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I keep coming back to the silly, "no psychiatrists" line. Really, Alfred?
Did I mis-hear the context of that line? I thought it was Bruce who had insisted on "no psychiatrists," rather than his father. If Alfred said that Wayne Senior insisted on Bruce's "finding his own way," including no help from the mental health field, that's kind of ... well, crazy, but I could understand why Pennyworth might feel bound by it, but it made no sense to me that Bruce should have the final say in it (which is what I thought I heard).
Hey, I'm just glad that Alfred doesn't address his young charge as "Master Wayne" the way Michael Caine's Alfred did in the Nolan movies. That drove me batty! (... Sorry.)
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If he did that, then Fitzsimmons should be allowed to kick him out of the quinjet in mid-air.
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It's not actually a syllable added consciously; it's just bad breathing. No less irritating, but there you are.
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OH WOW....John Boy!!! That was more fun than Gloria! And Wilson, perfectly cast.So last week's musical muscle included Christine Baranski, Alan Cumming, Michael Cerveris and Taye Diggs; this week's episode added to the Broadway roster not only Robert Sean Leonard and Richard Thomas, but Robert Joy, Christian Borle and Linda Lavin?! (I recognized her voice before Cary's Pre-Trial Services Officer turned around.)It's like they want me to bop Eli on the head!I don't want Alicia to run either. I liked how Lavin handled the scene with Joy's report to the hearing. Poor woman looked like she thought she'd get Castro-ated.ETA: Aw, yeah! How great would it have been if Robert Sean Leonard had guest-starred when Knox Overstr -- er, Will Gardner was still on the show?
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Shower stall before conference room wall does seem an odd priority, now that you mention it.
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I don't care how much you give your hair the George Clooney ER treatment, you still look like Baby Walker in a high-school production of Death Of A Salesman.
Golden!
I have yet to see one episode of this show, but I'm guessing Octavia Spencer is made to spend basically all of her time in the pose pictured above, arms akimbo, patented "None o' your sass!" expression fixed on her face?
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I work at a law firm. We have showers. When you have people working around the clock and possibly heading off to court on a moment's notice, a shower is a time saver. Between the shower, the food service and the on site concierge, our lawyers could live in the office for weeks.
When a firm has amenities of this kind in its offices, there is often an unspoken (or mostly unspoken) expectation that junior associates and articled clerks/students will put in a LOT of hours. Why do they need to go home, when they could stay later and work more?
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I mentioned that in the previous episode, too [pouts]. But once it was stood up and the symbols came out, it looked a little more obelisky.
Ah, so you did, jhlipton. I meant someone else besides us, obviously. (Ahem.) Sorry.
Creel's very polished contact was interesting. Does he have some kind of ESP?Are you thinking of the response he got from Creel when he told him to take a deep breath and be calm? I assumed that was some kind of conditioning taking over, rather than the contact imposing any kind of mental control. I do believe that the producers have said there will be no psychic abilities in the MCU. (Not sure I like that decision, but we'll see if it is actually borne out.)
EDIT: Forgot to add, I find it interesting that Head!Jemma seems to think she's a real person, but Fitz sometimes acts like he thinks she's real and sometimes like he knows she's not. Kind of odd, that.I noticed that, too. Can we take it as a sign that Fitz is actually aware, at least sometimes, that he's subject to delusions, and thus is actually getting better?
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Did anyone else wonder if Patti and Doug weren't actually lying about being part of "the Mayor's Youth Outreach program" and that, despite his protestations, the Mayor was actually behind the kidnapping scheme, or at least tacitly supported it to some degree (I mean more than the just the part about diverting all the "petty criminals" to juvie).
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Not for nothing, but "I won't even charge for the name Life Choach" was funnier than anything on the actual show.
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I gave up on Suburgatory last season, after coming close to doing so a number of times, so I wonder if Emily Kapnek's sense of humour just doesn't work for me. Or rather, her sense of how adult human beings operate. But I checked it out for Karen Gillan and John Cho, and they made it almost worth it. They do have notable chemistry, and are charming, though their characters aren't, really.
Having said that, if this show manages to kill the use of the word "feels" as a noun, I will love it forever, and worship its creators unfailingly. (Haaaaaaaaaaaaate.) Thank you. As you were.
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I think Alex started out defensive with the therapist, but the therapist seemed prepared for that, and did manage to get through to her. I wouldn't call her snotty or condescending with him. And Alex is no more disrespectful of her parents than her siblings are. The Dunphy kids are frequently shown as united in being disdainful of their mother. Not that it's behaviour to be modeled, but it's a pretty sturdy, if irritating, sitcom device.
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My guess was all those people were fans of Dianne and what she represented to the firm so the news of her defection was enough to persuade them. Either that or people really really hate David Lee.
I wouldn't underestimate the power of that latter consideration.
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And clothes, as we know, do not make the man. Hee. Thanks, KirkB.
I was under the impression that the reason his HYDRA contact gave Creel the diamond-like material ("for this assignment and the next") was to enable him to pick up the non-obelisk. But I guess it was just for pleasure.
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I was glad to see from the recap that someone else was bothered by the Obelisk's ... non-obelisk-ness. Then again, Dr. Whitehall isn't really named Whitehall, either, so maybe HYDRA's (whose symbol is, after all, an octopus rather the Hydra) just not that good at naming stuff.
