Thank you, sir. I like these apples very much.
Update: Its a slight note, but this crystallizes something for me that I wasn't quite seeing before:
The Palin vice-candidacy has been discussed as if it were the heir to Rod Lurie's trilogy of "accidental king" projects: Deterrence, The Contender, and Commander-in-Chief. And, as fits the subgenre, the innate "weaknesses" that define the characters make them powerful leaders of men. Deterrence plays off of the ethnicity of the newly advanced president, The Contender off of the obstinate ethical stubborness of...
But that isn't the story in front of us. That isn't the character trope we are faced with. This isn't even Dave's Dave, nice-guying the world into the future.
This isn't even--and forgive the potentially sexist reference-- The Princess Diaries; this is King Ralph saving Britain through crass mediocrity and pratfalls.
I can see Jack Lipnick selling it: "She's going to misrepresent herself to a victory over the Russians! She'll tell them we already won and they'll buy it! We're talking boffo box office! 'MOOSE CHICK'S NUKES HIT, FIX!'"
Am I actually watching the "fish-out-of-water" trope run for vice-president?
