The Good Wife 4.12
You know, I'm starting to suspect one member of the scriptwriting team has European issues to work out. :)
Between the Will versus an English Judge a season or two ago and now Will versus French, German and Italian Judges plot lines, that is. In both cases, the gags are build around the Europeans being snobbish and Will being out of his depth, but the ladies coming to his rescue, showing up the Europeans. (Meanwhile, of course, I've watched the second season of Silk, where in one of the episodes there is a Martha versus The Americans And Their Death Penalty plotline.:) ) Mind you, it's all worth it for hearing Will get called "a pitiable victim our our American education system" in French. Also, I must admit that the gag with the German judge coming around when Elsbeth reveals the French judge disqualified the German athlet may be cheap, but it's true. This would so happen, wouldn't it, fellow Germans? I laughed. But I still think someone in the scriptwriting team has issues. :) Guys, it's not our fault that learning more than one language in school isn't an option, it's a duty on the continent and that our geography means we have people talking other languages in a few hours distance pretty much everywhere. And I swear our newspapers don't use the "Rambo" for Americans designation more than once a months. (Or twice. Or thrice, under Bush.) :)
Anyway. It was a fluffy episode for the most part, and as I had expected Elsbeth to defend Eli, see last review, unsurprising in its outcome, but I always enjoy watching Elsbeth, and it made sense for eveyone at L & G to help her out. The big character and in depth writing scene was in the other plotline, the race bias conversation between Geneva and Peter, but if it's not to stand alone in a, err, generally les ssuccessful handlling of the issues it adresses, there has to be follow up, and so I will defer my judgment save to say that by itself, it was a really good scene. (And no, I don't think we're supposed to agree with Eli at the end; clearly the narrative as well as Peter and Mr. Young Hotshot don't. The fact that it's been eons and eons and seasons and seasons since Eli has been written as right and competent in his job is another issue and something of a dead equine on these pages, so let's leave it at that.)
State of the Floricks: it occurs to me that this current friends with benefits status, in which Alicia sets the rules, is probably the most she's enjoyed her private life since eons. (Pace, Will fans, I'm sure the sex was spectacular, but it came with feeling awkward at work and guilty at home with the kids. Plus he loved her more than she loved him.) This means she has no incentive to change it. Peter would probably prefer a more conventional marital status quo but also knows better than to push and has been getting along so well with her ever since Grace's non-Abduction in s3 that he hasn't incentive to change it, either, so unless something happens to change circumstances for either of them drastically, I expect things to continue this way.
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Between the Will versus an English Judge a season or two ago and now Will versus French, German and Italian Judges plot lines, that is. In both cases, the gags are build around the Europeans being snobbish and Will being out of his depth, but the ladies coming to his rescue, showing up the Europeans. (Meanwhile, of course, I've watched the second season of Silk, where in one of the episodes there is a Martha versus The Americans And Their Death Penalty plotline.:) ) Mind you, it's all worth it for hearing Will get called "a pitiable victim our our American education system" in French. Also, I must admit that the gag with the German judge coming around when Elsbeth reveals the French judge disqualified the German athlet may be cheap, but it's true. This would so happen, wouldn't it, fellow Germans? I laughed. But I still think someone in the scriptwriting team has issues. :) Guys, it's not our fault that learning more than one language in school isn't an option, it's a duty on the continent and that our geography means we have people talking other languages in a few hours distance pretty much everywhere. And I swear our newspapers don't use the "Rambo" for Americans designation more than once a months. (Or twice. Or thrice, under Bush.) :)
Anyway. It was a fluffy episode for the most part, and as I had expected Elsbeth to defend Eli, see last review, unsurprising in its outcome, but I always enjoy watching Elsbeth, and it made sense for eveyone at L & G to help her out. The big character and in depth writing scene was in the other plotline, the race bias conversation between Geneva and Peter, but if it's not to stand alone in a, err, generally les ssuccessful handlling of the issues it adresses, there has to be follow up, and so I will defer my judgment save to say that by itself, it was a really good scene. (And no, I don't think we're supposed to agree with Eli at the end; clearly the narrative as well as Peter and Mr. Young Hotshot don't. The fact that it's been eons and eons and seasons and seasons since Eli has been written as right and competent in his job is another issue and something of a dead equine on these pages, so let's leave it at that.)
State of the Floricks: it occurs to me that this current friends with benefits status, in which Alicia sets the rules, is probably the most she's enjoyed her private life since eons. (Pace, Will fans, I'm sure the sex was spectacular, but it came with feeling awkward at work and guilty at home with the kids. Plus he loved her more than she loved him.) This means she has no incentive to change it. Peter would probably prefer a more conventional marital status quo but also knows better than to push and has been getting along so well with her ever since Grace's non-Abduction in s3 that he hasn't incentive to change it, either, so unless something happens to change circumstances for either of them drastically, I expect things to continue this way.
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