greenthinks

Russell Beattie:

Infinite Loop – I caught the West Wing on television for the first time in a long time (since the election, I think, I stopped watching it since then really). It dawned on me how ridiculous it is to focus a television show on such a unique individual as the President of the U.S. And now they’re doing another one with Gina Davis? So wacky. I was thinking after this morning’s Apple keynote that Hollywoood should create a show loosely based on Apple computer, no? It’d have a enigmatic, yet complex leader, various VPs with ranging agendas, crisises would not involve asteroids hitting the earth or Norht Korean terrorists, but blogs leaking confidential product plans and competitors launching similar products, IP theft, etc. You could have cameos by luminaries in tech. You’d have a picture-perfect antagonist in a Gates-like Billionaire of a competing company, etc. Quirky programmers and French-born directors of Engineering would add a light element. How much more drama could you want?

Terrific.

Dave Winer

Reminds me of the greatest TV line of all time (TV shows aren’t really famous for great lines). The West Wing, of course. Amy Gardner the beautiful and sharp-witted Washington operative, sitting on Josh Lymon’s front step, waiting for him to return from some major Presidential crisis (we know what it is but he can’t tell Amy), surprises him. Flirty small talk, then she asks why he never kissed her when they were in college together at Harvard. He delivers a long, soulful, well-intentioned soliloquy. You want to say to Josh, shut up and kiss her already. Right when you think you can’t take it any more, she interrupts. “You know what,” she says. “Enough of you with the talking.” And she kisses him, and then walks off, leaving Josh about the plotz he’s so in love. (Us too.)

me too.