Of course, maybe they're setting us up so that in a year or two she can throw it in his face that they never had a real wedding. *headdesk*
God help me if she's still on the freakin show inna year or two...
Please--in a year or two, she'll have graduated to physically abusing him.
The wedding is about as unromantic as you get. Basically, it's a role reversal--rather than the woman pressuring the guy to get married so that their kid isn't born out of wedlock, it's the reverse--Danny is clearly the one stressing out about it. It's born out of his insecurities, and she's always played on those.
Seems like so much of DL was due to writers creating and having Lindsay play on Messer's sensitivities and insecurities. What a solid foundation to build a relationship on.
Outside of DL, those character traits made Danny unique and set him apart from others, and even apart from character types on other shows. Within DL, it's no longer really revealing more about him, it's perpetually threatening to swamp him and render him exceptionally bland. Danny outside DL is still fun and interesting, especially how he interacts with Flack and Adam and Stella. Well, with any of the others, really.
Lindsay, on the other hand, has just come to grate on me no matter who she's with or what her function is in a given scene. Within DL or without.
The problem with writing in Anna's pregnancy is that it feels unnatural for the characters. They've done a complete 180--gone from not communicating, sending mixed signals to each other, and storming away (well, that's all Lindsay), to suddenly being lovey dovey and happy in the space of like 5 episodes. Bringing a kid into their tumultuous relationship is problematic at best, but none of that is being dealt with realistically. This wedding is just the capper on the fantasy that's playing out that baby makes everything better. I guess it's good that they're not going for the full out wedding, but it does feel unrealistic and unnatural for a couple that can't be in the same room together without the woman walking away in frustration/avoidance/anger 90% of the time.
Yazza, I do tend to agree there. The problem with writing in Anna's pregnancy was ...writing in Anna's pregnancy. Crossed the show over an irrecoverable line, can't go forward nor back without seriously causing damage either way.
Seems once it was decided to jettison the Rikki storyline, they just kinda conceded the loss of so much of the season's planning that they'd allegedly intended, and we'll be feeling it ever after until they manage to find their feet in writing in the first CSI franchise canon couple marriage.
They didn't write in the first pregnancy, and the show carried on. Whatever matters of timing and circumstance led to the inverse decision this time around, they now have far fewer options due to the rather conventional manner they've done written it up. If they really and truly had to go there, it was wide open for how they might have gone about it. Hardly feels innovative, hardly developmentally substantial to the characters, at least not yet.
I am excited about the Adam storyline. It will be nice to see him going into the building. One of Adam's biggest insecurities in "Snow Day" was that he didn't have the balls Danny had. He felt cowardly for giving up his badge and the vault password, so I think any situation that gives him a chance to be heroic--especially one he willingly walks into--is a good thing.
I think Adam's insecurities go way back to his bully of a father, from the few snippets of commentary we've gotten about him. I think also Adam isn't really a guy who seeks acclaim or even necessarily recognition for what he does, or how he does it.
I think what's great about AJ's portrayal of him is that we get to see Adam completely focused on dealing with whatever situation he's in, whether it's sifting airport portapotties or making 3d puzzles etc., precisely without those kind of thoughts in mind. The only time he's seemed to be really reflective about any of it was when he approached Mac in his office with the letter notifying him of his termination, and to a lesser extent, when he gave Flack grace of a few hours time to deal with Sam before notifying Mac, and then telling him he'd do the same all over again, fully aware of how Mac feels about those kinds of things and his expectations of people in handling them. And when we first encountered Kendall, who did seem to have those kinds of thoughts in mind, we had Adam poking at her for it, and ultimately trumping her.
I hope though that Snow Day was the redemption episode encapsulated for him, because he's never walked around like he's had something to prove, only like he's had a troubled history that shaped who he is. In Snow Day we saw him muster something inside to overcome whatever fears had plagued him due his past, and guilt and perhaps even shame due succumbing to torture for his badge, passcard and code key. That's why that his thruline in the ep was so engaging to watch, and seeing him save the cops in teh end was such a great moment. Since then it's been suggested that Adam has been actively seeking more field time, and so he is looking for new things to stretch himself against. I do think it's great to have an episode that will highlight even more growth for his character.
Everybody knows how luvable and brilliant he is, we as viewers and the other characters on the show, so I think it's really endearing that he himself seems to be the only one who doesn't even really think about it.
We don't get to see too much of him, nor Sid, but both always manage to do so much with whatever they're given. I'm looking forward to seeing what AJ makes of a more deliberate spotlight.
My only reaction to that is :vulcan: and :wtf:.
This show used to be good, and now like
Top said, the show has done a complete 180. They've done things I could never possibly see them doing.
Oof. Just clicked on the link there, saw the caps for the first time. My first reaction to that was oh ...sweet mercy me, somebody pleeeeeease make it stop? Nearly lost my lunch. Why why why freakin why. I should have resisted going Clicky. But at least the show won't be such an unexpected surprise when it airs.
They drop way too many storylines on this show. It's a procedural, but why imply that something will continue if it's just going to be dropped or (like with the dead agent they connected to the case in "Snow Day") get a half-ass mention later on?
I hear ya, second that completely. This season has had a little more linkage eppie to eppie, but yeah, much to improve upon in that regard. Things that sounded like could have been interesting storylines, like Mac investigating the dead FBI agent (Candice Broadbent or something?) would be good, even if they can't manage to keep up with all the family hints they've dropped for each character and left us (and them) hanging (regards Louie, Flack's family in general, Sid's family, Adam's father, Stella's foster/orphanage days, Mac's father's cancer, Hawkes' family at all - I mean, what, was the wonder boy simply beamed down from a mothership somewhere?, and on).
I do hope they at least finish out the storylines they've started this season - Ella's coming back, the flashdrive is relevant to an upcoming episode, Stella's situation with the Greek guy is supposedly going to feature as the season wears on - but I do wish they hadn't let so many things drop in the past.
Well, I could honestly do w/o creepy disturbed stalker chiquita, but I'll be happy to see what finally comes of the Greek antiquities thru-line and that of the flashdrive.
