Ruth,
I watch West Wing every week. There is almost always some crisis event that
is woven into the story plot. Except for
the “depleted uranium nuclear fuel” I didn’t see anything
wrong with the sub-plot, except that, as I recall, when they found out the
incident was over with no consequences other than the two wrecked trucks,
someone said, “We dodged the bullet.” Given there was no bullet to dodge, the
comment was superfluous, but predictable given Hollywood writers’
limited number of clichés available to end a sub-plot like that. Since the “White House staff” used
quite a few sound bites of factually accurate information, I thought the
sub-plot was well done.
Les Aldrich, CHP
laldrich@gte.net
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Subject: Comments on the West Wing
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These are my impressions of the episode:
Overall, it wasn't as bad as it might have been. At the end, the
President
said something to the effect that no radiation was detectable above
background.
The biggest distortion was to identify the shipment as "depleted uranium
nuclear fuel " which is an oxymoron if ever I saw one.
What bothers me about the episode is its timing and its
inclusion in the
show in the first place. I have never seen West Wing before but
the truck
crash appeared to be completely extraneous to the story lines..
Ruth