'The Other Time' -- Suits 3x06

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It's kind of amazing just how much of a number that Steven is playing when it comes to Donna and Harvey's relationship, and I'm not talking about the whole thing where she is in love with him, and he doesn't love her back. It's the whole thing where she used to just be able to tell things about him, and she's been thrown off lately; and it's also the fact that they always seemed to be on the same page, cuz they still cared about each other as friends ... and cuz she was his "girl Friday". I realize that I wanted her to be able to have some lovin' (and I still do), and that I thought that Steven had a very lovely accent, but I want him to take a hike now. As much as it appeared that he was really interested in her in the beginning, it seems much more like he was sent to mess with Harvey, and the best way to do that is through Donna. Before this point, I would have thought that no one would have been able to get to him through her, cuz she's mfing Donna, but Steven's done a number on her head, and he just needs to go now ... right after Donna beats the crap out of him.

I really did not like the way that Harvey treated her in the flashback, when he was "explaining" the hierarchy ... even when it became clear that he was super conflicted about the situation that he was being put in, and the same thing had been happening to him. It made me feel a little bit better about the whole thing that he kind of twisted Jessica's arm to bring Donna along when he joined her firm, even though associates weren't supposed to have secretaries, and he agreed that she be paid out of his salary (so that he would be taking a cut to make sure that he was able to keep her with him).

But at least Harvey was finally able to admit to her that it bothered him that she was having a relationship with Steven. It really is unfair of him to think that he should be able to have all kinds of flings, but that she shouldn't be able to see anyone (even as a fling) herself, cuz he knows that she loves him, and cuz she's always been loyal to him when it comes to their working relationship. It is too much like he's wanting to have it both ways, and that really isn't fair to her. She should be able to find someone who loves her the way that she loves Harvey, and to be able to love that person back ... and barring that, she should at least be able to get some. A girl's gotta eat ... wait, that's not right ... I don't think. lol

Also, I think that I could have done without the flashback information about Mike, even though it meant we got to see Grammy again. I think that we have been given enough information about Mike's past to be able to know what's going on with him, and for it to not be all that interesting anymore ... at least, it's not all that interesting to me. I'm much more interested in Harvey and Donna's past than I am about Mike's (and not just cuz I want to know what the hell is going on with their little private pre-trial ritual).

Speaking about being more interested in Harvey and Donna's past, I was really excited to be able to see something of Harvey's dad, since we know practically nothing about his family (other than he had a brother who he's really protective of). It was good to see that he had a good relationship with his father, and it mattered to him what his father thought of him (since it doesn't seem to matter to him what pretty much anyone thinks).

And now I'm wondering what's going to be happening with Jessica and Harvey now that he's told her that he had put a plan in motion to get her thrown out of the firm. She's not going to take that lightly, but I'm not entirely sure that she would try to get rid of Harvey (especially now that she has just put his name on the door ... which I'm still iffy about, cuz it still doesn't feel like he's earned it, and she was just trying to buy him off). It seems much more like the writers are thinking about getting rid of her ... and possibly of Rachel as well, since they're moving forward with the whole "let's send Rachel to Stanford for three years" thing. If I was about looking for spoilers at all, I think that I would try to find out what I could about the future of those characters, but spoilers are not my friends.

'War' -- Suits 2x16

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I will be the first one to admit that I will be so very glad when the new season starts, and we possibly don't have to deal with the fallout of Daniel Hardman anymore. When he first came to the show, it was cool to see him, since we didn't really know all that much about him (and now was our chance to see exactly why it was that he was no longer with the firm, and why Jessica and Harvey seemed to hate him so much). But now that the season has finished, I am left more annoyed with him than anything else. Sure, he was fun at first, cuz he shaked things up a bit (and you don't want to see things getting stale, right?). But now, things have been shaken up to full tilt, and I'm getting the feeling more and more that things are going to kind of be in a shambles when we come back to the show over the summer. With the merger, at least the firm will still be intact, but what with everything that has been going on lately ... I still feel like there is going to be some really bad things coming. Harvey is obviously pissed about the fact that Jessica doesn't really trust him, and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that her whole thing about being able to "control him" is going to come back to blow up in her face (since I have a feeling that that is the sort of thing that would probably make him even more pissed). Even with his loyalty to Jessica, I have a feeling that after a while, we're going to see him walk ... even if she did have him sign paperwork that would mean that he wouldn't be able to work (once his trust is completely broken where she is concerned, I don't think that will matter all that much to him).

