I think the key is that he drives the plot sometimes. He's not just Sarah's peanut gallery.

Yeah, the credits are always my "Oh, I forgot…" moment. You see Maslany's name, then a bunch of dudes (then maybe…Art's partner? Mrs. S?), and you're like, "but wait, what about the actress that plays Alli- oh, duh."

But! There is a weird body language/costuming thing, which I'm sure is intentional*, that makes all the Orphans seem to have different body types. Cosima looks just a little more voluptuous, Allison a little more petite. It's pretty impressive.

And, as I've said, what I find really interesting is that she's compassionate to her 1% clients. Given the general tenor of the show, and my assumptions about the Kings' worldview, it's really fascinating that she creates this space to even empathize with them.

No, not really. As has been a long-running critique of this show, it doesn't really show any other walk of life besides "wealthy, powerful lawyer/politician/client". It's hard to portray your character as a champion of something she never interacts with. Besides that, they've circled back to Alicia's wealth and…

Well, and even that's accurate. I mean, it's not a definitive take down of TGW, but then, I don't think Alicia's comment was supposed to be a definitive takedown of Ayn Rand, either (that belt still belongs to Whitaker Chambers).

""It's sort of like saying of TGW, "Some politician cheats on his wife.""

"Could you expand on this as it relates to Ayn Rand characters?"

"This show, The Good Wife, is pretty much exclusively about high achievers as well."

That's interesting! I've always thought he's gotten the better of most of their conflicts, especially when Diane's "friends" get involved.

"Why do commentators insist on misrepresenting Ayn Rand all the time?"

“Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an…

"So which is it? Is my statement untrue, or is it true, and a mark in Rand's favor because, hey, everyone does it (how distasteful Rand would find it to be called ordinary like that!) and it's the right thing to do? It can't be both. And if it's the latter, just own it- "Yes, Ayn Rand IS the poster child for lack of…

Well, I disagree about *that*; the joke has transformed to being about a small town woman having this glamorous, weird, jet-setter life, along with a lot of jokes about Retta's real-life pop culture interests. But it certainly started out that way.

But I don't think it is, and you haven't offered any evidence establishing it as such. Moreover, defending Rand's- at best- "selective compassion" by immediately going Godwin is stacking the deck quite a bit.

Well, the trick is, "compassion" is different than "love", or "respect", or "absolution". I try to be compassionate toward victimizers (I do not always succeed) in that I try to understand what got them to that point, and wish that whatever it was, it wouldn't have happened to them. But I don't like them very much,…

"would remain of LG would be in serious trouble, probably worse than it usually is"

The worst part is, whenever they do a blatantly lefty episode, they then feel bad about it and do a bunch of meaningless right-wing shit that really means fuck-all to the plot, but lets them look "centrist". I'm sure Gary Cole will be back soon.

"I am not commenting on the article."

One quibble with this: I think, at first, the joke of Donna's character on Parks and Rec was that she was a bigger woman who gets all that tail. That kind of quickly transformed into the idea that this civil servant in a small Indiana town has this entire secret playgirl life, but in early episodes like "Sister City",…