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commotiocordisOkay, so we come back immediately after the hidden kiss. I put some exclamation points in this one too, but pretend the occasional screen cap is also a giant exclamation point.
!Will, to Kalinda. "Are you alright? You sound like you've been . . ." and here I expected 'crying', because it'd both throw us for a loop in re her sexual orientation issues and maybe make you suspicious that Lana was on to the right track thinking she was compromised, if she was shaken up afterwards. But I'll take "running". Because that means they done sex.|
I don't know if it's because there are so many random names or what, but I'm having a hard time following who is whom in this shooting thing. Which are the dirty cops, which are in the "task force", and which are the bad guys? Gorman just makes me think of Burn Gorman and Owen from Torchwood.
Hmm, in this grandma + pastor scene, she comes off less political awesome and more kind of vindictive. That's a nice vest, though, Pastor Isaiah. I'm kind of on his side--dude asked him. Dude asked pastor guy mostly for the support of the black caucus, I think, but still. Also, "This is a phase; you are a phase" sounds like Grandma Florrick's confronting her son's boyfriend.
Alicia/Will bit, blech. At first I thought he brought in the $8,000 bottle of wine, but no. Here, they remind me of the line from Firefly: This whole Captain thing isn't Zoe's trouble. It's the-guy-she-never-slept-with thing. Hell, Mal, I wish you had slept with her. Then at least she'd be over it. That seems like Alicia and Will's only thing to me, the "what if".
No, we don't always have options. I mean, technically, yes, but you're just sort of fooling around with this girl, Will. She's married. Those are somewhat on a different scale. Her "options" are considerably more limited than yours, particularly if we want to stay relatively within generally accepted moral boundaries. Idk. I don't usually have a huge thing about infidelity if it's done right (not like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bleakone), but with the kids and stuff and the fact that Will's pushing her . . . DNL.
!"What were you doing with Will?" Kalinda, girl, you are jealous! Alexandria's femslashingitup explanation: So last week, we had her sort of pushing Alicia towards Will, because she was still trying to be all "Oh, I'm so bisexual, watch me sleep with boys and not be attracted to my sortofboss." In this one, we find out Corrupt Boytoy is kind of corrupt (and possibly sort of gay; that intimate hug definitely pushed the boundaries of the "I've just been through a trauma and need comfort" interactions you usually see on TV between men), and Lana basically (silently, though possibly not so silently when they werehaving sex alone) calls her on crushing on Alicia. All her sexualityness has sort of been brought to the surface, making it raw enough that she comments after she calls and as seems to be becoming a pattern, Alicia is with Will.|
Will: "And the rest of the task force?"
Kalinda: "Innocent."
!She sounds (and looks! ^) displeased about this fact. Maybe because it was easy to think Corrupt Boytoy was corrupt and that was why she wasn't really attracted to him, rather than the fact that she just isn't really into men.
And then Alicia fiddles with her ring and says quickly "Well, we don't know that for sure," like she's trying to reassure Kalinda in some twisted backwards way?
The ring twist is what got me. Fiddling with your wedding ring while saying something casting aspersions on your friend's kindof boyfriend? Over-analyzed small movement leading to declaration of subtext, you are duly noted.|
Alicia is so in tune to Kalicia.
Will: "That explains the leak. When we counted who was in the room, we didn't count the wife."
Kalinda: ". . . yep." ________________________ Alicia: *gives Kalinda this look like "what aren't you telling me, darling?"*
And then Kalinda walks out. Will makes a confused face, and then there's a sort of awkward cut (it seems like she speaks too soon, and she does a weird head jerk like they caught it just a few frames too early and she had been looking off in Kalinda's direction but jerked herself back into the law) and Alicia's asking if they're going to take the money. Ahh, the lawyer/client privlidge and the ethical quagmires it can inspire.
And then Alicia pulls a Kalinda, upset at the unfairness of woman who got her husband killed profiting from it, and also walks out. Will makes the same confused face.
Yay! Lockhart and McVeigh. Boo! Kalinda and maybenotCorrupt Boytoy whose name is apparently Anthony.
