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[swatkat]

Ugh, TGW. First you break Alicia and Kalinda up and keep twisting the knife every now and then with moments like this week's 'She didn't mention anything', and now you touch Will and Diane? Ugh ugh ugh. Make it stop. I just want everyone to be happy and I want Will and Diane to be the best platonic powercouple in the world and I want them to PWN Alicia and Cary while they're at it (sometimes).

Never say they're afraid to push the button and then follow through.

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[swatkat]

No, I think it's excellent Will characterization. I waffle on whether or not they should have taken more time with it, but it's very Will all right. Not only is he not afraid to lash out or be outright horrible and vicious, but in this case, it's a question of being personally affronted by the platonic love of his life. No one goes there, and Diane of all people - by Will's logic - should have known better than that.

Will operates by a strange ethical code. I've never quite been able to fully articulate it, but it's an ethical code where people have their friends' backs, where promises, often verbal, are made and expected to be upheld, where debts are paid and honoured. Think of his bro the judge in S1, and how fast Will turned against him when he was exposed. There are things that ~bros don't do to each other, and talking about the money is the one thing that Diane should not have done. (It's why I'm also 100% certain that when everyone departs - if that's how they play it - Kalinda will be there with Will, watching his 'back'.)

In some ways, I think, it's also an expression of his long-suppressed hurt at being abandoned by Diane, finally finding the appropriate outlet.

I've heard that the reason they've been so slow to mend things for Kalinda and Alicia is because Julianna Margulies (a producer now, too) is in vehement disagreement with the Kings about the way their friendship should go. She is of the opinion that if things are mended, it would be treading old ground for Alicia - which I honestly do not understand because ALICIA IS THE QUEEN OF TREADING OLD GROUND (see Will; Peter) and the show is objectively a lesser show when Alicia and Kalinda aren't friends, estranged or otherwise.

And besides, they really need to give AP more things to do.

[monanotlisa]

There are things that ~bros don't do to each other, and talking about the money is the one thing that Diane should not have done.

Ooh! This is good; this makes a lot of sense.

Perhaps it's just my perspective (I come from a world where no pro bono work exists, and no one gives a flying fuck about public image with regard to righteousness -- only to rights enforced and cases won) but I'd always considered Will a little...soft is not quite the right term, but maybe "emotional" is? Certainly more so than Diane.

She weighed her options very carefully, and like all of us she automatically, naturally assumed the other party would do the same: Even though she knew Will would be angry, I don't think she foresaw at all his reaction here.

But you've laid it out beautifully.

(It's why I'm also 100% certain that when everyone departs - if that's how they play it - Kalinda will be there with Will, watching his 'back'.)

Kalinda would fall into more archaic rules of how to stand by people and how not to, yeah...let me check out that old post; I think I do recall it.