The Good Wife

[frelling_tralk]

Urgh feeling really aggravated with The Good Wife right now! I know that most people liked season 6 the least, but for the first half of that season at least I was happy with the character work and relationships, when they all came together for Cary's defence it felt like they were people who cared about one another. But now? Diane and Cary barely felt like a part of Alicia's world for most of the season, it *should* have felt like quite a shocking betrayal for Cary to be pushed out in favour of Diane joining forces with Alicia, but these characters all feel so detached from one another these days that you barely get the sense that they ever did have a history with one another. When was the last time that Alicia was even in the room with them both at the same time?

In season 5 I cared about Cary and Alicia striking out on their own partly because of how that shock up some of the core relationships, Will's response to the news and his freaking-out at Alicia mattered to the characters, just as Will and Diane's relationship always made it easy to care about all of the firm politics going on, but now in season 7 it's very much a case of who cares. It feels like the only character that the writers care about servicing any more is Alicia, and their only goal is to end the season with Alicia divorced, independent, and a name partner with Diane. I don't get why Diane is suddenly now fixated on wanting to partner with Alicia though, she was the one that didn't want Alicia back at the firm a few episodes ago, and it was Cary's suggestion to bring Alicia back.

Seriously poor Cary! First Alicia convinces him to let Diane in on the start-up firm that was his dream, then they basically turn his ideal firm into a carbon copy of the firm that he wanted to escape from, and then Alicia lies to his face about Diane's plan to cut him out and have an all-female firm. Well not that I'm sure the writers have any of that straight, with Alicia's reference recently to how she was offered partnership in the firm by Will, they all seem to have forgotten that the original L&G firm is now owned by Louis Canning

If anything it would have made more sense to end it when Alicia and Cary started up their new firm as the new Will or Diane, or even when Alicia and Lucca were setting up their own practise, if they really wanted to end it on Alicia being in a good place and setting out on her own. This whole storyline is just a complete rehash of her becoming a partner at an established law firm (L&G in all but name frankly), only with barely any stakes this time

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[bigboobedcanuck.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm really pissed with how this is going down with Cary. After everything they've been through, more firm machinations is such bullshit. I want Alicia, Cary, and Diane being an awesome team. Cary is my boy, and he is being so screwed. They better make this right. :|

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Yeah I'm really pissed at how obvious the writers make it how little they care about Cary :( They never did anything with him after his trial arc either, he's just basically been a voice in the background for most episodes, they've barely bothered keeping his character consistent. For a start the writing for both Cary and Diane when it comes to interacting with people of colour has been so clunky this season. It's like the show can now only see Cary as a privileged white male, and so of course he would be clumsy in his interactions with black women and suggest that Monica and Lucca should automatically become friends, even though that's complete character assassination with how he was portrayed in the past six seasons. Ditto with how out of touch Diane suddenly was, even though she was always shown dealing with people of other races (including partners at the firm) without being super awkward about it


And now the show clearly wants us to root for Alicia and Diane cutting Cary out him for an ~all-woman firm~, even though he's been the one who's had Alicia's back for a long time now. It was Diane that cut Alicia out because of her right-wing client being against her, and it was Diane who hesitated at Cary's suggestion to bring Alicia back to the firm, but suddenly we're supposed to be all gung-ho for this out of the blue partnership just cause they're both women?