Market Solutions have been disastrous and common sense realities are not exclusive to - rather seem to be missing from - the Republican party.

Except for the fact that it was a finale at only 9 episodes.

It seemed like it took ages for the show to come back and now it's over - already!

I find a lot of the negative reviews and hit-pieces about it center around something I just do not see in the show - a sense of moral superiority or hauty-tauty talking down at people...
I personally find the show immensely enjoyable and can't wait for a 3rd season to be written and aired...I couldn't help but feel like the show was ending though on that last episode...hope I am VERY wrong about that because its essential to have "entertainment" that begins the conversation about what is happening (happened?) to one of the two major political parties in the last 8 years.

market solutions... if they work. I just don't think they are the *only* solution. And " common sense realities and necessity to defend itself against a dangerous world"... I associate that with being liberal. But I qualify that with *values*... as in human rights, cultural understanding, compassion for others, environmental concerns, etc., etc. Not every perceived danger is the boogeyman.

Still, it would be a nice change of pace to hear republicans actually talk this way. It figures this is from a fictional character.

Some say that the way all the stories were neatly concluded, no cliffhanger, was more like a series finale than a season one.

I like the stories but was befuddled by all the female angst. I am older, and never worked in such a setting, but have never met supposedly intelligent, professional women spending so much time, at work, analyzing every word and glance of the men in their lives.

Perhaps men should not write roles for women, but I don't remember Sorkin doing this with The West Wing.

Was nice to see Jane Fonda in a glorious role.

about Season Two. I liked the fact that the Season Two finale was more like a series finale and the fact that it will be easier to walk away from the show now.

Jane Fonda was fabulous, I would have loved more of her. I also loved Marcia Gay Harden as well. I really did not care the way he wrote the other female characters who came across as whinny, pitty me, etc. He sometimes used humor in The West Wing but the women were written as far more stronger characters then the characters in The Newsroom.