Someone wrote "the finest five minutes at the end of the finest hour of the finest season of the finest Television show ever made". Not quite, but I can understand why someone would think so. I said to Alison after watching the last three episodes of season two of "The West Wing", that it is something to do with having invested your time and concentration over 44 episodes, that when something brilliant happens, it is more emotional than anything a film, a play or a book can produce. And this is what happened on Saturday evening.
The last five minutes is quite something. From CJ shouting "I can only take fourteen or fifteen questions at once" to a soaking wet President ignoring the rain when you have lost one of your oldest and closest friends, all set to "Brothers in Arms". Not the most appropriate song as it was written about the Falklands War, but a massively emotional piece of music for this superb conclusion.
PS My favourite series ending is still "Ashes to Ashes" as my posting of 30th March 2008.
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