Malvo

My favorite character on West Wing is Josh. Josh, to me, is the most fully realized of all the characters. He's the most energetic, if not the most passionate, of the staffers in the Bartlett White House.

When Aaron Sorkin was writing, I kind of got the idea that since so many parts of the show center around or are seen basically from Josh's point of view, that Josh was the way Sorkin inserted himself a bit into the show. For good or for ill.

But anyway, Josh's most memorable episode, to me, is the special opener they did for one of the seasons right after September 11th. It was rush-written, and rush produced....the White House gets locked down, and Josh gets stuck with a group of high-schoolers in the process. And it becomes an episode of whats and whys about terrorism.

It's preachy, and a bit clunky. Toby's a bit out of character, and when Charlie comes in and starts lecturing in that schoolmaster's tone to kids that are just a couple of years younger than him about gangs, where he says his neighborhood is like South Central....that bugs the fool out of me.

But anyway, Josh does have a nice little moment with one of the kids near the end, where they ask if he believes in the death penalty, and he says no.

He said we should lock the perpetrators of the heinous crimes up, show him pictures and Christmas cards of all his victims, and let the families of the victims come in and punch them in the face every night, right before they go to sleep.

Malvo got life without parole today.

I kind of like the Josh Lyman plan as it might pertain to Mr. Malvo.

Only, without punching. I'm thinking more along the lines of cattle prods and sledgehammers.

But that's just me....