The Great West Wing Rewatch: 2.12 "The Drop-In"
Joel: You know, this episode actually bothers me a little bit. It’s made very clear to us that Sam is working incredibly hard on this speech. Obviously he probably works incredibly hard on every speech he writes since the words he’s writing are going to be said by the President, but all the same, we take some time to see that Sam cares a great deal about this speech in particular. He’s slaving over every word, and he has visions of the speech bringing the room to it’s feet by the end. He has worked hard and has a final product that he is proud of. And the whole thing is taken out right from under him. I’m not here to say if the President should have admonished the GDC or not. There are reasons both for and against that happening. But I don’t understand the thought process in intentionally leaving someone out of the discussion. It’s not like Sam had done anything wrong in the previous episode that resulted in leaving him out in the cold here. According to Toby it was simpl...