commotiocordis

Okay, 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 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 having 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.

In 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).