The Great West Wing Rewatch: 7.4 "Mr. Frost"
Joel: One of the greatest things about the election storyline is how both of the candidates seem like they would be capable of being good presidents. When we had Bartlet’s second term election story back in season three, his opponent seemed pretty much incompetent, and it was clear he never had a real shot at being president. The whole thing took second fiddle more often than not, to whatever crisis the White House was dealing with at the time. The thing is though, at the end of the day Santos needs to appear to be the slightly better of the two choices. At times they do this masterfully (wait till we get to the debate episode so that I can gush about that.) But other times it’s a bit on the heavy handed side. Take this episode for instance. We have a story that's all about evolution vs. divine creation and on what side of the debate our two candidates should come down on. And all through the episode we get the feeling that Santos isn’t going to say exactly what he’s suppose...