Maybe I'm just a typical *MAN*, in that I can do without the touchy-feely stuff, but I felt almost exactly the opposite as you. "Sports Night" lost me toward the end of its run, when it became just another sitcom about who would sleep with whom, whereas "The West Wing" was about people who had all-consuming passions of a totally different nature and significance, and hence far more interesting to me. I liked the fact that it was light on the interpersonal relationships and heavy on the socio-anthropological commentary. If you wanted to see a group of people having totally inappropriate sexual liaisons, there was always "Friends" on the same Bat-channel the next night. But to Tony's point, he's right about one thing: not even Joss Whedon, good as he surely is, can write crackling, rapier-witted dialogue like that dope-smokin' Sorkin!