Re: Episode #604: 'Bang Bang, Your Debt' ***CONTAINS SPOILER
midnight_tiptoes :lol: Hilarious review.
I missed about eight minutes of the show due to televison issues, but I came back in as Speed and Eric were finished talking, so I don't have everything in here.
Well, I don't know where to begin. Of course my expectations were extremely high and for once, I wasn't so let down. As with every single post-season 3 episode it had a few problems but I'd have to say that for Miami, this rocked.
The case. It was pretty believable, something Miami has never done. Two college kids get in over their head with debt (which actually happens, go figure, they decided to come back to planet Earth) and decide to kill themselves to escape it (which...it a bit overexxagerating if you ask me. Whatever, it's CSI and someone has to die)
I loved when Brandon told Horatio that he wanted more than anything to be alive after he got out of the car. It was sad that people realize they don't want to die after it's already too late, and only the fact that he was a killer as well prevented me from feeling pity for him. But anyway, good case.
Poor Ryan. I don't like how he keeps jumping from job to job. It's getting old, like Geni said. Either he stays on the show and becomes a CSI again or he gets the boot, but this dancing in circles crap is getting tiring and I'd rather focus on how great he is with the team. I personally want him to stay on the show because of how much I love his character but if it's going to be the whole '*sob* hire me' stuff every week then whatever, Togo can do better than that.
Speed! I loved his return to the show. The inner struggle Eric went through was displayed beautifully, and Adam did an amazing job portraying his emotions. It was totally believable. The way he held back from the team but yet was so sure of himself and the fact that Speed was alive by the time he discovered his credit card was great.
And Rory. I missed his dialogue scene and will see it online at a later time, but I still thought he was breathtaking. Seeing Speed again honestly made me the happiest CSI fan in the world. I take back every single bad thing I said about Donahue and TPTB after last season. Three out of four episodes where I wasn't let down, so this season is off to a good start.
The fact that they even brought up Speed's death made me believe that this show has some potential left in it. Continuity, continuity. Horatio and Eric's talk in the locker room and at the end of the episode were wonderful, because it showed how much they really do miss him and that no one has forgotten about him.
Because having known Marisol for 17 days gave Horatio jurisdiction over grieving her, you see, and Eric is but, oh, I don't know, her brother who knew her for 30 years, so it didn't affect him that much. Shut up, Horatio.
As
Luce said, this brought up the fact that Horatio sent Eric to process a crime scene while his little sister died and Horatio got to sit with her, while he had hardly known her. I don't dislike Horatio, but I think that that was a major mistake on the writer's part because everything else they'd given us on him, as in the kind of person he is/was, contradicted what he did to Eric. I wish that would have been left out of this episode.
But Horatio was there with Speed when he died, so I think that gives him a bit of a right to talk about it. Honestly, Eric and Speed were closer, but they're both missing him constantly and Horatio having seen Speed die affected him, and for someone to day 'he's alive' is probably not easy to hear. I loved that scene.
Aw, Cooper. I knew it was going to happen from spoilers but it didn't make it any better. I loved Cooper, always have, but what he did was compltely wrong. Not just is it illegal, but morally, it's disrespectful. Speed was more of a hero than Coop ever was, and to take something that was his is just wrong. Shame, Coop. Calleigh's expolsion at him was perfect though.
'Don't you think Eric was hurt? Don't you think I'm hurt?'
This is why I love Calleigh.
Goodbye Coop, we'll miss you.
And the last scene. I'll admit it, I cried a little bit. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that it was late and I was exhausted, but I cried. Horatio and Eric's discussion was beautiful, and I loved the line:
'Do you see him too?
Every day.'
It shows how everyone suffers from the loss, and while it's been dragged up for Eric yet again, and painfully, Horatio misses him too. And seeing Speed on the hillside was the perfect finish. I think that Eric needed something like this to happen, because it brought him a sense of comfort even though it made him realize that he has some brain damage (which isn't comforting). Seeing Speed, or even a hallucination if him, must have made Eric feel not so alone, and talking about him should have helped as well.
All in all, a great episode with some plotholes, but I'll get over it. Seeing Rory and that last scene was enough.
