I should say that those who don't like my reviews, shouldn't really read this one. All it is though is my opinion on the episode.
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What happened to those discs Delko and Calleigh gathered? Have they been viewed? Have they been dumped? Huh?
Wouldn’t an ME be experienced enough to know the difference between a breath and a death rattle? For one a breath is breathing in and the other, a death rattle, is breathing out? Um, new ME doesn’t mean novice in my opinion.
...And, yeah,
miamirocks Super H strikes again. Much too macho to take cover against a sniper. Still he must have been slightly rattled (ha! ha!) because he let off a few shots without actually knowing where he should be firing. Nice one. And then we have him bending down to see if the new ME is alive or not. I wonder what he thought the hole in her forehead was all about. Didn't he pay attention when he recently put one of those holes in a couple of criminal heads? Hmm?
I actually liked the female ME for the brief moment she was on-screen. Such a shame she didn’t last long.
Sorry, but what is it with big breasted women and their seemingly penchant need, or maybe it’s the director’s seemingly penchant need, to have their titties almost in full view of the viewing audience. Oh, yeah, sorry, of course – chuckle. ‘No, no, hold the q-tip a bit higher… a bit higher... aaaand... Yeah, that’s tit, uh, it. Perfect.’
Goodness me, Horatio is now grasping at straws so fast it’s getting silly. Where’s this one time methodical CSI Agent gone to? How could he possibly come to the conclusion that the ATF guy got his ME killed? It’s just boll*cks, and talk about dumbing down the ATF guy and have him fall for that utter crap. Ugh!
Um, interesting. Is Delko so damaged that he wouldn’t have passed a refresher course if it had come out that the written reminder of procedures had been his? Is he really that much of a liability? And if he is, what’s he still doing out in the field? Though I suppose that’s been the question since he got shot in the head.
Hmm, why did Horatio pull in Ron Saris? What on earth prompted him to think that Saris would be involved in Ortega’s death? Horatio had nothing whatsoever on Saris, not even a suspicion. Oh but then he sure had one when he saw the powder burn. But again, what prompted Horatio to pull Saris in in the first place? Can I say "contrived in the worst way possible", you know so that Saris pushes Horatio a little further into the dark side. Ugh!
I know that I have demonstrated long and hard about how much they have ruined the Horatio character for me, but I have only done that because of how much I adored the character. Now however, they don’t seem to be satisfied in making him 'Super H', or that he now has such strong vigilante tendencies. Nononono, now they’re going the whole hog by destroying the methodical, gathering of evidence approach that he had. Way to go PTBs, or should I be giving that accolade to DC?
All I can say is that it’s a very, very sad state of affairs when a ‘Villain’ like Saris has more of solid case backing him up than a supposed ‘Good Guy’ like Horatio Caine has. Sad!
As for the ‘kill(?)’ shot. There were no exit wounds, there was no blood.
In my opinion, if Horatio had been shot for real by the bullet Calleigh had described there would have at the very least been exit wounds (we were shown that). So, either Horatio prepared himself with what Calleigh said would disintegrate the bullet believing that someone would take a shot at him, or the bullet was not the one Calleigh had described earlier and the shot came from the other person involved in Horatio's ‘set-up’. Either way Horatio survives. Well, evne when you discount the Super H and that DC is the lead of a successful program, those who saw the behind the scenes video at CBS knew this was the 'set-up'.
As for Ryan, it wouldn’t surprise me if he’s up to no good. I mean, there now seems to be a complete lack of foreshadowing, so it wouldn’t surprise me if next season they introduced the scenario of him getting involved with some pretty nasty people. However, I don’t think he’s involved in anything other than the set-up.
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All in all, I’m afraid this episode was a bit of a joke for me. Most of it was spent on Horatio Caine posturing as if he was Mr Clean against the bad guys, running around like a headless chicken throwing ineffectual, extremely lame threats at someone like Saris who in the past wouldn’t have caused a smatter of a reaction from him. I suppose the truth must hurt Horatio more than he's ever let on, but thenif he wasn;t all vigilante and he actually gathered the evidence against people like Saris, then he wouldn't have to go through those teeth gritting, jaw grinding moments, would he.
...And, sadly, because of DC’s major slip in the behind the scenes video on CBS, the ending of this episode only promises me that the next season is to be more of the same – Vigilante Caine.
Sorry, but what is the premise of this program again?
Don’t get me wrong, I honestly wish that I could still be as enthralled in this program as I used to be, but they ruined the character that held it together for me. Now though, CSI Miami is no longer a Crime Scenes Investigation program but a program about a man who goes vigilante when something just doesn't go the way he wants it to.
I apologise if my review upsets people, it is just the way how I viewed the finale, and how I think CSI Miami has wandered from its original concept and finally how far the Horatio Caine character has fallen for me, that’s all.
...Sorry...
