[croon]

The Boyle part I can get on board with, but I have a hard time coming up with a more overestimated writer than Sorkin. All of his characters are the exact same person.

Agreed on the Pirates... movie though, it was a great effort for a DTV movie.

[teh_klev]

I dunno, I like most of Sorkin's work. However I couldn't watch "The Newsroom" past four or five episodes. You're right, it seems like The West Wing's characters all re-hashed into TV news characters and it was too cloying.

I still go back and re-watch The West Wing every couple of years. Yes some of it is cringe-worthy, but as a non-US citiizen when first broadcast I learned a few things about US politics and it caused me find out more, especially from a historical point of view. He also does some nice things such as dropping in interesting educational nuggets such as the Peters Projection cartography stuff in the second "Big Block of Cheese" episode (S2E16) [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY