The Good Wife 3.14 Another Ham Sandwich

[selenak]

In which Will is the case of the week and I'm not sure how I feel about a lot of things.

Comments

[bibliolicious]

I'm in sympathy with your reading of WSC; I found the climax of the grand jury scenes, with its Victory For Common Sense vibe, a bit cringeworthy, and so much of the case she *did* have was based on the gossip of her subordinates, not her own skills. That said, in general I think she has been a more interesting and better-written antagonist than Bond in s2: we've met her family, we've seen her in various contexts, and we've seen before, in her interactions with Alicia, that she has a significant temper beneath that calm and smiley exterior: she's not just a villain for the sake of villainy. I also don't think she's out of the game yet.

I read Dana differently, though. We have seen Dana be competent in the past, and I imagine we will again; I also feel like I've got quite a clear sense of her as a person over this half-season, above and beyond the particular plotline she's a part of. Her problem in this situation is not that she's not competent at her job, but that she was out of her depth and being pushed to do something she wasn't comfortable with or experienced in (and that wasn't her job), i.e. seduction and blackmail. Her conflict was clear enough that I thought she remained sympathetic throughout.

[selenak]

It's true we have far more context for Wendy than we had for Bond, but that's still damning with faint praise, since we had virtually nothing for Bond at all.

Dana: agreed, especially because as you say we've seen her competent in the past.