The West Wing - This Plane is Going to China
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- Bartlet has an MS attack aboard AF1 on their way to China.
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"Let's not pretend we didn't know this was going to happen ... I mean we always knew it was going to happen someday. I'm ready for it ... you better be too." This is Jed being scared and resigned at the same time. Couldn't imagine anybody else being Jed Bartlet. Martin Sheen is phenomenal.
I mean no offense.
And Martin Sheen did a fantastic job.
But that scene was great because of the writing...not the acting.
And I guarantee you there are hundreds of actors who could have played Jed Bartlett as well as Martin Sheen did.
Acting is EASILY (imo) one of the most, overrated occupations in the world.
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@@McRocket perhaps that's because you think you understand great writing, and admit you don't understand great acting
1:48 Is such a stunning, powerful moment for Bartlet - it's extremely rare for him to use the power of the office to issue a directive like this.
he is like like harrison fords
@@christopherstehn STAY ON MY PLANE.
@@jerodast Am I the only one who doesn't remember this scene? Damn was this deleted or something?
@@woozy7405 Well the scene I was quoting is a made-up one where I blended _West Wing_ and _Air Force One._ But no, the actual video here was definitely in the show, and basically it was the first good episode of the season. So maybe you were too zoned out by the overall mediocrity of season 5 and 6 to notice this one :)
@@woozy7405 Episode name is "In the Room".
One of the few times Bartlet used his direct authority and pulled rank on the staff.
I love how Bartlet acts secure and sarcastic with his staff, but he surely must be scared as hell.
Paolo Russomanno For
He always is, it’s a debilitating medical crisis, but even during the first one he is sarcastic and jokey
God I love CZcams, a 15 year old comment with a rambling 6 years ago and now me
@@lionsjourney29 I read your comment! Now I'm here.
I love the Martin sheen’s acting here. He’s in the worst state of his life but he’s still a leader.
My 45 year old wife was diagnosed with MS about 7 years ago. While she’s never experienced full paralysis as depicted here, she has lost the inability to stand or use various limbs intermittently. Modern treatments have been able to slow progression, but there is no cure. We know that slowly, over time, ‘episodes’ will be come more frequent and severe.
Let the force be with you and your family
I too have a rare incurable degenerative autoimmune illness...and body is slowly giving out. You have heartfelt empathy. Praying for your wife and you.
I hope your wife is still with you and her progression has gone into remission.
@@rudyjuarez4535 she is. We’re lucky we live when we do because if this was 30 years ago she’d be in a wheel chair by now. Much better medicine today. Some progression of symptom, but the meds slow the progression. Thank you for your concern.
CJ was a good chief of staff but leo man that guy was born for this
"I can't move."
I wanted to lift him up like Curtis at that point.
One thing I loved about the West Wing was that Barlett did the same thing that every president goes through while in office: the aging process. Look at Bush and Clinton when they were sworn in and look at them before they left office. Martin Sheen aged with the part.
@Anne Liesveld I'm sure that Charlie Sheen helped along the aging process of Martin Sheen.
FFS, look at Obama. He walked out of office after eight years looking like he aged 20 years, while Michelle looked arguably better than when she went in.
Some of that is normal. Clinton was 54 when he left office. Bush was 61. People those ages typically show signs of aging. There's no question that the job of president is stressful, but it's not entirely responsible for what is an otherwise normal progression of age.
I have watched the full series about 30 times over the past 6 years ok Netflix.
He sounded like Kennedy at the end.
This scene...his courage...literally brings tears to my eyes.
Watching this show is reassuring and terrifying to me. Reassuring politically. But on a personal level, with a mother who has M.S. and is currently at the same length of time Bartlett is here.... scares the living crap out of me. I'm thankful most of her attacks are not as serious, but damn the day I get a call saying she cant move is going to be the worst day of my life.
that is such a balla' move from the president, he just dropped the commander-in-chief bomb
Tobi Ojo Right!
I know right
He knew the power of the phrase, so he only used it when he needed to.
If I were lying down and realized I couldn't move, knowing myself, I might say life and work are postponed until I can at least sit up, if ever. President Bartlet is a more courageous man than most of us could ever hope to be.
The score that opened this scene...
...after Josh & Donna watched Vinick declare his campaign intentions...
...felt like this is when the series turned the corner.
Donna splits for Russell's campaign.
Josh heads to Texas for Santos.
The team is never truly back together after Camp David & Leo's heart attack.
The moment he says he can't move, everyone's thinking "Oh... SHIT"....
