Hey I need help.. This is related to this thread.. I just wrote a long reply about my thoughts on the episode and this box came up over a smiley face and I clicked on it and then the whoole thing was gone. Does anybody kno what happened? I'm still fairly new to posting. Is there anyway to retrieve what I wrote? Somebody please helo???
What kind of box was it? I mean was it like an ad banner or just a blank box?
That's weird.
It does sort of sound like a take-over ad or some glitch.
I do know that if you right-click and choose 'undo', some things might return but if you were directed away from the page, it's likely that you'll have to re-write your post. I find that it's always good to copy what you've written so far, especially if it's long and paste it into a word document until you've finished your post in case things like this happen.
As for the 200th episode...
To start off, I found Horatio's actions in last night's episode (locking the suspect into the Hummer and threatening him with Natalia present) to be more abhorrent than the previous week when he threw the parole officer out the trailer window. Of course, his conduct in both episodes were definitely unbecoming of a police officer, but somehow it seemed more understandable for him (but not right, mind you) to put his hands on the parole officer. Maybe because there was an actual crime in progress and it was the heat of the moment, whereas last night Horatio was more calculated and risked not only his career, but Natalia's.
Either way, it seems as though Horatio's starting to crack and lose it. The man needs a vacation (and not to Brazil
). I'm kind of hoping at some point that he's reprimanded because he cant just go around Miami with a violent chip on his shoulder, no matter how bad the baddies are. There's only so many directions he can go in his current state and I wouldn't put it past him to just out and murder someone. Maybe he should practice what he preaches to everyone else who decides to take the law into their own hands?
Despite the evolution he's taken over the past few seasons, I rather liked when he had more of a balance and didn't contradict himself repeatedly. I do still enjoy the character, I'm just a bit put off by what he seems to be turning into. I'm hoping he can find 'the light', so-to-speak and find some sort of balance again between passion for the victims and justice otherwise he'll devolve into Dirty Harry by the series' end.
Maybe some fans might like it, who knows. :lol:
Regarding the rest of the episode, I kind of wished that since this was the 200th that there would be a little more scientific investigation. I'm not asking for the entire episode to be saturated with it and I'm sure the incessant interrogation scenes are fun for the actors as well as the guest stars, but we seem to be getting a lot of "I know you did this, now confess" lately even when the person ends up being innocent or guilty of something else, and when the frustration sets in is when they go back to the lab. I realize real police work functions like this but the whole foundation of the CSI franchise was to get the bad guys using the evidence, not unfounded accusations and questionable arrests. It makes sense when Tripp does it since he's the 'cop's cop' and relatively old-fashioned when it came to investigative work but now everyone's doing it.
ruby&theheadmen said:
As for Marisol, I too, don't get this angst over her. Unless the writers are going to do a back story, as some fan fiction writers have done and show us that the two of them had a deeper relationship than what was seen in the past which amount to care giving and less than one day of marriage- no honeymoon at all, then I don't see where all of this grief is coming from.
Totally agreed. I'm not even sure why it was injected into the episode at all. Was it supposed to mirror Marisol's untimely death with the birth of a baby (since it was both their birthdays)? Because if that were the case, they could have easily made it Speed's birthday or Ray Sr.'s birthday as he had an even stronger connection to both of them; I don't exactly buy into Horatio's grief for Marisol for a monolith of reasons. Her death may have been more recent, but it's still not THAT recent (4-5 years ago!).
What I did like was the end montage with the music and the distribution of most of the characters. It's also great to see that not every episode has to be a murder and the twist was a good one.
Overall, I give it 7 Moo Cows out of 10.
