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tellitslant) wrote2011-04-14 12:42 am
tellitslant) wrote2011-04-14 12:42 am
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[for she's a jolly good fellow]
OH GOD, I don't really have time to post about ANYTHING due to must-be-writing stress (it's extra fun when that stress redirects itself! I nearly hyperventilated on the high street today and had to go in to the bank to prove to myself that the rest of my tuition hadn't evaporated from my account, yay displaced anxiety). HOWEVER. I cannot let another episode of The Good Wife go by without squee.
I don't think I've had time to say anything, except possibly on twitter, about the whole Kalinda slept with Peter thing, and OH MY GOD blowing my mind.
I mean, first, entirely putting aside the fact of Kalinda, it is a complete refutation of much of what Peter said when the scandal first broke: his liasons with the prostitute/s were totally personal, he never misused the power of his office, blah blah blah. And here we are finding out that he did in fact let his, ah, indiscretions infect his professional life: Kalinda was an employee, plus he apparently took sexual favours in return for smoothing the way on her name change and/or heping to erase her past, neither of which are particularly legal. SO, Alicia has just won him the election; she now knows that Leela is Kalinda and Kalinda slept with Peter; I suspect Kalinda will tell Alicia the truth about why; and Alicia will have the power to break this scandal and probably knock Peter right back out of office. (I don't think Cary has the full puzzle, as I don't believe he knows about Leela; Blake sems to have disappeared/met a "dead" end; neither Peter nor Kalinda would willingly break the news.) WHAT WILL SHE DO. We are finally seeing Alicia break, and I have a feeling it's going to break me.
Second, you cannot convince me that the show has not deliberately given Kalinda a crush on Alicia. I mean, it's not even that I ship them (though I kind of do). It's that I sincerely believe that Kalinda has canonically found herself falling for Alicia both platonically and romantically, that she doesn't usually allow herself those kinds of emotions, that she somehow managed to (convince herself to) forget that Alicia and "Mrs. Peter Florrick" were the same person, and that now she can see the unravelling of her own relationship with Alicia and the pain that they're both going to go through. (And if you have a different interpretation, don't tell me, because I'm kind of enjoying my tragedy.)
Archie Panjabi deserves another Emmy just for Kalinda's FACE as she has to confront all of these facts, first with Blake, then with Cary, and then this episode as she tries to get the courage to talk to Alicia. And the scene with Will? God! You can't tell me that Kalinda isn't trying to get Will to tell Alicia that she's fantastic a) because Kalinda cannot tell Alicia that she's fantastic, though she wants to, and b) because Kalinda knows that the news is going to break and is trying to set Alicia up with someplace to land. Honestly, how else can you read that? Kalinda's trying to make amends, in her own manipulative way. And Alicia at the end of the episode! *whimper* Julianna Margulies is really going to kill in the leadup to the finale. If this show doesn't get renewed I... don't know what I'll do.
Also great: Diane and the Democratic Committee! Keeping those hopes for a judgeship alive! And Eli and Natalie, sigh. The timing just wasn't right for them. Keep that flame alive! The meta of a show about lawyers having a lawyer who is an actor who plays a lawyer discussing the impact of television! What else do I need to say about that? :P
Do you know, we didn't see Peter at all this episode, not even at his own victory party. I love that.
I don't think I've had time to say anything, except possibly on twitter, about the whole Kalinda slept with Peter thing, and OH MY GOD blowing my mind.
I mean, first, entirely putting aside the fact of Kalinda, it is a complete refutation of much of what Peter said when the scandal first broke: his liasons with the prostitute/s were totally personal, he never misused the power of his office, blah blah blah. And here we are finding out that he did in fact let his, ah, indiscretions infect his professional life: Kalinda was an employee, plus he apparently took sexual favours in return for smoothing the way on her name change and/or heping to erase her past, neither of which are particularly legal. SO, Alicia has just won him the election; she now knows that Leela is Kalinda and Kalinda slept with Peter; I suspect Kalinda will tell Alicia the truth about why; and Alicia will have the power to break this scandal and probably knock Peter right back out of office. (I don't think Cary has the full puzzle, as I don't believe he knows about Leela; Blake sems to have disappeared/met a "dead" end; neither Peter nor Kalinda would willingly break the news.) WHAT WILL SHE DO. We are finally seeing Alicia break, and I have a feeling it's going to break me.
Second, you cannot convince me that the show has not deliberately given Kalinda a crush on Alicia. I mean, it's not even that I ship them (though I kind of do). It's that I sincerely believe that Kalinda has canonically found herself falling for Alicia both platonically and romantically, that she doesn't usually allow herself those kinds of emotions, that she somehow managed to (convince herself to) forget that Alicia and "Mrs. Peter Florrick" were the same person, and that now she can see the unravelling of her own relationship with Alicia and the pain that they're both going to go through. (And if you have a different interpretation, don't tell me, because I'm kind of enjoying my tragedy.)
Archie Panjabi deserves another Emmy just for Kalinda's FACE as she has to confront all of these facts, first with Blake, then with Cary, and then this episode as she tries to get the courage to talk to Alicia. And the scene with Will? God! You can't tell me that Kalinda isn't trying to get Will to tell Alicia that she's fantastic a) because Kalinda cannot tell Alicia that she's fantastic, though she wants to, and b) because Kalinda knows that the news is going to break and is trying to set Alicia up with someplace to land. Honestly, how else can you read that? Kalinda's trying to make amends, in her own manipulative way. And Alicia at the end of the episode! *whimper* Julianna Margulies is really going to kill in the leadup to the finale. If this show doesn't get renewed I... don't know what I'll do.
Also great: Diane and the Democratic Committee! Keeping those hopes for a judgeship alive! And Eli and Natalie, sigh. The timing just wasn't right for them. Keep that flame alive! The meta of a show about lawyers having a lawyer who is an actor who plays a lawyer discussing the impact of television! What else do I need to say about that? :P
Do you know, we didn't see Peter at all this episode, not even at his own victory party. I love that.