To wrap up my thoughts, I suspect Sorkin would admit that this project is one of the trickiest scripts he's had because there are so many moving parts, so many characters he had to handle and craft in such a way each had their own distinguishable persona. From Jerry Rubin's ninety-hour dalliance with a woman who turns out to be an FBI informant to David Dellinger the famiy man even to the woman who handles the phones at the "conspiracy" group's HQ, each character is unique and has some measure of complexity to them.

The two characters who come off as the most stereotypical are Mitchell and Judge Hoffman. They really are evil bastards and that's pretty much it. One could argue that's an accurate take on them as characters because that era did have a black-and-white sense of "which side are you on." I would like to hear more from Sorkin what he thought was going on with the Judge Hoffman character. At times, he comes off as a dottering old fool, other times a sly henchman in The System's game. Which is he?