CSI:NY Season 6 Spoiler Discussion - Start Spreading the News!

SuperMac knows when people lie... Even if Lindsay didn't want to tell him, he'd probably know that something was up. I'm not sure that Lindsay would be a very convincing liar anyway.

I'm actually really looking forward to this one already. It does seem to have potential.

 

I agree with Faylinn and JellyBelly. Hill said in an interview that Hawkes was going to get to babysit as well. With the way they developed the friendship between him and Danny in S5, I can see him involving himself in their struggles because he cares about all of them. I think he's the best one to do that because he's also a doctor and knows about all the medical stuff with Danny's situation as well.

It's going to be hard watching Danny in a wheelchair. I can already imagine that he feels somewhere down deep that he deserves it in some twisted way. I really hope that the injury is not permanent and he gets out of the chair. Watching him struggle is going to be hard, especially in his darker moments but I know Carmine will handle it well as an actor.

I can see him and Flack being distant for a bit because I'm not sure Flack will handle what happened to Danny so soon after Jess getting shot very well. I think perhaps him not being there to pick up the pieces for Danny is very possible. I'm not even sure Don is what or who Danny needs right now.

 

Perhaps tattling wasn't the best word to use. I have no problems with Mac being told, it's just that Lindsay probably isn't the best to tell him. Hawkes, Danny, even Adam has the ability to handle it better than she would.

Then again maybe I'm just biased against Anna/Lindsay. Definitely not my favourite character on the show.

 

OK, so I read the part about Hawkes wrong and thought Lindsay was the one who said she needed a break. So she gets points for not foisting.

I bet it probably isn't Danny's first therapy session either. I just have a feeling they're going to do the same old "tell and not show" with these two and we'll be expected to feel sorry for Lindsay when she hasn't even been shown to have been supportive of Danny. I'm jumping the gun, making assumptions, and whatever else anyone wants to call it; but I am just not confident they'll do a good job and the last thing I want to see is more "poor Lindsay" garbage without seeing her step up.

 

I know whatcha mean! I can see them having separate storylines for a while, but I really hope they come together at some point.

I can totally understand why you'd be concerned about that. I think the issue here is whether or not they actually show Lindsay as supporting Danny. Because I feel sympathetic towards her character, it's not hard for me to see things like Hawkes giving her a break as a clear indication that she's been supporting Danny while looking after the baby and that her colleagues know this. But, if I wasn't so sympathetic to her character then I think I can see how it might come across as the other's treating her as special unless they do show her actually doing things to support Danny. I think they really need to show her as going all out to juggle injured husband, young baby and work for it to work. Personally I'd like them to show some of it from her perspective because that would be realistic. She's going to struggle and she's going to be on a short fuse from time to time - they just need to be clear as to why that is.

I'm actually not sure they'll deal with Danny and Flack's issues so early in the season. If anything I wonder if they might keep them away from each other a little. I can see them creating a distance for them, only for it to come to a head later on. There will be parallels between their situations but also significant differences. Those differences could make for some interesting tensions. I'd like to see Flack being the one who distances himself from Danny if that's the case. I can see him struggling to handle Danny's situation because of his own grief and guilt. I can see Danny being hurt by Flack's distance but not really in a position to go all out to tackle it because of his own stuff. If all that does happen they'll need to have a show down of sorts at some point. Either one of them could be telling the other to snap out of it. It's actually an interesting exploration of two close friends and very realistic. When friends have issues happening at the same time it can be difficult to be there for each other. I know this scenario doesn't give us much Danny/Flack goodness but it might be worth it if there's an opportunity to level their friendship at some point - particularly if we finally get to see Danny overtly supporting Flack.

Yes, I read about that and can't tell you how excited I am that finally after 4 seasons we're possibly going to get a Lindsay action scene, the like we've not seen since her very first episode.

The fact that Mac asks directly would make it hard for anyone to lie. I agree that Lindsay wouldn't be convincing if she tried to lie. She was really awkward at covering for Danny in AITF and blatantly refused to cover for him in The Triangle. In fact Danny didn't even ask her to and seemed to know she couldn't so it wouldn't surprise me if Mac knows that too. He's probably thinking 'if anyone'll tell me, Lindsay will'.

