The Good Wife 4.19
Apr. 2nd, 2013 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIn which we find out what the penalty for writing fanfiction is on this show, and it is dire.
Seriously, much as I enjoyed seeing Gary Cole as Kurt McVeigh again, much of my brain space was occupied with "never mind the to Kurt or not to Kurt decision, Diane, or your daughterly angst about your father's newly revealed McCarthy era betrayal, you can't really fire your housekeeper for writing fanfiction and still call yourself a liberal!" Now I'm aware that the technical firing reason is that the woman used Diane's computer without permission, which, okay, is not a good thing to do. But the real reason as spelled out by Kalinda is to prevent Diane being ridiculed for writing fanfiction in the upcoming campaign by making it absolutely clear she didn't do it. Now I don't know about you, but I would not want a woman in high office who fires her housekeeper with three children for writing fanfic, whereas I would want one who writes fanfiction herself. Which btw I suspect might have been in the original script - i.e. the revelation that Diane spends some leisure time writing fanfic, and Kalinda finds out, tells her to delete it while campaigning for judge - as opposed to "Diane's housekeeper wrote fanfic on her computer, Kalinda tells her to fire housekeeper" - because I doubt the Kings meant for the fanfic thing to be more than a cute, smile inducing moment. As it is: Diane's Housekeeper, Martyr For Fanfiction busied me far beyond any intention.
(Also, I take it The Vampire Diaries, which I'm not watching, is produced by the same network and this was a plug as well?)
In other news, Kurt reminded me why I like him beyond the Gary Cole factor when comforting Diane re: her father not by saying something like denouncing potential communists was the right thing to do (which presumably it would have been in his political opinion) but by pointing out she modelled her life after ideals she admired, which are still true even if her father didn't live up to them. I am, however, not sure how to read the last scene between Diane and him, because sometimes, as much as the English language and I are friends, it is bewildering to me. Was that Diane saying no, she doesn't want to wait and think about it, she really wants to get married now, or Diane saying that no, she doesn't want to wait and think, she already knows she doesn't want to get married? Please enlighten the foreigner.
Not only was Sweeney back and as skeevy as ever, so was Isabell Swift from last time who continues to prove his match. Either one's scenes with Alicia were more enjoyable than her continued relapse into Will pining, but you know my opinion on ALICIA/WILL DO NOT WANT, so, rinse, repeat on that count. Sigh.
By contrast, the Cary and Robin scenes were great, both for her continued mixture of cheer and smarts and for Cary showcasing his intelligence again by noticing the aside about the Supreme Court Judge and the implication for Alicia's current Sweeney case. It's a good decision to show Robin, who is a new character, not only with Kalinda but with various members of the regular ensemble.
Seriously, much as I enjoyed seeing Gary Cole as Kurt McVeigh again, much of my brain space was occupied with "never mind the to Kurt or not to Kurt decision, Diane, or your daughterly angst about your father's newly revealed McCarthy era betrayal, you can't really fire your housekeeper for writing fanfiction and still call yourself a liberal!" Now I'm aware that the technical firing reason is that the woman used Diane's computer without permission, which, okay, is not a good thing to do. But the real reason as spelled out by Kalinda is to prevent Diane being ridiculed for writing fanfiction in the upcoming campaign by making it absolutely clear she didn't do it. Now I don't know about you, but I would not want a woman in high office who fires her housekeeper with three children for writing fanfic, whereas I would want one who writes fanfiction herself. Which btw I suspect might have been in the original script - i.e. the revelation that Diane spends some leisure time writing fanfic, and Kalinda finds out, tells her to delete it while campaigning for judge - as opposed to "Diane's housekeeper wrote fanfic on her computer, Kalinda tells her to fire housekeeper" - because I doubt the Kings meant for the fanfic thing to be more than a cute, smile inducing moment. As it is: Diane's Housekeeper, Martyr For Fanfiction busied me far beyond any intention.
(Also, I take it The Vampire Diaries, which I'm not watching, is produced by the same network and this was a plug as well?)
In other news, Kurt reminded me why I like him beyond the Gary Cole factor when comforting Diane re: her father not by saying something like denouncing potential communists was the right thing to do (which presumably it would have been in his political opinion) but by pointing out she modelled her life after ideals she admired, which are still true even if her father didn't live up to them. I am, however, not sure how to read the last scene between Diane and him, because sometimes, as much as the English language and I are friends, it is bewildering to me. Was that Diane saying no, she doesn't want to wait and think about it, she really wants to get married now, or Diane saying that no, she doesn't want to wait and think, she already knows she doesn't want to get married? Please enlighten the foreigner.
Not only was Sweeney back and as skeevy as ever, so was Isabell Swift from last time who continues to prove his match. Either one's scenes with Alicia were more enjoyable than her continued relapse into Will pining, but you know my opinion on ALICIA/WILL DO NOT WANT, so, rinse, repeat on that count. Sigh.
By contrast, the Cary and Robin scenes were great, both for her continued mixture of cheer and smarts and for Cary showcasing his intelligence again by noticing the aside about the Supreme Court Judge and the implication for Alicia's current Sweeney case. It's a good decision to show Robin, who is a new character, not only with Kalinda but with various members of the regular ensemble.
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