Ha! Dumped. Your decision is a lot easier now, Kalinda darling. I like how she gave him the name of who really tipped off Gordon, like she realized she can maintain their professional give and take without giving in to his wheedling her for dates/kissing/sex.
(But your random bootstomp thing? That was just weird.)
How does a mural show courts making good decisions? I mean, how do you paint that? I get happy people, buildings going up, courtrooms with happy people in them, maybe, but happy people in courtrooms is hardly necessarily indicative of a good decision. I want to see these murals.
Basically, "Decisions are made by those who show up." I love politics.
Whoa, drinking your $8,000 bottle of wine alone? Isn't that kind of wasteful? I mean, I guess if you want to keep it all for yourself, LOL. But on the couch while moping about your not-girlfriend sounds like you're asking for a bad habit. Let's just assume he's drunk.
YES, ALICIA. Realism. You go, girl. "Poetry is easy. Parent-teacher conferences are hard."
Eli: "You're going to make my life hard, aren't you?" Alicia nods. He sort of smiles, like "bring it on." You're so awesome, Alan Cumming.
Oh, if they leave us on this until next season, I'm going to be displeased. That was a dick move. You decided, Will is mopey!drunk dialing you, and don't tell me you believe for a second that he came up with "a plan" in the 15 seconds you were off the phone. Gah. All the previews were "will they or won't they" and they didn't resolve it. Sure, I ended up loving this episode more than a million times more than I expected to (because all they teased us with was Alicia/Will), but that's one of my biggest pet peeves--they did it a lot in the last season and a half of The West Wing regarding the NASA plotline. It was like whoever made the teasers was wishfully thinking or teasing the entire plotline or something, because every other week it was "find out where the leak came from" or whatever, and yet it didn't happen for ages.
But in summary? YAY.
!Will, to Kalinda. "Are you alright? You sound like you've been . . ." and here I expected 'crying', because it'd both throw us for a loop in re her sexual orientation issues and maybe make you suspicious that Lana was on to the right track thinking she was compromised, if she was shaken up afterwards. But I'll take "running". Because that means they done sex.|
I don't know if it's because there are so many random names or what, but I'm having a hard time following who is whom in this shooting thing. Which are the dirty cops, which are in the "task force", and which are the bad guys? Gorman just makes me think of Burn Gorman and Owen from Torchwood.
Hmm, in this grandma + pastor scene, she comes off less political awesome and more kind of vindictive. That's a nice vest, though, Pastor Isaiah. I'm kind of on his side--dude asked him. Dude asked pastor guy mostly for the support of the black caucus, I think, but still. Also, "This is a phase; you are a phase" sounds like Grandma Florrick's confronting her son's boyfriend.
Alicia/Will bit, blech. At first I thought he brought in the $8,000 bottle of wine, but no. Here, they remind me of the line from Firefly: This whole Captain thing isn't Zoe's trouble. It's the-guy-she-never-slept-with thing. Hell, Mal, I wish you had slept with her. Then at least she'd be over it. That seems like Alicia and Will's only thing to me, the "what if".
No, we don't always have options. I mean, technically, yes, but you're just sort of fooling around with this girl, Will. She's married. Those are somewhat on a different scale. Her "options" are considerably more limited than yours, particularly if we want to stay relatively within generally accepted moral boundaries. Idk. I don't usually have a huge thing about infidelity if it's done right (not like
bleakone), but with the kids and stuff and the fact that Will's pushing her . . . DNL.!"What were you doing with Will?" Kalinda, girl, you are jealous! Alexandria's femslashingitup explanation: So last week, we had her sort of pushing Alicia towards Will, because she was still trying to be all "Oh, I'm so bisexual, watch me sleep with boys and not be attracted to my sortofboss." In this one, we find out Corrupt Boytoy is kind of corrupt (and possibly sort of gay; that intimate hug definitely pushed the boundaries of the "I've just been through a trauma and need comfort" interactions you usually see on TV between men), and Lana basically (silently, though possibly not so silently when they were
Will: "And the rest of the task force?"
Kalinda: "Innocent."
!She sounds (and looks! ^) displeased about this fact. Maybe because it was easy to think Corrupt Boytoy was corrupt and that was why she wasn't really attracted to him, rather than the fact that she just isn't really into men.
