The Good Wife 5.01
Oct. 2nd, 2013 08:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakStill on a Breaking Bad high and in a mood to draw sparkling hearts around the finale. In a few months (two or three) time, when RL eases up on me, I would love to join a rewatch community. In fact, if there isn't one, I would start one, because Breaking Bad is made for rewatching and analysing each episode with hindsight. Who'd be on board?
Also, I managed to watch the season premiere of The Good Wife. A few thoughts.
At a certain point of the episode, I was mentally yelling "do not push the reset button on that one, show". Not that it's not in character for Alicia to have second thoughts, or to feel torn, and as a fan of complexity I appreciate that now she's made up her mind, Will and Diane are at their best and thus make her feel guilty, but if the pay off for this is Alicia actually staying with the firm instead of going forward I will not just uselessly scream but quit watching. Because this isn't a show I'm heavily invested in, it ceased to be must see tv for me over the last two seasons, and if this rejuvinating premise gets abandoned in favour of the same old basics, I have no reason to continue.
But I don't think it will. In fact, I would be surprised if the truth about Alicia joining Cary and the other Fourth Years won't come out in the next episode, so I'll find out soon whether or not I have a free spot in my tv schedule. Meanwhile, the opening episode was slick and fast paced and actually the show doing its "Team Lockhart & Gardner Try To Solve A Case In A Few Hours Time" gimmick perfectly. The solution Will came up with at the last second was a bit cheesy deus ex machina, but other than that, 'twas a smoothly done case of the week, with the various ongoing subplots - Alicia and Cary, Kalinda getting grilled by a suspicious David Lee, Peter and Eli, even Zak and Grace - woven in naturally. Incidentally, since Dana played an important (and sympathetic) role in this episode, I wonder whether she'll be the show's contact/window into the State Attorney's office now that Peter is the governor? It could provide the welcome opportunity to flesh the character out more.
"If we screw up, there's nowhere to go from here but down" says Peter to Eli, and I'm afraid that sounds like ominous foreshadowing. Both because I'm assuming Will/Alicia is still the writer's endgame (otherewise why resurrect it near the end of last season? I mean, I just don't like the 'ship, but I'm not blind, they were set up as the end couple from the pilot), soon he won't be her boss anymore, and because if Peter finally has an affair again this would give Alicia, on a Watsonian and Doylist level, a convenient reason to leave him again. Also, I'm not sure how the show can tie his being the governor as opposed to the state attorney to the legal plots of the week. I hope I'm wrong, because this would all be terribly predictable. But we'll see.
Also, I managed to watch the season premiere of The Good Wife. A few thoughts.
At a certain point of the episode, I was mentally yelling "do not push the reset button on that one, show". Not that it's not in character for Alicia to have second thoughts, or to feel torn, and as a fan of complexity I appreciate that now she's made up her mind, Will and Diane are at their best and thus make her feel guilty, but if the pay off for this is Alicia actually staying with the firm instead of going forward I will not just uselessly scream but quit watching. Because this isn't a show I'm heavily invested in, it ceased to be must see tv for me over the last two seasons, and if this rejuvinating premise gets abandoned in favour of the same old basics, I have no reason to continue.
But I don't think it will. In fact, I would be surprised if the truth about Alicia joining Cary and the other Fourth Years won't come out in the next episode, so I'll find out soon whether or not I have a free spot in my tv schedule. Meanwhile, the opening episode was slick and fast paced and actually the show doing its "Team Lockhart & Gardner Try To Solve A Case In A Few Hours Time" gimmick perfectly. The solution Will came up with at the last second was a bit cheesy deus ex machina, but other than that, 'twas a smoothly done case of the week, with the various ongoing subplots - Alicia and Cary, Kalinda getting grilled by a suspicious David Lee, Peter and Eli, even Zak and Grace - woven in naturally. Incidentally, since Dana played an important (and sympathetic) role in this episode, I wonder whether she'll be the show's contact/window into the State Attorney's office now that Peter is the governor? It could provide the welcome opportunity to flesh the character out more.
"If we screw up, there's nowhere to go from here but down" says Peter to Eli, and I'm afraid that sounds like ominous foreshadowing. Both because I'm assuming Will/Alicia is still the writer's endgame (otherewise why resurrect it near the end of last season? I mean, I just don't like the 'ship, but I'm not blind, they were set up as the end couple from the pilot), soon he won't be her boss anymore, and because if Peter finally has an affair again this would give Alicia, on a Watsonian and Doylist level, a convenient reason to leave him again. Also, I'm not sure how the show can tie his being the governor as opposed to the state attorney to the legal plots of the week. I hope I'm wrong, because this would all be terribly predictable. But we'll see.
