Okay I Too Love Kristen After The Climbing Pick Incident (and The Sapphic Silent Episode!) But I Find

Okay I too love Kristen after the Climbing Pick Incident (and the sapphic silent episode!) But I find this interesting because I thought Kristen was extremely bland in s1, so bland that it took me three tries on the pilot to get hooked.

Even when she put a knife to Leland's throat I was like "Wait, was I supposed to think she is capable of this?"

it's always high camp when you get into a new piece of media and you're like "ok, even though this character is seemingly designed to make me froth at the mouth, i will resist, i will stay strong, i won't become a parody of myself" and then you watch the character for about five seconds and you imprint on them

My Good Wife conspiracy theory is that Cary was supposed to be Mark Feuerstein's character in s6 of The Good Fight, but they couldn't get Matt Czuchry. It just makes too much sense, and they were already doing a victory lap with Eli and Elsbeth coming back.

I need Diane to be proud of Cary!

I love how Diane's first appearance has her telling Alicia they need to have solidarity to break glass ceilings and yadda yadda but she ends up being Cary's advocate. This is partially to balance out Will's obvious bias but also because, as Will teased her for, Diane's feminist solidarity only goes so far and she responds more to Cary's golden boy brand of ambition and dedication (*cough*lack of children*cough*)

Whenever she tries to play the "we're women in a men's space" card on Alicia it goes horribly because lol Alicia is not that kind of feminist

Joke fell flat (like paper)

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

@warningsine I don't have Interview lore -or really any vampire setting lore- backed up in my head, so keeping it pretty generic in the worldbuilding: Alicia: Vampire. Hasn't "practiced" (let's say keeping a basic diet, not staying with the culture) pre-series. Discussing the philosophy of vampirism, the cost of immortality, etc, are absolute no-goes. Very clear parallel in her "corruption" arc as a lawyer and her corruption arc as a vampire. Veronica and Owen are also vampires, which is just fantastic. Has no wish for her children to ever turn, and this is one of the very few things her and Peter can agree on. Grace will eventually become a vampire, but Zach will not. Peter: Not a vampire. Basically all of the rumors, all of the scandals tied to him, are very stereotypical -offensively stereotypical- vampire behavior. By the end of the series it is all but shown that he has consumed human blood. Kalinda: She's gotta be a vampire, right? Just look at how she acts. Look at the hours she keeps. See how sometimes her lips are just a little redder than normal. Or perhaps that's a trick of the light? How is that nobody knows for sure? Why would a human "encourage" Alicia how she does? If she was a vampire, wouldn't she have done something with Cary by now? Kalinda is a werewolf. Will: Vampire. Was quite the menace in Baltimore, or at least always next to the menace. Diane's tacit stamp of approval is pretty much all that keeps him in good standing with the more personable vampire factions. Diane: Vampire. From a surprisingly long line of vampires (not the sire chain, her actual family, accomplished by selective vampirism. Do the mechanics of that make sense? It does in my head.) Kurt is a human, and a Van Helsing "traditionalist" (it's mostly right-wing bullshit with no basis in anything) Cary: Not a vampire at the start of the series. Very much wants to become one, and does during the equivalent of season 4. Wasn't the best decision he ever made. Eli: Not a vampire. Don't even suggest it, unless you want to hear a lot about the connection between antisemitism and vampirism. Marissa is a vampire, and don't even suggest she is human, unless you want to hear a lot about the connection between antisemitism and regular breathing humans, *dad*. David Lee: Vampire. Embodies the worst stereotypes vampires have about evil humans. Does not give a single fuck. Finn: He's not a vampire, and I don't have anything more to say about Finn. Lucca: Vampire. Jason: He's gotta be human, right? He's wearing a cross. He just came out of church. He just came out of that dive bar covered in ashes. Jason is a werewolf. Bonus round: Elsbeth: Vampire. A lot of the really weird powers that more eccentric humans say vampires can do was just Elsbeth trying something out Charles Lester: The blood of Van Helsing runs through his veins.