The Good Wife 4.21
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selenakThis one came across mostly as a set u episode for the impending season finale.
In regards to all the various subplots: Cary intending to leave the firm with the fourth years, Kalinda using the opportunity to negotiate another raise for herself, the election and most of all Alicia's love life. About which I'm now officially more worried than annoyed, because I know the rules of television: of Alicia is ready to recommit herself to Peter in the episode(s) before the season finale, it almost inevitably follows that in the finale itself, the opposite will happen. My nightmare scenario would be that Alicia catches Peter with not one, but two prostitutes for shock value and is then swept into the arms of following-Veronica's-advice-Will, but I think it's more likely something less melodramatic (and ooc for Peter, who for all that he's cheated pre-show hasn't been characterized as stupid and/or self destructive enough to risk it all at the very moment he finally has achieved his aims) will happen, in the form of Alicia, just before entering the plane to Hawaii, deciding she loves Will best after all and turning around.
Which I don't want, either. Actually I'd prefer it if the big decision for Alicia to make come the season finale would not be set up to be her romantic choices but whether or not to strike out on her own with Cary, i.e. the professional choice, instead of treating the later as a minor question and the former as the major issue. But that's not what the show is giving me.
Also: we've already done the "Will or not?" Cliffhanger in s1, the "Peter wins the election, but loses Alicia as she simultanously discovers a past sexual betrayal that makes her kick him out" in s2, and over the past two seasons Alicia after an adverserial period reconciling with him. The only twist to break up the Florricks agan I can see that wouldn't feel like a retreading of old storylines if the writers still intend Will as endgame, which I assume they do, would be if Peter has a sudden heart attack and dies, which would conveniently also give them an excuse for not letting Diane become judge after all.
(Oh, and I'm asssuming Owen was going for reverse psychology with his sudden Peter endorsement near the end, figuring that the fact he and Veronica were always vocally anti Peter was actually one of the reasons why Alicia stood by him.)
The case of the week and its mirroring in the L& G office shenenigans was entertaining, and also, I'm always for Alicia showing her lawyer fu in conjunction with Cary. Her realisation at the end though that the whole thing was used to help another big industry client of theirs, and that the partners end the assistants' rebellion in exactly the same way they ended the protest of the fourth years when they made Alicia a partner, by the divide and rule principle: we've seen that before, and it would be nice if Alicia finally draws consequences, rinse, repeat.
Finale speculation that doesn't concern Alicia's love life:
- David Lee proposes to Veronica, thus becoming Alicia's next stepdad
- Kalinda gets her raise (again) and is triumphant and happy, only for in her very last scene be arrested for the murder of her husband (I still think Alicia defending Kalinda will be a big s5 storyline, and now Robin can be the detective gathering material for that)
- Cary will actually leave, though will find out Diane hadn't been bluffing and honestly intended a partnership as a farewell present in the event of her judgeship
- Diane will distance herself from Will (and in a way that can't be unnoticed by him), but then something will happen (Peter loses the election, or dies) that means she won't become judge, meaning she and Will will still have to work together.
In regards to all the various subplots: Cary intending to leave the firm with the fourth years, Kalinda using the opportunity to negotiate another raise for herself, the election and most of all Alicia's love life. About which I'm now officially more worried than annoyed, because I know the rules of television: of Alicia is ready to recommit herself to Peter in the episode(s) before the season finale, it almost inevitably follows that in the finale itself, the opposite will happen. My nightmare scenario would be that Alicia catches Peter with not one, but two prostitutes for shock value and is then swept into the arms of following-Veronica's-advice-Will, but I think it's more likely something less melodramatic (and ooc for Peter, who for all that he's cheated pre-show hasn't been characterized as stupid and/or self destructive enough to risk it all at the very moment he finally has achieved his aims) will happen, in the form of Alicia, just before entering the plane to Hawaii, deciding she loves Will best after all and turning around.
Which I don't want, either. Actually I'd prefer it if the big decision for Alicia to make come the season finale would not be set up to be her romantic choices but whether or not to strike out on her own with Cary, i.e. the professional choice, instead of treating the later as a minor question and the former as the major issue. But that's not what the show is giving me.
