:lol: Guess this is a good time as any for me to make a post here again. It
is rather amusing the spoiler thread always degenerates into D/L and why it should stay or go. If the most exciting thing the show has to offer now is that ship ... I'm not too optimistic about the upcoming season at all. I've already made my say about the lack of continuity and character development and just plain WTF-ness at what the plots have become, so:
When I said that the show is seemingly being written to appeal to teenagers, I did not mean to generalize that
all teenagers enjoy wanky, immature, selfish drama on a TV show. My apologies if that was how I came across, I
was a teenager at one time so I
know what being a teenager was like.
However, I know that I'm not the only one who has noticed the immature manner with which many things on the show have been dealt. It's ... very out-of-place for a show like CSI:NY. You have this group of
professional adults who are in a very serious and sometimes life-threatening occupation that brooks for no mistakes. The last thing you'd expect them to do is behave like a bunch of hormone-controlled, adolescent people who let their feelings or petulance get the better of them all the time. (If you want to argue that Danny lets his temper get the better of him, there's a major difference between being a spoilt brat and showing anger when the situation asks for it.
And it's part of his character to be hot-tempered.)
It's this bad combination of the two that bothers me more than anything else. How am I expected to take a character seriously when they don't even behave their age and how the gravity of their occupation imply they should? In a way, it's almost demeaning to the real life versions / counterparts of their jobs. Again, the last kind of behavior I expect from professional adults of their level and age is what's been shown on the series for the last two seasons. It's just bad taste, bad handling of situations that could have turned out great for everybody on the show, and the characters who really deserve the development and spotlight get shafted for the sake of contrived plotlines and ratings.
Blah.
As for fans having everything to do with the show, the only thing worth to TPTB is how many of us are watching the show. Sure, fans can rally and do things to show support for the show or something they like in association to the show (like online petitions
), but the final decision is solely up to TPTB and to think that what we do will surely and directly influence them like they're puppets is ... well, arrogant. Self-entitlement, much?
And sure, they may visit forums and read what fans have to say, but it's foolish to think they'll bend over and obey and do whatever we want them to do just because some fans write to them thanking them for any particular development on the show. And having them answer back with thanks is no indication at all that they are now clinging to our every word for enlightening guidance.
Hell, they'll probably tell you you're the frickin' Queen of England if it means you'll continue to watch the show.
If they allow fans to determine what they should write ... then the show's definitely shot to the crapper. (That goes for
any show, not just CSI:NY.) No decent writer will ever allow his or her fans to wrest control of their vision away from them. TPTB should have stuck to their guns and kept things as they were in season one. The show f**king ruled then, because it dared to be different.
Right.
Any spoilers at all that
don't involve shippiness of any kind? Anything involving
Hawkes? I'm friggin' miffed that Hawkes is getting no love at all. And what a coincidence! The only non-white person on the show! (Where's Kelly Hu gone?)
