alonewiththemoon

So Lee did what he thought was the right thing--uncovering people's actions regardless of the consequences because the truth matters more than anything else--but he really wasn't doing it for the right reasons, and I think you could see and hear his own doubt as he stumbled over his words a bit before forcing the President to answer his questions about her cancer drug and thus her cancer. He was turning around and doing to those he loved what he has always felt they--more specifically, his dad--always did to him. He was alternately neglected and forced to live up to the highest of standards under intense scrutiny, all at the expense of a real emotional honesty in his relationship with his father. I think his actions last night were essentially "If you could do that to me, I can do that to you!" Despite being a fighter pilot and a leader and all that, he's not at all a grown man; he's still an angry, hurt teenager mad at those he loves and easily manipulated by people like the lawyer.

I'm relieved to have an explanation for why he's been so frakking annoying all season--he's finally hit adolescence.