Get ready for another long post from moi!
On the working mother discussion, I think the main issue in this case isn't whether it's possible for a single mother to juggle kids and a very busy, full-time job. It's whether
Lindsay can handle life as a single mother juggling a baby and a very busy, full-time job.
I personally know single moms with multiple kids who work full-time, so I know it's more than possible. However, in Lindsay's case, I'm a lot more skeptical. Just her
character is enough to make me question the idea of her being a mother. (If you want details on that, head to the
Why Lindsay Must Go thread and read the posts in there.) And the way she treated Danny for most of season four, her past behavior towards Mac and Stella, amongst other things ... I can't imagine how she's going to handle a baby who'll depend on her completely for care, nurturing and affection if she's always #1 in her eyes. I feel sorry for the baby already.
Ya know that statement by Anna Belknap about pregnant women unable to work around chemicals like those in the CSI labs? If Lindsay only finds out she's pregnant about three months in, doesn't that mean in that timespan she's already exposed her unborn kid to God knows what poisonous chemicals there are in the labs? :wtf: Are TPTB expecting us to suspend more belief by assuming it's okay now for Lindsay to continue working in the labs simply because they say so? :wtf:
If the baby turns out to be radioactive/has six arms/has laser eyes/can turn into a cow at whim, I'll be here laughing my ass off.
As for Mac and Stella having a baby ... :lol: As much as I do think Mac and Stella have great chemistry together, that'll be even more unbelievable and hilarious at this point of the show.
racefh853629 said:
In 419, Danny essentially crawled back to her after Rikki left, and Lindsay was saying no. If she is pregnant and Danny is the father, can we say hypocrisy? She was moving away from that (or, at least, that was my impression) by the end of season 4. If she goes back and sleeps with him again, it (to me) speaks to being a hypocrite.
Agreed very much. It doesn't just make her a hypocrite, it makes her look
really pathetic as well. So much for TPTB attempting to paint her as someone finally gaining some senses and having the smarts to move on.
It boggles my mind why TPTB is so intent on writing her as this ...
idiot, while expecting us to close our eyes to her every fault and think of her as this 'perfect' person who can do no wrong. :wtf: TPTB, that is
not the way to go to endear a character to the audience, specially not if the audience use their
brains.
And yeah, there's the thing about Danny going to Lindsay after Rikki left. Due to the switch of scenes in episode 4x19, Danny did call Lindsay before he found out Rikki was leaving, but note that Danny
only got visibly upset about anything when he did find out. Therefore, should TPTB go ahead with this Lindsay preggers story, it'll turn out the only reason Danny even slept with Lindsay again is because Rikki left and Lindsay was the easiest lay around. Geez, TPTB, how's that for destroying what's left of Danny's integrity? And Lindsay's?! :brickwall:
I think it's damn ironic even those who dislike Lindsay want her to shown in a better light and made independent, hopeful her character being developed without Danny remaining her prop. Seriously, things are
not good when people from
all sides think this development is a horrid joke.
I'd rather see Lindsay have a storyline not revolving around their non-relationship relationship (or whatever you want to call it). If the pregnant route is the way they wanna go to give Lindsay a new storyline, please make it someone else's baby (and not, like, Mac or Hawkes or Adam or Flack or Sid or any other main male character on the show that I might have forgotten). Give her a standalone storyline, please. That's all I ask.
Amen to that.
Hm ... has anyone considered it being a 'scare'? Ala CSI:Miami? I kinda recall someone mentioning that CSI:Miami had a similar storyline where one of the regular recurring characters thought she was made pregnant by one of the main characters? Boa Vista and Eric, I think? Please to be correcting me if I'm mistaken.
Top41 said:
Both Without a Trace and Criminal Minds had main characters get pregnant because the actresses playing those characters got pregnant, but the baby daddies in both cases were not main characters on the shows. I find the idea laughable that some new guy is going to come in and swoon over Lindsay's pregnant ass. So I'd guess that storyline is being dropped. Either that or the big surprise will be that Lindsay did sleep with someone else, too, and the baby isn't Danny's. But that would put her on the same level with Danny, and as
La Guera said, I doubt they'd do anything other than make Lindsay "the saintly wounded dove of distilled innocence."
