The S6 Kalicia Breakfast Club Master Post

[sweetjamielee]

Hello beleaguered Kalicia fans!  Season 6 is upon us.  Whether for the purposes of hope, therapy, or mere persistance, Breakfast Club is here too!  Post here your episode/character thoughts, plot speculations, wish lists, laments, or what you had for dinner last night.  We're pretty flexible.

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6x02: Trust Issues

[sweetjamielee]

Alicia scrambles to hold onto Florrick/Agos’ biggest client as the firm continues to struggle with an internal legal crisis. Meanwhile, Diane continues to plot her move from Lockhart/Gardner and looks for partners to bring with her to the new firm.

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[lemonsoranges]

So I will have more collected thoughts on the actual episode later, maybe, but for now I just want to note the heartbreak in our home when Kalinda and Diane were talking to Cary with their backs to the camera and, because our television color is shit and really dark, my wife cried out excitedly "They're in the same room, Kalinda and Alicia are in the same room!" Because Diane's hair looked like Alicia's at a glance. Oh, the wild jump and then the fall of our hearts! :P But I have to tell you, I hadn't realized exactly how resigned I'd become to them never being in a room together ever again until my complete shock at the idea that that was actually happening. Seriously, what do other people think the odds are of it ever happening again?

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[sweetjamielee]

Ha, I *wish* an A/K scene felt like possibility enough for me to be tricked that way! :) I was busy eyerolling that the one time Kalinda was sitting in on Cary's proceedings, Diane was there arguing his case rather than Alicia. What a coincidence! Structural barriers! Reality! All of that

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[needle428]

Negative Nelly.

I mean this is a completely and utterly valid point and totally what RK is gonna let happen.

But seriously. SAD.

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[sweetjamielee]

Ugh, I really want to be wrong! But when RK answers the direct question "do you think there will ever be more A/K scenes?" and he answers with a limp "Maybe, I think so," it doesn't give me a ton of confidence that it's foremost in their thoughts and plans for the show.

Then again, they kept everyone in the dark about Will's demise, so maybe something amazing is going on behind the scenes.

Wouldn't that be something.

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[needle428]

Ok, better.

Probably far less accurate, but I need to pretend like RK isn't the moron he's proving himself to be and that secretly, they are setting out to impress us.

Although by the looks of that promo, it ain't gonna be next week. K/C gate is back and I am by no means thrilled.

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[sweetjamielee]

It's so bad, I can't even keep my eyeballs on the screen when K/C are doing their thing. Is the secondhand embarrassment I feel an A/K shipper thing, or is it really that kinda-squicky?

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[lemonsoranges]

It's squicky to me after 5x22. The pairing never made any sense to me anyway, but that did it for me.

Also, I seriously missed that Kalinda/Cary half-second the first two times I watched the promo. My subconscious must be trying to erase it or something.

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[needle428]

Yeah, squicky to me too. [also - did we just make up a word?]

I'm not usually so blinded by my ships that I can't objectively look at other ships w/out being like "eww" But this one just doesn't fit to me. I'm great with their friendship. And I could even deal with their off screen one nighter (which I could at least maybe believe in all of Kalinda's flexibility). But anything of substance doesn't make a ton of sense for Kalinda in this context. And w/ Cary it just feels very...forced?

Kalinda/Lana, Kalinda/Sophia - those I find believable. And I imagine there could even be a male character (as yet created) that I could see Kalinda evolving with. But w/ Cary - I just don't see it.

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[sweetjamielee]

Do you feel like they are aiming for a K/C endgame? I feel like in the absence of a relationship with Alicia, they might feel like Cary is the only choice for demonstrating Kalinda-as-emotionally-vulnerable.

5x22 def took the squick to a new level, but even before then I felt like Kalinda was having sex with her bratty younger brother. D: D:

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[sweetjamielee]

Oh, lord, I hope it's not endgame. But they don't have major concerns about Kalinda as emotionally vulnerable anymore. The interviews with the Kings after the Nick fiasco seemed like they'd concluded, "Oh, everybody wants Kalinda to stay mysterious, no one wants to understand her feelings!" where the real answer was no, we want her feelings to make SENSE. Sigh.

I don't mind K/C hooking up, I don't mind Kalinda feeling deep tenderness for him, I dont' mind him feeling much more strongly about her, I don't mind them continuing to have a thing. (I'm sort of ignoring 5x22 to feel all that, but I'm pretty much ignoring the first ten episodes of S4 also, just like the Kings are, so what the heck.) But ENDGAME? Nuh-uh. Kalinda doesn't HAVE an endgame. That's the point of Kalinda.

But they could be that stupid. Hope not, but it's possible.

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[schwarmerei1]

I don't mind K/C hooking up, I don't mind Kalinda feeling deep tenderness for him, I dont' mind him feeling much more strongly about her, I don't mind them continuing to have a thing. (I'm sort of ignoring 5x22 to feel all that, but I'm pretty much ignoring the first ten episodes of S4 also, just like the Kings are, so what the heck.) But ENDGAME? Nuh-uh. Kalinda doesn't HAVE an endgame. That's the point of Kalinda.I also feel this way (although I would feel fine about an endgame for Kalinda with Alicia.) I don't find C/K gross -- when it's not 5x22 I mean. (I am taking the phone call in 6x01 as acknowledgement that Cary had something to apologise for.) And I wouldn't be surprised to see some growing closeness between them after his incarceration, I think that would be reasonable. (It will be interesting to see whether Lana's arrival on the scene has any impact on C/K.) But I can't for the life of me see Kalinda falling for Cary. Loving him yes, just not "in love" with him. Because I am a sap, I still long for Cary to realise her

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[sweetjamielee]

Did you say "Lana's arrival on the scene"?? Do we know for sure that that's happening? Because, AWESOME.

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[schwarmerei1]

I did indeed! She's definitely in 6x04 and 6x05 because those press releases are out. And I think they said "3 episode arc" so she's probably in 6x06 as well.

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[lemonsoranges]

Yeah, I suspect it'll be a little, stupid "[30-whatever] episodes? What 30-whatever episodes?" kind of thing -- that they'll ignore that that ever happened. Which would certainly give the lie to Robert King's staunch assertion that their separation is, like, an Emotional Arc or whatever. Can't be much of an arc if there's no attempt to address or resolve it. I mean, maybe I'm wrong, maybe they really will address it. But somehow I don't think so. (Now the question is how much longer it will take them to get to that nonevent meeting... "30-whatever" may be unduly hopeful on my part)

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[sweetjamielee]

If I weren't so convinced about JM's behind-the-scenes meddling, I would almost be holding out hope that the continued A/K desert is because they are waiting for the perfect moment for the eventual reunion -- when ample time and energy is available to give attention to do that plot right. I am just so sure that JM won't let things progress ever again past "A/K are civil," and JM's sourpuss is where my optimism goes to die. :(

But you are so right -- RK's lies are going to be even more transparent than usual should the rug-sweep come to pass! I don't understand how his nose isn't a couple feet long by now.