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Anu, don't read this.
You're both very right. The biggest thing you see in season 1, Anu, is that Mike - despite being the 'clever/smart' guy, makes a lot of mistakes - real world mistakes - because he doesn't know how to read people. He'll have the case sewn up in his head, but when he gets into that courtroom, suddenly the axis shifts because someone reacts in a different way than he anticipated. Mike doesn't need to learn the law, but Harvey teaches him real world skills.
Harvey knows how to read people, and that's why, in many ways, he's smarter than Mike. In lawyer-land, knowing how people think and react is often better than the facts. BUT, like Miss-confusing-with-someone-else says, as the season progresses, Mike's 'caring' nature rubs off on Harvey. Not that he was a total jackass to begin with, but nobody really knew how to bring that side out of him. Donna pushes him, but not to that extent since she clearly is his junior at work. Jessica doesn't push him because he wins. Mike, despite being way under-experienced, does break through and force Harvey to see the other side of the coin.You know what occurred to me a few days ago and surprised me? Someone had posted a quote from that episode where they're defending the pharmaceutical company run by Jessica's ex-husband...and when she reveals to Harvey that she was married to this guy, he was surprised...he didn't know about it. That goes to show for how 'in' these people are on each other's personal lives...and that was so pronounced in Sucker Punch, where Jessica finds herself questioning Harvey in the mock trial about what exactly has him so 'damaged'...like I was saying to Mash, she took that line of questioning because she had a point to prove, it was premeditated, but the territory that they ended up treading on was very real...and her questions, even her curiosity about what made him like he is was very genuine. That puts such a spin on it because these people don't know that much about each other...in a way they're all so guarded, but yet they care and respect for each other on a very personal level in a professional world. That's a very interesting place to form such relationships in because they're really all based on work, but thread through to something deeper than that at times...Another thing that I caught on to while rewatching the pilot a few days ago...I'd always thought that Harvey and Jessica met at the Pearson Hardman mailroom...but she says in one of her verbal lashings to him that he was a screw up, and she brought him up to the mailroom, then sponsored his education...that makes it even more interesting, na...because it makes me wonder where exactly and how they would have met...
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