i'm not liking the way D/L have been handled since the begininng of 4th season. i know some of you here never liked them but to me and other fans TPTB really made them who they shouldn't be, they could be a lot better. i do find D/L to be a pain sometimes and always very immature. i feel the other characters on the show have had a growth but Danny and Lindsay as individual characters just seem stuck.
Well, I dunno who they should or shouldn't be as people, but I never had the slightest sliver of interest in watching their so-called evolution, not from S3 onwards.
Early this season, I was delighted reading that there was a new focus planned for Danny and Lindsay,
independent of each other, and it was soooooooo disappointing, when we were apparently so close to concerted and deliberately orchestrated change, to have a reversion to DL.
I agree with you, they do both seem stuck. And I'm hard pressed to care at this point. At a loss and all but given up there's any remedy barring the extreme of splitting them up and/or writing one out. And it's not eeny meeny miny moe...
i watched 1st season last week with my roommate and i really miss the way it used to be. they used to do people stories now they're more interested in the unbelievable and the fake previledged people now.
I loved S1. It was strong enough in it's own right, separate from the other shows in the franchise, to get me hooked into watching. There was just something about it. The casting, the writing, the vibe, the design and production values, the stories.
They tweaked it to increase viewership, but it's a shame to have lost some of what even now still sets S1 apart. It
was darker, on a few different levels, I retain a certain fondness for the look of it's adapted spaces and buildings as a design choice, vaulted cielings and brickwork etc., it was grittier, for some reason I remember it as being consistently less glamorous or polished, for lack of better words, in the victims and circumstances it addressed, it did have a very distinct style, it really did feel like it centred around New York, that it lived there, it still had a dark humour and a quirky one too, it didn't have an apparent obsession with a kind of glossiness or slickness - (and I don't mean in terms of post-production stuff, which I appreciate), nor with luring prominent guest stars, cameos, and bands, it just didn't feel as if it was quite so ...self-aware?
There have surely been eppies in subsequent seasons that I thought were really great, impactful, and very well done. But curious how S1, years after the fact,
as a whole still somehow stands so distinctly apart.
Plus, in the pilot Mac had sideburns. C'mooooooon, bring 'em back, TPTB... :lol:
I like Angell, and think she does have the potential to bring a return of a bit of the sass and spirit that Aiden gave to the show. Same goes with Samantha, to a lesser degree, in that I believe these people, and they help maintain the flavour of NY. Anna's Lindsay does nothing but set me back outside the show, and DL just makes me feel like the show's losing sumthing, it's edge, spine, spark, some individuality,
something, eroding it from the inside out. Bleh. Outta sight outta mind is the best I can manage to deal with them.
Come on, the baby will not take "this" big role in the show, as you can see already now: Though they are a couple and also have a baby together they neither meet very often nor talk about it. Okay you can see "it" but you also could if they would try to hide it (okay, that way always is too funny)...
Don't be that upset about the whole thing. The writers will deal with it, don't worry.
No, the baby won't be in every episode. I'm personally delighted that the relationship isn't prominent in every episode too, for that matter. I'd be happier still if it wasn't even subtext though.
The point is, RL must be accomodated, this time the pregnancy was written in, it does therefore create a host of implications, in both fictional and RL production considerations.
Sometimes you all act like the baby will be in almost every episode - which I doubt. It'll be like Catherine's daughter (13 episodes so far in all the years CSI has been on according to IMDB).
Difference with Vegas is that Catherine's a great, nuanced, complicated, layered, deep character, and the dynamic of her as a single mother while dealing with the job she does was always relevant to how she interacted in general, informed her handling of every case. Her relationship with her daughter equally reflected the toll of the job. It was handled well on Vegas, and I didn't mind it's inclusion.
For me, it's not actually wholly comparable to an insipid canon coupling with a conveniently inadvertent Whoopsies tossed in.
I suppose, to be fair, we haven't really yet been shown how impending parenthood has altered Danny and Lindsay's approach to the Job. All the same, I'm not terribly interested. I hope any related scenes or scenarios will be as spaced out.
Even when the writers give Melina a bad story,she is able to keep me interested which speaks highly about the actress.Same goes with Mac,Adam and Flack so CSI NY still rocks despite D/L.
The rest of the cast and characters are so strong and enjoyable to watch that they have been the bottom line reason that I continue to tune in.