From: Tiberius Gracchus (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 05:01:04 MDT
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 23:19:46 -0700, you wrote:
>Damien Broderick writes:
>> The other day I mentioned my devotion to Aaron Sorkin's astonishingly
>> effective TV drama THE WEST WING. We in Oz are behind, as usual, so the
>> season finale only just viewed here last night. I have to tell you, it made
>> my hair stand on end to see the good-guy Catholic Prez of the United States
>> standing in the nave of a mighty cathedral denouncing god as a feckless son
>> of a bitch. Granted, there was a slightly sentimental implied redemptive
>> retraction in the closing moments (God doesn't *cause* fatal car crashes,
>> so it's all right, there, there), but this ferocious and entirely justified
>> blasphemy on a major US TV series did my heart good, I have to tell you.
>
>I had taped this last week but only got around to watching it tonight
>as well. It was incredible to see this display of anger directed at God,
>after the upsurge in public declarations of religious sentiment these
>past couple of weeks. Of course the episode was filmed many months ago.
>
Hmm. Seems as if they lifted that scene from a season finale of NYPD
Blue.
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