That is, talking about Aaron Sorkin. Steve mentions that the West Wing wasn't as good after Aaron left. I'd have to agree with that, and you can tell from the scripts that Aaron had left... The dialog wasn't as clever, and the plot line became more about entrenched political positions and a failure to have a mandate than it was about hope and changing the world. Then again, the final season was pretty good as well -- even if they did have to rewrite the ending.
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Tanya
I didn't know that they re-wrote the ending. What changed?
Michael Still
I am told that it was originally scripted that the Republicans would win. That had to be changed because John Spencer died during filming, and they felt that having his character die, and lose the election was too much of an emotional blow to end the show's run with. Then again, I can't seem to find any URLs to back me up on that any more.