Kalicia Breakfast Club 5x10 -- 100 Miles for the Journey

[sweetjamielee]

Hi Breakfast Club!  We have made it this far.  BECAUSE CLEARLY WE HAVE GRIT AND PERSISTENCE AND ARE NOT CRAZY AT ALL. :) :)

Before I go forth with 100th episode randomizing that I'm sure adds nothing new to the internet discussion at large, I would like to point long-standing members toward the ultra-exclusive Kalicia Breakfast Club Hiatus Jingle-

Comments

[needle428]

I'm going to cautiously say I liked the episode...but at this point, I'm finding it hard to commit to any more than that.

Before I comment on other aspects of the episode, Kalinda = ARG. I mean really KINGS? And what makes me even MORE annoyed about it is that critics are like - oh yay, Kalinda has a storyline! Never mind the fact that it's unoriginal and unbearably predictable. And then to add insult to injury, RK is all - let's explore the love/hate aspects of Willicia, let's look at Alicia dealing with her latent feelings for Will, let's see how that all plays out because creatively you don't want to live in one world for too long. I call foul. I actually like Will and Alicia together (and not together), but I can't even enjoy it because the Kings are GUSHING over this little scenario they've created after they've all but ignored it's parallel in A/K. So yeah. ARG.

As for the rest:

--Clarke was adorable and I want Cary to snuggle him forever.This! In every way shape and form. It was a highlight moment for me. Cary making him do

[schwarmerei1]

And what makes me even MORE annoyed about it is that critics are like - oh yay, Kalinda has a storyline! Never mind the fact that it's unoriginal and unbearably predictable.

Plenty of critics said exactly what you said: Emily Nussbaum for instance and Noel Kirkpatrick was even more negative. I think the "media" swallowed the line that lots of Kalinda was good without question, but critics didn't.

And then to add insult to injury, RK is all - let's explore the love/hate aspects of Willicia, let's look at Alicia dealing with her latent feelings for Will, let's see how that all plays out because creatively you don't want to live in one world for too long. I call foul. I actually like Will and Alicia together (and not together), but I can't even enjoy it because the Kings are GUSHING over this little scenario they've created after they've all but ignored it's parallel in A/K. So yeah. ARG.But this bit, ugh, yeah! This is what's so DUMB! There's heaps to do with Kalinda and her established relationships (Alicia, Cary, Will.) Even if they

[idella]

--I am okay if Alicia and Will have hate-sex and this will be more interesting if it happens than their entire previous affair.

De-lurking to say this plus about half a million. Hi.

I really, really WANT to like Marilyn. Why do you make it so hard, show? Why?

I miss Kalinda and Alicia interacting. I feel this has been said a lot but can never be said too many times.

[sweetjamielee]

Hi and welcome!

Yes, there is no shortage here of people lamenting and languishing over the unceremonious death of A/K. You are in the right place for that!

TGW used to be so fantastic with female characters. I hate it that they now get reduced to caricatures. >:(

[schwarmerei1]

De-lurking to say this plus about half a million. Hi.
Hi! Sorry we're like a maudlin broken record at the moment :-(

I miss Kalinda and Alicia interacting. I feel this has been said a lot but can never be said too many times.
It seriously can't be said enough, too loudly or too publicly.

[mickaela82]

+ 1,000,000

[demoka]

Ah... Well, I enjoyed bits of the episode. And yes, I will forever love the Cary coaching Clarke bits, he ended up having his own Legally Blonde moment. And to be fair, Alicia was being encouraging too! Well, she knows Clarke is valuable anyways

[schwarmerei1]

Oh Veronica. Her face when she realised that Alicia hadn't invited her. I think Alicia needs to stop being so blase about her Mum and just pay attention for once. That really hurt her!

I guess it's some comfort as a Kalicia fan that Alicia lacking gratitude and cutting important people out of her life is actually a pattern of behavior and not just confined to Kalinda. I mean seriously, Veronica stumped up A LOT of money for your little escape plan to avoid falling on Will's dick!

[schwarmerei1]

I thought this episode was excellent EXCEPT for the Kalinda parts. And, I just...it makes me so sad. I mean Archie did well with what she got. But it's a retread, it has nothing to do with anything else. It's clearly hang Kalinda on a subplot so people stop bitching about how there's no Kalinda. And they spent a fortune shooting and in post production all that moronic car chase crap for nothing! Archie, a sledgehammer and a steadicam operator were a whole new world of cool back in "The Dream Team" back when Kalinda had motives and feelings and pulled at me. This expensive exercise in flashy left me utterly cold

[ll10e6]

So first, my compliments on the scap. This, of every image ever, is my favorite K shot. So f-ing funny

[schwarmerei1]

So first, my compliments on the scap. This, of every image ever, is my favorite K shot. So f-ing funny.

Awww thanks! FYI, tweet from the Kings below - it's digitally enhanced. :-p
“@GoodWifeWriters: Bubble gum is visual f/x #TheGoodWife”

Afterwards, I did find myself mulling over what this story meant in the larger Alicia arc. Wondering what Will meant to her, then and now. Wondering what her relationships with clients mean to her, vs what they meant when she first joined LG. This is something I like about TGW-- more than almost any other show, it makes me thing about stuff like this.

Well it is interesting to compare this to the tone of "Death of a Client" isn't it? Back then Alicia's relationship with Matthew seemed poignant and rather special and part of the "everyone loves Alicia" thing. Whereas this time she was just one of several women he left everything to in his "will" and she was joking about her ability to manipulate him based on his feelings for her.

But, it left me even more sad that the writers chose to nuke the A/