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DVD production value polling in the thirties...
The West Wing is a series that my family has received very good value and mileage from. We have eagerly awaited new seasons, but this is the first one that disappointed. Not so much with the plots as with the ever changing production value of the disc set. <
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>The lack of English subtitles is completely unacceptable. Aside from the turbo delivery or general muttering of many characters, the episodes become hard to follow in context while listening to the very drab and sparse commentary tracks. I dread to think of the hearing impaired fans of the show! There is no budgetary or creative excuse for omitting the usual mostly-accurate English transcript. <
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>The disc holders have evolved over the seasons, and they have finally found the most inconvenient design possible. For discs that are to be rotated several times *per week* for serious fans of the show, the overlapping design is wholly impractical, and the gatefold case awkward and flimsy and unbalanced. Someone was trying to get bonus points for style. <
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>The season itself is of course a dramatic shift, with the show essentially bifurcated into the old guard and the new candidates. I find the Bartlett storylines much more compelling, and between them the clear leaders of the cast this season are Spencer and Whitford. The marvellous Janney is essentially reset to square one at the next rung, like the eighth-grader entering junior high. Despite literally letting her hair down, McCormack plays an empty shirt, and I have not cared so little about a principal character since the Josh-foil "Mandy" in season one. No complaint against those actresses themselves, but the characters were both leagues behind the screen presence of Nancy McNally, and barbed charm of Amy Gardner. <
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>The season also breaks the tradition of an actual life-and-death cliffhanger finale. No doubt it would've felt contrived, but it further slowed the energy of the season down. <
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>Looking forward to seven very much.

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Painfully Good
The recovery from season five is a success, but it is achieved with some pain. <
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>Here, for example, Martin Sheen's MS starts to take control, and we watch the pain and heroism as his President Bartlet tries to fulfill both the expectations of his "lame duck" office and of his own conscience. <
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>CJ is not ready to be Chief of Staff, but there she is. She is too lightweight for the job, and the viewer is left to wonder what Bartlet's agenda was in picking her for the role. <
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>But the most painful of all is, of course, John Spencer. Watch an actor who really does die of a heart attack imitate the symptoms (and do so very well) on the series. It's like driving by a multiple car collision on the interstate: you don't want to look but you cannot look away, either. <
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>We enjoyed this season quite a bit, despite the objections noted above. A lot of welcome new energy is injected by Jimmy Smits (despite his slipping accent) and Alan Alda (playing a conservative Republican, of all things). I really liked the way Alan shines his own shoes, by the way. <
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>Enjoy!

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Subtitle YUCK!
Since I was overseas for much of this season's run, I have waited patiently for it to come out on DVD. I am sure I will enjoy this season as much as I have the other seasons but I am only 5 minutes in and already under-impressed with the subtitle system. I have always enjoyed watching WW with English subtitles because the dialogue is so fast and rich that I find I miss important information if I don't have the subtext to read. I am VERY unhappy that they do not have English subtitles in this season!!!