Are they related to Boaking Accident?

Ah, "Copy Machine." Dave giving the eulogy: "I didn't know Ted very well. I know he was a Star Wars fan… and, apparenly, a devoted member of the Ku Klux Klan."

I assumed it was "cinephiles" but that definitely occurred to me too.

Her Rodney Dangerfield delivery just slayed me. "Hey, everybody, we're all gonna get laid!"

I think what's key to the scene is what you already acknowledged: That the act itself has consequences. It leads to not just "some great character moments from Aceveda" (although it does lead into those), but into a number of other actions that affect other plots and characters as well.

I'm pretty sure a large reason he stayed for his fourth year at Stanford was to finish an architectural studies degree.

Buckaroo Banzai has a definite how-did-this-get-made weirdness running through it. Which I like.

"Happiness Is a Warm Gun"

Especially with Oxford's class after class of ugly, ugly children.

Maybe don't demonstrate that you're so callous and glib about rape in your first paragraph, and I'll be more interested in your opinions of a TV episode where a rape is central to a storyline.

Sorkin loves his characters— which is to say, well-educated elites who believe in their own idealism and in the inherent rightness of institutions and authority. He loves people insofar as the system has credentialed them to be wise, as far as I can tell, not so much for their humanity.

Good post. I especially like the first paragraph; all the defenders of this episode seem to ask we suspend our knowledge of Sorkin's history of how he writes his shows and characters, including this one.

A surprising (or not) amount of commenters are recently registered and only have comments on this episode of The Newsroom… wonder how that happened.

Bizarrely, they tend to rail at those even lower than them on the socioeconomic stratosphere, rather than up at the people who are shipping their jobs overseas and taking more of their taxes while providing fewer services and protections to the average person.

How much does Aaron Sorkin himself bear responsibility for people attributing his character's opinions to him, given how often he has clearly used his characters as mouthpieces for his own opinions in the past?

I couldn't even finish the post after that. LOL

Probably because Sorkin's history of how he writes his TV shows tends to have blaring signifiers as to whom he believes is in the right, and this episode, those pointed to Don.

I wish I knew where I saw this, because I think it was on these very boards: "David Simon loves people and hates institutions. Aaron Sorkin loves institutions and hates people."

Your collective groupthink is blinding you.

Man, that's fucking sad. I feel you. A friend of mine whose father serially molested him growing up died of an overdose three years ago. Even still his family doesn't believe the allegations— I'm friends with his sister, and the last time we talked about it, she was still saying things like "I would have known" and…