{"id":2863,"date":"2013-10-01T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2013-09-24T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T15:47:20","slug":"mark-predicts-the-west-wing-season-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/10\/mark-predicts-the-west-wing-season-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Predicts &#8216;The West Wing&#8217;: Season 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh shit,\u00c2\u00a0<em>so much can happen<\/em>. I think it&#8217;ll be easier to predict for the upcoming season than it was last time. That being said,\u00c2\u00a0<em>OH GOD NOTHING IS FAIR OR JUST<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Let&#8217;s first go over my predictions for season 3:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The staff will spend most of the season gearing up for the re-election campaign, but the elections won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen until season four.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Strangely, I spent the entire season forgetting I predicted this because season 3 felt so\u00c2\u00a0<em>slow.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Anyway, I was spot-on! 1\/1<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The first third of the season will also address the media\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\/public\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reaction to Bartlet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disclosure about his MS, and will include the hearings\/Grand Jury testimonies.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>EVERYTHING HURTS. 2\/2<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Josh will find a way to get more funding for the DoJ\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s suit against the tobacco industry. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Well, I had to get one wrong eventually. 2\/3<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li>THIS IS REALLY DIFFICULT, FYI. Oh my god, it is not as easy to come up with these things as it was for me at the end of season one.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Ha. HA.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Anyway, a real one! The following people will explore new romantic relationships: C.J., Donna, and Sam.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>I WON&#8217;T COUNT THIS BECAUSE OF SAM AND ALSO MY HEART. C.J. NO. NOT FAIR. 2\/4<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There will be another Big Block of Cheese Day!\u00c2\u00a0<strong>OH! There wasn&#8217;t one! Weird. 2\/5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There will be an episode devoted to the fourth State of the Union address.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>What a boring prediction. I WAS FISHING FOR POINTS. 3\/6<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Hoynes will be pissed that he isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t getting his chance to run for President.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>WHAT. Where did I get this? 3\/7<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Joey Lucas will be in four episodes.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>NOOOO MORE JOEY LUCAS \ud83d\ude41 3\/8<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Abigail Bartlet will be in fourteen episodes.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>NOT ENOUGH. And she wasn&#8217;t around as much as I wanted her to be. 3\/9<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The killer of Charlie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother will be found.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Wow, I was really bad at this. 3\/10<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s do some issues that will be brought up in season three! Gay marriage.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Nope. 3\/11<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Affirmative action. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>YES. 4\/12<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Airport security.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Bah. 4\/13<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m doing here. Um\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 there will be a plane crash mentioned in an episode?\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Wow, these are so awful. 4\/14<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Oooh, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll meet the last Bartlet daughter we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t met yet!\u00c2\u00a0<strong>IS THIS EVER GOING TO HAPPEN. 4\/15<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Someone will be hired to take over Mrs. Landingham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s job.\u00c2\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\":(\" src=\"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_sad.gif\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>I WAS SO CLOSE YET SO FAR. 4\/16<\/b><\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I really have no clue where season three could go beyond this.\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Hey, it&#8217;s the actual truth!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I admit that I wasn&#8217;t the biggest fan of season 3. I mean, season 2 was ON FIRE so consistently. But I&#8217;m excited for season 4! ELECTIONS, OH SHIT. Let&#8217;s do this.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Mark&#8217;s Predictions for Season 4 of &#8216;The West<\/strong><\/span><strong> Wing&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Elections will be held this year.<\/li>\n<li>Hoynes will NOT BE THE VICE PRESIDENT. Yeah, I&#8217;m predicting that some ~drama~ happens and they have to replace him.<\/li>\n<li>We will get an episode about one of the debates between Governor Ritchie and Bartlet.<\/li>\n<li>We will meet the Bartlet daughter we&#8217;ve not seen yet.<\/li>\n<li>THE MURDER OF SHAREEF WILL NOT BE KEPT A SECRET, at least not internally. I will be kinda mad if they get away with it?<\/li>\n<li>One of the staff members will quit over it.<\/li>\n<li>Bonus points if it&#8217;s Toby. (And I don&#8217;t think Toby would leave the show, just have a new storyline.)<\/li>\n<li>Lily Tomlin will appear again and be hired to replace Mrs. Landingham! (A boy can dream, y&#8217;all.)<\/li>\n<li>C.J. will spend most of the season dealing with Simon&#8217;s death, but she will begin to date again by the end of season 4.<\/li>\n<li>There will be at least one reference in the characterization\/speech of Ritchie to George W. Bush. (I&#8217;m basing this off the fact that he seems to be a willful reference to Bush\u00c2\u00a0<em>anyway<\/em>, and I really want to get one thing right.)<\/li>\n<li>Josh and Amy will stop seeing one another.<\/li>\n<li>During the run up to the election, Leo&#8217;s alcoholism will be made public, and it will be used against the Bartlet campaign.<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s do some Election Day predictions! Bartlet will appear to be losing at first.<\/li>\n<li>He will lose the popular vote, BUT \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/li>\n<li>Bartlet will win the electoral votes needed to get a second term.<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s right, I predict another four years of Bartlet. While I love the idea of the show changing presidents mid-run, I think we&#8217;ll get more of Jed Bartlet.<\/li>\n<li>With this, we&#8217;ll get at least ONE new staff member.<\/li>\n<li>Donna and Josh will consider a relationship with one another because FUCKING COME\u00c2\u00a0<em>ON<\/em>. IT&#8217;S SO OVERDUE.<\/li>\n<li>This season&#8217;s inanimate object that will destroy me: a pizza box.<\/li>\n<li>The season finale will make me cry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And with that, we start season 4 on Thursday. Huzzah!<\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; If you would like to support this website and keep Mark Does Stuff running, <a href=\"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/09\/help-keep-mark-does-stuff-running\/\">I&#8217;ve put up a detailed post explaining how you can!<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Please check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/\">MarkDoesStuff.com<\/a>. 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That being said,\u00c2\u00a0OH GOD NOTHING IS FAIR OR JUST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[460],"tags":[462,144],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-west-wing","tag-mark-watches-the-west-wing","tag-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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