Girl and Women

[lambertoise]

Office’s life! What a hell sometimes! TG hasn’t explored Fallin & Fallin office’s life often and last night’s story brought a new light on the not-so-cordial relationships between associates and partners. And on Burton’s amazing foolishness in the woman department. My God! What was he thinking?

Young Drew’s situation was compelling and Alvin knew exactly what to do with a suicidal person : listen. Nick almost failed this child last night, but had enough good sense to entrust him to a more competent lawyer. I was happy to see again this supervisor we met in a previous episode (The next life). When I see a person like him, even if it’s only on TV, I feel society has still something to offer to these kids.

Now Jake. He obviously wants revenge. He may be mixed up about his private life, but on the professional front, he wants to prove he is at least as good as the boss’s son, even better. I must admit though that Nick’s comment, in front of the judge, comparing his client’s husband to a tree, was a little harsh to say the least….

We didn’t get to see a lot of Nick and Lulu. But those moments were extremely well done and moving. I guess the couple counsellor will have to work on two major sore subjects : the rejection of the marriage proposal and the cheating…

I don’t know why I was so touched by Nick’s confession : "It seems... I see myself differently than others do " but I really was. Maybe because of the way Nick said it, maybe because it was a real intimate thought expressed by a very shut up person? Anyway, it rang true and I consider the therapy has already begun…<br>
Discovering the sex of your baby, said Nick, is like opening your gifts before Christmas Eve (echoing my own feeling on the same subject). But the pure joy he expressed about his baby girl was worth A FOURTH SEASON!!!!! We need these smiles another year, please! Simon Baker is so much better than Prozac to make us feel good!!!!!

Because Nick was so sweet about this and about Lulu, it made me forgive him his questionable attitude with Sandra. But since we never witnessed anything beside the condescension he showed last night, who are we to judge? So good riddance, Sandra, and could you please bring with you the never-disappearing Shannon?

Ambition could have been last night title, but it could also has been It’s a girl!

[Lindatheeditor]

lambertoise, on the Simon Baker Board, Janet expressed the opinion that this was meant to make Nick more Season 1-like. (I'm paraphrasing; she said it much better.) Season 1 Nick would not have been capable of the insight he showed in that comment about not seeing himself as others see him.

The interchange between Nick and Sandra left up in the air whether Sandra had missed a clue about the case they were working on being a stock transfer or an asset sale. We don't know if she missed something she should have picked up on or if Nick changed the rules in the middle of the game. I honestly don't think he'd try to do something like that. Unlike the managing partner-to-be, he's not that kind of manipulator. He wants to get the job done and done right and act in the best interests of the client. He wouldn't deliberately shaft an associate's chance at promotion to partner by setting her (or him) up to fail. He does other kinds of maneuvering, and sometimes it's not pretty, but he's always doing it to get the best deal for the client. The comment about the MS victim being "a tree" was unfortunate, but there again, Nick wanted the client(s) to get the best deal they could--that, after all, is what they were paying him to do--and there again, he can be so single-minded in pursuit of this objective that he steps on some toes. All the same, if I had a corporate problem I'd want Nick Fallin before anyone else, including Burton.

If Sandra comes back to the firm (and she might, now that Nick is out and Jake, with whom she was very obviously in collusion about this thing) it wouldn't surprise me if her next target was Burton for sexual harrassment. The great bumbling idiot. If he wants to know who's responsible for Nick's ouster all he has to do is look in the mirror. Jake and Sandra angled and played and hooked and landed him. Social relations with associates (unless you're related to them), let alone sexual relations, are playing with fire.

Jake is a great one for biting the hand that helped get him a partnership in the firm to begin with. When Burton reconstituted the firm, it was Nick who insisted that Jake be made a partner. Jake's argument would be that if he doesn't look out for himself no one else will and he's right, but he almost cost Burton the firm twice in Season 1 and still can't do public deals, per the SEC. (If he does, according to a lawyer I know, he'll be disbarred, fined and if criminal charges figure into it, could go to prison. If he acts for the firm when he does, unless they could prove they didn't know he was doing it, which would be difficult, the firm could be heavily fined--probably for far more than that phony sexual discrimination suit Snotty Sandra filed.) Dear little Jake committed vehicular manslaughter and again almost cost Burton the firm. He was trying to suck up to Burton on that occasion as well. When he does become MP he'll probably run the firm right into the ground.

Speaking of running into the ground, not only did CBS not promote this show in any manner worth speaking of, one Houston station didn't even run the show. Of course, that lowlife Les Moonves is licking his chops in anticipation of using the low numbers as an excuse not to renew this show. I can't call him pond scum only because I took a seminar on blue-green algae in college and learned how useful the substance is.