At 08:55 PM 5/10/01 -0700 Christopher Gwyn wrote:
>"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
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>> A thought on the ending to Wednesday's episode of "The West Wing."
>> SPOILER WARNING, don't read if you want to watch it some day - that means
>> *you*, Julia! ;-)
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> she was coming back from her car dealer, who was probably across the
>river in Virginia.
Right.... which is actually why this is so bothersome. Assuming she was
driving alone, she probably couldn't take I-66. Nevertheless, she would
likely have taken !-395, or at worst the Key Bridge or Alrington Bridge.
None of those, however, places here in Southeast. The only way for her
to do that would be to drive all the way around the Wilson Bridge (in rush
hour no less), and up I-295, and then inexplcably exit the highway in a
particularly bad neighborhood of Southeast.
Something about all of this just doesn't add up. And it is especially
striking for a show that pays such attention to detail. For example, some
of the shots done in the previous episode to this one, at Reagan Airport,
and on the Street, were so accurate in their detail, I thought for sure
that they must have gone "on-location." (Why they'd shoot a generic
"street scene" on-location is beyond me, but the shot was clearly on one of
DC's famous split-street tunnells (where a four lane road divides, sending
two lanes below an intersection, and the lanes on either end actually
meeting the intersection.) Or, for example, when they picked up Joey
Lucas at Reagan Airport, they had her at a US Airways gate - and US Airways
happens to be the official contract carrier of the government on the DCA -
LAX route. In the previews for next week, it looked fairly clear that Mrs.
Laningham's funeral may well be at the Basilica of the Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception at Catholic University of America (it was a quick
shot, so I can't be sure, and National Cathedral actually has an eerily
similar set of windows - but that still places it very distinctly in DC.)
Anyhow, it just doesn't add up to me......
JDG
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