I was so mystified by the Kalinda/Cary scene, because it so didn't feel like the Kalinda who vowed never to open up and be vulnerable to anyone ever again last season (in so many words). I ended up wanking it and deciding that she was mostly talking about Alicia, too:). And don't get me wrong, I think that Kalinda actually DOES have some genuine affection for Cary, but I will NEVER buy that it's romantic. I sincerely hope they never try to go there. But anyway, after the whole Alicia debacle and then Cary going "you don't care about people, you use them," I can see her feeling frustrated, like, "WHY doesn't ANYBODY believe I might actually give a shit about them?" Which, perhaps, is not such a bad thing for her to contemplate.
This seems to be the Season of Ambiguous-Looks Ending Scenes. I sort of took it as Alicia being unsure. Like, "I'm not in love with him... I don't think? Could I be in love with him? Am I GETTING there? I don't THINK I'm in love with him..." The poor bb is just so mixed up... she's trying for this new "I don't give a fuck" attitude, and it's just not her, no matter how much she wants it to be. So I see her as really feeling the dissonance from that, especially with the Will situation.
Owen wins everything. I sort of hope him pressing about who Peter slept with, means he and Kalinda are eventually going to cross paths. This would entertain me greatly, and I think he would be pro-A/K reconciliation.:)
NO CLUE where they are going with Grace's tutor. I'm assuming somewhere. But right now it's just LOLs combined with WTFs.
I'm just going to say it every week until something changes... I miss A/K scenes. I think what I REALLY need is just... some indication that their "break-up" is hurting them. I can read it into their interactions with other characters, but there's a fair amount of wanking going into that interpretation. Just... remind me, Show, that these two characters care/d about each other, and are struggling with the loss of that relationship.
Will/Celeste had some decent chemistry, but I didn't find myself all that intrigued about her, or about their past relationship, and I think I'm SUPPOSED to be intrigued. Prooobably I'm just distracted.:)
WTF is up with LJ notifications lately? I got one for lizook's post, but not for yours. ??? /tangent
Anyway, yeah, I do think Kalinda likes Cary in a platonic, "we're both kind of shady and can relate on that level" way. I also think Cary has a bit of a thing for Kalinda, but I can't see Kalinda going for someone like him.
In any case, I hope he got her to thinking about her trust/friendship issues, and how it wouldn't be so bad if she showed a little warmth every now and then *cough*to Alicia*cough*.
The poor bb is just so mixed up... she's trying for this new "I don't give a fuck" attitude, and it's just not her, no matter how much she wants it to be.
I knoooow, she breaks my heart. :( As much as I enjoy badass!eff-you!Alicia, it seems to be confusing her mightily. Perhaps she and Kalinda need to have a little chat about the drawbacks to being so closed off.
AN OWEN/KALINDA SCENE WOULD MAKE MY LIFE. Yes. This must happen now.
I'm just going to say it every week until something changes... I miss A/K scenes. Sigh. I miss them too. Have the writers forgotten the emotion in the last few episodes of last season? Kalinda burst into tears in the elevator, for god's sake. That doesn't just...go away. Perhaps they're setting the scene for an explosive K/A confrontation later? (Um, no, I didn't really think so either. But one can hope...)
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Eh, you'll prob. get a notification tomorrow or some other inconvenient time. It super-sucks for me when they're delayed, because I never scroll through my f-list anymore, I depend on those notices to even know when people have posted!
Re: C/K -- I feel like part of the reason she likes him is that he likes HER so much. Girlfriend doesn't have a lot of WARMTH in her life, and although she's orchestrated it that way for a reason, I think her relationship with Alicia specifically got her realizing how NICE it feels, when someone truly cares about you as a person and doesn't just want to screw your brains out. Cary DOES want her in that way, for sure, but the little shit WAS there trying to help her last season when she was scrambling around trying to bury all her crap, and he didn't demand sexual favors in return (which I guess makes him somewhat of a better person than Peter, ew).
So. I can buy there's a FONDNESS she has for him, because of that. But this does not an epic romance make.:-\
I live for the hope that the epic A/K-ness isn't forgotten, just backburnered for the moment while other things are dealt with. Eventually, there HAS to be a explosive confrontation, in some sense of the word -- what is the point of ever having that storyline to begin with, if they were never going to come back to it? Just to give Alicia a somewhat legit excuse to bang Will? I truly think the fans would eventually revolt if A/K were never addressed again. Even the fans I know who primarily ship other pairings still love A/K and consider them an important part of the show.
My best guess: there will eventually be some kind of dire situation with K that ONLY A can help with. Or vice versa. And then there will have to be a choice between grudge/avoidance, or doing what comes naturally and helping her friend. Once there is a chink in the hate-armor, there can be making out progress, or at least acknowledgement. But until then... the great nothingness. :(
Just wondering, if you don't look at your f-list, how did you see my journal post? Do you just get a notification when someone updates their journal?
Re: C/K -- I feel like part of the reason she likes him is that he likes HER so much.
