I'm proud to report that our country's stranger than a year ago?

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I love 'Take this Sabbath Day'. I love everything about it, the way they handle faith, the way they handle death and the way, oh! the way they weave a deeper understanding of the characters *into* the plot. And particularly Toby - his faith is in no way as obvious, or drawn attention to as often as the President's, but I love it when they do, because it's obviously *such* a part of him and the way he acts about his faith, in 'Pilot' and in this episode, it always moves me - I love the scene, Toby staring at the President's desk, explaining that 'vengeance is not Jewish', it's a beautiful scene. And the scene in the Synagogue is wonderful - the woman singing, the rabbi and Toby's conversation - it's such a good scene, such a strong scene (of course, my guilty attraction to Judaism helps here). I love this episode, so much.

My heart needs to stop swelling whenever I here the theme. I feel all happy and weepy and feel impulses to take over the government and instate the Bartlet admin instead (in case of MiB's reading: totally not serious here. I try to take over the government once, and re-instate FDR, but I didn't get past reading up on the Roosevelt family on wiki. Which goes to show how hopeless I am at things like that). And it's just...it makes me feel so..so...passionate, I guess. No other show's theme song does that for me - possibly because most of the other are rather jaunty (even M*A*S*H's is, if you ignore the lyrics: na, na, na, happy song, ignoring suicidal lyrics, na, na, na, not the least bit depressing, tra la la)

Also, regarding 'He Shall from Time to Time': Jed/Leo is love. So much love.

Comments

[lattara.livejournal.com]

I also have this guilty attraction to Judaism. Wah! Possibly a large part of it is that both Toby and Josh are Jewish (I love them so much omg!), but otherwise I have no clue why. Hmmm.

And I cannot tell you how much I think you're right about "Take this Sabbath Day". I cannot.

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

I know part of why I have mine is the coolness of the many famous Jewish people out there, and part is that it's a part of my heritage that, for all I know about it, I don't really *understand*. Then there's the fact that I like the idea of religion also based on philosphy and asking questions (my theory behind why Jews are a more enlightened 'liberal' group in the US that Christians, lobby/politically speaking) But mostly, man, I just don't know.

It's an awesome episode. It really just is.

[lattara.livejournal.com]

Neither do I. It's a mystery.