - that allows for a series of well-meaning, well-expressed, but by now well-worn disquisitions...
...scrap host Ellen DeGeneres' monologue and a skit about President Bush and Al Gore. Comedies like Friends and Sex and the City will seem surreal, maybe even grotesque, if they return to a happy Manhattan where no one looks up in worry upon hearing a plane. Creator Aaron Sorkin of The West Wing, his fictional White House dramatically outdone by reality, has written a special episode dealing with issues raised by the terror attacks...
...West Wing” Creator Aaron Sorkin desperately wanted to run a special episode of the series to address the Sept. 11 attack and NBC has given him the green light to air a terrorist-themed episode on Oct. 3 and push the season opener back by a week...