IT'S always a shock when a leading character is killed off in a long running series – think Patrick in Offspring.
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Now in The Good Wife (Ten) Will Gardner has been murdered, and he, even more than Patrick, was central to the whole scenario of The Good Wife.
Way back in the very beginning, Alicia Florrick, the good wife of the title, desperately needed a job.
Her husband Peter, formerly the State Attorney was in jail for political corruption and during the case it was known he head been patronising prostitutes.
She had known Will Gardner when they studied law together and it was he that gave her a job in Lockhart and Gardner.
Her career prospered and her friendship with Will turned into a love affair.
In the last season her rehabilitated husband is now Governor of Illinois and she has left Lockhart and Gardner to set up her own legal firm.
She took some of her important clients with her and during this last series every episode has been a fight with Will on one side and her on the other for various clients and various cases.
We didn't actually see Will's death.
He was shot down in a courtroom when the boy he was defending grabbed the court police officer's gun and went berserk.
The very last scene in this episode, which was the end of the series, was Alicia picking up the phone to be told of Will's death.
Her reaction will probably start season two, which is this week, but with no Will, where will the storyline go?
He will be sorely missed but the actor, Josh Charles, wanted out and so his character's murder seemed the best solution.
I REALLY respect John Pilger as a fine journalist, and I looked forward to Utopia on SBS on Saturday night, but was disappointed.
The terrible conditions many Aborigines live in are a national disgrace, but Pilger had no redeeming features for white Australians.
The people he interviewed on Australia Day were so very red-necked and many times in this movie I kept on asking why?
We were told children were still being taken away from their parents with, in one case, the authorities coming to the house and removing a child while the family was having breakfast.
Also there was a health clinic that was found to be totally uninhabitable.
I asked why was this so?
Under what governance had the clinic been set up, who hadn't been funding it etc?
No answer.
That's why I was disappointed.