But, to use your example, Estevez would have had armed bodyguards shoot down Sirhan before he could get to Kennedy.
My objection to Sorkin piggybacking onto real events isn't his use of them; it's his use of a perspective that was unavailable at the time. It's easy to criticize coverage of a breaking event when you know how it comes out. As far as last week's ep goes, the contrivance of having the entire staff on site for a meeting about Bigfoot that none of them were interested in gave him the chance to have his big guns cover the shooting -- and get it "right" -- from the get-go. How about showing us what happens when everyone -isn't- in place on a slow Saturday and has to scramble to catch up? But then, I suppose they might not make all the correct decisions. (I'll leave the absurdity of the New Year's Eve party in the newsroom alone.) What this show needs more than anything is a character as "articulate" as Daniels's to tell him he's full of gas and take him down a peg. I'm hopeful that the Fonda character will fill that role, but she seems to be painted as an eeevvviiillll corporate castrating "bitch" more than anything else. --Dave Sikula On Friday, July 20, 2012 12:32:29 PM UTC-7, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Dave Sikula <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Suffice it to say, I disagree. I find the characterizations lacking and >> all over the map, the situations contrived, and Sorkin's two-year-later >> quarterbacking annoying. > > > Yeah, it was like when Emilio Estevez insisted on including the > assassination of Kennedy in his movie "Bobby," or when Spike Lee insisted > on including the Million Man March in "Get On The Bus." Writers have a lot > of nerve using factual events from the past to weave a compelling narrative > in a fictitious story. Come on Dave, this is not a Sorkinism. Your own > reference to "Quantum Leap" serves as proof the concept is a solid one. > Frankly on the "West Wing" it always annoyed me when they made up countries > and world leaders ("Qumar" and "Kundu") when there were so many real world > problems the show could have addressed. > > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
