Colin Sweeney's dangerousness is in his Hannibal-Lecter-like ability to emotionally manipulate people – even if he never laid a finger on anyone, he'd still be threatening. It's precisely the "oddly sympathetic" that makes him scary to me. Scary and endlessly compelling.
And yes, please keep talking at me.
PATTI NYHOLM!!!!!!!!!!!! Her first episode pissed me off (oh, they're playing that card, are they?, thought me), but she grew and grew and grew on me and now I think she is just the most fantastic evil hero and Martha Plimpton is a frakking genius and I love her.
I love what you say about the scene between Peter and Will – you're exactly right, and have articulated something I was sensing instinctively about that moment but hadn't thought through.
I love how unfastened that sex scene in "Heart" is, how unromantic – Alicia's dubious, so well-executed "well I'm all like aroused now, guess I'll screw my husband" unromantic act; her agency – however compromised – in all of it.
The Christianity thread through the show is fascinating, and something I want to give a lot more thought to. Love how ambiguous Pastor Isaiah is – embodying both the benefits and dangers of the true believer, the genuinely beneficial pastoral care that can so easily slide into the brittle moral position of the ideologue. SHOW. HOW YOU SO SMART.
And yes, I love Judge Cuesta!
DIANE AND KURT! Died over the scene you mention, for exactly the same reasons. I get a little tired of how airheaded Diane goes over him, especially when she gets ~~distracted from her work in a totally OOC way, but WHATEVER because DIANE AND BOYS is always charming and hilarious and I want her to have whatever she wants so little writing peccadillos be damned. (Related: I have decided that Diane and Christine Baranski's character in Mamma Mia! are the same person. I'm pretty sure this happens in the Lockhart/Gardner offices all the time.)
And I will offer this comfort: you are not going to lose the magnificent political waltz that is Will/Diane. I so so so love being able to really invest in a relationship between a woman and a man that is NOT and WILL NOT BE and HAS NO TENDENCY TOWARD BEING a romantic/sexual one. They really are the perfect couple.
I'll also say that I really expected to really hate where they would go with Alicia/Will. And while I have a reservation or two, I actually think that for the most part, the show plays it just perfectly, and I've been really satisfied with the arc. SO SMART SHOW SO SMART AND THANK YOU FOR NOT MISSING YOUR OWN MEMOS OR BREAKING YOUR NICEST TOYS.
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Date: 2012-09-28 08:02 pm (UTC)Colin Sweeney's dangerousness is in his Hannibal-Lecter-like ability to emotionally manipulate people – even if he never laid a finger on anyone, he'd still be threatening. It's precisely the "oddly sympathetic" that makes him scary to me. Scary and endlessly compelling.
And yes, please keep talking at me.
PATTI NYHOLM!!!!!!!!!!!! Her first episode pissed me off (oh, they're playing that card, are they?, thought me), but she grew and grew and grew on me and now I think she is just the most fantastic evil hero and Martha Plimpton is a frakking genius and I love her.
I love what you say about the scene between Peter and Will – you're exactly right, and have articulated something I was sensing instinctively about that moment but hadn't thought through.
I love how unfastened that sex scene in "Heart" is, how unromantic – Alicia's dubious, so well-executed "well I'm all like aroused now, guess I'll screw my husband" unromantic act; her agency – however compromised – in all of it.
The Christianity thread through the show is fascinating, and something I want to give a lot more thought to. Love how ambiguous Pastor Isaiah is – embodying both the benefits and dangers of the true believer, the genuinely beneficial pastoral care that can so easily slide into the brittle moral position of the ideologue. SHOW. HOW YOU SO SMART.
And yes, I love Judge Cuesta!
DIANE AND KURT! Died over the scene you mention, for exactly the same reasons. I get a little tired of how airheaded Diane goes over him, especially when she gets ~~distracted from her work in a totally OOC way, but WHATEVER because DIANE AND BOYS is always charming and hilarious and I want her to have whatever she wants so little writing peccadillos be damned. (Related: I have decided that Diane and Christine Baranski's character in Mamma Mia! are the same person. I'm pretty sure this happens in the Lockhart/Gardner offices all the time.)
And I will offer this comfort: you are not going to lose the magnificent political waltz that is Will/Diane. I so so so love being able to really invest in a relationship between a woman and a man that is NOT and WILL NOT BE and HAS NO TENDENCY TOWARD BEING a romantic/sexual one. They really are the perfect couple.
I'll also say that I really expected to really hate where they would go with Alicia/Will. And while I have a reservation or two, I actually think that for the most part, the show plays it just perfectly, and I've been really satisfied with the arc. SO SMART SHOW SO SMART AND THANK YOU FOR NOT MISSING YOUR OWN MEMOS OR BREAKING YOUR NICEST TOYS.