I mean, in S6 when he was going to jail, they asked him for the name of one person who he trusted to handle his affairs, and it was Alicia. She was the person in the WHOLE WORLD he trusted the most. Sigh. I loved the evolution of their friendship, and this season was just...ugh, whatever.
I know what you mean, season 7 wasn't much fun for me as a whole because Alicia had so few personal connections with the rest of the cast by then, but the finale redeemed a lot of it for me in the way that it closed things for Alicia's character. As I said above, I would have been peeved if it tried to end things on a typically fake happy note of Alicia running off to the sunset with Jason, so I loved that it instead ends on Alicia being slapped and forced to recognise what she's become. I guess I liked that they were brave enough to write their female protagonist as such a flawed and troublesome character, that's not something that you typically get with most shows, so it felt like an unusual choice to end it on Alicia having driven everyone away and being forced to set out on her own once again
Also, the excuse the Kings gave for Alicia -- that she had to do whatever it took to stop Grace from not going to college because of Peter -- was super lame, IMO.
My interpretation was that it was less about Grace, and it was more about Alicia putting the law and ~winning~ above anything else, even personal ties. The King's have released a surprising number of interviews now talking about the finale, and in most of them I've found that they really haven't been trying to suger-coat Alicia's actions. In this interview for example http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/good-wife-finale-ending-slap-alicia-diane-1201769159/ they talk about how, "we saw Alicia watch Diane and Kurt McVeigh huddling and kissing, and her jealousy in many ways of their relationship...there was a hidden side of her that did want Diane brought down to her level: “If I can’t have a husband that I’m perfectly happy with, then I don’t mind that it happens to this other person.” On the other hand, you can view that under the guise of zealously defending your client. So what I love about the ending in my mind is one could defend both sides of this.
Not that that's a particularly flattering portrayal of Alicia obviously, but I feel like it's very honest to point out that Alicia envied Diane's relationship, and so that could have played a part in her decision to reveal Kurt's affair in open court. It's messy, but it feels like real life too. Someone like Alicia, still dealing with complicated relationships in her 40's, realistically she's not going to look at Diane/Kurt finding love in later life and smile and be happy for her friend, she's going to be bitter and think about what she could have had with Will
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Date: 2016-05-12 07:22 pm (UTC)I know what you mean, season 7 wasn't much fun for me as a whole because Alicia had so few personal connections with the rest of the cast by then, but the finale redeemed a lot of it for me in the way that it closed things for Alicia's character. As I said above, I would have been peeved if it tried to end things on a typically fake happy note of Alicia running off to the sunset with Jason, so I loved that it instead ends on Alicia being slapped and forced to recognise what she's become. I guess I liked that they were brave enough to write their female protagonist as such a flawed and troublesome character, that's not something that you typically get with most shows, so it felt like an unusual choice to end it on Alicia having driven everyone away and being forced to set out on her own once again
Also, the excuse the Kings gave for Alicia -- that she had to do whatever it took to stop Grace from not going to college because of Peter -- was super lame, IMO.
My interpretation was that it was less about Grace, and it was more about Alicia putting the law and ~winning~ above anything else, even personal ties. The King's have released a surprising number of interviews now talking about the finale, and in most of them I've found that they really haven't been trying to suger-coat Alicia's actions. In this interview for example http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/good-wife-finale-ending-slap-alicia-diane-1201769159/ they talk about how, "we saw Alicia watch Diane and Kurt McVeigh huddling and kissing, and her jealousy in many ways of their relationship...there was a hidden side of her that did want Diane brought down to her level: “If I can’t have a husband that I’m perfectly happy with, then I don’t mind that it happens to this other person.” On the other hand, you can view that under the guise of zealously defending your client. So what I love about the ending in my mind is one could defend both sides of this.
Not that that's a particularly flattering portrayal of Alicia obviously, but I feel like it's very honest to point out that Alicia envied Diane's relationship, and so that could have played a part in her decision to reveal Kurt's affair in open court. It's messy, but it feels like real life too. Someone like Alicia, still dealing with complicated relationships in her 40's, realistically she's not going to look at Diane/Kurt finding love in later life and smile and be happy for her friend, she's going to be bitter and think about what she could have had with Will