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Ellie: I get nosebleeds, Dad. I couldn’t stand up to a damn book report! It’s easy for Zoey and Liz, you and mom love the attention… Jed: Science can’t wall itself off from controversy, it has to live by it! Ellie: It’s not me, Dad. It’s not.
“I made sure that if a West Wing episode ever turned out to be important, I wanted that to be an accident. I wanted it to have just turned out that way; rather than sitting down and saying, “I’m going to write an important one now.” That is such a recipe for disaster. You have to stick with intention, and obstacle, and who these people are, and what they want, and what’s stopping them from getting it, and what their tactics are going to be to overcome that obstacle. If it turns out to be In Excelsis, great! I didn’t want to look back and say, “Wow, I’ve managed to start a dialogue with America, and they’re enjoying a show about politics. Let me take full advantage of this.” Because I knew that we were walking a very thin tightrope, and that this show could become easy to not like very quickly. I was always aware of that. That said, I can’t remember ever not taking a chance.” – Aaron Sorkin
The West Wing premiered on this day in 1999
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ELIZA Hamilton: Non-white, 20s - 30s, Soprano. Fiercely loyal, self-possessed, proud. Evolves from lovesick, wealthy young woman to the sole keeper of her late husband’s legacy. Alicia Keys meets Elphaba.
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With seven episodes remaining of The Good Wife, I’ve been thinking a lot about endings. When shows (or films or books) end, how much should we privilege the ending? As viewers, do we place too much importance on those final moments? When TGW ends, will we (or should we) be forced to interpret the rest of the series based on its conclusion?
What if the show ends unsatisfactorily? Does this mean that Alicia has had a “failed” education? How can that possibly be true?
Sometimes I despise “The Education of Alicia Florrick”. It’s such a passive phrase; it denotes that an education is something that happens TO Alicia, rather than something Alicia is in any way responsible for or in control of. And in the first scene of the series, things are certainly happening TO her. Alicia is repeatedly put in these situations where she feels uncomfortable and unwelcome, but over the course of the episode (or the season or w/e) she becomes confident and finds her voice. Is Blue Ribbon Panel or Targets just Alicia’s series arc in miniature? Isn’t that why watching Alicia in court is so satisfying? She has to get to know the judge, and her opposition, and her client, and her case (sometimes with help from others and sometimes without), and then she can take everything she has learned and turn that into a winning argument. And when she doesn’t win, it’s fine, because she’s going to remember whatever she learned in failure, and it’s going to lead to a win in the future. This is when TGW’s excellent world building pays off; the first time Alicia encounters Nancy Crozier, for example, she’s at a loss for how to deal with her. The second time, she brings what she has already learned to the situation which puts her in a better situation to ensure success. Isn’t that what an “education” is supposed to be?
Failure has always been part of TGW; it will inevitably be part of the show’s final episodes. If “The Education of Alicia Florrick” is what this show is supposed to be about, can there ever really be a satisfactory ending? I mean, of course we want to see Alicia take all of the “lessons” she’s learned in the past seven season and put them into action. But the words “end” and “education” don’t go well together.
“The Education of Alicia Florrick” is a process, which means that the phrase is perhaps implicitly telling us not to worry so much about where the education begins or ends. We walked into Alicia’s life in the middle of her education, and we’re going to walk out before it’s complete. That much is obvious. The show has also never really emphasized “big” season finales – TGW has never been a show where endings or beginnings are privileged over every other episode of the season. Oftentimes, the finales and the premiers bleed right into one another; it’s only an ending at the time, but in hindsight it’s just another moment.
I think we need to privilege the ending of TGW even less than most endings. “The Education of Alicia Florrick” tells us that. The most important part of getting an education isn’t (or shouldn’t be) that moment when you finally feel like you’ve learned what you need to learn (if anyone ever feels like that); it HAS to be the process of learning. “Education” is also ongoing in the sense that you should be constantly applying what you’ve learned in the past to new situations. Of course we want a good conclusion, but it’s important to remember that there’s no reason why the conclusion has to be more important or more valuable than any other episode of the series. Alicia’s education is going to continue long after that tiny little slice of her life we get to see is over.
♬ Come on, come on Put your hands into the fire Explain, explain As I turn, I meet the power
This time, this time Turning white and senses dying Pull up, pull up From one extreme to another
From the summer to the spring From the mountain to the air From samaritan to sin And it’s waiting on the air.♬
Keeping The Same Tabs Open For 9 Days Straight Because They Contain Information Relevant To Tasks You’re Too Lazy To Complete - A novel by me
It’s not so much about the Oscars; that’s aiming small. The biggest issue, the biggest obstacle in diversity in Hollywood are the movies that are being made and greenlit. It doesn’t matter if you have 3.000 Academy members who are people of color if there are no movies out there with people of color to vote on. I’ve been out there for 30 years. I’ve gotten two Tony Awards. I’ve done Broadway, Off-Broadway. I’ve come out of Julliard. I’ve done television, film, all of it. But there is not the same opportunity for me. Even though I would say that, if given the chance, I could show people that I could do just as well as any one of my Caucasian counterparts. But there’s a glass ceiling for me. And so now I’m at the top of the food chain for an actress of color. I’m not at the top of the food chain for an actress. - Viola Davis
grey’s anatomy → seven characters • cristina yang Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here and don’t give a damn what anyone thinks.
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