See, those shows were smart. They paired up a main character with a recurring one because it won't directly or permanently upset the balance of the main cast. A recurring character can be written out if TPTB chooses to do that later on, but you can't do that with a main character without major repurcussions.
If Rikki is the one pregnant, it won't be shoved down people's throats for the rest of the show because she's a recurring character who isn't required to appear every week. That alone is already a plus. And should TPTB go with Rikki moving on and caring for the baby on her own, TPTB can write her and the baby out without badly affecting the show. But
Lindsay, no way can TPTB write in or out a baby without things turning into a soap opera laughing stock. It's like digging a grave and going deeper and deeper underground hoping you'll see the sky just beyond your shovel when you know you won't.
About the new love interest for Lindsay ... I dunno, it all depends on how TPTB writes him in. Have you guys wondered if the new guy is her
doctor? :guffaw: But seriously, I can see another guy being interested in Lindsay eventhough she's pregnant. If he's that good a fellow, Lindsay would be a dumbass to not move on in her life with him. If TPTB chooses to go that route, that's one way of making Lindsay independent of Danny even with the preggers storyline. It'll also explain away how Lindsay will manage being a new mother with a baby and a busy, full-time job, since she loves to complain how awful it is being a 'lonely country girl in the big city'.
Yeesh, that got old
years ago.
random_rambler said:
I'm about ready to tear my hair out if it turns out that she is pregnant. That is such a soap opera-ish way to induce 'character development' and frankly, I don't think TPTB can pull it off. Also, I don't believe anyone has considered this, but my first reaction upon reading about the clinic visit was that Lindsay had gotten an abortion. As I run screaming into the distance just thinking about it. I hope NY doesn't go that route, simply because it's such a touchy issue.
Yeah, it's the 'TPTB won't be able to pull it off' part that has everyone cringing about this. That and, personally, I think Anna Belknap is just a subpar actress who can't emote so if things are done badly, it'll be double the cringing.
An abortion? Yikes, I sure hope TPTB won't go there! Or a miscarriage route. Just tasteless all around, especially since Belknap is pregnant. Talk about
awwwwkwaaaard.
nikirex said:
I think the Rikki-is-pregnant story would be too logical: she's gone and now back with a big secret. It wouldn't be surprising. IMO it will be something else.
Between logical and well-done, and gimmicky and stupid, I'll pick logical and well-done any day. Quality =/= Shock value.
Poppet said:
Given what has gone before, my fear it that this whole Lindsay pregnancy story will be spun out into an over the top drawn out drama that just distracts from the rest of the show and does nothing for either character - more self-absorbed whinging from Lindsay and more Danny being her punch bag. These people are supposed to be feisty CSIs who attend horrific crime scenes and face down mass murders yet they portray them as wet spineless individuals who can't function as normal adults outside of work (sometimes even at work).
Yep, that's one of my concerns too. If this Drama Llama is going to overwhelm everything again, I say a big fat
no to Flack and Hawkes being shafted this year, particularly Hawkes!
That poor man's been shafted since the
beginning. And yeah, a big fat
NO to more self-absorbed, whining Lindsay and punchbag!Danny too.
Elsie said:
Of course, I'm placing my bets on a birthing scene in the season finale. The timeline fits. Ah, there's nothing like a traumatic birth to bring a team together...
Grryyaaah. If it's worse than her, "I rock!" scene, I'm definitely giving it a pass. I mean, she couldn't even make, "I rock!" sound believable! I so do not want to see her trying to act a birth. (And before people say she must certainly do a good job of acting a birth because she's done it in real life, hey, I bet she's cried before but the court room scene in season three is proof there's a major difference between actually crying and trying to act it.)
Having said all this, I still have a little bit of hope it's a red herring. Something just smells ... fishy. :lol: The main reason why there is the conviction the spoilers have to be true is because the spoilers appear to be tied to the case in the episode. Personally, that's not enough a reason to convince me it will definitely come to pass, not even with the news of Belknap being pregnant. TPTB can easily leak fake spoilers that connect to cases, just to f**k with people's minds.
Does anyone else think it's suspicious TPTB would leak out such a major thing before the season five premiere's even
aired? Way to kill all the suspense, ya know?