I was rather proud of Donna for sticking up for Scotty ... even though I really don't like Scotty. It was her being able to put aside her feelings for Harvey, realizing that it was unlikely that he was ever going to feel about her the way that she wanted him to, and trying to help someone else be happy. Also, good on her for calling him out on all of his bullshit with women, and the fact that he tends to run away when things get really serious with anyone. Whatever it was that his mom did, it must have been really bad to make him not want to get that close to anyone ever again. But now, I really would love to have some more information about Harvey's past (specifically about his family).

Good on Luis for finally telling Rachel the truth about what was going on. Yes, it made me want to snuggle him a little bit more when he told Mike that the real reason was that she "wasn't good enough" to get in to Harvard, but that he knew that was crap, cuz she really was good enough. As much of a jerk as the man can be, he obviously thinks very highly of Rachel ... I almost get the feeling that he thinks of her as a little sister. Sure, he has no idea of how to actually relate to people (and is completely socially autistic), but he tries to do the right thing by her (even if it isn't actually what he should be doing), and that's sweet.

Mike telling Rachel what the secret is ... I have a feeling that is going to come back and bite him in the ass later on. As soon as Harvey finds out, he's going to be furious. Donna is probably going to be disappointed, but she also may be relieved that she doesn't have to keep the information away from Rachel anymore (seeing as how the two of them are friends). And Jessica is probably going to be angry, as well as go into overdrive trying to make sure that one more person being a part of the "Mike is Not Actually a Lawyer" secret doesn't do them any harm. It might even do Rachel some good in the long run. Who knows, Jessica might just be able to pull some strings to make sure that Rachel does actually get into Harvard so that she doesn't tell anyone about what is really going on with Mike.

'Normandy' -- Suits 2x15

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I do not like Katrina. Not even a little bit. I really want something bad to happen to her, like whoa. The way that she's been messing around with karma lately, I really don't see how she can keep going without it coming back to bite her in the ass. Sure, she wants to look good, and to get ahead, but there comes a point when you know that everyone else is swamped and that you need to be a team player so that everyone can get their stuff done. With everything that everyone needs to get done, and the entire firm balancing on whether or not they are able to win these cases, her acting like a bag full of dicks and making it seem like her work is far more important than everyone else's is only doing harm to the firm (and ultimately to her when she starts making enemies everywhere that she goes).

I kind of feel bad for Rachel and the fact that she isn't going to be able to get into Harvard, but at the same time, it doesn't seem like she should have been counting solely on going there. Even if it was her "dream school," she really should have thought about where she would go if she wasn't able to get in there. And yeah, she wants to work at Pearson, Pearson, Pearson, and Pearson after she graduates from law school, and they get their peeps from Harvard, but at this point ... Jessica has to know that Rachel kicks ass (after all, she's the only paralegal with her own office, right?). So, I don't see why it would be a problem if she went somewhere else, since I have a feeling that Jessica would still hire her back after graduation. If that did happen, and it got out to people that maybe wanted to apply to the firm who hadn't gone to Harvard, it might seem like Jessica was setting a president that people who graduated from other schools might be able to get a job there, but that still might not be a problem, since they could say that there were special circumstances with hiring Rachel.

And I'm not entirely sure that Rachel should tell her dad about how she didn't get in. I have a feeling that he might want to take some kind of action against the admissions person (whose name is escaping me at the moment), even though they really wouldn't have anything to stand on when it came to a case. The fact is that she told Luis that it had nothing to do with him, and that she had all kinds of people who were superb wanting to get in, but that she couldn't let all of them in. It was Luis that took the blame when he talked to Rachel about it, and said that she was taking the way their relationship ended out on Rachel. Even if that is really what he believes is going on, there's nothing but speculation to say that it's anything other than what what's-her-face said that it was. But good on Luis for telling her what he suspected was actually going on, taking the blame upon himself, and for looking genuinely remorseful for what had happened. He may be a complete jerk and a jackass, but sometimes he's actually a decent guy.

