No, I know what you mean. The Peter/Alicia/Will dynamic and how it relates with romance and her career is really explored- but yeah, there's some honest dimension that's missing. For me, it's that when Alicia is actively fighting with one guy, she's cozy and getting favors from the other. While Will's alive, we never quite see exactly what Alicia is made of as Our Heroine or more pointedly, we never see the converse of how she relies on at least one guy in her corner at all times by seeing her unable to call on/use both for help. If Will is painted as pointedly mean, suddenly Peter gets warmed and fuzzied up to be Alicia's guy.
Even though Alicia's the main character, she still doesn't get a story as interesting as supporting!Joan in S5 when Joan's had it with being Roger's Rich Man's Mistress and she's finally thrown Greg out.
Ha, I think that's exactly it. And while Alicia can reject Peter (to different degrees) after Will's death, she still "gets to" idealize her/Will and see him as the one that got away, rather than someone she actively has to choose to keep away from permanently while also avoiding Peter. I don't actually think that her whole story should be *only* rejecting both, but given how much focus those ships have on the show and on how Alicia defines herself (and how her career goes...) it is an omission that there is no period where that is true. I think that they missed the opportunity to have Alicia...totally on board with both guys. I think there were some periods where this was true-ish (where she was on okay terms with both).
In actuality there are three powerful men in Alicia's life consistently in the show (up until Will's death) (four if you count Eli who I don't because he's too closely associated with Peter, five if you count Zach because I don't think his hacking is at power levels yet, six if -- well anyway), where Cary is the third. And Cary is the one case where there's no romantic tension, and is probably the healthiest relationship. In a way Cary, Will and Peter all have different strengths and weaknesses (advantages/disadvantages) as lawyers but especially as men. I think the answer might be that if she were most distant from Will or Peter, she'd get cozier with Cary, not romantically but, well, what actually happened (merger).
Even though Alicia's the main character, she still doesn't get a story as interesting as supporting!Joan in S5 when Joan's had it with being Roger's Rich Man's Mistress and she's finally thrown Greg out.
Ha, I think that's exactly it. And while Alicia can reject Peter (to different degrees) after Will's death, she still "gets to" idealize her/Will and see him as the one that got away, rather than someone she actively has to choose to keep away from permanently while also avoiding Peter. I don't actually think that her whole story should be *only* rejecting both, but given how much focus those ships have on the show and on how Alicia defines herself (and how her career goes...) it is an omission that there is no period where that is true. I think that they missed the opportunity to have Alicia...totally on board with both guys. I think there were some periods where this was true-ish (where she was on okay terms with both).
In actuality there are three powerful men in Alicia's life consistently in the show (up until Will's death) (four if you count Eli who I don't because he's too closely associated with Peter, five if you count Zach because I don't think his hacking is at power levels yet, six if -- well anyway), where Cary is the third. And Cary is the one case where there's no romantic tension, and is probably the healthiest relationship. In a way Cary, Will and Peter all have different strengths and weaknesses (advantages/disadvantages) as lawyers but especially as men. I think the answer might be that if she were most distant from Will or Peter, she'd get cozier with Cary, not romantically but, well, what actually happened (merger).
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