^Also, I think we assume that every detail we get about her relates to her 'secret' rather than just her past in general. She's seen a lot of blood--that could relate to her secret, or it could be a case she worked on after she became a CSI. Maybe a particularly bloody case had an effect on her because she was new and it really brought home how
real and gritty the job was, that it wasn't just as easy as following the evidence and putting the bad guy away--that there were consequences for her as well. I'm not saying the blood thing
isn't related to what we're going to find out this season, and I just used it for an example in this case, but my point was that we can't know for sure that every bit of information even relates back to it. Her secret isn't the only thing we don't know about her, and giving us information doesn't necessarily have to just be clues for the secret.
He's said that before during the arrivals of the Emmy's this year. I saw in on E! He had on this really, really nice suit and he said that "Anthony and the writers are doing a great job with the relationship of Lindsay and Danny. I enjoy what they're doing with the romance or them.... " or something like that.
I'm tempted to ask if this was before or after they backed off on it. *shrug* In the end, I don't support the pairing and just don't want to see it on the show. Maybe because I don't think it's well-done or necessary, I don't see how the show would benefit from it beyond appealing to a potentially different viewing audience than the original science-related premise would bring in. And I have issues with that as well. But that's neither here nor there.
Anyway, let's see if
I can contribute to a discussion about Lindsay that
doesn't rely on Danny/Lindsay for substance (since I said it and haven't managed to do it yet
).
I want to know more about Lindsay before she came to NY, and I don't just mean the infamous 'deep, dark secret.'
How were things different being a CSI in Montana versus being one in NYC?
The process, the legal issues, etc. There hasn't been any sense that things were different from one place to the other based on her reactions. She never said anything about 'you work with the Detectives the whole time, in Bozeman the lead CSI was the only one who worked with them,' or something like that. We know from just the three CSI shows that we're meant to know that there are differences from place to place, so wouldn't the same logically be true for Montana vs. NYC?
Why did she want to go to NY?
Yes, this one has been discussed before, but I'm still curious about it. If it was just about getting away from her past, why go all the way to NYC? Did she have a love of theater or something like that, which would make her want to end up in NYC (and specifically Manhatten, as she told Mac in "Zoo York") rather than LA, Chicago, etc? For the sake of the story, she couldn't have ended up anywhere else, but did they bother to come up with a reason why she would want NYC and nothing else?
How did she go about leaving?
Did she always plan to make her way to NY? Or maybe something on the job made her want to leave Bozeman? If it was something on the job, I'm inclined to think that it didn't have anything to do with her 'secret' (although I'm sure she saw a lot of things she'd like to forget)--anything she saw that reminded her of the 'secret' would be something that could potentially happen no matter where you live if you're doing that job, so leaving Montana wouldn't help. Even if she was always planning to leave, was there something that really set the move in motion?
I'm curious how long ago she applied to the lab in NYC, if she had only recently become available around the time Aiden was fired or if she had possibly sent her information along much earlier--perhaps Mac had been keeping her in the back of his mind for months or a year or something, and when a spot opened up there was only one choice as far as he was concerned--that could explain her quick addition to the team. Mac would have seen her resume along with anybody else who's application crossed his desk--maybe he was waiting for the right spot in the NYPD to open up before inviting her to join the lab, and Aiden leaving was the first chance to do so? I don't think Mac was wishing for anybody to leave so he could bring in someone else, but it's possible that he always kept people in the back of his mind, knowing how he values the integrity of the lab and that he would always want to have a good candidate in mind just-in-case...
Did her colleagues support the move?
Would the people she worked with in Montana have sneered at her wish to go to New York to be a CSI? Did they think she was being idealistic? Maybe they just generally thought the idea of her going to NYC was amusing. *shrug* Or maybe they supported her decision to make the move, knowing her past or that she was meant for bigger things...
Did she start in the lab and then move to being an actual CSI?
She strikes me as more of a scientist than a cop (and I believe Eddie Cahill said this in an interview a few months ago). Sometimes it seems like she doesn't have the same experience working with people that the others do. The scene with the little girl in "City of the Dolls" is an example of this. She also needed to know
why in "Stealing Home," which indicates to me that perhaps she wasn't always asking questions that couldn't be answered--something like labwork would be more
safe and
predictable--you give me a sample, I test it, and the results tell you what you need to know. You can get DNA from something or you can't. There aren't as many gray areas like the type you get when human interaction is involved. I'd be interested to know if something similar was relevant to Lindsay and would explain some of the way she views the job...I also wonder if perhaps she was already in a science-related field, maybe working in a lab or something, when whatever her 'secret' is occurred and was the catalyst for a change in occupation. Her secret caused her to become a CSI, but that doesn't mean she wasn't already in a related field. (I'd like to know if she has a science degree or anything like that...)
Wow, that was long-winded. :lol:
