Bleh.
Been how long since I last checked in here? Skimming lightly thru. ...and meh bleh is pretty much all I can say.
DL. I'd rather they devoted
no time to them, but they are the love/hate ratings cash-cow for teh show, more often than not. Me, not interested. I have developed an intense aversion to all things devoted to them. And the predictable affirmation/promise of drama for them does not instill me with great verve and entusiasmz.
Nemesis. Never been a fan of political or nemesis shows. And after all the bru-ha with Dunbrook, used as a convenient vehicle for Angell's demise no less, Mac's getting another one so soon? *sigh* Meh bleh. I don't mind Mac stories. But this has the feeling of pretense for another Mac crusade of some sort. I hope it's done up with a little more complexity. As for Mac's father and seeing a younger version of him: well, mebbe they'll revisit his battle with cancer. Nice to get to know more about Mac and all, but this too has small warning bells going off in the back of my mind, in that Yahrzeit was done so well, that they now wanna delve in even more because of that, and perhaps not because they really have something specific they want to explore. The whole 333 thing wasn't the most interesting thing for me, and I hope any future nemesis aren't necessarily derived from his family or personal past so much as cases he's worked on. To tap back into the murder of FBI Agent Candice Broadbent and the Irish splinter mercs would be almost too much to hope for.
Nuthin really new for the cliffhanger. Small surprise.
Rikki. Before DL were officially hitched et al, I would have been more interested in seeing her as a presence. Not so much now. She was a great character who deserves better than to now be reduced to fodder to feed any DL drama. I suppose it might still be possible to have a Danny storyline that doesn't necessarily involve Lindsay (can't say the inverse is true), and that one with Rikki could be good, if she asks him for help with something, off the books.
Kaye. Still no word. And DL's distracted much discussion from her and anything else. Again. I remain stubbornly optimistic that she could be a decent character. Waiting for NY to prove me wrong. And they've done so before. Hope she's a stand alone character a la Riley, for example, and not a mere function or counterpoint for everyone else.
Continuity. Hope that we get to see Flack, and everyone for that matter, have moments dealing with the loss of Angell. Hope that the group being targeted as a whole in the drive-by (if they were in fact all targeted) is not something easily shaken off, especially as they were in the midst of grieving the loss of another. Hope that Flack shooting the guy isn't just swept up and forgotten. You shoot someone, it's not something so easily buried. Hope the writers don't.
Plots. Glad to see they're actually developing some outside of DL drama and nemeses etc.
As for cars wot lock people inside. Didn't NCIS do that a few years ago in Driven. As for food allergies as murder. Didn't NY do that already in Youngblood. Still, could be interesting. Malevolent orwellian crank calls could change it up enough to be something slightly different and new.
Zuiker and his deal. Good for him, (how many executive titleships one can hold?
) , and I suppose also for thinking outside the box. - Just hope NY in particular doesn't continue to pursue the model of excessive cross platforming with stunt casting and musical guests etc. There's 500 other channels for that sort of thing. Trying to be all things to all people might eventually dilute what set the franchise apart in the first place. - I'll be curious what other projects Zuiker chooses to develop for CBS and cable networks.
*sigh* thumb twiddle.
Meh bleh meh spoilers.
Ah well.