I completely agree with this. Poor bb is kind of desperate for affection, even if it's the gross Cary kind (though not as gross as Peter. He's got the grossness scale topped).
THAT AVATAR IS FULL OF LOVE. I still have high hopes for where the K/A relationship is going...I just kind of wish they'd hurry up with it. I don't even need to see them having sex on Alicia's desk shouting and screaming yet -- just a scene with them being awkward or overly polite would be great.
I've been trying to decide if I'd rather see Alicia having to help Kalinda or vice versa. There are merits to both sides. Hmm. *ponders*
Ya, some people I get blanket notifications if they post to their journals, others, only certain tags. I did it in a fit of hormonal disgruntledness about not being able to filter my f-list feed to my liking... it felt like stuff I was interested in was getting washed out by stuff I wasn't, and it wasn't a situation simple unjoining/defriending would fix (like, there would be a comm where I want to see the fic posts, but not the icon posts, or a friend who I love reading their personal updates, but they are prolific in a fandom I know nothing about.) So I spent an hour setting up notifications... an overly-dramatic move, prob, but now I'm hand-delivered links to posts that interest me with like 95% accuracy, AND it's a nice email reminder to go back and comment when I don't the first time around. So, loving it so far.:) /life story
The writers have had that avatar ever since they created the account, and I've ALWAYS insisted that it had to mean something. They have to <3 A/K!
I feel like an awful fan for saying it, because honestly I DO love the other characters and other dynamics, but at this point if I could just fast-forward the season to get to the first meaningful A/K interaction, I would.:-\ They just make a really good show something GREAT for me, and it's hard to get truly excited without them.
With the "helping" scenario, I'd absolutely take and would love either way, but I personally believe the K hurting, A helping might fit the best at this point. While everybody kind of knows that K still cares about A and would prob. want to reconcile if given the chance, A's hate and lack of empathy are SO strong right now, it would make a stronger statement if she put that aside to help her. Also, K being in some kind of pain and A helping to heal it would work with the "fall from grace/penance/redemption" arc they might be aiming for.
BUT I MIGHT CHANGE MY MIND. The other way is very attractive too. As long as it led to the same end!:)
Very clever! That explains why you always find my TGW posts. :D
GOD your icon. It kills me. *fans self*
Part of me thinks A helping K would be great, because I agree that we do know that K still cares about A but not so much vice versa (though I do believe that A does care, deep down). But another part of me thinks that puts too much of the burden of reconciliation on Alicia, who is the wronged party and not the guilty party. If K helped A, it would sort of be like "making up" for her having hurt A, though I guess it would need to be something reaaaaaaaaally big for that to work.
There is something to be said for the paying penance idea, though. It might soften A's anger towards K a bit if she saw K in a vulnerable position. We as the audience have seen her emotional, but Alicia hasn't, really. I think it would be good for both of them.
Ooh, ooh, I have a solution... Kalinda gets hurt WHILE trying do something to help Alicia, and Alicia has to save/take care of her! It's the best of both worlds!
I was so mystified by the Kalinda/Cary scene, because it so didn't feel like the Kalinda who vowed never to open up and be vulnerable to anyone ever again last season (in so many words). I ended up wanking it and deciding that she was mostly talking about Alicia, too:). And don't get me wrong, I think that Kalinda actually DOES have some genuine affection for Cary, but I will NEVER buy that it's romantic. I sincerely hope they never try to go there. But anyway, after the whole Alicia debacle and then Cary going "you don't care about people, you use them," I can see her feeling frustrated, like, "WHY doesn't ANYBODY believe I might actually give a shit about them?" Which, perhaps, is not such a bad thing for her to contemplate.
This seems to be the Season of Ambiguous-Looks Ending Scenes. I sort of took it as Alicia being unsure. Like, "I'm not in love with him... I don't think? Could I be in love with him? Am I GETTING there? I don't THINK I'm in love with him..." The poor bb is just so mixed up... she's trying for this new "I don't give a fuck" attitude, and it's just not her, no matter how much she wants it to be. So I see her as really feeling the dissonance from that, especially with the Will situation.
Owen wins everything. I sort of hope him pressing about who Peter slept with, means he and Kalinda are eventually going to cross paths. This would entertain me greatly, and I think he would be pro-A/K reconciliation.:)
NO CLUE where they are going with Grace's tutor. I'm assuming somewhere. But right now it's just LOLs combined with WTFs.
I'm just going to say it every week until something changes... I miss A/K scenes. I think what I REALLY need is just... some indication that their "break-up" is hurting them. I can read it into their interactions with other characters, but there's a fair amount of wanking going into that interpretation. Just... remind me, Show, that these two characters care/d about each other, and are struggling with the loss of that relationship.
Will/Celeste had some decent chemistry, but I didn't find myself all that intrigued about her, or about their past relationship, and I think I'm SUPPOSED to be intrigued. Prooobably I'm just distracted.:)
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Anyway, yeah, I do think Kalinda likes Cary in a platonic, "we're both kind of shady and can relate on that level" way. I also think Cary has a bit of a thing for Kalinda, but I can't see Kalinda going for someone like him.