I love it when Donna gets all protective of Harvey and his feelings. He may be all tough on the outside, but I think that Donna realizes that on the inside, he's all mushy and soft. And I have a feeling that Scotty would be just the kind of person who would really hurt Harvey, cuz he might let himself care about her a little bit (even though he has to know that it would be dangerous for him to do so), and she is so all about herself that she would hurt him (and how could she not, since she's the type that would step on someone's neck if she thought that it would get her ahead). Also with the love? The way that Donna tries to make sure that Harvey looks nice (fixing his suit and his hair), and how he tries to fight her at first (but then, seems to realize that he's not going to win, so he just gives in to her on this point). The two of them need to be together and have babies. Seriously.

'He's Back' -- Suits 2x14

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Oh, how I really cannot stand Daniel. He makes me want to have bad things done to him ... but then, that's exactly the reaction that the writers are going for with him, no? We're supposed to side with the guys of Pearson and Hardman, and we're supposed to think that Hardman is a complete douche. It doesn't even take Mike and Harvey actually saying it for us to really think it. Oh, and Donna pulling him into a conference room and smacking him a couple of times ... Donna is a badass, and that is a fact. I would even go so far as to say that she is a fierce, ginger beast. Yeah, I said it. Oh, how happy I was that she roughed him up a bit. I loved her already at that point, but I loved her a little bit more after that ... especially when he was trying to get up in her face, and she didn't back down even a little bit. Good on her. I want to see her rough some other people up as well; it would make me so very happy on the inside.

What didn't make me happy on the inside, however, was when she was telling Harvey about how she kicked Daniel's ass, and he said "beautiful" in a way that made you think that he was actually talking to her (which I so bad wanted him to be), but he was actually talking to Jessica. ::shakes fist:: I need for Donna and Harvey to be together so very, very badly. I know that he loves her, but I need him to love her the way that she loves him. It's so very heartbreaking when she thinks that she's so very close to getting the one thing that she wants more than anything, only to realize that she is still just as far as she's always been. I really need to snuggle her. Hard.

The more time that goes on, the more I'm thinking that Jessica can't really be trusted. Sure, I'm totally on the firm's side against Daniel, but that doesn't mean that I trust her ... and I don't think that Harvey should trust her completely either. The fact that she so obviously doesn't want to make him her partner in the firm (and only seems to want to use him as her attack dog, without letting him get off of the leash that she's got him on), and that she went to Robert Zane to make him her partner instead (so that she could save her own ass from failure) ... not cool. If things keep going like that, no matter how loyal Harvey is to her, I have a feeling that eventually he's going to go out on his own, cuz he isn't getting to the places that he feels like he should be inside Jessica's firm. This might mean bad things for Mike ... or it might not ... Jessica still might keep her mouth shut about it, since it would still mean that she would get into trouble for knowing that he never went to law school (and never graduated, or got his license).

I'm kind of getting to the point where the whole Mike and Rachel thing is starting to get boring. I keep wanting to yell at them to either jump in the pool, or put their clothes back on. But it doesn't seem like we're going to see the end of that anytime soon.

ETA: I knew I forgot to mention something about this episode ... I was seriously feeling bad for Luis. Sure, he has absolutely no moves when it comes to knowing how to get along with people, but I don't think that it was his intention to harass anyone. Still, that doesn't mean that if someone doesn't want his attention, they wouldn't be completely creeped out by all of the attention that they didn't want from him ... but I got the feeling that homegirl who was saying that he was sexually harassing her didn't actually feel threatened by him, and was only using him as a weapon against the firm. I felt bad for the guy when he realized what had been said about him in the deposition, and I was glad that Harvey was nice to him (for once). Also, good on Luis for standing up to Daniel, even if I'm pretty sure that's going to come back to bight him in the ass, knowing what a jerkface Daniel is.

