Delynn
CSI Level One
I thought it would be neat if Horatio is away from the team for the first half of a season and appear briefly as he has to answer for something he did (Don't know how he got away with beating up that Pedophile. That's police brutality and a lawsuit waiting to happen)
I know it's a lot of people's dream to have Horatio either disappear or his time be substantially reduced, but if that were to happen I think a lot of people would stop watching this show.
I don't want to see Horatio away from the team for half of the season or even one or two episodes! Like him or not, and I know that a lot of people don't believe it - but it is true, most polls show Horatio to be the most popular character on the show. Whether it's people watching because they truly like the character or because they just like to laugh at the way he's portrayed, he always has a number of points above the next highest character in popularity (next up is usually Calleigh). Lose him and the ratings will take a hit.
And I know that we were left with the strong insinuation that Horatio beat up the pedophile, but when did it become fact and when was he pronounced guilty? Technically we didn't see it happen and we have seen no evidence that, in the end, he did. For all we know he simply scared the crap out of the guy - which isn't hard to do with spineless cowards like pedophiles.
I know that a lot of people feel that it's just hopeless denial to even think he didn't. But I guess, being an American, my rose colored glasses aren't completely gone and I still believe that someone's guilt should be proved beyond all reasonable doubt before they are convicted in a court of law or in the court of public opinion.
There are a lot of things Horatio has done that I take issue with and I feel he should be taken to task for, as there are with quite a few characters on the show. But I think there are enough situtations with Horatio that we've actually been allowed to witness that we don't need to assume his guilt in one that we didn't.