Such a disappointment from the Premiere. Maybe I’ve watched too much Miami or maybe too many ‘Detective’ shows overall because, for me, it seemed pretty obvious that there was something else on the agenda than simply taking hostages – and as for the taking of hostages just to get Horatio Caine on the case that was downright ludicrous...
and as someone else pointed out, where on earth was the security for the building? All in all, too many contrivances to hold any interest for me whatsoever.
...Also, despite the excellent acting that was going on, the whole thing was incredibly disjointed. Ted was taking medication? For what? Did he need to take the medication or was he just taking it so he could see his son? Which if he was taking it just to see his son then that brings up a whole lot of other questions undermining doctors and what not.
Um, was Calleigh promoted during Season 7 to Lt? If not then her lack of respect, title wise, towards Stetler seriously grated on me. She may call Stetler “Rick” outside of work, but when you’re in work you respect them by their title, unless you are of the same rank or there has been some agreement that she can call him by his first name, which I have never seen. I couldn’t even call them friends.
On the subject of Calleigh – I was also not a fan of how they undermined her character simply to promote the Jesse character. Last week, despite the fact that it was soooo painful to see her sooooo green, she did display the caring gene in spades for me, however, if we’re to go with her being so easily convinced of Ted’s guilt, then seh has lost that caring/understanding gene along the way somehow.
I do like the new character Jesse, but he’s being ruined by stupid things, such as taking off his shirt which was quickly replaced with a t-shirt. If they were that quick with the t-shirt then why did he need to take his shirt off in the first place? Oh yes, of course, just to give the viewers something to drool over. Someone should tell the PTBs that not everyone is going to like what they see, so while it might be a nice distraction for some, for others, like myself (if indeed there are any others like me – chuckle), who are only interested in the characters, it’s a complete turn-off.
Also, Jesse was not that good during the hostage situation. His continual telling of Ted to calm down was making the situation far worse, and in all honesty, I would say he was partly responsible for the woman getting shot as well. He should have recognised the fact that his talking was agitating Ted and not soothing, the fact that he didn’t recognise what his talking was doing, that put a dent in his capabilities for me. Sooooo, I was far from impressed with Jesse during the hostage situation.
I do, however, like his demeanour and I am intrigued to know more about the character, but not if getting to know Jesse is detrimental to some of the other characters screen-time, especially Frank and Ryan’s.
All in all, I wasn’t that impressed with this episode at all. A complete lead balloon compared to the premiere. I can see they are trying really hard to let in the Horatio of Old, of which I am grateful, but it’s just not working for me at the moment. The thing is, I have no idea whatsoever as to why it’s not working for me, and that’s incredibly frustrating.
I think Jesse could be a really interesting character, of the Speed kind in my humble opinion, but his competence is being undermined by the intro of silly, stupid aesthetic things like the taking off of his shirt and also by the PTBs showing a lack of observation during the hostage situation. Granted he knew what to do to ensure her wasn’t discovered as being a cop, but he just didn’t know when to STFU... Not good.
