[flashback]

[tellitslant]

WOW this ep of The Good Wife was cinematographically a love letter to their first season, wasn't it? That final scene - Alicia at the podium - was framed and cut perfectly to echo her standing there with Peter in the first episode. I love how smart this show is, I love it.

Also: Elsbeth. That is all.

Comments

[jae]

I wasn't nuts about it, but I did like the last scene and especially the last montage with all of the contrasts. It could be argued that it was too on-the-nose, but I frankly didn't care. :)

-J

[tellitslant]

Oh, really? What didn't you like about it? I thoroughly enjoyed it, except for not being entirely sure what I thought about the Kalinda storyline.

[jae]

The quirky parts of this show are not really for me, and they were not only in abundance in this episode, they were actually even more over-the-top than usual. And kind of confusing.

-J

[tellitslant]

Ah! Makes sense. I loved seeing the inside of Elsbeth's brain, though, I must say.

The more I think about it, the more I feel like this ep did Kalinda a disservice, rolling back to s1 characterization while ignoring a lot of her arc since. :/

[jae]

Yeah, and I totally had mixed feelings about that. I liked seeing the Kalinda I loved, but it also really underscored the fact that she is just not allowed to grow on this show.

-J

[hobbitbabe]

It wasn't just the podium scene - wasn't there also something, either in the first episode ever or in one of the flashbacks to that day later in S1, some Alicia Peter confrontation in a caterer's back hallway outside the press-conference room?

When I first realised that they were going to show us something from Elsbeth's point of view that was going to explain what was going on in her head, I had this weird flash of disappointment, because I didn't want that magical thing explained, especially in a way that made her seem wacky and not in control of it.

She's openly thrilled to see Alicia, and Alicia uses what she understands about Elsbeth without thinking twice, because she's not like that any more.

[tellitslant]

There were a bunch of cinematographic homages - I'd need to rewatch to catch all of them, but the one that clued me in was actually Kalinda catching the rolldown top of the elevator, like, yes, that reminds me of the last time she and Lana hid behind that kidn of door... :P

I can't decide what I thought of the Elsbeth's head thing! On the one hand, I liked the way she used it, but on the other it was a little trite. But on the other other hand it's still not clear exactly how it works, which is nice? Sigh.