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POLL : What did you think of The Good Wife - A Defense of Marriage?

26 Nov 2012

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16 comments:

  1. Topaz26 November 2012 at 03:19

    This is the first time ever I've felt genuinely cross about this show. Cary had the crap beaten out of him last week, and the writers honestly think we have so little interest in him as a character that they spent the entire episode mooching about with a daft, hammy performance by Bruce McGill (granted also a fantastic one by Stockard Channing) rather than dealing with the fallout. And they are really not selling to me the idea that he would tell no one about this. Why, because all of his characterisation so far has suggested he's such a macho man he'll go and deal with it all by himself even though he doesn't really have any idea why his client just paid someone to beat him up in a carpark? Oh right I see, when they put it like that it all makes complete sense. I know Cary is a guy that doesn't like asking for help. But Come. On.

    AAARRRGGGHH!!!

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  2. Meli K26 November 2012 at 03:48

    It sucked big time. Writers never seemed to give a damn about Cary's character but that's the decisive proof. Everthing for them deserved more screentime than him.

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  3. Lissie_Bee26 November 2012 at 04:09

    Stockard Channing was fabulous, but I'm a bit frustrated that they gave Cary's beating about 30 seconds and a flimsy excuse before moving on. I know that they had other things to deal with this time around, but the whole story felt a bit disjointed because of the heavy focus on the single case. Hopefully they'll attempt to fix it next week.

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  4. Marcela Mattiuzzo26 November 2012 at 11:19

    Mom should visit more often.

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  5. Hilla Osovsky26 November 2012 at 18:38

    Best episode so far on TGW. The case was so good. I love those kind of cases, Alicia's mam was great- Loved her talking with Will and her case with David!
    Hated the last minute and a half. I really don't like Peter\Alicia together... I want Willicia!

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  6. Topaz26 November 2012 at 18:39

    It's not even just that. It's the fact that they've decided to artificially drag out the Nick story by having Cary lie to everyone and say it was a basketball accident. That made absolutely no sense. No matter how you look at it and even taking into account Cary's personality, there is no good reason why he wouldn't immediately tell one of his bosses and say he absolutely could not represent this psycho any more, even if he made up a reason for it. And it's outrageous to leave a cliffhanger at the end of an episode and then just wave it off with a feeble little scene because it's sweeps and they think most people would rather see some stunt casting than some kind of coherent narrative. Just awful storytelling.

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  7. Hilla Osovsky26 November 2012 at 18:40

    I actually thought it was pretty clever. Cary knows that Nick paid someone to beat him and he basiclly threatened him in their conversation- that he knows "everyting" about his buisness.. I loved that the writers did that!

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  8. Falling Skies News27 November 2012 at 06:34

    I think Cary's beaten up was planned to happen in a different episode, probably 4.11 and that would explain the lack of decent follow-up, the plot holes and the fact that Cary got basically ridicolous screentime after a BIG thing like the one which happened to him. They're trying to end that Nick storylne sooner but the result is that they're messing up with Cary's storyline too and since that season he has been completely sidelened it's not really a good thing. 9 episodes into season 4 and he got one case and we never saw him in court. it's becoming ridicolous and unexplainable how much they underused the character and the actor.

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  9. Topaz27 November 2012 at 21:26

    Do we know for a fact that they're trying to tie up the Nick story more quickly, or is this speculation? If that's what's going on, then I'm torn, as Nick's story just hasn't worked at all and does need to wrap up, but at the same time it would have been nice for Cary to have really had something to sink his teeth into. And poor bruised Cary does send my heart all aflutter...

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  10. Ralissa Vassilissa27 November 2012 at 22:55

    I thought the same, especially when Cary went on about how he used to work for the SA and he knew people in the prosecution who could investigate Nick's business. However, it was just so subtle one could barely tell it was a threat.

    It strikes me as odd, though, that Cary wouldn't ask Kalinda to investigate why Nick had him beat up. I thought she'd be the first person he'd turn to, seeing as she's an investigator at the same firm, they see each other every day, so he could ask a favour.

    Cary/Kalinda have certainly gone through some interesting stages in their relationship, and I'd love to see more scenes of them this season instead of Kalinda/Nick.

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  11. Ralissa Vassilissa27 November 2012 at 23:06

    Even though the whole thing doesn't seem entirely coherent, I don't think Cary could have told his bosses the truth. He may know Nick was the one who had him beat up, but he has no proof, other than the suit remark. He cannot simply refuse to represent the firm's client because of a suspicion. He needs to have more proof before he can make accusations.
    He should have at least reported the assault to the police though.

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  12. Ralissa Vassilissa27 November 2012 at 23:14

    Team Gardner here, too! :)
    Yeah, the ending was a bit disappointing and forced. It seemed like a silly excuse to get Alicia to go back to Peter. She's just too mature of a character to start acting like a teenage girl doing things (or in this case Peter) just to spite her mother.

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  13. phnxgrl27 November 2012 at 23:29

    I thought Peter and Alicia getting back together is a bit premature but it had been moving that direction for awhile. Peter while been a douche has reformed and is showing the kind of idealism which attracted Alicia in the first place. As this campaign for Governor has heated up It has highlighted the best of Peter.

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  14. Falling Skies News28 November 2012 at 19:44

    We know for sure: http://www.tvguide.com/News/Good-Wife-Kings-Kalinda-Nick-1055105.aspx


    I'm glad that they want to end it but I'm not glad they're hurting Cary's storyline for this.

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  15. Falling Skies News28 November 2012 at 19:55

    I completely agree. It was a huge mistake from start to end. If they weren't able to write a solid follow-up for that thing they should have never gone there in the first place. It was even more annoying because they cut off Cary's beaten up to make room for guest stars and giddy plots. I've enough of guest stars.And ratings are not improving.

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  16. Victoria Rowe30 November 2012 at 07:34

    i loooooooooooved Stockard Channing. Flawless.

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