The Good Wife 5.08
Nov. 19th, 2013 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakThis season has really been excellent so far, especially in comparison to the last one. Actually going through with certain plot elements seems to have revitalized the show.
Now, I've been calling Lockhart & Gardner L & G all the time, but that's because I'm too lazy to type the full name every time, not because I have a hankering for initials. Methinks Diane didn't look really convinced at Will's "it's LG now!" speech. Oh, and Howard must really have some serious money invested in the firm, because why they would keep him around when he's only damaging as soon as he opens his mouth in the company of strangers is beyond me. (I mean: Stern, who was one of the original founders and a good lawyer, got the axe when because of his sickness he started to damage cases. How come no one thought of removing Howard yet? Because they need the comic relief?)
But never mind L & G - or rather LG, the meat of the episode was Florick & Agos battling immigration bureaucracy and winning their first case, with the crucial help of Robin who by overhearing Other Cary's conversation with Cary (show, you really should have given Other Cary another first name, this is confusing and makes the Carys sound like Two Face! Especially with a Robin overhearing them!) knew her job was in danger. Though the goal was saving a man from deportation and death-by-gangster, there were shades of grey motives all around. Alicia, as opposed to clueless Howard over at L & G, took Natalie serious from the start, but then she knew Natalie was an influential lobbyist, and her telling Cary & the others to take the case was based not on the case's own merits but on the prospect of further cases via Natalie. Robin, following Kalinda's advice (btw, lovely scene, that one), in the course of being supercompetent and indispensable as not to lose her job didn't shy away from faking a threat which was bound to horrify and terribly scare their client's wife. Will after hearing Natalie was working for an influential potential client worked to woo her back to L & G, when he couldn't have cared less solely based on the immigration case. Natalie despite knowing Alicia and Cary were doing their best (and did eventually come through for Tomas) also was put off by the bare warehouse they'd taken as their new office and of course was ware L & G was the more powerful firm, so brought her boss there (only for Howard to mess up again).
Speaking of Natalie: I like America Ferrara, but I'm still not sold on Eli/Natalie as a pairing. Not least, and I find this weirdly old fashioned of me considering some of the pairings in other fandoms which do work for me, because she's so much younger than him. Seriously though, one of the reasons why Diane/Kurt does work for me, great chemistry aside, is that it's that rare example of two middle aged characters played by two middle aged actors, andI think an Eli pairing that involved a woman more his own age (or a man, for that matter) would work better for me. And would not make me wonder about Eli & young women in general, considering all his encounters with Becky the vicious teen queen, or his relationship with his daughter.
Now, I've been calling Lockhart & Gardner L & G all the time, but that's because I'm too lazy to type the full name every time, not because I have a hankering for initials. Methinks Diane didn't look really convinced at Will's "it's LG now!" speech. Oh, and Howard must really have some serious money invested in the firm, because why they would keep him around when he's only damaging as soon as he opens his mouth in the company of strangers is beyond me. (I mean: Stern, who was one of the original founders and a good lawyer, got the axe when because of his sickness he started to damage cases. How come no one thought of removing Howard yet? Because they need the comic relief?)
But never mind L & G - or rather LG, the meat of the episode was Florick & Agos battling immigration bureaucracy and winning their first case, with the crucial help of Robin who by overhearing Other Cary's conversation with Cary (show, you really should have given Other Cary another first name, this is confusing and makes the Carys sound like Two Face! Especially with a Robin overhearing them!) knew her job was in danger. Though the goal was saving a man from deportation and death-by-gangster, there were shades of grey motives all around. Alicia, as opposed to clueless Howard over at L & G, took Natalie serious from the start, but then she knew Natalie was an influential lobbyist, and her telling Cary & the others to take the case was based not on the case's own merits but on the prospect of further cases via Natalie. Robin, following Kalinda's advice (btw, lovely scene, that one), in the course of being supercompetent and indispensable as not to lose her job didn't shy away from faking a threat which was bound to horrify and terribly scare their client's wife. Will after hearing Natalie was working for an influential potential client worked to woo her back to L & G, when he couldn't have cared less solely based on the immigration case. Natalie despite knowing Alicia and Cary were doing their best (and did eventually come through for Tomas) also was put off by the bare warehouse they'd taken as their new office and of course was ware L & G was the more powerful firm, so brought her boss there (only for Howard to mess up again).
Speaking of Natalie: I like America Ferrara, but I'm still not sold on Eli/Natalie as a pairing. Not least, and I find this weirdly old fashioned of me considering some of the pairings in other fandoms which do work for me, because she's so much younger than him. Seriously though, one of the reasons why Diane/Kurt does work for me, great chemistry aside, is that it's that rare example of two middle aged characters played by two middle aged actors, andI think an Eli pairing that involved a woman more his own age (or a man, for that matter) would work better for me. And would not make me wonder about Eli & young women in general, considering all his encounters with Becky the vicious teen queen, or his relationship with his daughter.
