Call it the extended TiVo effect; or the Netflix envelope, or whatever. We don’t watch much live TV – hardly ever. But we watch a fair number of DVDs. West Wing in particular comes in season-sized boxes from Amy’s good friend from college. She sends a new season every couple of months or whenever she flies up to visit us.
So we’re watching West Wing, much much later than everyone else. It’s not the few hours/days delay that the TiVo gives you, but it’s the couple of years later that waiting for the friend who bought the box set to finish. It works fine for me; I really don’t miss the daily TV or discussing it with friends. Discussions happen online anyway, so the immediacy of the watercooler conversation doesn’t quite apply.
We’re finally on the last season. Amy is far ahead of me, but I have indeed finally found out who the “secret military space shuttle” leaker was. It was fairly nicely done, with the broad hints in the wrong direction, then the tiny hints just far enough beforehand to make it interesting. I really like the double-play of the last 2 minutes of the previous episode re-done in the next episode. Now I’m trying to think back to what previous episodes had the real clues to whodunit – the more I think, the more bits I see in the past.
(I’m not sure why I’m trying to avoid spoilers, since there really aren’t many people who would care about WW who haven’t already figured this out, but that’s how I started, so here we are.)
