Dear Writers,
I don’t know if in the end you were responsible for removing Danny’s pathetic second to last nail in the coffin phone call to Lindsay from “Heart of Glass” or if it was some other power. I for one would like to applaud you for the act, for finally looking at what has become of a beloved character, and the show as a whole. The idea that you actually considered having a phone call to the not missed Lindsay as part of the framework for an episode shows that the D/L fauxmance has taken over the show to a frightening degree, a degree made even more frightening by the fact that the actors lack discernable chemistry for many. Now, since we have saved Danny’s character from the second to the last nail in his coffin let us help him avoid the last nail by keeping him in New York. If you insist upon sending him to Montana, I will have to ask why you have gone out of your way to assassinate his character so thoroughly and completely.
Maka, Stella, Aidan, Peyton, Angell, the girl on the subway, the ballerina/trophy wife from “Tanglewood”, the pedophile from “Recycling”, Adam, Flack, the lab microscopes, Mac, any of these people and inanimate objects have better chemistry with Danny than Lindsay, so please, please stop it. Stop it, so that we can see a return to the team, something we’ve seen in the last few episodes without Lindsay to turn it into a show about a team of CSI’s and detectives along with a poorly written tween soap opera starring Danny and Lindsay.
I’m sure the idea behind Lindsay was to find a cute farm fresh character that would appeal to those that lived between the two coasts, sadly, the actress does not imbue Lindsay with anything resembling warmth or vitality, in fact, the character’s scenes are generally as harsh and as vacant as the environs of Antarctica. I won’t insult you by pretending that I care whether or not you flesh her character out or give her some life outside of Danny because quite frankly that opportunity is forever lost and if it hadn’t been lost by the end of season 2 it was dead and buried after that lifeless declaration to Mac and Stella about the faces of her four massacred friends. Any of the other actors on the show would have turned that line into a master class on acting.
What I want from you is the cohesiveness of season 1 and part of season 3, for my sake we’ll pretend that with a few exceptions season two did not happen. You need to reestablish the right balance of dark and light, the cases that were smart enough to be cases and studies on these characters we have come to respect. The intermingling of the two can result in dramatic and amazing episodes – “The Fall”, “Raising Shane”, “Run Silent Run Deep” (hampered only by the need to inject that silly Lindsay through the glass eye contact and the inclusion of a B storyline), “On the Job”, and others. You can be brilliant, so be it. Take these characters deeper explode their backgrounds, their demons, their eccentricities, their secret pain. I want to see Flack’s father and hear that story, to discover more about Hawkes drive and the past that made him the man he is, to know about the circumstances that led Stella to an orphanage, to know if Louie is six feet under or still languishing in a coma, to know Danny’s dark secret, to know about Adam’s childhood, and I want to know any and everything about Sid.
I don’t want my intelligence insulted, I don’t want the actors’ talent wasted, and I don’t want you to make it up as you go along any more. A great foundation was laid for most of these characters go with that, it is where the show's true strength rests not in the soppy stabbing me in the eye Danny/Lindsay garbage. I know it can be difficult to admit you’re wrong, so to make it easier, I’ll do it for you, you are wrong when it comes to the fauxmance. Keep Mac and Peyton, they are acting like adults and I haven’t been forced to dislodge them from my throat - not once.
A final word of warning, if you keep up some of your past antics I’m going to ask that you pay my ophthalmologist co-pay because eventually all of this eye rolling is going to cause some permanent damage. Never forget though that I love you in the roughest toughest way possible - tough love is underrated.
I don’t know if in the end you were responsible for removing Danny’s pathetic second to last nail in the coffin phone call to Lindsay from “Heart of Glass” or if it was some other power. I for one would like to applaud you for the act, for finally looking at what has become of a beloved character, and the show as a whole. The idea that you actually considered having a phone call to the not missed Lindsay as part of the framework for an episode shows that the D/L fauxmance has taken over the show to a frightening degree, a degree made even more frightening by the fact that the actors lack discernable chemistry for many. Now, since we have saved Danny’s character from the second to the last nail in his coffin let us help him avoid the last nail by keeping him in New York. If you insist upon sending him to Montana, I will have to ask why you have gone out of your way to assassinate his character so thoroughly and completely.
Maka, Stella, Aidan, Peyton, Angell, the girl on the subway, the ballerina/trophy wife from “Tanglewood”, the pedophile from “Recycling”, Adam, Flack, the lab microscopes, Mac, any of these people and inanimate objects have better chemistry with Danny than Lindsay, so please, please stop it. Stop it, so that we can see a return to the team, something we’ve seen in the last few episodes without Lindsay to turn it into a show about a team of CSI’s and detectives along with a poorly written tween soap opera starring Danny and Lindsay.
I’m sure the idea behind Lindsay was to find a cute farm fresh character that would appeal to those that lived between the two coasts, sadly, the actress does not imbue Lindsay with anything resembling warmth or vitality, in fact, the character’s scenes are generally as harsh and as vacant as the environs of Antarctica. I won’t insult you by pretending that I care whether or not you flesh her character out or give her some life outside of Danny because quite frankly that opportunity is forever lost and if it hadn’t been lost by the end of season 2 it was dead and buried after that lifeless declaration to Mac and Stella about the faces of her four massacred friends. Any of the other actors on the show would have turned that line into a master class on acting.
What I want from you is the cohesiveness of season 1 and part of season 3, for my sake we’ll pretend that with a few exceptions season two did not happen. You need to reestablish the right balance of dark and light, the cases that were smart enough to be cases and studies on these characters we have come to respect. The intermingling of the two can result in dramatic and amazing episodes – “The Fall”, “Raising Shane”, “Run Silent Run Deep” (hampered only by the need to inject that silly Lindsay through the glass eye contact and the inclusion of a B storyline), “On the Job”, and others. You can be brilliant, so be it. Take these characters deeper explode their backgrounds, their demons, their eccentricities, their secret pain. I want to see Flack’s father and hear that story, to discover more about Hawkes drive and the past that made him the man he is, to know about the circumstances that led Stella to an orphanage, to know if Louie is six feet under or still languishing in a coma, to know Danny’s dark secret, to know about Adam’s childhood, and I want to know any and everything about Sid.
I don’t want my intelligence insulted, I don’t want the actors’ talent wasted, and I don’t want you to make it up as you go along any more. A great foundation was laid for most of these characters go with that, it is where the show's true strength rests not in the soppy stabbing me in the eye Danny/Lindsay garbage. I know it can be difficult to admit you’re wrong, so to make it easier, I’ll do it for you, you are wrong when it comes to the fauxmance. Keep Mac and Peyton, they are acting like adults and I haven’t been forced to dislodge them from my throat - not once.
A final word of warning, if you keep up some of your past antics I’m going to ask that you pay my ophthalmologist co-pay because eventually all of this eye rolling is going to cause some permanent damage. Never forget though that I love you in the roughest toughest way possible - tough love is underrated.
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