Quite honestly I don’t hate the couple itself, since I’m kinda happy for them they’re finally together.
If that’s what TPTB and fans wanted, I’m just glad they did it.
The thing I don’t like about it is the way they did it.
In fact the things which make me kinda hate this couple are:
-Eric’s in troubles & the only person who helps him is Calleigh
-Calleigh is in troubles & the only person who helps her is Eric
-Jake as a part of the triangle. I still think they used him just to get Eric & Calleigh together.
-My loss of respect towards both Calleigh & Eric.
While I’m gonna say what I don’t like abou it, I’m gonna quote some people with their thoughts I found interesting
I’ve always seen Calleigh & Eric as very good friends possibly best friends after Speedle death since they were the only ones left from the original team except for Alexx & H.
I also thought they were going to get together after it & I was kinda shipping them (I’ll admit it) b/c I did find it pretty interesting to put these two together to kinda honour our beloved Speedle.
The thing went on even with Ryan’s arrival since at first I hated him. He was the newbie & Speed’s replacement not to mention that I hated his behaviour. But what Eric is doing right now along with Calleigh and TPTB, IMHO, is even worse than everything Ryan did in his first 2 season.
I still think that my hate for this couple started with “Man down” & its consequences.
We all know that people don’t recover that fast from a bullet their temporal lobe and they don’t get back to work so fast as he did.
Since the beginning of his recovery we know he’s not going to be the old Eric Delko, again.
Alexx said it & hey she’s a doctor.
We saw a radical change in Eric. He’s not that immature guy he used to be in the first 4 seasons and he doesn’t hang out with different girls every week (toothing stuff included)
He’s a completely different guy. He’s unsure & very sensitive. He’s also a kind guy. It looks to me as if they wanted to transform him into the prince charming he’s not. IMHO, TPTB can’t pretend we never knew the old Eric Delko, the guy who just wanted to have fun with some girls he met in the disco.
While I can appreciate a more mature Delko, I still can’t get over the idea they’re pretending he’s the prince charming. He’s never been it, he’s not it and he won’t ever be it, IMHO.
Obviously, as a person who has a bullet in his temporal lobe, he has lots of difficulties while working: he has memory lapses ( he didn’t remember Marisol’s death), he made a mistake with H20 & H202, he suffers from hallucinations and he needs a cheat sheet to make sure he’s doing the right steps on a crime scene.
The bad idea TPTB had was to use Calleigh has his personal tutor. As far as I know H should be Eric’s supervisor, he’s also Calleigh’s one. So if you asked me should Calleigh help Eric, I’d say no, she’s not his personal supervisor. Not to mention that, after all, Horatio is his brother-in law.
Still they’re both in the limits of professionalism.
In the meantime we have this guy named Jake who has something going on with Calleigh and she never talks about it with Eric until she’s on the phone arranging her first date with Jake.
At the end of s5 we have the first conversation between Calleigh & Eric about their feelings for each others. While she tells him she’s not even sure how she feels about Jake, when Jake gets out of the elevator and kisses her, she’s not able to shut him down. She didn’t refuse the kiss and nobody can’t tell me that Jake forced her. He was the first one to kiss her, but she could have easily shut him down. Still she did it in front of Eric’s puppy eyes.
That’s exactly when I began loosing my respect towards Calleigh, though she still remained my fav. character of the show.
Even if she kinda gave some hopes to Eric about her feelings for him, she decided to stay with Jake and to go with him on vacation.
As much as it’s not that fair towards Eric, I can understand her behaviour in that moment, though I’ll admit..it’s left me kinda confused.
The beginning of s6 was all about Calleigh having a normal relationship with her boyfriend (b/c yeah she opted for Jake when she had to choose her guy) and it was all as a background story. We didn’t have CaKe moments in every single episode. All we had was a professional Calleigh working on crime scenes with her co-workers & enjoying her moments with Jake (at some crime scenes too).
But still we have plenty of e/c moments all over the episodes. Even if they’re not together we have at least on e/c scene in every single episode of s6.
Things got worse when Calleigh and Jake broke up because of the famous Stetler law with the helps of Delko. Even if he didn’t do it on purpose, he still did it, but TPTB still go on with the whole prince charming idea of Eric.
Anway both Calleigh & Delko are professional.
When Calleigh is involved in that bad accident of “Stand Your Ground” who’s the guy who’s there for her? Eric. It’s just Eric. Even Horatio who’s there, doesn’t ask anything about her condition.
Not to mention that the episode rotated on the idea that Jake was drunk & still working. What about Calleigh who was drunk and still shot at 2 people. She could have easily prevented to shoot, but she decided to empty her gun. And that’s when professionalism starts to disappear from the show. Not to mention that H’s team shouldn’t have investigated on it since Calleigh was involved.
Then, when Calleigh is kidnapped a guy disappeared from the show: Jake.
