When Kalinda told Alicia "I haven't changed", I actually found it extremely articulate, in that it goes to the heart of the problem - it says, so succintly, "what separated us then, made you angry and unwilling to be my friend, it should still separate us now, unless *your* outlook/expectations have changed."
Oh yes, so true. It's not so much inarticulate as... unadorned, perhaps, as Alicia discovered in the previous episode? It's blunt, and almost unemotional, although we the viewers have the privilege of knowing how much emotion Kalinda carries underneath. It's that emotion that Kalinda can't quite articulate when she's being absolutely honest and herself with people. She has multiple weapons in her arsenal when she's convincing various people of her sincerity about various things (like, say, the button lady in the previous episode), but none of them are appropriate when it's something important to her - that's where she's unadorned, she has to be. But coming from the other side, her blunt precision without (seemingly) any deep emotion behind it can be extremely hurtful and difficult to comprehend, as it was for Alicia.
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Date: 2011-12-17 04:53 am (UTC)Oh yes, so true. It's not so much inarticulate as... unadorned, perhaps, as Alicia discovered in the previous episode? It's blunt, and almost unemotional, although we the viewers have the privilege of knowing how much emotion Kalinda carries underneath. It's that emotion that Kalinda can't quite articulate when she's being absolutely honest and herself with people. She has multiple weapons in her arsenal when she's convincing various people of her sincerity about various things (like, say, the button lady in the previous episode), but none of them are appropriate when it's something important to her - that's where she's unadorned, she has to be. But coming from the other side, her blunt precision without (seemingly) any deep emotion behind it can be extremely hurtful and difficult to comprehend, as it was for Alicia.
I ♥ her too.