okay - here's the one we wrote after 'on the job'...
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From: carmine giovinazzo
You girls are classic....what a way with words..thanks
cdg
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Subject: wow - look at you go
You, my boy, have been holding out on us. You didn't tell us that you were just cutting your teeth on all the previous NY episodes and that you were going to reveal your real acting chops
in this episode. No, seriously, we were both ready to vomit just because of the anxiety you portrayed! We don't think we've ever watched a television show before in which one of the characters could break our hearts just by giving a look to the camera. It took all our energy just to remember to breathe.
You and Gary Sinise have a fabulous on-screen relationship. We just knew that Mac wouldn't be so mad at Danny if he didn't really care about him. If only Danny were as perceptive! He was just such a GUY this episode - 'I feel like everyone's talking about me and I don't have a chance to defend myself.' 'Who was bad-mouthing me?' Oh sweetheart, you need to let go of your notion that the whole world is out to get you (even though it seems like it is)! Our rational minds were pulled so far in we were feeling those emotions right along with him.
We loved the big-brother approach Flack took towards Danny too, and Danny's ensuing hostility. How can you say you feel so alone when Flack is right there telling you that you aren't? How can you say that no one's got your back when Flack is basically telling you that he and Aiden do? Oh Danny, so blinded by your frustration and sheer and utter terror!
And speaking of Aiden, how bad did we feel for her? Here she is, trying desperately to clear her friend and mentor of a potentially career-ending fiasco and worst-case-scenario Mac keeps shutting her down. It's like he had to convince himself that Danny did it so that he wouldn't be as traumatized if he really did. We lost count of how many times Mac stated - 'Danny killed that cop' or something along those lines. Like a knife to the heart every time and DAMN IT if Danny wasn't mimicking the looks on our faces every time! Oh, the pain and agony!
Man alive, they're not messing around with us on CSI:NY - the character development is happening so fast it's making our head spin. We guess being the last in the trio, they want to get viewers into it as quickly as possible but this roller coaster is almost more than we can handle!
So there you have it. You have us, hook, line and sinker. We thought we were addicted to the show before, but that was nothing. Now we need to know where this is gonna go. We need to know if Mac & Danny's relationship will ever really heal. Can Mac really trust Danny again? Will Danny ever earn the right to be back on the promotion grid? Will he be able to let this all go and be as good a CSI as he was before? Now it's a waiting game to see when the shit is really gonna hit the fan, so to speak. 'It's not an exoneration, it's a pass.' Mylanta, if that's not a set up for a can-open-worms-everywhere episode, NOTHING IS! And what happens when/if Aiden finds out that Danny's not all he appears to be? It's one thing to have your mentor disillusioned with you, it's quite another to have your mentee (Mento?) disillusioned with
you.
We know we missed talking about Stella, but we were just so upset by what was happening to Danny that we couldn't focus on her. Even though there was a baby in this episode, our maternal buttons were all pushed by Danny, and make no mistake! For two 'helper' personalities like us, all this episode did was make us want to save Danny from himself. You have girls hanging all over you all the time, don't you?
We're okay, really. Still twitching because we forgot to breathe during the entire episode, but we'll be all right. Man, if this season leaves us on a cliffhanger, we might have some serious issues this summer. Especially if the cliffhanger involves Danny in any way.
Traumatized, but sincerely yours