Doing the deed for all the wrong reasons 

I caught the new West Wing last night. (Did you know new episodes are replayed on Monday on Bravo?) I see what Dave was saying about Donna and Josh. I agree they shouldn't have done it. I guess what the story was trying to show is many people use sex to relieve stress or as a distraction, but I thought Josh and Donna were better than that.

Friends becoming more than friends is such a classic storyline, and such an audience pleaser when it's handled in a romantic way. This one could have been one of those perfect moments, and the producers wrecked it. I'm disappointed, but not overly so because I never felt the intense undercurrent with them that was so palpable with, say, Sam and Diane on Cheers, or Maddie and what was Bruce Willis's character on Moonlighting. Of Josh's love interests on the show, I think the one with the Mary-Louise Parker character had the most chemistry.

Maybe I never got with the Donna and Josh thing because it feels like mostly hero worship on her side, and that's no fun for me. I didn't like seeing it with Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, and I don't like seeing it on the West Wing.