#arnold vinick

[maccabook]

the west wing was created to answer the world's most impossible question: what if hawkeye pierce from MASH was a republican

[hawkp]

Forgot I made this and just about shit my pants when I opened it.

[quordleona03]

Alan Alda is NINETY

I have been marathoning through the West Wing and thoroughly enjoying all of it (except for the fifth season, which by comparison with the first four seasons and the last two seasons is really not much to write home about) and now, at last, we've reached what I think of as the Arnold Vinick episodes.

Alan Alda playing a grouchy yet adorable Republican Senator who doesn't go to church and eats ice-cream and loves his grandkids (and the small daughter of his Chief of Staff is clearly an additional grandkid). Of course I want him to lose, even in the world of the West Wing I always want Republicans to lose, but... Alan Alda!

I look at Arnold Vinick and I think, that's what Hawkeye would look like when he was 68, which in my headcanon for Hawkeye's date of birth would be in 1988. Hawkeye and Francis have both retired. They go on road trips together. They march in New York City's Pride march together. I see them arguing over the design of their placards - a rainbow LOVE IS LOVE or a pink triangle and SILENCE EQUALS DEATH or Francis's perennial favourite, REPEAL THE DEUTERONOMIC CODE. They volunteer at AIDS charities. They don't have kids in this timeline, but Francis has generations of students and Hawkeye has generations of residents. They have family.

[alhashimis]

matt santos & arnold vinick actually one of my favorite dynamics of the show

[onekisstotakewithme]

[mossare11a]

In the weirdest combo of interests, as I'm making NPCs for my friend's Cyberpunk Red campaign, I've decided to make the cast of West Wing (ok the original main cast (might expand later))as Cyberpunk characters.

So, here's what class I think each West Wing character will be (at least the ones I could fit into those boxes)

Bartlet - Exec, this seems kind of obvious. He is also the "client" for the rest of them

Leo – Exec, but used to be a fixer, in this version, I'm debating that he and Bartlett are partners, but am undecided. One of the only members of this group who can fight well and use a variety of weapons

Josh – Fixer. Slightly an obvious choice, yes, but if it fits, it fits. No further notes

CJ – Rockerboy, specifically Orator. I understand as the Press Secretary it might make sense she would be a Media, but seeing as shes in charge of distributing the message not finding it, Rockerboy made more sense

Sam – Media, this is specifically based off of his habit of knowing random info, and his slightly obsessive need to heavily research every issue regardless of its relevance (ie the penny)

Toby – Rockerboy, but Politico this time. He's aware of his acerbic personality does not make him a lot of friends, so he relies on CJ for the more in person message. He does write most of the official speeches though.

Amy – Rival Fixer to Josh, okay so I dont like her character and I think she was poorly written, so Im working on expanding that

Vinick – Rival Exec to Bartlett. Yes I am aware they never campaigned against each other. But fitting the Santos administration into this was getting so complicated, which greatly saddens me bc I fucking love Matthew Santos. But anyways, Arnie Vinick was the only Republican candidate that actually posed a challenge.

Characters I want to include that I struggled to fit in to the boxes:

Donna

Charlie

Carol

Ainsley

Debbie

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[donnajosh]

THE WEST WING 7.17 – “Election Day: Part 2”