Mallory confusion
Ramaswamy
>Either I must have missed when this was explained on the show, or they just
>never explained it; anyhow, I'm a little confused as to why Mallory's last name
>is O'Brien when both her parents' names are McGarry and she's obviously not
>married (re: the whole Sam thing). Has she been married before? Did she maybe
>take a different name to avoid the media over her father? Anyone who can answer
>me this will have my thanks... :)
To my knowledge none of this has never been explained... I suspect that
but for the O'Brien name of the chaperon of all those kids in the Pilot,
Sam's assistant Cathy would have smelled out a connection. I think it is
Jennifer McGarry's maiden name, and Mallory uses it as general cover. No
episode has even suggested that she was once married.
Jennifer too has been something of an unknown to the staff -- was it Sam
or Josh who once tried to 'hit' on her at a party? Maybe I'm imagining!
Cheers,
Ramaswamy
Ramaswamy
wrote:
>To my knowledge none of this has never been explained...
This is becoming a tiresome habit, this-post-then-notice business :-)
Meghan
never explained it; anyhow, I'm a little confused as to why Mallory's last name
is O'Brien when both her parents' names are McGarry and she's obviously not
married (re: the whole Sam thing). Has she been married before? Did she maybe
take a different name to avoid the media over her father? Anyone who can answer
me this will have my thanks... :)
--Meghan
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AMYSA
>Jennifer too has been something of an unknown to the staff -- was it Sam
>or Josh who once tried to 'hit' on her at a party? Maybe I'm imagining!
it was sam. he and cathy discussed it before he went to meet mallory. he said
something to the effect of, "i would think a woman would be flatterred by
that", to which cathy reponded, "i think leo was especially touched."
i would have thought, though, that they would've known mallory somehow, prior
to that day. they'd been in office long enough for her to at least dropped by
once. and, what with the mcgarry's and bartlet's being so close i would think
they would've seen her once.
that's one of the little things that kind of bugs me.
amy
"and to think people rave about rob lowe. please - it's
toby and josh that are sexier than fuck."--kfj
Lynn
>
>i would have thought, though, that they would've known mallory somehow,
>prior to that day. they'd been in office long enough for her to at least
>dropped by once. and, what with the mcgarry's and bartlet's being so close
>i would think they would've seen her once.
That's a really good point. Let's just say, after Mallory married that
O'Brien guy, she moved with him to Kansas, but their political viewpoints
were so diametrically opposed, that when her father joined the
administration, she left the bum and moved back to Washington. After she
found a job, of course, so it took a year.
--
Lynn
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