I kind of agree with that, even though I love their relationship and am always happy to see more of it. If Don's 'losing it' a little then it absolutely makes sense that he'll leave Danny alone for the time being. Not least because he doesn't want to make Danny's situation worse with his own issues. I can see Don believing that Danny is ok, what with having a wife to look after him and the likes of Hawkes stepping up to the plate.

PerfectAnomaly - for some reason I'm labouring over my posts tonight and once I hit that button it's too late for me to quote you (and I really am too stupid to figure out how to retrospectively quote in an edit). I totally agree with the "tell and not show" issue that you have, I said as much above, but just not quite so eloquently.

 

I love me some D/F, but I'm honestly not optimistic that the pair of them will have any kind of serious scenes relating to either one of their sets of problems this season - early on or later in the year. I see Mac being the one who is there for Flack, with maybe some Stella on the side (perhaps a bit of Lindsay, if this episode is any indication), and Danny's issues being all about Lindsay and Mac, with a touch of Stella (and perhaps Hawkes, judging by this episode).

It's probably pessimistic, but we've had to assume Danny and Flack are still friends most of the time - I'm not anticipating any kind of satisfying scenes of either one of them supporting the other. I'm thinking back on the whole pregnancy storyline for reference. Flack was no more a part of all of that than Adam - in fact, I think Adam had more scenes with that one (talking to Danny about how much it costs to raise a kid, taking Lindsay to the hospital, and didn't he walk and talk with Danny at the hospital?).

Honestly, at this point I don't put Danny and Flack's friendship anywhere near the top of TPTB's list of priorities. I think it's somewhere under Adam and Haylen having a pregnancy scare, Sid developing cannibalistic tendencies and finding an excuse for Danny to reveal that he speaks Swahili.

That's not to say I'm not interested in seeing Hawkes smack Danny upside the head about giving up, or Mac perhaps confronting Flack about that fact that he's haunted for killing Angell's murderer. In fact, I'm very interested in seeing those things. I just don't have high hopes for D/F friendship scenes being part of the equation any time soon. *shrug*

 

Absolutely. I can see Danny feeling inadequate as a father because he might not be able to do the things he wants to do with Lucy. I think that might lead to him feeling extremely frustrated but I don't think it will lead him to being neglectful in his parenting role at all. I really hope that Lindsay can help him to see that he is still a great father irrespective of whether he can walk or not.

I wouldn't want to see it going on too long either. And you're right, Danny would be extremely hurt if he thought Don had bailed on him. That's one of the reasons I think it might be an interesting story (for a while). It could lead to a bit of a confrontation but with Danny being the one who reaches out in the end. I admit to being a little concerned as to how tptb will deal with both of them having significant personal issues at the same time. I just think that even the best friendships can waver under those sorts of circumstances.

I agree, there's a lot they can do to develop Lindsay by the looks of things. Let's hope it goes well.

Yeah, I think you might be right. But, I think Danny having a lot of support outside of Flack will enable Flack to stay wrapped up in his own issues to a certain extent. It won't give him the kick start he might otherwise get if Danny was clearly in need of his support. Of course, that's assuming Danny is not bleeding all over the place emotionally (which he could well be), but I'm assuming he might not be bleeding to Flack because of what Flack's going through.

 

*sigh* That whole paragraph is summarizes exactly what I fear and knowing what TPTB have done before, will probably do, but I refuse to believe it!

The only thing I am more sure of is if they're not going to put in more touching/serious D/F scenes is that they will keep up with the level of bantering, because the amount of that has basically been increasing over time.
It's not meaningful talks or touching bar scenes, but for Danny and Flack, bantering is another one of their ways of staying in touch, just from the way they're always in sync and the staring, of course.

But yeah, if they pretend that Danny and Flack were never friends, and that all those lovely moments over these five seasons now never happened, I will be very upset indeed. :shifty:

 

If I remenber well I think Hawkes left his job at the hospital because he thought he wasn't able to help alive people and became a forensic. As Hawkes is problably the one who save Danny' life being there immediatly after he has been shot he will care about him untill he recovers and feels concerned. sorry sometimes my english is not so good I hope it makes sense.

 

For me the only thing atractive from spoilers (beyond the storyline) is the fact Sheldon will have a well deserved development if he is in charge of making Danny walks again

I am stil expecting news on who is going to be Sheldon's girlfriend and something from a Sid storyline and some Adam action
But mainly i would LOVE to know about some interesting lines for my Stella