i don't want to know the wordcount of this post, i just don't

[elapses]

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

Oh man as much as there was !!!!!!!!ing over the preview when it aired last week I felt reticent! And weird! And nervous! And I kind of felt that during the episode when I thought about the fact that it was coming (of course it was the very end) but once there were makeouts it was like ALL DOUBTS OUT THE WINDOW, like whatever guys, we have all summer to play the "BUT THIS WILL RUIN EVERYTHING" and "ONE NIGHT IN A HOTEL, REALLY" and "THERE'S NO WAY THIS CAN GO WELL" game, can we just like, take tonight to enjoy that they made out?

THEY MADE OUT!!!

And it was wonderful but also horrible, HOLY GOD THOSE EXTENDED ELEVATOR SHOTS OF THEIR FACES, like don't get me wrong they were great but it was also torturous, that was legitimately like five minutes of buildup to something we all knew was coming.

ALSO THERE WAS PROBABLY SEX, I MEAN, not probably, I mean, yeah.

Okay I feel like I should note the above was my IMMEDIATE POST-REACTION and I have since gone to see Bridesmaids (HILARIOUS!!!) and so am marginally calm enough to maybe possibly discuss normal things. First and most importantly I would like to thank the Good Wife writers for making it so that Alicia and Kalinda were, if not on good terms, on speaking terms, so that I was generally in a good enough mood to enjoy MAKEOUTS, and also I just want to thank them in general, because they are perfect and I love them. The Kings said this, in a NY Magazine interview that thecolorbetween just sent me because she is perfect and she reads things so I don't have to read things):

In theory, we heard about a show where they’re holding on to their reveals, you know — wouldn’t it be great if this happens — and so they thought of the first six to eight episodes as setting up, kind of moving their pawns into place, their knights into place, and then it was supposed to be that all these surprises start popping in the last half of the year. And the bottom line is they were canceled after the first three or four episodes. So just don’t hold on to plot thinking, Won’t this be cool when this happens or this happens? You just have to keep hoping that you get, or counting on the fact that you’ll create more plot and you’ll have more fun with characters. So don’t try and save a kiss between Will and Alicia until the fifth year, because you’ll never make it.

And I just want to say that that is so much why I love this show, I don't know, do you know? THE WAY THEY WRITE IT IS SO SIMPLE, but somehow so fresh, so different. It's not about creating TV suspense, it's about writing. I have to say that as much of a tv junkie as you all know I tend to be, for awhile I have been feeling sort of disillusioned with it, like -- I know all the tricks already, and I am tired of them. But the Good Wife, I don't know. They are so good. And they do it with stories, not trickery. I love that.

Have I ever talked about how deeply invested in Kalinda/Lana (FBI Lady)? Because I am. So much more invested than I should be, considering Lana has been in... what, three episodes? Anyway this week and last week I suffered from these brief but intense rage/sadness spirals (I was going to combine those into one word but that would just be RADNESS SPIRAL and that doesn't work and... yeah) because blonde lady is like... I don't know, she's basically Lana in some ways? Like, in that she is another investigator who needles Kalinda to work for her and also sleeps with her sometimes. And even though plotwise blonde lady actually couldn't be Lana (because the FBI wouldn't be lending investigators to the states' attorney), and also Lana presumably isn't married and therefore couldn't give Kalinda beautiful moments of intense ladypain, I don't know! I MISS HER. SO MUCH I ACTUALLY TWEETED THE GOOD WIFE WRITERS A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO ASKING IF THEY WOULD BRING HER BACK TO ME, that... yeah. Okay.

Anyway delusional shipping asides aside, oh my GODDDDDD KALINDA!! I love the stuff they're giving her, I LOVE HOW MUCH THIS WHOLE ALICIA THING TRIPS HER UP, I love the little bitty things like her looking at Alicia when Diane mentions someone needs to go talk to Peter, I love how much she cares. Oh my god like I said the way they interacted in this episode was so much better/more okay than I was afraid it would be after last week's fallout, but they need to get it together and be best friends again, NO ONE LIKES THE TEQUILA SHOT ROUTINE THE WAY THEY DO, THEY NEED EACH OTHER. For more things than tequila. (Speaking of which whatever Will, tequila shots are the best shots. ...I guess it is always the good girls.)

Also enjoyed Kalinda shutting Cary out more than I probably should have!! His stupid petty new alliance with Peter is like, THE LAST FUCKING STRAW FOR ME, I CAN'T WITH YOU ANYMORE CARY AGOS, GROW UP YOU ARE STUPID. (When I clicked into the "post an entry" page the draft that loaded was basically nothing more than this and this, I have matured past the point of needing to make that post but... apparently not that much past it).

ALSO I WAS SO GLAD OWEN WAS IN THIS EPISODE, I love him

Julianna Marguiles' face is perfect

And also I don't know how I feel about this whole Eli/liaison thing!

Anyway I would just like to end this with some stuff thecolorbetween said, hope she doesn't feel weird about that:

okay
a) they were like sydney and vaughn when they went to france OR WHEREVER
b) omg, that look she gave him after they won the case
c) JOSH CHARLES LOOKED REALLY NICE IN THAT ELEVATOR, p.s. that girl was like 12, why is she still pushing buttons
d) THEY ARE EACH OTHER'S PROSTITUTES, BASICALLY

BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH OTHER STUFF HAPPENED, I mean... there were makeouts.