Yeah season 6 was already starting to lean a bit too heavily on only being interested in exploring Alicia's character towards the end, but there was still enough there to save it for me. But for season 7 Diane and Cary may as well have been on a different show to Alicia for all the relevance that their plots were having to the main character! And it does matter how the ensemble works together and the connections that different characters form, I can't understand why the writers suddenly decided that it didn't
There was a never-ending battle with Howard Lyman at L&A as well urgh, the writers seemed desperate to include that character again and bring him into the new firm. No wonder Cary was left disillusioned! Diane basically overruled everything that he didn't want when it came to his new firm being top-heavy with older partners who didn't contribute anything, then kicks him out the door for Alicia, even though the show had never gone with the narrative that Cary was a bad lawyer before. In season 1 it was emphasised that they were more or less on equal footing, and Alicia had to use her connections at the end of the year to get the spot, but suddenly Diane is entirely unimpressed by Cary's abilities and only able to view Alicia as someone worth partnering with. It all seems to again be about propping up the lead character at the expense of the rest of the cast, something that they never had to resort too with Alicia and Cary's competition in the first season
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Date: 2016-03-29 05:51 pm (UTC)There was a never-ending battle with Howard Lyman at L&A as well urgh, the writers seemed desperate to include that character again and bring him into the new firm. No wonder Cary was left disillusioned! Diane basically overruled everything that he didn't want when it came to his new firm being top-heavy with older partners who didn't contribute anything, then kicks him out the door for Alicia, even though the show had never gone with the narrative that Cary was a bad lawyer before. In season 1 it was emphasised that they were more or less on equal footing, and Alicia had to use her connections at the end of the year to get the spot, but suddenly Diane is entirely unimpressed by Cary's abilities and only able to view Alicia as someone worth partnering with. It all seems to again be about propping up the lead character at the expense of the rest of the cast, something that they never had to resort too with Alicia and Cary's competition in the first season