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May. 22nd, 2010 09:29 amIn regards to the House season finale.
It needed to be Wilson that found House at the end. I used to love Cuddy so hard, but DNW. Not how it's supposed to go. Bros before hos. I think it would have meant more, too, because like TPTB have said before, House can only be happy for short periods of time or he's not House. The counter to that was do you think that House and Cuddy would be all rainbows and sunshine? No, that's true, but still, ancient friendship > on again/off again/mostly unrequited romance. Would have meant more.
I reallyreallyreallyreally hope they do another "all in House's head" thing just to fuck with the Huddy folks' heads. It would be hilarious. Because who cares if he didn't take the Vicodin--a brick probably fell on his head at some point! That was the first thing in my head.
Overall? Didn't like the episode. House emoting to the patient seemed artificial, the Thirteen thing got hidden by the Huddy and pt dying, the crane driver's resolution was both hidden and stupid, and I really would have liked to see more mass casualty dealings. I've got a Holmes fic idea jotted down from ages ago where Holmes basically goes "House in the clinic" on Watson's patients--that's what I wanted to see more of in this episode. What he did at the beginning to the guy who wouldn't have made it even with surgery was great. Basically, more medicine, less of this emoting shit. Because if you bring it out bit by bit, it's believable. Emoting to a patient both has been done at least twice a season and doesn't ring as anything but artificial when he sits there and monologues like that.
In regards to The Good Wife's "Hybristophilia":
First, KALINDAKALINDAKALINDA.
Next, I liked how the sort of bumbly red haired lawyer got everything to work and got Peter off. They played it up a little bit too much with the computer thing in this episode (one or two key combination messups would have been fine, but the scene went on way too long), but it was good.
Third, Kalinda? I like this internalized homo-apathy (as a plot device, obviously, not like-like), as I decided to call it--she's not homophobic that we've seen, but definitely uncomfortable. The pilot script calls her bisexual, but I'm not seeing that. I'm seeing maybe someone who's telling herself she's bisexual because she thinks maybe that's easier (which it's totally not, thanks to biphobia and so much misunderstanding, but the bi-now, gay-later phenomenon is real, if definitely not universal--me being case in point). She's dating/doing women behind the scenes, but girl is closeted as fuck--"I'm private" to someone who's a pretty close friend, who you've talked about love lives right and left to, is almost the same as not admitting it to yourself.
And the bit where she slept (or whatever) with that investigator guy last week or the week before? Whoa. Her conflictedness was impressive. I read that as not only is she sleeping with a guy, which isn't her preference, she's doing it to maintain this work connection. And though she uses her body all the time to pretend to be other people or flirt or whatever to get information, this was the first time she'd crossed *that* line (though maybe it was helped out by her being all "Oh, I'm so bisexual. See, watch me do a guy! I'm not *totally* gay" to herself). If they threw in that once-over of the female bartender to show that she's bisexual, TPTB are doing it wrong, because that was almost wistful and thus invalidated any and all belief we may have had that she was walking off with that guy because that's the way she swings--summary? Kalinda is gay.
It makes me wonder if Alicia had asked if Kalinda was bisexual, would she have answered? I kind of think maybe. Kalinda's holding on to this bisexuality as an intermediate step in figuring herself out, and it might have been less of a shock that Alicia asked, thus not causing her to recoil completely into the non-answer answer of "I'm private".
Away from Kalinda, I'm not looking forward to more of the will she/won't she of Alicia and Will. I don't like Will. He's not pretty enough for her, and he seems to have very little consideration of the impact of whatever they're doing together on her, sort of pulling her into it selfishly. Do I think she should stand by her man? Not necessarily. But she does have kids, and leaving their father is one thing, leaving their father to fool around with some other guy is another. I mean, do him or don't do him, but even though I really care about Alicia, I don't care enough about Will for this debate to mean anything to me, and thus it feels like it's gone on way too long. They should resolve it once and for all this season finale, because we're not invested enough in both parties for it to have much of a suspenseful impact (unlike, say, House and Cuddy).
