Agree on all counts.

Agree on the larger points, differ on the specifics
Or maybe vice versa.

I think it's about her emotional state: when she's calm, she has a finely-honed control over her senses, but when she gets emotional, shit goes crazy.

TWW generally tried to stay accurate to the month (hence the three-month jump between "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen" and "The Mid-Terms"), so the pilot opens in September(ish) of Bartlet's first year.

I think they're pretty clearly setting up a situation where the Alphas (if not Rosen) at least come to understand that Red Flag has a point and aren't quite the absolute "bad guys" that the government assumes.

Yeah, exactly.

I prefer favor masala.

Everything you just said was true, but that doesn't mean it's at all relevant.

A lot of Jeremy gets re-used via Sam (see also: his father's long-term affair).

Sam in 100,000 Airplanes
I completely agree (at least with this episode). The way he treats Lisa seems…I guess it's not completely out of character (Sam's always had a temper, even though he's usually pretty quick to bring it in check), but it's just so dickish. His whole "Because I don't know what the cool places…

I doubt anyone's still reading this, but the reason nobody says "Hello" or "Goodbye" is because it's fucking boring.

Spelling mistakes turn any attempted flame into comedy gold.

Good, but
The whole "OMG Elizabeth is just gonna HATE this!!!1" really felt hollow to me. Peter's a fucking FBI AGENT—if he needs to go undercover, he will, and do whatever it takes. Sure sure, feel guilty afterwards, but having a pack of grown adults (and professionals) hemming and hawing about having to…

I would watch the hell out of a show about Auggie and Nadia, the improbably-attractive-and-unrealistically-brilliant Russian hacker.

She's in the opening credits, so she's a cast regular, yeah.

I am conflicted, TKMNN, as I love your username, yet hate your conclusion.

Yeah, I think they pretty clearly telegraphed that the kids are either the Mechs or the Skitters (notice the weird vest thing that the Skitter in the grocery store had on?), transformed via the harnesses and blah blah blah TV scifi magic.

Sorkin's basically apologized for this episode's tone plenty of times, but I think his argument is a fair one when he said (something along the lines of) "It felt completely wrong to be doing a show about the White House and not in some way address one of the most significant events of modern American history."

Yeah, I'll admit it
I was hoping…I don't know. I briefly entertained the possibility that when Ned looked out into the crowd and didn't see Arya and everything slowed down a little bit, maybe he'd…I don't know…dodge the executioner's sword or something.

I missed the finale
but I'm incredibly glad I aM Me won, despite their stupid name.