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Originally Posted by Ice_W0lf
Agree for the most part. It feels like they are trying to make Harvey center stage this season.. which I think I'll be fine with, but it could backfire as well as part of Harvey's awesomeness is that he seems pretty much untouchable. I feel like last seasons Harvey would have figured out how to help the guy and get the bankruptcy guy on their side. I realize Harvey can't win all the time.. but he made such a clear long term mistake.. and Jessica didn't see it coming... And that's very unlike both characters.
Vulnerable Harvey doesn't really make much sense (his vulnerability should come much more slowly as Mike turns him into more of a human being, it's just too fast for my taste). The fact that Jessica didn't see that coming was a major flaw in the writing. Harvey has already "betrayed" her multiple times this season, so she shouldn't have seen it as some "OMG, I can't believe he did that!".
I agree that Harvey's problem solving skills are usually top notch, and even top notcher (lolword) with Mike. Again, I just think that was meant to set up conflict (fake) between Jessica and Harvey, and obviously the bankruptcy lawyer guy is going to play some kind of important contrarian role in the future. Last year's Harvey would have easily made that work without stepping on the guy's toes, because he was just so smooth at resolving conflict (he must be to almost never have to go to court). He's "off his game" this season.
Another weakness is that it seems strange that Jessica would immediately want Harvey to try to close that guy's vote, when he absolutely hated, or at the very least resented, Harvey from what I could tell. It seems like their best bet would have been to go after the swing vote people first, and then go after the hard people like that guy. Of course, that wouldn't involve conflict, which is probably directive number one at USA this season. No one on here watches Fairly Legal, most likely, but USA really screwed that show up, too, and it went from being really enjoyable in its first season to barely watchable, for me (though it has mostly gotten better as the season progressed, which is why I have hope for Suits to improve in the same way).
So far, Franklin & Bash is still clicking on most of the same cylinders that made that show enjoyable last season. They've made the "foil" move in another direction, and are expanding a really good character (Pindar), which has actually made the show even more likable. It also doesn't really seem full of itself, which was a big fear I had after such an unexpectedly excellent first season.