And if Luca doesn't give Natasha some garlic, it's probably not even close enough for a tie.

Things were worse in FDR's second term than when he took office. It made things worse, regardless of what left-wing ideologues want us to believe. Deal with it, and push aside your inner Jerry Dantana.

Will's just saying that because FDR was still president during WW2 and his program had a name that looks good in a soundbyte. The reality of the situation is that there's legitimate evidence that the New Deal prolonged the Depression. (http://tinyurl.com/b9nwq5l)

She's AN exec producer, he was a producer on loan to her from a different division. She would at most have the power to stop him from working on NewsNight. Under the power structure we've seen on the show, Charlie would have to fire him.

As long as we're nitpicking, Will is wrong (which means Sorkin is wrong) about baseball not having anything like the shot clock. The officials rules require a pitcher to make a pitch within 20 seconds of receiving the ball when there are no runners on base. The penalty is that a ball will be called if he doesn't. I…

The rest of the world isn't dumb for liking soccer. It's just dumb in general. Liking soccer is a symptom.

lots of things in Will's speech were misleading. Like his declaration that we only survived the Depression because of the New Deal, as if World War II had nothing to do with it.

There's no way they could go there because that isn't what really happened.

It wasn't Jesse fiddling with his cigarettes. He was looking for his weed, realized it had been picked, then he found the cigarettes which helped him make the connection.

Well, I think the connection between the movie and the protests was established quickly by the characters, but in a real-world setting, a report about America using chemical weapons could inspire a the terror attack on an embassy. That was never brought up in the episode

I don't disagree, but I think Sorkin was trying to imply with the final few scenes that Jerry was mostly filing a nuisance suit hoping to draw a settlement in lieu of him airing ACN's dirty laundry and embarrassing Will and other key personnel.

Except Mac's interview was influenced by the fact that she thought they had the footage of the general. Without that footage, the story would have died, and the most the interview with the corporal would have revealed was that there wasn't any sarin, which means the story would have stayed dead.

How does Mac have the authority to fire him?

Hold up there a sec. If Jerry doesn't doctor the footage, the story dies right there. The later interview with the corporal was conducted under the pretense that they had the footage, and MacKenzie's subconscious leading of the interview was premised on the idea that the kid didn't want to make it seem like the…

Does Aaron Sorkin honestly believe the entertainment industry is immune from economic failure? Is he simply ignoring the waves of layoffs that have been happening at several studios the past few years? Or the complete destruction of subsidiary markets such as brick-and-mortar rental outlets? Heck, even Disney shook up…

I don't see it as a question of for whom it is obvious, but more a matter of probability. We know from the comments that a large portion of the viewers noticed it right away, which led to a reviewing of the moment to confirm what was seen, thus leading to the discussion of whether or not it looked fake or not. I think…

But what about that Cyrus West guy? He got the ball rolling with the tip, and Jerry wouldn't have known anything otherwise. There seems to be a lot of backstory missing.

So, Aaron Sorkin is a cartoon villain?

The way the general said he investigated Jerry Dantana and kick everyone else out because Jerry was the only one he knew anything about made me wonder if the whole thing was part of a setup to screw over either Jerry or ACN. As in, maybe there was something in Jerry's past that indicated he was likely to doctor…

Usually replays are accompanied by a fancy graphic that transitions to the other footage, not a jump cut.