And then Alicia fiddles with her ring and says quickly "Well, we don't know that for sure," like she's trying to reassure Kalinda in some twisted backwards way?
The ring twist is what got me. Fiddling with your wedding ring while saying something casting aspersions on your friend's kindof boyfriend? Over-analyzed small movement leading to declaration of subtext, you are duly noted.|
Alicia is so in tune to Kalicia.
Will: "That explains the leak. When we counted who was in the room, we didn't count the wife."
Kalinda: ". . . yep." ________________________ Alicia: *gives Kalinda this look like "what aren't you telling me, darling?"*
And then Kalinda walks out. Will makes a confused face, and then there's a sort of awkward cut (it seems like she speaks too soon, and she does a weird head jerk like they caught it just a few frames too early and she had been looking off in Kalinda's direction but jerked herself back into the law) and Alicia's asking if they're going to take the money. Ahh, the lawyer/client privlidge and the ethical quagmires it can inspire.
And then Alicia pulls a Kalinda, upset at the unfairness of woman who got her husband killed profiting from it, and also walks out. Will makes the same confused face.
Yay! Lockhart and McVeigh. Boo! Kalinda and maybenotCorrupt Boytoy whose name is apparently Anthony.
Ha! Dumped. Your decision is a lot easier now, Kalinda darling. I like how she gave him the name of who really tipped off Gordon, like she realized she can maintain their professional give and take without giving in to his wheedling her for dates/kissing/sex.
(But your random bootstomp thing? That was just weird.)
How does a mural show courts making good decisions? I mean, how do you paint that? I get happy people, buildings going up, courtrooms with happy people in them, maybe, but happy people in courtrooms is hardly necessarily indicative of a good decision. I want to see these murals.
Basically, "Decisions are made by those who show up." I love politics.
Whoa, drinking your $8,000 bottle of wine alone? Isn't that kind of wasteful? I mean, I guess if you want to keep it all for yourself, LOL. But on the couch while moping about your not-girlfriend sounds like you're asking for a bad habit. Let's just assume he's drunk.
YES, ALICIA. Realism. You go, girl. "Poetry is easy. Parent-teacher conferences are hard."
Eli: "You're going to make my life hard, aren't you?" Alicia nods. He sort of smiles, like "bring it on." You're so awesome, Alan Cumming.
Oh, if they leave us on this until next season, I'm going to be displeased. That was a dick move. You decided, Will is mopey!drunk dialing you, and don't tell me you believe for a second that he came up with "a plan" in the 15 seconds you were off the phone. Gah. All the previews were "will they or won't they" and they didn't resolve it. Sure, I ended up loving this episode more than a million times more than I expected to (because all they teased us with was Alicia/Will), but that's one of my biggest pet peeves--they did it a lot in the last season and a half of The West Wing regarding the NASA plotline. It was like whoever made the teasers was wishfully thinking or teasing the entire plotline or something, because every other week it was "find out where the leak came from" or whatever, and yet it didn't happen for ages.
But in summary? YAY.
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Date: 2010-05-26 10:06 pm (UTC)But it's in the morning brew. :D
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Date: 2010-05-26 10:44 pm (UTC)Thanks! Hmm . . . withholding the visual to be mysterious and leave some doors for later only works if there's some question about what went on. Especially with Lana's foot rocking backwards after Kalinda took a step forward and Will's comment afterward, it was obvious they were supposed to be kissing. I would get it if the producers said this after they'd pulled back from the flirting, making it obvious that there was something there but not explicitly defining it, but this felt like A) they didn't want to show kissing for the sheer sake of it being gay and/or B) they wanted to be artsy about it and frame a weird shot (it reminded me a little of the later series of the Granada Sherlock Holmes--I've never seen as many mirrors and strange angles used for filming in my life as in a single episode of the series).
we're not trying to limit the extent of our gay PDA. Just trying to keep something for later
And by later, they mean next sweeps week. :P
Definitely hand-wavey, but for not building this up and advertising anything they failed to deliver, I still award GW the points. It was such a pleasant surprise--last time there was gay with a TV character I liked, it was "Lucky Thirteen" and there was literally more girlykissing in the commercial than the episode itself!