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ASDFGHJKISDJSERLKJSGLJRKSGR;LJAWEOIAJRLJLKFJSD ZDLKFGDFFGKJSKJFGKJ ADHADAKG OH MY GOD HOW WAS THAT THE SEASON FINALE I'M SO NOT OKAY WITH THIS okay some thoughts not in caps: - Did they think this was going to be the series finale? Because there was a LOT going on in these episodes, like nearly all my favourite guest stars - the only ones missing were Elspeth and Caitlin, basically; Loius Canning is so good and Patty! Ahhhh, I loved having Patty back, she's so fabulous. - THAT ELEVATOR SCENE. My goodness. And it just got more and more. I was laughing and cringing. So well played. And Will is just in the corner like LOL FINE THIS IS HILARIOUS. - THOSE OTHER ELEVATOR SCENES i.e. the one with Kalinda and the one with Will and Alicia - asdf. - Kalinda, holy shit, Kalinda. I love that she made the choice to stay. I loved that. Oh god, her Canadian husband! EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING. I was so scared for Alicia :( - Uh, Kalinda and Dana have amazing chemistry and I would like a sex scene with them please. Thanks, TV gods, I know you'll get right on that. (YOU BETTER.) - I should say that "I'm not gay, I'm flexible" infuriated me. Could I, for once, please just fucking get a bisexual character who will ID as bisexual who is not aged between 13 and 17? I would really fucking appreciate that. - Also, my mother really loves Kalinda, so I think that would help me next time my mother is like "I don't understand bisexuals :(" and I'm like ".................." - Gosh, Chris Noth is good. Peter is such a fantastic character. It's amazing how often he walks the line of being likeable. Turning on his charm like in the scene with Canning and Patty - or switching it all the way off, all at once and all of a sudden, like in that scene with Jackie. Someone was saying to me on Twitter the other day that they'd be fine if he left and I was just - look, Peter's not a great person, but he's such an important character. - Like all the characters on this show. IT'S SO GOOD. GOD. - The kids were super charming. I usually like them well enough but they were very very likeable this episode. - Is it just me or was this a very unusual episode, for this show? in terms of what it did with the television and the baby? The toddler walking around added this very dreamlike and uncertain aspect while the television stuff was almost horror movie-esque. Especially with Jackie. It all felt very uncharacteristic, although not in a bad way. Ummmmm. I feel like there was probably stuff going on there that I missed because my background in cinema and film technique isn't all that strong. I think there was Stuff Happening that I couldn't read. I was super-impressed with everything about this episode except that it ended in a cliffhanger. God. Why?

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[paxpinnae]

Oh! I have an answer on the TV thing (only because I read TWOP's recaps, though, there's no way I'd have caught this on my own). When Jackie's talking to Eli, a clip from an old movie is playing. Then later, when she's talking to Alicia, the TV's off. When Alicia mentions Eli, though, Jackie has a mental slip back to their earlier conversation, right down to the TV clip. It's meant to imply that Jackie isn't completely faking the stroke and is having some real mental difficulties, which is a shame, because I am at all times Team Jackie Is A Glorious Bitch, because Alicia needs a domestic foil.

Also, I am 95% certain that they let the baby run around for the entire episode just so that during the Elevator Scene of Intense Awkwardness, after the tension had built up to its maximum and there were no more people with secrets to be introduced into the conversation and the audience was squirming in their seat, they could run a toddler through the group and give everyone permission to laugh their asses off. BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE SCENES.

Re: Kalinda's sexuality: From an LGBT standpoint, I agree that having Kalinda identify as bisexual would have been a huge step forward for bisexual representation in media. From a characterization standpoint, though, I totally understand why they didn't. Kalinda is really, really, really not a labels person. For her to identify as bisexual, she'd have to 1) admit that boxes exist and 2) willingly put herself in one. As far as I can remember, Kalinda's never willingly identified herself as ANYTHING, in the entire series. She's said what she can do, but never who she is. It's infuriating that the most prominent bisexual on TV doesn't identify as bisexual (and that itself says something about the place of bisexuals in modern culture), but I can't find fault with their characterization.