I have Multiple sclerosis. Lets find a cure.......
More money in erection pils, and therein lies the problem with the world.
@@davecoz4227 Well, I have MS too - and I gotta say, it's one of the better diseases to get, considering that the majority of people who get it is white and rich. For some reason it mostly appears in northern countries, like in my case - Norway. I've had it for 12 years now, and since then there's been break-throughs every year. When I started the drugs could stop about 30% of attacks, now it's up to around 80% - so slowly getting there!
@@ChristianSandviknes Well, the No. 1 risk factor for MS is having had Mononucleosis. No mono - no MS.
@@meckerhesseausfrankfurt4019 Epstein Barr, if you wanna be pedantic about it - but yeah, that's what the research says.
I've never had mono diagnosed, but I still might have had it without knowing.
Edit: Corrected Epstein Barre to Epstein Barr
Why do I get a lump in my throat every time that I watch this?
William Chadwick prolly cause it's raining
Because you're as soft as warm butter.
@@harrytaint8681 Save it for the New Hampshire butter festival
Bartlett ...yes. it is a key underlining part of the WW series.
Bartlet is 100 times the President of Vinnick, although I really like Vinnick's character, he would make an awesome VP.
Well Vinnick never actually go to be the President.
Like a boss. Oh wait, he is the boss, lol.
The biggest boss there is... lol
hell yes! when i watch this, i want Bartlet to be president so badly.
ren rogers I
The country and the world need me so much that I have to sacrifice my body, and possibly my family, largely because there is no one else who can do it?
That was basically the Ghost of Mrs. Landingham's argument, yep!
@@jerodast Yes, often my ideas are traced back to episodes of television. At times, they subtly influence my line of thought, and when I'm made aware of it my face turns a little red. However, I'm used to it now and respect the writing and presentation of argument I accept without being immediately aware of it.
The Hawaiian Ridge is near Hawaii but they are above Alaska.
Bartlet was a more commanding leader flat on his back than Trump could ever hope to be standing upright.
I detested the Kate Harper character. She always acted like she was two steps ahead of everyone, so didactic. She was the DEPUTY National Security Advisor; she should only have chaired the Deputies Committee of the N.S.C. I wish they had added Anna Deavere Smith as a main cast member; Nancy McNally and C.J. would have been a formidable duo, two intelligent, powerful women keeping Bartlet straight and running national security. Both Smith and Allison Janey are phenomenal actresses; it's criminal that Smith wasn't featured more.
I think part of the idea is Fitz and Nancy were important enough to actually be running Nat Sec things without being directly involved with the west wing most of the time. I love that scene where Sam is trying to play enlightened intelligence officer and Nancy basically schools him so he'll go back to his real job - while being in the middle of another conference call the whole time (I remember the phrase "force readiness" used a lot).
Kate's deputy role meant that overlapping heavily with the political operations was part of her purview in a way it couldn't be for the top advisor. Despite my example above, you rarely saw Nancy or Fitz interacting much with anyone but Leo or POTUS, for good reason, which meant they wouldn't make sense to take on as main cast.
Anybody seen the clip of him getting off the plane?
great compilation! thank you!
@grumpytosnowwhite That's right she is. Remember that CJ had a sick father as well. When you have these things is your family, you learn to anticipate them so can be in control when the worst happens.
4:3 cropped to 16:9 and then squashed to 4:3 lol
Thing is, the President is the Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces, not civilian citizens. This scene makes sense if it was the pilot (likely an Air Force Major or General) was suggesting to land.
A better version of this scene happened in the next episode in China, where Bartlet fell in the bathroom & a Secret Service agent was trying to help him; Bartlet told the agent to get out and said "That's an order !" That makes sense.
Yeah, just he's just their boss. That should be enough.
The President of the United States is the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces and also the Chief Executive Officer of the United States Federal Government. He was issuing a direct order to employees of the Executive Office of the President, which serve at his pleasure and who report, ultimately, to him. These included, but were not limited to; Claudia-Jean Craig, White House Chief of Staff, Katharine Harper, Assistant National Security Adviser, and the Surgeon General of the United States.
To say that him telling them that the plane would stay in the air, and furthermore, land in Beijing, was inappropriate, is the equivalent of saying your supervisor can't tell you to do your job.
John Doe Not quite. The president might not be able to issue direct orders to John Q. Public, but his staff are not John Q. Public. They work DIRECTLY for the president, and any direct orders he issues TO his staff are 100 percent valid - UNLESS they violate constitutional law, or he was declared mentally incapacitated.
