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    Season 7 Spoiler Discussion part 2 - Fighting Crime In Gotham

    I don't know why Melina left, either, but I've always suspected it was because she wanted to further explore the horrible Stella backstory set out in "Grounds for Deception", and when the showrunners, for once recognizing turd when they sniffed it, refused, she flounced. I also think that they...
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    Grade 'Food For Thought'

    I'm not absolutely certain, but it looked like there were rolling papers or other doob paraphernalia on the nightstand, so I do think Camille got her dope on, and that Hawkes was there.
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    Season 7 Spoiler Discussion part 2 - Fighting Crime In Gotham

    ^Who's that covering up in the foreground of the top picture? Is that Flack?
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    Grade 'Food For Thought'

    If he did try it, then we can add lying to his list of stupid decisions. I think that he was simply there while Camille got her toke on, and no, I don't want to consider the implications of Camille, a nurse, burning a spliff, especially if she had to work that day. What she does on her off...
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    Grade 'Food For Thought'

    He's still hot to me. Mmmm. I do miss the suits, though. I'm guessing wardrobe got its budget cut...
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    Grade 'Food For Thought'

    I'm sorry, I didn't realize there was a happiness requirement for being allowed to watch the show. I watch because I'm invested in the characters. I like them as imaginary people even if I despise the lackluster, slipshod writing that routinely distorts them to suit its half-assed ends. I...
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    Grade 'Food For Thought'

    In brief: Screw you, CSI:NY. I might have more to say when I can stop gnashing my teeth and banging on my keyboard like a PCP-crazed chimpanzee.
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    Grade 'Do or Die'

    I don't really care if Lindsay gets over her trauma or not since it only surfaces when they need to get her empathy points, but projecting her unresolved issues onto people who clearly couldn't give a shit was ludicrous. No one was crying or in shock. In fact, the entire scene had a freakshow...
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    Grade 'Do or Die'

    It might've been a feeble nod to continuity, but it was like shoving a kielbasa into the casing for a cocktail weenie--awkward and wholly inappropriate. None of the kids at the scene was shocked or traumatized. As Flack noted, it was the digital grapevine in full effect, and they were...
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    Grade 'Do or Die'

    Folderol, dammit. This episode was a borefest. Do the writers really think the majority of viewers give two shits about upper-crust, privileged wankwaffles and are just hanging out for a glimpse into their lifestyle? Everyone involved, including thew victim, was an asswipe, and while Olivia...
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    Season 7 Spoiler Discussion part 2 - Fighting Crime In Gotham

    I'd like to say I'm surprised, but I'm not. S6 was an unmitigated pile of inexcusable, sloppy drek, and even though the writing and acting have improved dramatically in s7, it's a case of too little too late. The cack-handed writing, gaping continuity and plot holes, the DL debacle, and...
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    Grade 'The Untouchable'

    Maybe he was, but it looked like a payphone to me, and even so, why would he need to use it if he had his cellphone?
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    Grade 'The Untouchable'

    Not a bad episode, but riddle me this: From previous seasons, it's been established that the team have each other's contact information, including cell numbers, and surely Mac knows the number to his own damn lab and Jo's extension. So...why would he need 911 to connect him to Jo Danville at...
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    Grade 'Vigilante'

    Please stop trying to "showcase" Anna Belknap's talent. I suspect the writers were aiming for empathetic and conflicted, but what she produced was a noisome clot of self-involvement and wangsty, constipated emo. When talking to a trauma victim, it's not all about you, Lindsay, it really...
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    Grade 'Holding Cell'

    Given that the ideals of 150 years ago included treating women like the chattel of their husbands and committing them to asylums for such crimes as thinking for themselves or declining sex with their husbands, I'm not sure claiming that Mac is a harbinger of those days and that particular moral...
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    Grade 'To What End?'

    I'm sorry, but there is a difference between compartmentalizing emotions out of necessity and being willfully blind and dismissive of the cost of justice to ordinary folks who never signed on to make those sacrifices. Mac was the latter. If he had said, "Sometimes, this job and this world are...
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    Grade 'Holding Cell'

    And that's wonderful for you, but it doesn't work that way for everyone, and for Mac to handwave away the complexity of depression and suicidal thoughts as nothing more than a moral failing was ridiculous and inexcusable.
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    Season 7 Ratings

    Yes, lame stunt-casting, come, save the show. This quality acting, it burns us, Precious. That it was going to take a ratings hit by being moved to Friday/date night/party night was inevitable. It's not doing badly, all things considered.
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    Grade 'Holding Cell'

    "Holding Cell" was CSI:NY's Very Special Episode about depression, and was, once again, ruined by Mac's overweening smug self-righteousness. Suicide and its root causes are very complex issues, and while I fall onto the side that finds it a selfish act, I abhor Mac's holier-than-thou...
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    Grade 'To What End?'

    Until the closing scene, I thought Jo's ex-husband was the smarmiest character of the episode, but Mac just couldn't resist the need to whip out his infuriatingly-patronizing binary morality. Mac's right. The police do need people like Bobby to make those sacrifices in order to see justice...
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