Thanks Pam Vassey for giving us Stella the office slut and Flack the reckless drunk and another weary season of Danny and Lindsey your favorite "soulmates". I waited all summer for that? I cant believe the ending with Mac and Stella together in his office bonding during cleanup duty, maybe Mac can score with the new girl if he can come out of his man on a mission tough guy skin since we obviousley are watching the unfolding of the "mid life " crisis of the not yet forty no really I'm not that old Stella, and Flack slut surfing to ease his pain. To bad Adam got there first maybe Flack can have Stella next week. And then the ending how cute... the "Cuddles" of Lindsey and Lucy oh pitter pat my beating heart sigh. And hallelujah Praise be the rain came down and Danny felt a "Twinge" and all the bonding in the end and where was Flack and his moments of comfort? Who cares its only flack...after all
Wow.. would Stella have been less of an office slut if she'd had the one-nighter with Mac?
Not that I'm completely behind Adam/Stella or the coworker-dating-train (or Mac/Stella for that matter) either, but what's with the trend of labelling CSI characters as office sluts whenever they hook up with a coworker they're "not supposed to"? Calleigh and/or Natalia on Miami get slapped with the label (but never both by the same person); Sara on Vegass gets hit with it; now Stella? It's really a demeaning term, and I've never once seen an instance where it's been deserved. In the course of six years Stella's hooked up with two guys, and only one of them from the office - it's even less deserved with her.
I could almost see your point about Flack, though (although we probably can't assume he was sleeping with the girl at the second crime scene just because he gave her a flirty smile). But the spoilers for "Cuckoo's Nest" have me feeling excited about his player-bit now, because I feel like they're going somewhere with it. And that right there is probably
why we never saw Flack with a comfort-moment at the end of "Epilogue" - he hasn't found it yet, and likely won't for a while.
Originally Posted by Cyn-B-Demented:
LOVED the premiere!!! Way, WAY better than Miami, IMO. And I really need to share this before I forget everything -- not to mention that I might to have the time to come back here to write it down. I won't go into the details, I'll save that for (mucho later) the episode's thread
Yes! Thank goodness I'm not the only one who thought so, but yeah, "Epilogue" really was worlds better than Miami's premiere (which really disappointed me, given the way they'd been hyping it up even more than they hyped up NY's).
I thought Danny had more of a Robinson Crusoe-look, really (although the "Beast" from Disney would also work). He looked a little like death warmed over, but that's always been a good look on him.:lol:
For Lindsay, all I have to say is oh, snap. And how it's beyond uncool that I can literally count on one hand the number of non-case-related words she said to anyone else on the team who wasn't Danny during this entire episode.:scream: Apparently it's still okay to sacrifice her individuality on the altar of D/L. But I did love Adam's "chiquita" line to an unhealthy degree.
I've watched the episode 3 and a half times tonight and I'm still on the fence about Haylen, though I think I'm leaning toward liking her. She's not as much of a stereotype as I worried she'd be. I mean, I'm not too impressed that I think we're supposed to be seeing her as super-smart and cutely determined, like Mac and Stella do (even less impressed that the only way they could think of to demonstrate those traits is by having her show up Adam). But I like that she seems to know perfectly well how book-smart she is; she's very sure of herself, and if handled correctly that could actually turn out to be an interesting character flaw.
It
was a pretty good start to the season, wasn't it? :lol: I can't remember ever liking one of NY's season-openers as much - the one that came closest was "People with Money", I think (although being fair, "PwM" was practically tied with "Can You Hear Me Now" for me).