And he was probably stating the order for the military pilot and he does hold the office of executive power in the us and the civ staff do serve at his pleasure
He's still their boss so while not the Commander in Chief of civilians he's still in charge and they have to do what he says.
This show did not stop,the President Bartlet character stepped down after his 8 years as POTUS and was replaced by a brash,handsome minority....does life imitate art or does art imitate life?
Hey I was to young when the West Wing was on is anybody currently running reruns and what time?
Do you have Netflix?
But... we filed a flight plan to Philadelphia Mr President!
Why is it a TV character has 1000 times the class as our real president, the I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY guy?
Wait, from what season and episode is this?
odnak "in the room"
leading up to the summit CJ takes the summit away from Josh and I don't understand why. I've seen the whole series a gazilion times but that bit eludes me? Can anyone explain it?
Because Josh was leaning towards Senator Hunts proposal of Taiwan eventually being free. The US cannot support Taiwan in this venture and undermine China. With Josh being “In the Room”... that’s exactly what US policy would reflect of the summit.
I think it is "In the room".
Do I catch inflexions of JFK's pronunciation?
I hate it that they disgraced the president like they did at the end, dispersed his staff, made toby betray the president, made CJ chief of staff, some of the new characters are catastrophically bad, the new VP was a JOKE... the only good think was Josh and the campaign
after Sorkin left the show just wasn't the same
+Josh Lyman There is a pretty well thought out argument that Toby was protecting the President--that Bartlet himself was the one who leaked the information about the secret military shuttle to the reporter
Richard Schiff said he believed Tobey was covering for someone. That was the only way he knew how to play it because Tobey would never betray the president like that
Even if Sorkin stayed, this incident could well have happened; remember that at his reelection he acknowledged to Abbey that things would be harder, and at Zoe's kidnapping part of the reason he relinquished the presidency was because his MS was preventing him from thinking straight.
Regarding Toby, regardless of the theories about his source, he was always the President's conscience, nudging him to choose the course of action that was right but not necessarily expedient. One should also bear in mind that maybe Toby felt a duty to try to save these astronauts out of guilt for not having saved his own astronaut brother's life?
Post Sorkin West Wing gets too bad a wrap. For me, it remained an outstanding television show.
mjakes20 the campaign with Josh is one of my favourite parts of TWW :)
+Josh Lyman Seeing as it's election time I'm rewatching all the campaign episodes. I know this would break Josh's heart, but I'd vote for Senator Vinick over Congressman Santos.
Think both of them truly deserve each other but that child does not deserve either---WTF is wrong with these people??--a lot!!
just because...
Are there other clips from this episode on you tube? Can’t find any.
Penn & Teller appear in the episode, I think all of their scenes are on youtube. For the AF1 / MS attack plot, I think the one where he first admits he can't move his hands and gets an exam from Millie is available somewhere, and at the end when he wheels himself down the plane's hallway toward the press room is also floating around.
what season and episode is this
Does anyone know when he is actually diagnosed with MS?
In "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen Part 1," set in May 2000, Abbey tells the GWU Hospital anesthesiologist. "Dr. Lee, there are fourteen people in the world who know this, including the Vice President, the Chief of Staff and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. You are about to be the 15th. 7 years ago the President was diagnosed with a relapsing-remitting course of MS." In "17 People," aired in April 2001, Bartlet tells Toby "Around 10 years ago, for a period of a few months, I was feeling run down and had a pain in my leg. They both eventually subsided but then 8 years ago, the pain came back, as well as numbess..." So my math has it be 1993.
@Kasino80 yep :) Also "Let Me Watch This".
Da' Boss!!
Like when your leg goes numb for being on the toilet for too long.
hell who wouldent be if that was happening to them
Bro, is that Ellie's Godmother? First wow her hair is great. Second) oh Jed you devil you!!! You threw a hissy fit over her marijuana comments but you decided to keep her around in Case Abbey and her license were sidelined for some reason
@Julie15gtc project free tv is a gift!!
When the president of the United States says this plane is going to China you can bet your ass that plane is going to China. I love it
Patriots understand that whoever is President when an order is given it must be followed.
In times like these, it good to know there are still Patriots protecting us.
Well I'm glad the Secret Service said no to Trump when he tried to get himself to the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
I'm so glad that I stopped watching the show the season CJ was given the CoS position.
Is CJ more like Sarah Sanders or Kayleigh McEnany?
God what a stupid show.