The Good Wife 5.05
Oct. 28th, 2013 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakCivil War!
Now that was fast paced, vicious fun. It also felt emotionally evenly balanced because of the Diane factor. I.e. I would only have very limited sympathy if it was just Will (not solely because of my Will issues, I swear, but because the "I brought you to this firm, you owe everything to me" attitude really stinks after Alicia's hard work at L & G for four plus years. But I do want L & G to survive for Diane's sake. Her own "how could you?" scene with Cary didn't have the extra edge the Will and Alicia scene did because Diane and Cary were never lovers, but it did illustrate Diane's double standard; she herself preached the "it's business, not personal" thing to Alicia last season, and she also repeatedly gave Cary that line. Of course, it's never just business and always personal when you're at the wrong end of the dagger.
Kalinda staying with Will: makes emotional sense to me. Not only because Alicia didn't tell her she was leaving, and that really smarted, but also because her relationship with Alicia even post reconciliation never got as intimate as it used to be, and not for lack of trying on Kalinda's part, whereas Will has been consistently a good boss and friend (and agreed to every pay raise she asked for).
Team Florrick, Agos & Associates go from getting kicked out to getting back into fighting gear, and it was adrenaline pumping good to watch. Mind you, the series does love its continued cynicism and irony. Yes, Alicia did get her job at L & G through Will (she more than justified it by all her work, but that was not why she got the job); and now she gets Chum Hum and Neil Gross because Peter, being the politician he is, is willing to play dirty in support of her. (BTW, note that it's Alicia who says, when they think they've lost Neil Gross, that they should try Bishop, and Cary who says no, drug dealer.) And despite all of Eli's reassurances, it's personal again when Peter withdraws the judgeship offer because of L & G's treatment of Alicia. Bad Peter. Though it didn't come as a surprise really; I was hoping Diane would get that judgeship, but couldn't see the show letting her exit or only show up as a guest star on a Doylist level, plus at a Watsonian one she just couldn't let L & G go down in these particular circumstances. And there has been the obvious foreshadowing of Will & Diane versus Alicia & Cary last season, which doesn't work if it's solely Will.
And in conclusion: bring on the mighty struggle to come!
Now that was fast paced, vicious fun. It also felt emotionally evenly balanced because of the Diane factor. I.e. I would only have very limited sympathy if it was just Will (not solely because of my Will issues, I swear, but because the "I brought you to this firm, you owe everything to me" attitude really stinks after Alicia's hard work at L & G for four plus years. But I do want L & G to survive for Diane's sake. Her own "how could you?" scene with Cary didn't have the extra edge the Will and Alicia scene did because Diane and Cary were never lovers, but it did illustrate Diane's double standard; she herself preached the "it's business, not personal" thing to Alicia last season, and she also repeatedly gave Cary that line. Of course, it's never just business and always personal when you're at the wrong end of the dagger.
Kalinda staying with Will: makes emotional sense to me. Not only because Alicia didn't tell her she was leaving, and that really smarted, but also because her relationship with Alicia even post reconciliation never got as intimate as it used to be, and not for lack of trying on Kalinda's part, whereas Will has been consistently a good boss and friend (and agreed to every pay raise she asked for).
Team Florrick, Agos & Associates go from getting kicked out to getting back into fighting gear, and it was adrenaline pumping good to watch. Mind you, the series does love its continued cynicism and irony. Yes, Alicia did get her job at L & G through Will (she more than justified it by all her work, but that was not why she got the job); and now she gets Chum Hum and Neil Gross because Peter, being the politician he is, is willing to play dirty in support of her. (BTW, note that it's Alicia who says, when they think they've lost Neil Gross, that they should try Bishop, and Cary who says no, drug dealer.) And despite all of Eli's reassurances, it's personal again when Peter withdraws the judgeship offer because of L & G's treatment of Alicia. Bad Peter. Though it didn't come as a surprise really; I was hoping Diane would get that judgeship, but couldn't see the show letting her exit or only show up as a guest star on a Doylist level, plus at a Watsonian one she just couldn't let L & G go down in these particular circumstances. And there has been the obvious foreshadowing of Will & Diane versus Alicia & Cary last season, which doesn't work if it's solely Will.
And in conclusion: bring on the mighty struggle to come!
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