'Zane vs. Zane' -- Suits 2x13

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I have to say ... I really don't like Rachel's dad. But truth be told, I'm not entirely sure that I'm supposed to. I got the impression that we are supposed to think that her dad is a complete asshat (and not cuz he is such a bulldog at his job. After all, Harvey is a bulldog, and we're meant to think of him as the hero of the show). It seemed much more like that we weren't supposed to like him cuz he didn't seem to realize just how much of an assnozzel that he is when it comes to women in general (and to Rachel specifically). Despite the way he treated Jessica (which seemed to me to be akin to how he would treat a man ... probably cuz she had proven herself to be a worthy advisory, and as someone who was able to hand out numbers), he didn't seem to have much in the way of respect for women. I kept getting the feeling from him that he kind of thought (in some deep part of himself) that they should remain in the home, and that they maybe even should remain barefoot and pregnant. The woman that he was going after in the deposition ... the things he was saying didn't just seem like he was saying them to rattle her chain; there was an attitude there that made it look like that was really what he thought. It didn't help any that he pretty much said the same thing to Rachel before that. That may have not been his intention to say that sort of thing to her, but sometimes people say what they mean without realizing it. And the fact that he seemed so amazed that Rachel had taken her entrance exams speaks to the fact that there was probably something there when she felt like he would have made her feel like her score wasn't high enough (even though it was only a few points lower than his). Yes, I was totally on Rachel's side on this, and could see how the relationship might have been strained, and how she might have been made to feel incredibly small by his words and actions.

I also got the feeling that Rachel's dad didn't really have any idea of who she was. Her not telling him things was (I think) only partly to blame for this. It looked like she had been hurt too many times by things that he had said to her in the past that she had ended up cutting herself off from him to a certain extent, and I can't say that I blame her for that. I'd love it if they were able to mend thing completely between them, but I'm not entirely sure that they are going to be able to do that. It seems almost like he's going to say something again in the future that is going to make her feel small, and like she will never be good enough for him, and she'll pull back from him again to protect herself.

But Rachel's dad wasn't the only person that I had a problem with in this episode ... I really wanted to smack Luis upside the head in this episode. Sure, he's pissed off that there were rules implemented specifically for him, and that is bound to get under anyone's skin. But he seems to forget that there is a reason why those rules were put into place for him, and that he completely deserved what he got. Also, I'm not sure the thing about new hires applies to when the new hire is a fifth year associate; I was under the impression that it was only for first and second years ... when they really needed someone standing over them and making sure that they weren't fucking up. At this point, homegirl doesn't really need anyone standing over her anymore. She will certainly need someone to come to when/if she needs to clarify something, or she needs help in something that she may not be as proficient in as someone else, but that doesn’t mean that she needs someone to hold her hand through everything. But that isn't really what Luis was doing, was it? He's still pissed off about the fact that Harvey got to hire someone new, and he had to get rid of the associate that he thought was completely perfect; and still being pissed off about all that doesn't mean that he should be a complete ass about the whole thing. But at least the two of them were kind of able to make peace with each other, especially since I have a feeling that a war between the two of them would have become tiresome.

'Blood in the Water' -- Suits 2x11

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I normally like Luis, I will completely admit to this ... like him even though I know that the man is a complete weasel. However, I am having a really hard time liking him (especially in this episode). He is certainly socially awkward, and doesn't seem to understand what is acceptable behavior, but there are certainly times when he is far more obtuse than what is strictly necessary. And the way that he treated the blondie (the associate that he screamed at and fired) was not cool in any way, no matter how much he may have thought that he was justified in doing so. Their job is going to have a lot of pressure in it, but continually making the poor boy stress out so that he does even worse at his job isn't going to make the situation with him any better. It seems like it is only going to keep him making mistakes, and perhaps that they will get worse with time ... and a good leader would not only not be a bully, s/he would get an idea of what other people are able to do, and would perhaps put them in a position where they would be able to do that (and it looked like homeboy should have been in a room somewhere writing drafts and such).

