The Newsroom (7/22)

[nova726]

Can somebody please explain to me why Don is still around? Didn't he switch to the 10:00 show or something? I get that he works in the building and is still dating Maggie, but why is he always so involved in Will's show?

P.S. still loving the show.

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[Melissa W.]

I wondered this as well. He is the biggest douchebag.

[ChiKate]

Wasn't it the 10pm host that got beat up with a rock in Afghanistan (or wherever he was)? I thought Don was still around on Will's show because of him and that segment. But I could be way off.

[ECB]

Jul 25, 2012 12:03:07 GMT -5 ChiKate said:

Wasn't it the 10pm host that got beat up with a rock in Afghanistan (or wherever he was)? I thought Don was still around on Will's show because of him and that segment. But I could be way off.

A friend pointed this out to me! So, this week made sense. But still... he seems to be around WAY too much.

Each episode, so far, has had some glaring (to me) poorly set up plot point that drove me up a wall. The whole blackberry/ sending email thing? Dumb.

They had a black-tie NYE party IN their office, and everyone was able to be there? Even Lisa, the roommate, at 11;50? A holiday party "sometime" in December at their bar would have been more believeable.

The staff all sitting in the conference room on a Saturday at 11 for over an hour while Neil talks on and on about bigfoot? When normally they all just walk away from him?. OH- but this then JUST HAPPENS to be the day that Gabby Giffords was shot... They just ALL happen to be in the office on that Saturday....

And this week- Maggie's roommate coming into their offices SCREAMING at Jim? Plus, it's NYC. She can just walk into their offices w/ no problem?

Petty stuff, but I just think these are just poor plot set-ups and Aaron Sorkin should be able to do a lot better...

[ChillyMcFreeze]

Inconsistencies be damned, I love this show.

[rosiedozie]

The check scene was a reference to the movie Rudy that they discussed earlier in the movie.

I've never seen it, but this is what I gathered from the episode: In the movie a guy on the football team named Rudy never got to play because they could only have a certain number of players on the field in jerseys. So before the last game, all the other players lined up outside the coaches office and turned in their jerseys one-by-one in their support of Rudy getting to play in the last game.

[simpsongal]

DH and I are done with this show. It's so full of itself. And I really don't care about the characters. I think I would like it better if they were not coveringn 2-year old news. The episode with Gabby Giffords was just bizzare - they're all yelling "F' yeah, I love being a newsma." Um, a Congreswomen just got shot in the head.....take it down a notch.

Also, I'm a Democrat but this show seems so far left (especially for a show about a legit news program).

ETA: I thought they would mention it in the show, but the Rudy scene was totally made up. In the real story, the coach was pushing for Rudy to play and the players were ticked about it. They Disneyfied' it and made the coach the villain for the movie.

[newsgrl39]

lurker here... I work in a real newsroom... not on a national level but on a local level so I find this show fascinating. I also feel like it would be hard to understand sometimes if you don't work in news but I could be wrong. Its for the most part a lot like the way things really work..

For instance, regardless of what show you are producing, everyone works in the same big newsroom which is why Don is always around.

Also news people are weird in real life. straight up. We are completely desensitized from awful events that occur because we sort of have to be or you would be constantly depressed always dealing with the awful shit in the world. Like the Gabby Gifford shooting...They weren't pumped to be reporting about her shooting, they were pumped because they got the info right about her being alive when everyone else was reporting her dead. We strived to be factual obviously and NPR really really fucked up by reporting her death.

I hope this makes sense.