Fitz is the woobiest woobie that ever woobied. I know a "cure" to his condition would be a cop-out, but wouldn't you want it to happen anyway? Of course, if he loses "Simmons," he might lose it all over again.
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And yeah, what is up with the scrawling from Coulson? I speculated that it would be spelled out in Guardians Of The Galaxy, given the extraterrestrial origins, but it looks like I was wrong. Maybe it's a side effect to the TAHITI treatment? Will Skye start going crazy soon? She's bearable right now, which is actually good.
If what the preview looks like is actually what we're in for, I might lose it completely.
It looks like the TAHITI alien and Garrison's blue God Complex Curaçao are all connected to Skye and the original 0-8-4. The scrawlings (which look like schematics to me, rather than language) seemed to be what Raina evoked from the non-obelisk.
Last week I was thinking cotton balls.
"The Stay-Pufft Marshmallow Man? That's what you came up with?!"
(Am I wrong in supposing that Creel has to consciously decide to absorb whatever, and it doesn't happen automatically upon exposure?)
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Well, in Will's case it was spent on something disreputable, like gambling, and not getting Cary out of nasty jail. (Didn't I read somewhere that one or other King actually has a law degree? I would have thought the grasp of ethics would be firmer in the writers' room, but apparently not. Or did I just imagine that?)
Yea without actually hearing the tape who is to know if Cary was talking in hypotheticals to actual drug dealers and giving them hints or if he was just having a friendly conversation about stupid people in movies.
Well, that's kind of my point, actually: what the runners said about the conversation sounded highly suspicious (to me, anyway), but it was treated by the others in the scene as if the explanation made everything all better.
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Geez show, we get it, she's Cattween, but she does NOT have actual claws. Way to go overboard, makeup dept.
Maybe no claws, but, boy, does she have thumbs!
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The thing about Kalinda's (understandable) eagerness to avoid blood on her hands is that passivity/disengagement is an active choice in and of itself, and one that has/will precipitate more harm... She's streetsmart enough to know Bishop can countenance the loss of two runners, so the choice is between a) both die or b) one does ...
The one who was wearing the wire was described as a favourite of Bishop's, potentially more than just a runner. I'm not sure that Kalinda knows for certain what the effect would be if she exposes his betrayal. If she gives up the CI, it's probable that the runner would be spared, but I wouldn't call it certain. Cary is potentially left with no witnesses at all.
I have to say I agree that the "hypotheticals" conversation played out in a way that seemed like everyone was using euphemisms; if Cary actually did talk to real drug dealers drawing parallels with movies, how can it not have occurred to him that the conversation was essentially a coded message about Improving Your Drug Running 101?
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If Emanda ever meets her not-quite-so-dead father, she's going to murder him her own self, isn't she? There will be the losing of shit on a monumental scale.
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Eli doesn't need a conk on the head. If he thought it would help one of his clients, he'd sing naked in the street.
No doubt the framing device would be extraneous; truthfully, the bonk on the head would just be to amuse me.
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Meh, I think it looks like a hellhole and wouldn't want to work there. It just doesn't project the gravitas a blue-chip law firm should. If they want exposed brick and open-plan offices, that's one thing. I can understand paying millions of dollars for younger, less stuffy-looking office. But FA actually looks to be like a shabby building in a dodgy neighborhood. I kind of hope Diane will smack some sense into them on that front.
Hee. Now that you mention it, I can't wait for the first moments of Diane's withering survey / eyebrow takedown: "Really."
I also agree that Eli needs to get that when Alicia says she's not running, she's in earnest. Unfortunately, I fear the show means to reward his "'No' means 'Oh, please wear me down more, Eli; I find your perverse persistence endearing, rather than tiresome and, frankly, creepy'" doggedness.
David's I Am The Ruler of the Queen's Navy get-up has to be part of the Very Special Episode!
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I'm a musical theater fan so I'm a fan of Taye Diggs and his ex-wife Idina Menzel. I love how they use Broadway stars on this show, I want Christine Baranski, Nathan Lane, Taye Diggs and Michael Cerveris to just burst out into song in a very special episode of the Good Wife, maybe a fundraiser for Governor Florrick, any excuse to hear them sing.
Eli gets a conk on the head and wakes up thinking he's the Emcee from Cabaret?
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I'm quite prepared to be proved wrong about Coulter; I have only seen him as Bishop, so far, and I have (mostly) liked his work on the show. I guess what I'm not liking is the show's reliance on him as the Devil Florick/Agos made the Deal with. I did like the story in an earlier season where Alicia got to see just how devoted a father he is. And Bishop's suits are, I agree, damned fine. They're just that touch over-the-top luxurious that emphasizes, rather than softens, his innate menace.
I do agree with picklesprite's observation: anyone who unnerves Kalinda is clearly someone to be reckoned with very carefully indeed.
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Not to frizz out anyone's curls, but I don't think the writing on this show on the whole is strikingly clever. I did like Ms. Mooney's little snip at Jim Gordon as "a tall glass of milk," however.
S06.E03: Dear God
in The Good Wife [V]
Wouldn't you hate to be Eli's executive assistant? I mean, don't get me wrong, the whole
Int: Eli's office, Day:
Alicia stands over Eli, lying on a couch in his office
Norah, offscreen: Eli, Alicia Florrick's here to see you.
Eli: Really, Norah? Your precognitive abilities AMAZE me!
made me laugh, but, honestly, he'd be be unbearable to work with. (And probably he'd sell you out to your Pre-Trial Services Officer.)