The Good Wife 4.18
Mar. 26th, 2013 06:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIn which Americans do that thing where everyone pretends to be Irish, and also it turns out Alicia had Walter Bishop as a client.
Unexpected!John Noble was nice to see, and the character was vaguely Walter-like with the paranoia and making the creepy sweet (i.e. he only engaged in all these lawsuits to be with Alicia, which could have come across as stalkery, but didn't since he never made a move on her), but his storyline was a bit of a shaggy dog tale, literally - if we're to believe that the guy who really killed him was an offended dog owner. I'm not sure whether the scripted wanted me to think that remembering him made Alicia come to conclusions about her personal life, because if it did, that didn't work. Not least because when Alicia told Will they kept each other from moving on and had to move on, I mentally groaned and said "but you did move on already until three episodes ago and the cheesy Xander/Cordelia imitation kiss, when the producers decided to inflict a renewal of Will/Alicia unresolved feelings on me". Seriously, though, after it fizzled out I did not have the impression that Alicia was pining after Will, and I didn't think he was pining for her anymore this season, either. Again, until three episodes ago. And now we even get underwear commercial flashbacks inflicted on us. :(
On a less cranky and trying to be fair to Will Gardner note, I did like, as usual, his scene with Diane. Even if they make bewildering personnel decisions or rather execute them bewilderingly and insensitively, their partnership is still golden, and reminds me my Will problem is really limited to Will/Alicia. Otoh, speaking of Will and Diane having their chat about Diane's professional future, this reminds me that despite the supposed "you have to decide in two hours!" , this storyline didn't go anywhere in particular, either. Also, given that I really doubt the writers are going to change the format radically by actually letting Diane leave the firm to become a judge, I am a bit irritated that we pretend this is an actual plot line.
Then again: it was the second scene Diane had with Peter after her standing in for debate practice an episode earlier, and this could hint the show writers testing whether this could be an interesting dynamic, too. Diane & anyone tends to be a winning combination, so - maybe I'm wrong, and they'll actually let her go through with it and take Peter's offer. But I doubt it.
re: Peter, I shouldn't, but I must admit his application of Eli's "trump a lie with a bigger lie'" advice made me smile.
As did the return of Alicia's mother. Mind you, it could have misfired since Veronica's stories could have inflicted permanent "not only are our parents currently together because of us but zomg they only got together because of us" angst on Zack and Grace, but I thought Alicia handled that, and by and large the kids had a far better time with Veronica than they would have with cops showing up due to an invented threat.
Unexpected!John Noble was nice to see, and the character was vaguely Walter-like with the paranoia and making the creepy sweet (i.e. he only engaged in all these lawsuits to be with Alicia, which could have come across as stalkery, but didn't since he never made a move on her), but his storyline was a bit of a shaggy dog tale, literally - if we're to believe that the guy who really killed him was an offended dog owner. I'm not sure whether the scripted wanted me to think that remembering him made Alicia come to conclusions about her personal life, because if it did, that didn't work. Not least because when Alicia told Will they kept each other from moving on and had to move on, I mentally groaned and said "but you did move on already until three episodes ago and the cheesy Xander/Cordelia imitation kiss, when the producers decided to inflict a renewal of Will/Alicia unresolved feelings on me". Seriously, though, after it fizzled out I did not have the impression that Alicia was pining after Will, and I didn't think he was pining for her anymore this season, either. Again, until three episodes ago. And now we even get underwear commercial flashbacks inflicted on us. :(
On a less cranky and trying to be fair to Will Gardner note, I did like, as usual, his scene with Diane. Even if they make bewildering personnel decisions or rather execute them bewilderingly and insensitively, their partnership is still golden, and reminds me my Will problem is really limited to Will/Alicia. Otoh, speaking of Will and Diane having their chat about Diane's professional future, this reminds me that despite the supposed "you have to decide in two hours!" , this storyline didn't go anywhere in particular, either. Also, given that I really doubt the writers are going to change the format radically by actually letting Diane leave the firm to become a judge, I am a bit irritated that we pretend this is an actual plot line.
Then again: it was the second scene Diane had with Peter after her standing in for debate practice an episode earlier, and this could hint the show writers testing whether this could be an interesting dynamic, too. Diane & anyone tends to be a winning combination, so - maybe I'm wrong, and they'll actually let her go through with it and take Peter's offer. But I doubt it.
re: Peter, I shouldn't, but I must admit his application of Eli's "trump a lie with a bigger lie'" advice made me smile.
As did the return of Alicia's mother. Mind you, it could have misfired since Veronica's stories could have inflicted permanent "not only are our parents currently together because of us but zomg they only got together because of us" angst on Zack and Grace, but I thought Alicia handled that, and by and large the kids had a far better time with Veronica than they would have with cops showing up due to an invented threat.
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