Not feeling it heading into the finale. After a year of blowing things up things seem rather sedate. Obviously this is probably the calm before the storm since there are overtures to Diane and Alicia working with one another again. (Note: Past history dictates that if Cary gets mad about this, it isn't going to go…

Well, now that you called him "The Good Husband," I can't see him as anything else.

thanks for the kind words.

Just being a little pedantic I'll defend myself by saying I wrote Cavanaugh "is or was" the last name. At some point she was married to Alicia's father so her name was probably Cavanaugh.

I can't untangle the fact that Peter's is also the father of Alicia's kids. If he had died, her grief would have been mixed up with theirs so it really complicates matters. When she grieves for Will, she is *just* grieving for herself, which also reinforces that her relationship with Will was for her own pleasure /…

I'm not really aiming for romance as much as I'm aiming for Alicia to understand herself. And I definitely think the more time she spends with Finn the more she will come to understand herself. So, yeah, once again. Any type of time they spend together is going to work for me as a viewer.

I also like knowing that he made Alicia laugh as well (although she never says it they showed how much they enjoyed each other's company back in the flirty days of season 1). So basically, if your last name is or was "Cavanaugh" somebody named Will Gardner was somewhat delightful to you. I'm definitely okay with…

He was also really good in that recent "Death Comes to Pemberly" (or whatever it was called) adaptation. He was really good as a self-understanding rake (and Jenna Coleman was fabulous as his wife).

Finn isn't the new Will. He's the new Alicia. Which is the perfect way for me to really, really enjoy whatever they do with Finn and Alicia. Friends, lovers, whatever, I'm down with it.

Okay, separate post for what I think of as "Will watch," where I cling desperately to any mention of Will or hint that he was important to anyone on the show.

I find it interesting that even though Diane is embracing being more "Will-like" or whatever, she basically does the opposite of what Will probably would have done with the case. When Kalinda asked Diane if she wants to know the information that could maybe take her off the case, she says "yes." I just think Will…

okay, now I'm wondering where the episodes are airing uncut?

The thing with Peter and Alicia disappoints me because I want Alicia to stop this weird obsession with appearances. How in the world can divorce be a worse option than being married to someone you don't love anymore, that you don't even want around you? (It would be different if she still enjoyed him as a human…

I can't even begin to explain how much I'm going to miss Will and Patti Nyholm be bitchy to each other. It was basically my everything in this show.

I think he is too but a bunch of folks don't. - even so "handsome" doesn't mean "conventionally" so.

Interesting sidenote: Whether or not Will was a "good" person or not. Kalinda says without hesitation to the young man who killed him that Will was a good person and in a lot of ways he was a good person…to Kalinda.

Definitely this (her not being able to deal with the idea that Will could have died mad at her) but not *only* this. Will dying is closing a door she has never been able to close entirely. Others have talked about the fact that Alicia is a person who likes to keep her options open — now life has done what she could…

Even if they had NOT made it "Correspondent's" lunch — like, maybe a union lunch or something else. Basically, that is just one step too far to believe. (Although all your other points about no support staff with them makes sense..I guess Kalinda isn't technically "support" in the way that younger associates or…

I wonder, though, if she will ever really tell him to go…I can see their marriage is going to go through some strain right now…but is she ever going to change her life in that way? I fear not and yet hope that she will. (I hate that the verb "will" is just completely tainted now in this context.)

I think Will's "girlfriend" disappearing (also finding that relationship and character super odd), Damian disappearing (although he may come back at some point?), never feeling or seeing Alicia "struggle" all that much in her new law firm after "Hitting the Fan" and "The Next Day" (after that it definitely feels like…