30 Days of OTP: Day Seven, The Doomed OTP
[This was originally The Crossover OTP, but I don't have any crossover couples, so I changed it.]
Alicia Florrick & Will Gardner, The Good Wife
So, obviously, in the beginning I had no idea this would be a doomed ship. If I had known, could I have been less invested in them? I doubt it. The thing about Will and Alicia is that their mad, mad, MAD chemistry wasn't limited to just the bedroom (or the elevator, as it were). They simply spark off each other no matter what they're doing. Fighting and plotting against each other added so much flavor to their relationship that I found myself enjoying them more in this, the fifth season of the show, than I ever had before, even though I had enjoyed them very much before.
Their love was complicated, messy, and completely inextinguishable. I have watched as a viewer while Alicia did everything she could to try to kill it, but nothing worked. NOTHING. And I don't think even Will's death can kill it, so part of me is very interested to see just how Alicia navigates her life now that she can never right the wrong, or make the correct choice, or find the happiness she deserves. I'm also painfully aware that I might weep through every episode, because these last two have been impossible to watch without copious amounts of tissue.
What I always loved about Will and Alicia is that they weren't selfish; they took some selfish moments together, but independently neither of them were interested in just themselves. That's what made them so romantic, it's what made me love their love: they loved each other enough to walk away when it wasn't right, or at least when the timing was off. They had the recurring theme of "bad timing" and initially, that was going to be where they fell on this list, the Bad Timing OTP. I was certain that someday they'd get it right, though. Now, they never will, but here's to hoping that it liberates Alicia from the moniker 'The Good Wife' because she is so much more than that. She was so much more than that to Will; he loved her, and sometimes hated her, so passionately that he genuinely couldn't do anything to hurt her, unless they were in equal measure. More than their smoking hot love scenes, and the palpable chemistry and emotion between them, I will miss the dance they did in the courtroom, and how they each made the other better. I will never get over them as a couple; they were simply a perfect, perfect match.
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