A couple of quick points about this episode and beyond... If you are going to do a White House wedding, the sisters HAVE to be there. Forget the budget, they are a requirement. If it wasn't for Josh, Matt Santos would be eating barbeque at his house in Texas. Replacing Josh should have taken all of a millisecond, followed by a "no way, he stays" I am going to seriously miss John Spencer as Leo. His death was shocking and he will be sorely missed. Which comes to my final point and prediction. As many polls (other than the NBC one) illustrated after the debate, many people prefer the Vinick ticket. While it would be refreshing to see the show take a turn to the right, it's not going to happen. They have not spent nearly enough time on character development in that campaign, and the show loses all credibility of Josh jumps ship to the Republicans. If Santos wins, there maybe one more season of the West Wing with a cast that has no chance of recapturing the magic of the first few seasons. If Vinick wins like I think he will, there won't be another season.

A couple of quick points about this episode and beyond... If you are going to do a White House wedding, the sisters HAVE to be there. Forget the budget, they are a requirement. If it wasn't for Josh, Matt Santos would be eating barbeque at his house in Texas. Replacing Josh should have taken all of a millisecond, followed by a "no way, he stays" I am going to seriously miss John Spencer as Leo. His death was shocking and he will be sorely missed. Which comes to my final point and prediction. As many polls (other than the NBC one) illustrated after the debate, many people prefer the Vinick ticket. While it would be refreshing to see the show take a turn to the right, it's not going to happen. They have not spent nearly enough time on character development in that campaign, and the show loses all credibility of Josh jumps ship to the Republicans. If Santos wins, there maybe one more season of the West Wing with a cast that has no chance of recapturing the magic of the first few seasons. If Vinick wins like I think he will, there won't be another season.

Yeah, Allison Smith came back to stand in the background. That kinda blew, but the story there wasn't about Leo as much as it was about CJ (The beginning of the end, IMHO). There was an episode that Elizabeth Moss was brought in just to sit on the couch and watch the Convention with mom and dad. I guess blowing their guest star budget and getting nothing out of it might be indicitive of why they had to cut so much this year. I'm curious... Why bring William Devane in for one episode to play SecState if you know you'll never be able to afford to bring him back?

I noticed the omission of the sisters, too; that was weak. Could have given Charlie a chance to propose to Zoey once and for all. Which reminds me, in Season Six, when Leo was in the hospital, was it my imagination or did they have Mallory at the hospital with everyone else, but she didn't have any fricking lines?! What was up with that?

Here's the crazy thing about the fan comments here: 1. Your annoyed that they'd do a wedding stunt 2. Your annoyed that more characters didn't come Yah, they could have brought in a zillion old characters in this episonde, and it woul have been a fun specticle but IT WOULDN'T be West Wing. In fact, that would make it into a stunt. By having the episonde, and the episonde leading to this one be focused on behind the scences and politics, it made it into a real West Wing episonde. Not that I didn't like the debate, but that was a stunt. All of the other West Wing relationships seem to be very high drama. Even the shorlived ones, like Donna's flings. With the exception of Leo and his lawyer, all of the relationships have been emotional, and though they have a funny flair to them, there's a serious side. Its nice to have a sweet, simple, fun normal relationship between two semi-main characters on the show for once. I also find the Kazakistan plot line intriguing. Its a foreign affairs issue that hasn't happened in real life, and isn't really modled after a real issue, like the Israel, Qumar, and Kundoo was. But it is a possible scinario, and considering the way Russia is moving, and the way China has always been, such a confrentation doesn't seem to hard to believe. I suspect that future episondes will go into much greater detail. We know that Vinick knows about this, I'd love to see him try to take advantage on the defense side of things.

I noticed the ommission of the sisters, Charlie, etc. They needed a scene with all the sisters and mom being sarcastic that dad (POTUS) is LATE again. Isn't wedding about FAMILY? Didn't see them. Who would miss a White House wedding?

I noticed the ommission of the sisters, Charlie, etc. They needed a scene with all the sisters and mom being sarcastic that dad (POTUS) is LATE again. Isn't wedding about FAMILY? Didn't see them. Who would miss a White House wedding?

Two things struck about this episode: 1. Leo finally telling Santos that Santos is responsible for driving this election home, not Josh or anyone else. I really liked how Leo laid down the law and then walked away - about time Santos started respecting who Leo is! 2. The wedding - ugh, did it strike anyone as odd about the quantity of people missing (her sisters, Charlie, Lord John Marbury, etc. etc.)? The whole plot line was a hack.

It was an okay episode, although a little schizophrenic (like most of this season). I like the drama around replacing Josh. Frankly I like/liked the idea of Leo running it either for real or behind the scenes. My criticism is how NBC is screwing up this show by giving us 2 episodes, but now previews of the next show or when it will air. How do they expect to build/keep an audience.

Overall, I thought this was a weak episode. There were bright spots: the Kate-Will pairing, although they never actually get to attend the wedding (Kate did look hot!), the Kazakhstan flare up (I like that they are using a real country instead of a made-up one), the questioning of Josh's ability to run the Santos campaign. I also thought all the ladies looked hot in their dresses, but is this really how people dress for a wedding, even a presidential one? I also thought Stockard Channing's dress was way to low-cut for a first lady and for a wedding outfit. Mazybe it's just me. I'm also wondering where the writers are going with Josh. They have really weakened his character over the last several episodes.