this isn't about money, this is about us | the good wife
WILL AND DIANE, WILL AND DIANE, OH NO!!!
when diane says "i must have really hurt you" i may have whispered 'nooooooo' at my screen. alicia looked like she was going to start tearing up tbh, and i felt the same way.
AND THIS IS JUST A PRECURSOR TO ALICIA LEAVING THE FIRM IM FIJDOFJDLJFLDV. SO EXCITED/SCARED FOR NEXT, NEXT WEEK (ACCORDING TO PROMOS). MOSTLY SCARED.
also kudos to the show for actually making me care about will's feelings whilst ALSO making him a morally grey character. his character type, 'smart asshole self-interested guy' so often becomes either insufferable or since he's also a love interest, unable to ever do anything shady again and therefore boring. but the show definitely makes you sympathise with him even as he's being a little shit. like when he's running and he gets the fact check call, you're 100% on his side. but when he's sitting across for diane, already having mentally burned his bridges you're like 'WILL NO STOP DON'T DO IT'. a++ show.
on the other hand, SO OVER PETER'S ENTIRE SHITTY HUSBAND DEAL. honestly i would prefer it if he genuinely did stay completely faithful to alicia but she divorces him anyway because she's not able to forgive him. even if he loves her, even if he's faithful, she's never going to love him again. i think that's the truest thing for alicia's character. i think she has genuine belief in him as a politician, so she's willing to forgive him for possible bribery and corruption. but she needed him to be her partner in their marriage, to give her the sort of stable, loving family her parents never had. she knew she could have been content with that for the rest of their lives. and she'll never have that now. that's the one thing i think she'll never forgive him for.
(i love the way she hesitated when peter brought up the renewal of the vows and then after he said 'i love you'. she doesn't know it yet, that she can't love him, but i think she's going to figure it out soon. she definitely respects his role as the father of her children, but there's no love any more.)
i also think it's really interesting in how that factors into her relationship with kalinda. now personally, i'm not happy that they chose to have alicia and kalinda not make up, especially as it means there's way less meat to kalinda's storylines lately. (also they should be mining kalinda's split loyalties just as much as they do alicia's. wasted opportunities here!!!!) but on the other hand, it says something really interesting about alicia's feelings about her marriage. i think if she could, she would hate peter. but she can't; because she has to be around him all the time, because her children love him, because they've had decades of marriage. but she can hate (or at least hate them more than peter) the people that helped break up her marriage. the problem is that for her, kalinda was a friend first. she was SO ANGRY that peter slept with kalinda and she kept saying "it had to be with MY FRIEND"; because now not only does she not have her one real friend, she can't hate help but hate her a little. i'm glad the show addressed the fact that kalinda and alicia essentially have no relationship anymore. it's really sad but makes a lot of sense. HOWEVER, i think if/when alicia DOES get rid of peter, and admit she can't love him any more, there will be space for alicia to reconcile with kalinda. i think it helps that alicia's rediscovering the joy she gets from her job and will realize that although her happy marriage is over, it inevitably would have imploded anyway. i'm crossing my fingers the creators will eventually have them be friends again. also because i need more alicia/kalinda/cary interactions a la season one at their new firm (<3).
when diane says "i must have really hurt you" i may have whispered 'nooooooo' at my screen. alicia looked like she was going to start tearing up tbh, and i felt the same way.
AND THIS IS JUST A PRECURSOR TO ALICIA LEAVING THE FIRM IM FIJDOFJDLJFLDV. SO EXCITED/SCARED FOR NEXT, NEXT WEEK (ACCORDING TO PROMOS). MOSTLY SCARED.
also kudos to the show for actually making me care about will's feelings whilst ALSO making him a morally grey character. his character type, 'smart asshole self-interested guy' so often becomes either insufferable or since he's also a love interest, unable to ever do anything shady again and therefore boring. but the show definitely makes you sympathise with him even as he's being a little shit. like when he's running and he gets the fact check call, you're 100% on his side. but when he's sitting across for diane, already having mentally burned his bridges you're like 'WILL NO STOP DON'T DO IT'. a++ show.
on the other hand, SO OVER PETER'S ENTIRE SHITTY HUSBAND DEAL. honestly i would prefer it if he genuinely did stay completely faithful to alicia but she divorces him anyway because she's not able to forgive him. even if he loves her, even if he's faithful, she's never going to love him again. i think that's the truest thing for alicia's character. i think she has genuine belief in him as a politician, so she's willing to forgive him for possible bribery and corruption. but she needed him to be her partner in their marriage, to give her the sort of stable, loving family her parents never had. she knew she could have been content with that for the rest of their lives. and she'll never have that now. that's the one thing i think she'll never forgive him for.
(i love the way she hesitated when peter brought up the renewal of the vows and then after he said 'i love you'. she doesn't know it yet, that she can't love him, but i think she's going to figure it out soon. she definitely respects his role as the father of her children, but there's no love any more.)
i also think it's really interesting in how that factors into her relationship with kalinda. now personally, i'm not happy that they chose to have alicia and kalinda not make up, especially as it means there's way less meat to kalinda's storylines lately. (also they should be mining kalinda's split loyalties just as much as they do alicia's. wasted opportunities here!!!!) but on the other hand, it says something really interesting about alicia's feelings about her marriage. i think if she could, she would hate peter. but she can't; because she has to be around him all the time, because her children love him, because they've had decades of marriage. but she can hate (or at least hate them more than peter) the people that helped break up her marriage. the problem is that for her, kalinda was a friend first. she was SO ANGRY that peter slept with kalinda and she kept saying "it had to be with MY FRIEND"; because now not only does she not have her one real friend, she can't hate help but hate her a little. i'm glad the show addressed the fact that kalinda and alicia essentially have no relationship anymore. it's really sad but makes a lot of sense. HOWEVER, i think if/when alicia DOES get rid of peter, and admit she can't love him any more, there will be space for alicia to reconcile with kalinda. i think it helps that alicia's rediscovering the joy she gets from her job and will realize that although her happy marriage is over, it inevitably would have imploded anyway. i'm crossing my fingers the creators will eventually have them be friends again. also because i need more alicia/kalinda/cary interactions a la season one at their new firm (<3).