give and take
Jun. 15th, 2013 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI watched The Good Wife a day after it aired (both Nashville and Up the Women can wait).
Ep 4.21 A More Perfect Union
I enjoyed it, especially the ramifications of the case at the firm and for the firm (typical ending that Chum-Hum bought it out). The thing is, I was brought up in a culture where unions are seen as a good thing and the principles of collective bargaining and being stronger together seem self-evident to me, so I was responding emotionally to that. I’ll spare you and note that the partners used the same tactics on the assistants as they did on Alicia, who is still adjusting to being ‘management’. And if I were the rest of the partners - the ones who are more reasonable than David Lee - I'd start to resent her attitude.
Diane didn’t have much to do except talk about precedent.
We got Will-Kalinda scenes! And she left him enough breadcrumbs, intentionally or not, that he should be able to see the break-off fourth years coming.
David Lee/Veronica will give me nightmares. I am impressed with that lady who put up with him for all those years.
It was good to see her family’s take on Alicia’s situation. I always love what Owen brings out of Alicia anyway. You’d think that after all these years, Veronica should have realised that Alicia will often do the very opposite of what she said just because she said it. But then if she thought before she talked, she wouldn’t be such an interesting character.
Was what she said in her ultimatum to Will the right assessment? It’s interesting that Alicia made a condition of Peter’s fidelity when she’s struggling with her feelings for Will. It’s not unreasonable, GIVEN WHAT PETER DID, but I don’t think it’s lack of trust in him in that aspect that’s going to be the main issue for them. Things have changed. She explored what there was between her and Will, shut it off before it developed – "for the kids", but then she’d never let it be a potentially long-term relationship, tried to keep it casual, compartmentalised because she thought that was what she needed and finds (still!) that there were too many feelings for that.
But even pushing that aside, or thinking of it as a symptom of the new life she’s had to carve out for herself since Peter’s misdemeanours came out, has Alicia thought about what renewing their vows means? It means a change from this whatever they have – sex and dating? – and not quite so much of the control for her. Does it not mean moving back into the house? Perhaps Peter winning will help because that’ll be another change in their lives.
So, despite the fact that I could see why Owen swung slightly more in favour of Peter, and he certainly does seem to be acting out of love and listening and trying, I still think there are huge issues/can rationalise the shipper in me who wants it to be Will/Alicia all the way.
For the next and last episode, there’s so much left up in the air about the firm’s future – will Diane leave, will Cary and co. leave, will Kalinda decide on exclusivity (heh and ha, given it's Kalinda) (with whom?) and will Alicia stay? Will Peter win (for extrinsic reasons and because that’s the most dynamic thing, I tend to think ‘yes’)? Will Will act on Veronica’s words (probably, and I will swoon) but will Alicia go ahead and renew her vows anyway?
I suspect the series will end with several of those questions not fully answered.
Ep 4.21 A More Perfect Union
I enjoyed it, especially the ramifications of the case at the firm and for the firm (typical ending that Chum-Hum bought it out). The thing is, I was brought up in a culture where unions are seen as a good thing and the principles of collective bargaining and being stronger together seem self-evident to me, so I was responding emotionally to that. I’ll spare you and note that the partners used the same tactics on the assistants as they did on Alicia, who is still adjusting to being ‘management’. And if I were the rest of the partners - the ones who are more reasonable than David Lee - I'd start to resent her attitude.
Diane didn’t have much to do except talk about precedent.
We got Will-Kalinda scenes! And she left him enough breadcrumbs, intentionally or not, that he should be able to see the break-off fourth years coming.
David Lee/Veronica will give me nightmares. I am impressed with that lady who put up with him for all those years.
It was good to see her family’s take on Alicia’s situation. I always love what Owen brings out of Alicia anyway. You’d think that after all these years, Veronica should have realised that Alicia will often do the very opposite of what she said just because she said it. But then if she thought before she talked, she wouldn’t be such an interesting character.
Was what she said in her ultimatum to Will the right assessment? It’s interesting that Alicia made a condition of Peter’s fidelity when she’s struggling with her feelings for Will. It’s not unreasonable, GIVEN WHAT PETER DID, but I don’t think it’s lack of trust in him in that aspect that’s going to be the main issue for them. Things have changed. She explored what there was between her and Will, shut it off before it developed – "for the kids", but then she’d never let it be a potentially long-term relationship, tried to keep it casual, compartmentalised because she thought that was what she needed and finds (still!) that there were too many feelings for that.
But even pushing that aside, or thinking of it as a symptom of the new life she’s had to carve out for herself since Peter’s misdemeanours came out, has Alicia thought about what renewing their vows means? It means a change from this whatever they have – sex and dating? – and not quite so much of the control for her. Does it not mean moving back into the house? Perhaps Peter winning will help because that’ll be another change in their lives.
So, despite the fact that I could see why Owen swung slightly more in favour of Peter, and he certainly does seem to be acting out of love and listening and trying, I still think there are huge issues/can rationalise the shipper in me who wants it to be Will/Alicia all the way.
For the next and last episode, there’s so much left up in the air about the firm’s future – will Diane leave, will Cary and co. leave, will Kalinda decide on exclusivity (heh and ha, given it's Kalinda) (with whom?) and will Alicia stay? Will Peter win (for extrinsic reasons and because that’s the most dynamic thing, I tend to think ‘yes’)? Will Will act on Veronica’s words (probably, and I will swoon) but will Alicia go ahead and renew her vows anyway?
I suspect the series will end with several of those questions not fully answered.
