The Good Wife

[frelling_tralk]

Unpopular opinion apparently, but I kind of loved The Good Wife series finale. It felt very fitting to me that Alicia would end the series still choosing to stand by Peter, even while chasing her fantasies of other men. It was definitely a very cold and lonely ending for her character, but it would have felt fake if the show did try and force a happy ending with Jason, or a close partnership for Alicia and Diane. Sometimes I wondered at how the King's spoke about Alicia in interviews, but the finale really made me feel like they completely got her character all along and ended it in the right place for her.

A lot of the complaints at ohnotheydidnt actually seem to be related to the King's interviews comparing Alicia to Peter, there were quite a few comments along the lines of how people feel that the show never actually showed Alicia becoming as corrupt and terrible as Peter, but then I never saw it as the King's making such a direct comparison between them? Rather it worked for me more on a symbolic level when it came to Alicia actually becoming that kind of ruthless and power hungry character that she had been a victim of at the start of the series, that Alicia is now the one sacrificing others to get ahead, not to mention shattering Diane's illusions about her marriage in a direct call-back to Peter/Alicia from the pilot. There have been parallels between Peter and Alicia's characters all along really, so I'm not sure why the final scene making it more explicit has so many people up in arms :shrug:

Really my only dissatisfaction was how open-ended it was for Diane and Kurt, I need to know that their marriage will get through this :( Urgh that scene of Diane in court was just devastating. It doesn't really surprise me at this point though that the rest of the cast will get short shift, and I suppose that again it would have felt wrong somehow if the finale wasn't pretty much all about Alicia's character, that's where things have been headed for a while now. And at least it did end things with Alicia in an interesting place

Comments

[bigboobedcanuck.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't want Alicia getting a fake happy ending with Jason either. Totally agree. That relationship already felt rushed and forced anyway. And I hear what you're saying about the rest, and intellectually I get it, but betraying her friends just sucked so hard and was a dealbreaker for me. The Kings say you can defend both sides, but for me, Alicia wasn't defensible. We've all been there with jealousy of our friends sometimes. But what she did was so awful. Feelings are one thing -- actions are another.

Anyway, sorry to dump all my negativity on you when you did like it! Glad it worked for you. :)

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Hee that's okay, I'm always open to discussing different viewpoints :)

I didn't want Alicia getting a fake happy ending with Jason either. Totally agree. That relationship already felt rushed and forced anyway.

I never really understood what they were doing with Jason, or with Lucca for that matter. It felt a bit out of place to introduce a character just to be the best friend and obvious cheerleader for Alicia at this stage in the story, they never seemed to care much about Lucca as a character in her own right. And Jason only seemed to be included so that they could show Alicia having a sexually fulfilling relationship with him and acting freer, but again they hardly gave him any depth or background. Basically I totally agree with any criticisms on season 7 as a whole, and I feel like it will still be a drag to watch on re-watch (but even so I probably will end up buying the complete series collection lol), but in the end the full circle aspect of Alicia's ending did really click for me