'CSI' Promises Changes This Season

[GregNickRyanFan]

I agree with you about pretty much everything you said about Ray. I loved Riley though personally. I don't think she was given enough time/scenes/lines, etc to even begin to fit in/find her footing. As soon as Langston came in, she was shoved in the background along with a lot of the time Greg, Nick and sometimes Cath. It became all about Ray... and now they are giving him more authority? I hate to say it, but I really hope it backfires on them and that the ratings tank even lower. I'm ready for this show to be over (didn't think I'd ever see the day that I'd say that lol) so that the wonderful cast can move on to bigger and better things. I don't think tptb truly appreciate some of them the way they should.

I don't think tptb are really listening that much to fans. If they were, they wouldn't be giving Langston more authority. They're claiming that's what fans wanted. I've never seen any fan anywhere say anything of the kind. They all said he had TOO MUCH authority. They're twisting the actual words of the fans because they are money hungry. That's all it comes down to... the green dough. I'm getting quite sick of "The Langston Show".

What they should have done (as much as I love Riley) in the beginning is made Wendy a CSI (because we were already familiar with that character) instead of bringing in a new character for the audience to get used to after two characters had already left. The problem was tptb did not handle the situation the correct way.

I'm a firm believer that they should have given George and Marg, Eric, Paul, Wally, Robert, etc a chance to see if they could pull the viewers in on their own before bringing in someone else the minute Billy left. There is nothing wrong with a test drive. They could have given them at least five episodes to see how the ratings did. The fact that they didn't says to me that they don't believe in the original remaining cast members. That doesn't sit well with me at all.

By the way, how does giving him a new wardrobe bring up the ratings?

You can put a tuxedo on a frog it will still be a frog. It will not change to Prince Charming unless in a fairytale. :lol:

:guffaw: That's hilarious!

I firmly believe that the producers are making a mistake to listen to the feedback of his fans only.

Yeah, that's true. That's a smaller number than they may think. If everyone else stopped watching, I don't think his fans would be enough to keep the show's ratings at a high enough level. :lol: If that were the case then they wouldn't need to bring Sara back to boost ratings. :lol:

I think Gary's leaving had more to do with his personal issues than anything else. But, it's still not 100% sure whether it was his choice or whether he was fired. I've heard both. And he did an interview not too long after leaving the show where he sounded bitter, so that makes me lean more to the fact that he was let go (maybe due to those personal demons). In the interview, he complained about the fact that the show had hired someone like Kevin Federline to guest star. He was not too happy with that decision at all. :lol:

Sometimes I have to wonder if tptb are trying to purposely sabotage the show. :lol:

 

[myfuturecsi]

I have to agree. I wonder what show Ms. Tassler was watching. I mean if they call that easing in when it comes to Langston, I'd hate to see what forcing him on us was really like.

But then I think you could put President Obama in the lead role on CSI and he'd still wouldn't be able to past muster with the die-hard Grissom fans.:lol:

I know Billy has said he never wanted to be an icon. Well, Billy, you have control over over that. Grissom is an icon.

It's hilarious to think that TPTB feel the cast is as disposable as the casts on Law and Order and the show is about 'the science', it wasn't. It's about the character too and all the cast have done a great job of creating these memorable characters from Grissom to Super Dave to Nick to Mandy the lab tech.

Even the guest stars are memorable. I've just started watching True Blood and on this show is the red-headed waitress who Nick eyed in For Gedda who plays a teenage vampire and the guy her character is dating played the drunk wedding guest in Rashomona who told Sara he loved her before she passed out.

I have to add if the rumour was true the red-headed actress, Deborah Ann Woll, was to be Nick's girlfriend-that would have been a waste of her talent as she's a riot in True Blood:lol:-her talent would have been a waste on CSI-but that's another story. Although on the show someone asked if she'd slept with this vampire who appears to be Nick's age and she said, "Ewww..old!":guffaw::guffaw:

So, I really think TPTB have no clue how the people on the show have impacted the viewers. Seriously.

So even the guest stars are memorable..

Just a quick plug-True Blood is awesome! Of course, not as good as CSI, but pretty awesome!

 

[Adzix]

^ hah. yeah, i agree with y'all. LF's contract expires at the end of Season 10. i wouldn't be surprised if 1) he was out afterwards, or 2) CSI ended. if TPTB don't think of something fast, one of those two things is bound to happen. unless they would be okay with the change of timeslot to, idk, midnight on Sundays, lol.

i think this is also a stardom issue. they have gotten this great actor. he is a movie celeb. there is no other way but to have him in the spotlight. it was a great idea for the first few episodes b/c everybody was curious about him. in a long run, this is probably the worst thing they could've done or at least a huge gamble which they've lost.

he just can't be left with a background role of a CSI rookie and appear every 15 minutes to say something about blood spatter. he has to be the main character. it's as if they hired Brad Pitt and made him a janitor. it would be downgrading for him to do anything else but be a leading man. and in order for him to become a lead he needs to be featured extensively since he is neither a supervisor nor an old character.

now if they hired a less known actor to be a supervisor who, let's say, was an old friend of Grissom, he wouldn't have to be featured so much. he wouldn't have this pressure to lead the show since he is not a big star, BUT he would be considered a lead automatically due to his position as a boss.

i think there is one more factor that plays a big role. this show has always been collaborative. actors always had a big say in the character development. LF never watched CSI before he got an offer. they showed him a few episodes and he's done some research. it's so not enough to gain the feel of what is right and what is wrong for a character on CSI. i don't even want to think how many alternative scenes/storylines the writers developed over the years that were never shown b/c one of the actor's who's character was involved said 'that's SO not gonna happen'. Grissom's tai chi comes to mind.

 

[GregNickRyanFan]

I've just started watching True Blood and on this show is the red-headed waitress who Nick eyed in For Gedda who plays a teenage vampire

I just started watching the first season too. Are you talking about the girl Bill was forced to turn after he killed that vampire that was stealing money from Eric and tried to attack Sookie? I thought that girl looked familiar. :lol:

LF's contract expires at the end of Season 10. i wouldn't be surprised if 1) he was out afterwards, or 2) CSI ended. if TPTB don't think of something fast, one of those two things is bound to happen.

If the first thing happened, I would hope they'd let the remaining cast (who've been there from the beginning) try to hold the show on their own rather than bringing in someone else... unless they brought in a huge tv star like Richard Dean Anderson who would fit better. They should have gone with a popular tv star instead of movie star, but I digress.