TV Meme Day Four: The West Wing
Day 04: Your favorite show ever
I can't pick. So I've come up with a criteria, which is what show was what I would answer to the question 'what your favourite show?' for the longest time, and that is...
The West Wing
Oh, the West Wing. Falling in love with The West Wing was something of an awakening for my fifteen year old self. All my life up to that point, I had treated viewed politics with a level of cynicism and never shown an interest. I had a passion for history and social studies, but never knew what to do with it, and I thought that to be successful you had to be cold and humourless.
And then The West Wing came along, and suddenly there were people in my life (albeit fictional people, but the reality of these people hardly matters - I don't think we need for our heroes to be real), wonderful, smart, compassionate, devoted, loyal people, who were geeks and history nerds and idealists, and I thought, that's what I want to be like when I grow up. And I learnt to be proud of my freakish head for trivia, and that politics was this fascinating world and that devoting oneself to public service was noble.
The show and I drifted apart somewhere around season six and I'm older and cynical now, but I'm also a social scientist, an unrepentant geek and I hope I never stop trying to be hard working, compassionate and witty enough to fit into the Bartlet White House.
If anyone out there reading this hasn't seen The West Wing, go watch it. It was so good, it changed television forever. It changed lives forever and it is for politics what Star Trek is for science and engineering. It is truly outstanding. And it's Catherine Tate and David Tennant's favourite show, and what more of a recommendation do you need than that?
I can't pick. So I've come up with a criteria, which is what show was what I would answer to the question 'what your favourite show?' for the longest time, and that is...
The West Wing
Oh, the West Wing. Falling in love with The West Wing was something of an awakening for my fifteen year old self. All my life up to that point, I had treated viewed politics with a level of cynicism and never shown an interest. I had a passion for history and social studies, but never knew what to do with it, and I thought that to be successful you had to be cold and humourless.
And then The West Wing came along, and suddenly there were people in my life (albeit fictional people, but the reality of these people hardly matters - I don't think we need for our heroes to be real), wonderful, smart, compassionate, devoted, loyal people, who were geeks and history nerds and idealists, and I thought, that's what I want to be like when I grow up. And I learnt to be proud of my freakish head for trivia, and that politics was this fascinating world and that devoting oneself to public service was noble.
The show and I drifted apart somewhere around season six and I'm older and cynical now, but I'm also a social scientist, an unrepentant geek and I hope I never stop trying to be hard working, compassionate and witty enough to fit into the Bartlet White House.
If anyone out there reading this hasn't seen The West Wing, go watch it. It was so good, it changed television forever. It changed lives forever and it is for politics what Star Trek is for science and engineering. It is truly outstanding. And it's Catherine Tate and David Tennant's favourite show, and what more of a recommendation do you need than that?