Also: we've already done the "Will or not?" Cliffhanger in s1, the "Peter wins the election, but loses Alicia as she simultanously discovers a past sexual betrayal that makes her kick him out" in s2, and over the past two seasons Alicia after an adverserial period reconciling with him. The only twist to break up the Florricks agan I can see that wouldn't feel like a retreading of old storylines if the writers still intend Will as endgame, which I assume they do, would be if Peter has a sudden heart attack and dies, which would conveniently also give them an excuse for not letting Diane become judge after all.
(Oh, and I'm asssuming Owen was going for reverse psychology with his sudden Peter endorsement near the end, figuring that the fact he and Veronica were always vocally anti Peter was actually one of the reasons why Alicia stood by him.)
The case of the week and its mirroring in the L& G office shenenigans was entertaining, and also, I'm always for Alicia showing her lawyer fu in conjunction with Cary. Her realisation at the end though that the whole thing was used to help another big industry client of theirs, and that the partners end the assistants' rebellion in exactly the same way they ended the protest of the fourth years when they made Alicia a partner, by the divide and rule principle: we've seen that before, and it would be nice if Alicia finally draws consequences, rinse, repeat.
Finale speculation that doesn't concern Alicia's love life:
- David Lee proposes to Veronica, thus becoming Alicia's next stepdad
- Kalinda gets her raise (again) and is triumphant and happy, only for in her very last scene be arrested for the murder of her husband (I still think Alicia defending Kalinda will be a big s5 storyline, and now Robin can be the detective gathering material for that)
- Cary will actually leave, though will find out Diane hadn't been bluffing and honestly intended a partnership as a farewell present in the event of her judgeship
- Diane will distance herself from Will (and in a way that can't be unnoticed by him), but then something will happen (Peter loses the election, or dies) that means she won't become judge, meaning she and Will will still have to work together.
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Date: 2013-04-23 01:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-04-25 07:57 pm (UTC)- David Lee proposes to Veronica, thus becoming Alicia's next stepdad
Although this is very drama!tv, I confess it would be hilarious as long as they remember that less is more with both David Lee and Veronica.
- Kalinda gets her raise (again) and is triumphant and happy, only for in her very last scene be arrested for the murder of her husband (I still think Alicia defending Kalinda will be a big s5 storyline, and now Robin can be the detective gathering material for that)
I wonder about that; they wrapped up that botched storyline so quickly I'm not sure they will want to integrate it again. But I'd welcome that it would put Kalinda in a more central position.
- Cary will actually leave, though will find out Diane hadn't been bluffing and honestly intended a partnership as a farewell present in the event of her judgeship
Pretty sure she was not bluffing too, for that reason. Who else is on that step? Certainly not the name-and-faceless fourth-years. Cary has consistently been shown as brilliant and a hard worker to boot.
- Diane will distance herself from Will (and in a way that can't be unnoticed by him), but then something will happen (Peter loses the election, or dies) that means she won't become judge, meaning she and Will will still have to work together.
I used to think losing the election was the way to go, because death seems to remove one of the constants of the show, not to mention its very name. I mean, "The Good Widow" just doesn't have quite the same ring. ;) I wouldn't discount it, but I do think Peter winning is not unlikely for two reasons: 1. Everybody is expecting him to lose -- we are waiting for the other shoe to drop, for hubris to catch up with him, and of course for one last-minute triumphant play on part of Kresteva. It'd be equally good plotting to introduce these ideas but let them play out differently. 2. It does make genuine sense for Alicia to reconsider that new vow and perhaps even leave him after Peter has won: She does love him, but then she has essentially fulfilled what she obviously did feel was her duty -- sidenote, that interview was for her almost as much as it was for Peter. Kresteva and she are adversaries of their own; I don't think *he* realises this, but I believe it's true: that she swore to take that man down, and this way she will. Again, I'm looking at the name and concept of the show. She's been that good wife...but after he will have "made" it, she is essentially free again. It does not make characterisation or plot sense for her to leave him immediately in this scenario, of course, and we still need a catalyst, but yes, I think Peter winning and Alicia stepping back from him afterward would work -- perhaps even in conjunction with the other theories, opening up Florrick and Argos, taking up Kalinda's case, and so on.