In any case, I hope he got her to thinking about her trust/friendship issues, and how it wouldn't be so bad if she showed a little warmth every now and then *cough*to Alicia*cough*.
The poor bb is just so mixed up... she's trying for this new "I don't give a fuck" attitude, and it's just not her, no matter how much she wants it to be.
I knoooow, she breaks my heart. :( As much as I enjoy badass!eff-you!Alicia, it seems to be confusing her mightily. Perhaps she and Kalinda need to have a little chat about the drawbacks to being so closed off.
AN OWEN/KALINDA SCENE WOULD MAKE MY LIFE. Yes. This must happen now.
I'm just going to say it every week until something changes... I miss A/K scenes.
Sigh. I miss them too. Have the writers forgotten the emotion in the last few episodes of last season? Kalinda burst into tears in the elevator, for god's sake. That doesn't just...go away. Perhaps they're setting the scene for an explosive K/A confrontation later? (Um, no, I didn't really think so either. But one can hope...)
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Re: C/K -- I feel like part of the reason she likes him is that he likes HER so much. Girlfriend doesn't have a lot of WARMTH in her life, and although she's orchestrated it that way for a reason, I think her relationship with Alicia specifically got her realizing how NICE it feels, when someone truly cares about you as a person and doesn't just want to screw your brains out. Cary DOES want her in that way, for sure, but the little shit WAS there trying to help her last season when she was scrambling around trying to bury all her crap, and he didn't demand sexual favors in return (which I guess makes him somewhat of a better person than Peter, ew).
So. I can buy there's a FONDNESS she has for him, because of that. But this does not an epic romance make.:-\
I live for the hope that the epic A/K-ness isn't forgotten, just backburnered for the moment while other things are dealt with. Eventually, there HAS to be a explosive confrontation, in some sense of the word -- what is the point of ever having that storyline to begin with, if they were never going to come back to it? Just to give Alicia a somewhat legit excuse to bang Will? I truly think the fans would eventually revolt if A/K were never addressed again. Even the fans I know who primarily ship other pairings still love A/K and consider them an important part of the show.
Also, just look at TGW writers' twitter avatar. Just look at it. I HAVE to believe that this means they love them too.:)
My best guess: there will eventually be some kind of dire situation with K that ONLY A can help with. Or vice versa. And then there will have to be a choice between grudge/avoidance, or doing what comes naturally and helping her friend. Once there is a chink in the hate-armor, there can be making out progress, or at least acknowledgement. But until then... the great nothingness. :(
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Re: C/K -- I feel like part of the reason she likes him is that he likes HER so much.
I completely agree with this. Poor bb is kind of desperate for affection, even if it's the gross Cary kind (though not as gross as Peter. He's got the grossness scale topped).
THAT AVATAR IS FULL OF LOVE. I still have high hopes for where the K/A relationship is going...I just kind of wish they'd hurry up with it. I don't even need to see them having sex on Alicia's desk shouting and screaming yet -- just a scene with them being awkward or overly polite would be great.
I've been trying to decide if I'd rather see Alicia having to help Kalinda or vice versa. There are merits to both sides. Hmm. *ponders*
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The writers have had that avatar ever since they created the account, and I've ALWAYS insisted that it had to mean something. They have to <3 A/K!
I feel like an awful fan for saying it, because honestly I DO love the other characters and other dynamics, but at this point if I could just fast-forward the season to get to the first meaningful A/K interaction, I would.:-\ They just make a really good show something GREAT for me, and it's hard to get truly excited without them.
With the "helping" scenario, I'd absolutely take and would love either way, but I personally believe the K hurting, A helping might fit the best at this point. While everybody kind of knows that K still cares about A and would prob. want to reconcile if given the chance, A's hate and lack of empathy are SO strong right now, it would make a stronger statement if she put that aside to help her. Also, K being in some kind of pain and A helping to heal it would work with the "fall from grace/penance/redemption" arc they might be aiming for.
BUT I MIGHT CHANGE MY MIND. The other way is very attractive too. As long as it led to the same end!:)
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GOD your icon. It kills me. *fans self*
Part of me thinks A helping K would be great, because I agree that we do know that K still cares about A but not so much vice versa (though I do believe that A does care, deep down). But another part of me thinks that puts too much of the burden of reconciliation on Alicia, who is the wronged party and not the guilty party. If K helped A, it would sort of be like "making up" for her having hurt A, though I guess it would need to be something reaaaaaaaaally big for that to work.
There is something to be said for the paying penance idea, though. It might soften A's anger towards K a bit if she saw K in a vulnerable position. We as the audience have seen her emotional, but Alicia hasn't, really. I think it would be good for both of them.
Why yes, I DO overthink things. :P
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Please to be sending a letter to the writers now. ;)
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