It needed to be Wilson that found House at the end. I used to love Cuddy so hard, but DNW. Not how it's supposed to go. Bros before hos. I think it would have meant more, too, because like TPTB have said before, House can only be happy for short periods of time or he's not House. The counter to that was do you think that House and Cuddy would be all rainbows and sunshine? No, that's true, but still, ancient friendship > on again/off again/mostly unrequited romance. Would have meant more.
I reallyreallyreallyreally hope they do another "all in House's head" thing just to fuck with the Huddy folks' heads. It would be hilarious. Because who cares if he didn't take the Vicodin--a brick probably fell on his head at some point! That was the first thing in my head.
Overall? Didn't like the episode. House emoting to the patient seemed artificial, the Thirteen thing got hidden by the Huddy and pt dying, the crane driver's resolution was both hidden and stupid, and I really would have liked to see more mass casualty dealings. I've got a Holmes fic idea jotted down from ages ago where Holmes basically goes "House in the clinic" on Watson's patients--that's what I wanted to see more of in this episode. What he did at the beginning to the guy who wouldn't have made it even with surgery was great. Basically, more medicine, less of this emoting shit. Because if you bring it out bit by bit, it's believable. Emoting to a patient both has been done at least twice a season and doesn't ring as anything but artificial when he sits there and monologues like that.
In regards to The Good Wife's "Hybristophilia":
First, KALINDAKALINDAKALINDA.
Next, I liked how the sort of bumbly red haired lawyer got everything to work and got Peter off. They played it up a little bit too much with the computer thing in this episode (one or two key combination messups would have been fine, but the scene went on way too long), but it was good.
Third, Kalinda? I like this internalized homo-apathy (as a plot device, obviously, not like-like), as I decided to call it--she's not homophobic that we've seen, but definitely uncomfortable. The pilot script calls her bisexual, but I'm not seeing that. I'm seeing maybe someone who's telling herself she's bisexual because she thinks maybe that's easier (which it's totally not, thanks to biphobia and so much misunderstanding, but the bi-now, gay-later phenomenon is real, if definitely not universal--me being case in point). She's dating/doing women behind the scenes, but girl is closeted as fuck--"I'm private" to someone who's a pretty close friend, who you've talked about love lives right and left to, is almost the same as not admitting it to yourself.
And the bit where she slept (or whatever) with that investigator guy last week or the week before? Whoa. Her conflictedness was impressive. I read that as not only is she sleeping with a guy, which isn't her preference, she's doing it to maintain this work connection. And though she uses her body all the time to pretend to be other people or flirt or whatever to get information, this was the first time she'd crossed *that* line (though maybe it was helped out by her being all "Oh, I'm so bisexual. See, watch me do a guy! I'm not *totally* gay" to herself). If they threw in that once-over of the female bartender to show that she's bisexual, TPTB are doing it wrong, because that was almost wistful and thus invalidated any and all belief we may have had that she was walking off with that guy because that's the way she swings--summary? Kalinda is gay.
It makes me wonder if Alicia had asked if Kalinda was bisexual, would she have answered? I kind of think maybe. Kalinda's holding on to this bisexuality as an intermediate step in figuring herself out, and it might have been less of a shock that Alicia asked, thus not causing her to recoil completely into the non-answer answer of "I'm private".
Away from Kalinda, I'm not looking forward to more of the will she/won't she of Alicia and Will. I don't like Will. He's not pretty enough for her, and he seems to have very little consideration of the impact of whatever they're doing together on her, sort of pulling her into it selfishly. Do I think she should stand by her man? Not necessarily. But she does have kids, and leaving their father is one thing, leaving their father to fool around with some other guy is another. I mean, do him or don't do him, but even though I really care about Alicia, I don't care enough about Will for this debate to mean anything to me, and thus it feels like it's gone on way too long. They should resolve it once and for all this season finale, because we're not invested enough in both parties for it to have much of a suspenseful impact (unlike, say, House and Cuddy).
