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.

Comments

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

SYDNEY AND VAUGHN IN FRANCE, OMG. That was the feeling I was having but didn't realize I was having! The difference of course being that Will and Alicia don't have people trying to kill them, although wouldn't that be an interesting AU?

I really agree with you about The Good Wife doing storytelling so differently than other shows have done it. That's why I'm doing my best to sit back and just say THEY MADE OUT AND IT WAS PERFECT rather than fret about the future. I can hope that the writers have good things in store for us.

[missymeggins.livejournal.com]

I will come back to comment on this tomorrow, cos OMG so much to say but it's late and my fingers are pretty much too frozen to type BUT:

Anyway this week and last week I suffered from these brief but intense rage/sadness spirals Oh god, I'm so glad it's not just me. I was getting quite ragey at blonde girl and then I was trying not to because it really is ridiculous how invested I am in Kalinda/Lana but I don't, I just AM okay. They do something to me and I WANT HER BACK damnit.

[torigates.livejournal.com]

LET'S JUST ENJOY THE FACT THAT THEY MADE OUT. I AGREEEEEEE.

[jenaben.livejournal.com]

SYDNEY AND VAUGHN IN FRANCE, ACK, YES, THAT IS WHAT THIS FEELING IS.

I have so many things to say about this episode (OWEN! Kaliiiiinda. Etc.) but my thoughts are still "PRETTY, PERFECT MAKEOUTS, AHHH" on repeat. However! I do have to say that I completely agree (and appreciate) how carefully and simply this show is written.

[summerstorm.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD I KNOW I WOULD FREAK OUT THAT THE SHOW'S GONNA GO WRONG WITH THIS BUT THEY DIDN'T COMMIT TO A NEW RELATIONSHIP, THEY JUST GAVE THEMSELVES A NIGHT! AND THE LAST SCENE!!!!!!!!!!! WOW. WOW. I AM STILL REELING. I didn't know it would work for me SO MUCH but it DID! It was funny and SO INTENSE and honestly I adored the crazy build-up, I thought it was hilarious and wonderful. I wasn't sure I was feeling the tension between Will and Alicia anymore because it took a backseat and that made so much sense but these past two episodes really made me feel that latent hope and that way they're drawn to each other deep down so that even when they get used to suppressing it, they're still 100% aware that they want each other. It was kind of refreshing, actually, in that sense.

I love everything you said about the way TGW is written, too.

Kalinda/Lana is MY FAVORITE KALINDA SHIP. Favorite favorite. I have no idea if it's going anywhere considering she was in ONE EPISODE this season but she (and Cary, maybe) is probably the love interest who could bring the most out of Kalinda in terms of opening her up a little? I liked what they did with the blonde investigator here but even if Kalinda sleeps with her again, there's a huge barrier there, both on a practical level - it didn't look like that woman had any intentions of having a relationship with Kalinda - and on an emotional level - Kalinda will be even more emotionally closed off to her now - and while that gives interesting insights into Kalinda (and to be completely honest that split second when Kalinda finds out she's sleeping with a married woman broke my heart more effectively than all of her scenes last week), I want her to get over it. I want her to reach a point where she opens herself to disappointment by expecting things from people. Losing Alicia is a huge hit but - yeah.

(and re: Cary let us agree to disagree because I LOVE HIM DEARLY HE IS GREAT. SO. But I am mature enough not to use my Cary icon ;)))

[jsharia.livejournal.com]

ALIAS REFERENCE OMG THAT HASN'T HAPPENED IN MY LIFE FOR FAR TOO LONG.

Every time I try to talk about the finale, I end up with some variation of :SDLKFJ:WLENFLKEJSLDKFIDO. It's crazy. Anyways, UNCONTROLLABLE BLADDER SYNDROME! THE ELEVATOR THING WAS AN AWESOME PLOT IDEA. EVERYTHING ABOUT THE KEY WAS HILARIOUS AND PERFECT. 7800 FOR AN EXCEPTIONAL MOMENT. AHH ♥

I really did LOVE how Alicia and Kalinda were this episode, it gives me HOPE! MAKE UP ALREADY KIDS! I NEED YOU TO!

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

YOU KNOW WHAT'S AWESOME? THEY MADE OUT AND IT WAS GLORIOUS. I HAVE NOW REWATCHED THE EPISODE TWICE, AND IT GETS BETTER EVERY TIME. Especially because when it aired, I spent the entire episode WORRYING. I AM DONE WORRYING.

I had not read that NY Magazine interview, but I LOVE THAT. I really do. I think the fact that they're not afraid to go there and tell the story they want to tell is part of what really sets this show apart.


Also, I was comment creeping, and WOW, SPY AU WOULD BE SO COOL. I might put that on my list of potential Yuletide requests. BECAUSE IT WOULD BE BRILLIANT.

[thecolorbetween.livejournal.com]

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.
This is so true! There are complicated storylines, which I must admit sometimes confuse me, but you're right that, ultimately, the writing is simple. But it's not lazy, it's just simple and focused.

I like "radness spiral." :-\