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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[http://users.livejournal.com/_profiterole_/]

they all seem to have forgotten that the original L&G firm is now owned by Louis Canning
Oh yeah, I forgot about that too. XD

I would have stopped watching at the end of the season even if the show hadn't been cancelled. I don't understand how we went from the first 5 seasons, which were so good, to the last 2 seasons.

[12-12-12.livejournal.com]

This is the last season, right? I'm probably going to watch the series finale just out of sheer curiosity re: how it all ends, LOL.

[malicat.livejournal.com]

It seems that I have cut my losses early enough... You are right,not all of season 6 was bad. The first half was actually excellent but that got overshadowed by the abysmally bad second half. But you know,even then I still CARED but when I was still watching in season 7 I didn't really care anymore. I have kept up a bit and read what happened and it all makes no sense to me. Like,I'm all for Girlpower11! and women kicking ass together and I always wanted that for Alicia and Diane but after everything that happened,why would they work together again NOW and kick poor Cary out???

[bm-shipper.livejournal.com]

Well, at least the show was/is put out of it's misery as it got cancelled, right? ^^" But I seriously hate it when you basically "hate!watch" a show, and I have one show where I'm doing that right now as well ^^"

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Diane and Cary barely felt like a part of Alicia's world for most of the season...When was the last time that Alicia was even in the room with them both at the same time?

It feels like the only character that the writers care about servicing any more is Alicia...

This is pretty much why I gave up on the show earlier this season. It was pretty clear after just a few episodes that everything the show was doing was to service Alicia and that the writers didn't actually care about the other characters anymore. I got that feeling a lot in season 6 too so having it continue in season 7 is what made me finally drop the show.

I love Alicia a lot (or at least I did during the first 5 seasons when the show was still good) but I also love Diane and Cary and I hate that the writers care so little about them. One of my favorite things about season 5 was seeing Alicia and Cary branch out and create their own firm, as well as what the consequences of that were for Diane and Will. Alas, once Diane joined the firm at the end of season 5, it became this musical chairs thing of who was running the firm/being pushed out at any given time.

I liked the idea of Diane and Alicia joining forces but that was back during the years when they had an actual friendship. The end of last season and what I saw of this season showed that they basically had no relationship whatsoever, let alone a friendship that would lead to a good working partnership like the one between Will/Diane or Cary/Alicia. It's such a shame that the writers were willing to sacrifice Alicia's relationships with Will and Diane for whatever plot-related nonsense they've had going on lately.

[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. :|