Well, strangely, I hated both of them.
The Women of Qumar just did absolutely nothing for me. It didn't deal with the issues satisfactorily. I'm increasingly mystified as to why anyone would be attracted to Josh with his arrogant, self-righteous whininess.
Bartlet for America. My least favourite episode to date. Because absolutely nothing happens. The church-burning is resolved way too easily. Josh wanders around going on about Gibson without telling us why, in an attempt at building the tension, which for me at least, utterly fails. Most of the flashbacks are even cheesier than those from 'In the Shadow of Two Gunmen', especially the one with the napkin, and no, I still can't bring myself to care about Mrs Landingham. We don't even get any light shed on what ostensibly takes up most of the episode, the congressional investigation, because the Republicans mystifyingly decide to play nice and give Leo 2 more weeks to come up with answers to any of the difficult questions they might ask him.
What we do get is a very small revelation about Leo, and I didn't find that particularly interesting, despite Jon Spencers admittedly excellent performance.
The Women of Qumar just did absolutely nothing for me. It didn't deal with the issues satisfactorily. I'm increasingly mystified as to why anyone would be attracted to Josh with his arrogant, self-righteous whininess.
Bartlet for America. My least favourite episode to date. Because absolutely nothing happens. The church-burning is resolved way too easily. Josh wanders around going on about Gibson without telling us why, in an attempt at building the tension, which for me at least, utterly fails. Most of the flashbacks are even cheesier than those from 'In the Shadow of Two Gunmen', especially the one with the napkin, and no, I still can't bring myself to care about Mrs Landingham. We don't even get any light shed on what ostensibly takes up most of the episode, the congressional investigation, because the Republicans mystifyingly decide to play nice and give Leo 2 more weeks to come up with answers to any of the difficult questions they might ask him.
What we do get is a very small revelation about Leo, and I didn't find that particularly interesting, despite Jon Spencers admittedly excellent performance.