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[wisdomeagle]

Watched "From Time To Time He Shall..."

W.T.F.


Well, saw Harry Groener (=Mayor!) in the credits then promptly forgot about him, and then last five minutes of the episode! The Mayor is the Secretary of Agriculture and is the person selected to take over for the President should they blow up Congress during the State of the Union address.

So, clearly, in the next episode, Congress is blown up and the Mayor has taken over half the free world, right? Because that's what would happen really if the Mayor got a chance at the Oval Office.

This doesn't even need to be ficced; it just speaks for itself.

Also, I need to continue watching to see if CJ kisses anyone else I can pretend is me. (Seriously. My crush on CJ is so very enormous and pathetic.)

I'm going to go watch more now even though I should go to bed since I have church and then coffee with neverneverfic in the afternoon and am tired but DUDE. West Wing. *is hopeless*

Comments

[raisintorte.livejournal.com]

I loved this episode and I love that the Mayor was in it!

Have you seen the episode No Exit? That's another great CJ episode. Actually every episode CJ is in is a great CJ episode.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've definately read that fic. Of course, I think I've also read pretty much every Buffy/WW I could find; they're one of my particularly favorite crackfics.

And I'll write one sooner or later.

[wisdomeagle]

Dude, yay! Oddly, though I've been rapidly running through crossover possibilities since I started watching WW, Buffy/WW thoughts hadn't occurred to me. I think since the Gateverse crosses in much more obvious ways, and the characters are closer to the same age. (not that this should be a problem for me, god knows, but apparently it is.)

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

I've found that as much as I love West Wing, the absence of the supernatural element is one that I find as a sore lack. Crossovers fill that need.

Of course, I entered the West Wing through Buffy/WW crossovers. I started reading them long before I actually saw any of the show.

[wisdomeagle]

Huh! That's so interesting. Could you elaborate on why supernatural/genre is important to you? It's something I'm genuinely curious about since much of fandom is very much yay!genre, and so many people in my demographic (gifted young girls) are big SFF fen, but I'm pretty much not; I watch SFF, like I watch everything else, pretty much solely for the characters. So I really am interested in what the appeal of the supernatural is.

*hopes managed to phrase that with enough I-statements so it didn't sound rude*

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

I think the best answer I could give you is to refer you to this post. Basically, the supernatural element allows one to live out a certain type of adolescent fantasy. It's that fantasy element that causes me to be invested enough to write fanfiction--which is, again, a type of a living-out the adolescent fantasy through the omnipotence of a writer's keyboard.