The more time that goes on, the more I'm convinced that Luis was bullied a lot as a kid (it's become kind of clear that he has been bullied a lot as an adult). The way that Harvey gets to him all of the time, and he doesn't seem to be able to know how to stand up for himself in those situations ... and the way that he treats those who he has some kind of power over ... it makes me think that he was bullied, and he never really learned how to stand up for himself or how to treat other people. I also wouldn't be surprised to find out that he is an only child and that he was smothered by at least one of his parents. Gah, here I go again with the INTJ and trying to read a little too much into genre television. lol

But I did fully approve of the fact that he was good to Mike, and that he was willing to use his stash of fixer-upper after a beating stuff on him as soon as he saw that there was something wrong. It made me forgive him a bit for the douche that he had been in the rest of the episode. I also forgave him a little bit after he helped Mike go through all of the paperwork that he needed to look through for any loopholes that might have been there. I still kind of wanted to shake him for how awful that he had been to blondie, and I'm sure he'll have other moments where he is a complete douche, but he is somewhat forgiven for what he did.

And you know what else? I'm happy that Harvey was willing to make peace with Luis (especially after the cartoon comparison that he made about their relationship). There is a certain point when you are pushing someone, having the kind of relationship where the two are you are snipping at each other (but where it is essentially harmless), and you turn into a complete bully ... and let's face it, Harvey has been a bully where Luis is concerned, and has been for quite a while. I don't expect the two of them to ever be friends, they are just too different at their cores for that, but they can at least work together, since they are both good in their areas.

'Blind Sided' -- Suits 2x11

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Oh, what an amazing mess Mike's life is right now. But then, how could it not be? While he's still trying to grieve for his gram, the boys get a case that reminds so very much of when he found out that his parents had died. That's got to be rough, to be reminded of such a terrible loss while you are still so very close to another terrible loss. But him saying that he was fine ... oh, how very much he really wasn't. And him going to the lawyer that came to the house makes it look like he's reached the "anger" portion of his process. That seems to be the only reason as to why he would go there and confront them man for doing his job, while raging against him for not remembering his parents. But really, how would the lawyer remember them? I don't see how one case out of so many similar ones would stick out in his mind. For Mike, it may have been one of the most important days of his life, but for that particular lawyer, I'm sure that it was probably just another day at the office. Not the kind of thing that Mike would have wanted to hear from him, but that doesn't mean that it was any less true.

It makes me wonder, while Mike is seeing some connections between himself and the guy that they were representing, if he was able to see the connection that they both were getting high. Yeah, Mike rides a bike everywhere, but what if something changed and he hurt someone after getting high? Could that have been part of the reason why he was so upset with the guy (and not just cuz the guy killed someone)? It seemed like he realized that he was making some really bad decisions around this time, and maybe he was seeing that. I would really love to see him giving up pot, since bad things seem to happen when he starts lighting up.

You know, it's probably good for the firm in general (and Harvey in particular) that Donna has such good instincts, on top of the fact that she's so freaking loyal. I bet that if she wasn't awesome and ginger, things might have turned out differently for the first year that Luis had wanted to hire ... and then, they all would have been fucked when it came to Mike. And even if there are only four people in the firm that know that Mike is a complete fraud, it probably would have been bad news for everyone that worked there if it came out that the managing partner kept Mike on after finding out that he never actually went to law school. At the very least, I wouldn't doubt that the fines that would be involved with that would sink the entire firm. That would not be a good day for anyone. But the fact that Jessica told Luis to get rid of this particular person, and then, he found out that Harvey hired someone as a bribe ... I have a feeling that there is going to be some badness coming around cuz of that. It won't be just cuz Luis is a douche, but it will be that on top of the fact that he hates Harvey (and the both of those things will make him want to do as much damage as he can, I'm sure).

I wonder if the little girl that greeted Harvey at the door of his RL wife's character's place was actually their daughter. I would not be at all surprised if she was, and you know what? She was awesome and adorable. I thought that it was great that she was busting his chops about not bringing flowers. Awesome kids are awesome!! And it was only right that he "brought the little one flowers" the next time that he came around. lol