By the time they wrote & shot that episode Johnny Whitworth was available, but nobody decided to use his character, though he was need at least to have coherent storyline.
I’m pretty sure most of you thought “where the hell is Jake? Where the hell is her boyfriend?” (also because they mentioned him on Cooper’s site).
Again, I think it was made on purpose to have Eric as prince charming saving the day. I didn’t mind it ‘cause I was happy to finally see the team at least concerned for their Bullet Girl. The problem is that for an episode like this we had to saw Alexx in what? 2 seconds per episode? I mean she’s kinda Calleigh’s mother & she wasn’t even worried about her while everyone else was looking for her?
Not to mention that the ending of the episode was just about Eric driving Calleigh home. I mean yeah I liked it, but I would have preferred to see the whole team with her saying “hey I’m glad you’re ok” or something like this.
The whole team dynamic got lost because of E/C interfering with the plotlines.
I know TPTB wanted them to get together but they sacrificed too many things & people.
-Johnny Whitworth. What was the purpose to have him just to show he’s another bad guy for Calleigh? Did they want to show how prince charming Eric can be? There was absolutely no need to put Jake into the play.
-Eva La Rue. Does she have an interesting plotline in this show? Since Nick’s death I haven’t seen any interesting plotline for Natalia & it’s too bad, IMHO, b/c she’s a very good actress.
-Khandi Alexander. It doesn’t surprise me at all the idea she left the show b/c she hade very few screentime. I know that we never got an official interview of Khandi, but I still can’t get over this idea. Look how many interesting plotlines had Alexx in these last 3 years? 2: When Alexx left the team & when Alexx came back as an MD to save Calleigh’s life.
-Jonathan Togo. He’s another very good actor & I love how he can play Ryan’s character very well with his interactions with the other characters which are just great.
I see a lot lacking from this pairing, & I've always disliked that they've had to go through all these manufactored deaths & tragedies just to "like/love" each other. To me, that is the furthest from organic that you can get.
Exactly. I really don’t get the way they did it. I mean, lots of people are best friends & can get together after certain events, but what happened to both Calleigh & Delko in order to put them together was a little bit too much. Did they really need to put a bullet in Eric’s head, to kidnap Calleigh, to make her have 1000 car crashes or stuff like that, to have her ending up in an hospital bed in coma??? I don’t think so.
They could have put these 2 together in lots of different ways.
I also don't enjoy that TPTB have pushed aside other characters & potential arcs all for the sake of this couple. There's been no team interaction, & even the interaction between Calleigh & other characters, & Eric & other characters have been simply been decreased next to practically nothing just so the writers could throw e/c into almost every single scene together, & then focus on them in every other episode.
I kinda think the team interaction was put aside since Speedle’s death. I was discussing about it on another forum and hey Calleigh & Horatio’s hug was the last moment we had to see something touching on a show like this. They were hugging b/c they just lost a member of their team & they were going to his funeral. That’s the last time I saw a scene like this on Miami.
Now whenever one of the members of the team is in trouble, also he/she’s in an hospital bed they’re kinda “whatever”. I still think that “Smoke gets in your CSIs” proved it.
I hate that everytime I click to view any material regarding CSI:Miami (interviews, articles, any media) that I have to constantly have this couple in my face.
I know that TPTB do everything they can for ratings, but I still think we’re getting too many interviews about this couple.
I know that both Emily & Adam enjoy this moment since they’re gonna have to play as a real couple, but it’s kinda annoying to read or hear other interviews to ELR or JT w/ the interviewers who ask them questions about Calleigh & Eric. Are you kidding me? Come on you could ask some questions about their characters instead of asking them about a relationship they’re not playing in. But hey what kind of question can you make to people who practically have some normal scenes every now & then in this show?
Still I kinda hate the fact the articles & interviews are all about their relationship & also how the other member of the cast & crew reacted to their first kiss. I think it was kinda unpolite towards people who may not like this relationship (cast & crew included).
Personally, I think having 2 lead CSIs in a romance is way too much for any crime show to handle. It has already taken over this show! TPTB have not managed to balance this story along with anything else other than Horatio drama. It's almost literally ALL we've seen in the past 2 seasons.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all to find that Cal is pregnant & not because of Eric. Quite honestly, that’s the direction the show (the whole franchise) has been taking in these last years. And quite honestly, I don’t like it b/c that wasn’t the reason why I started watching CSI.
I loved CSI:Miami more than the other 2 b/c we had more glimpse on our CSI’s personal lives, but it wasn’t that much we’re having right now with the whole E/C stuff.
I've had to sit through 2 dreadful years of them dancing around this subject that has never been at all subtle or in the background, so I really don't care to sit through ANOTHER 2 years of watching these two IN a relationship.
The problem, is that they’ve been dragging out this love story for more than 2 years without succeeding. Look at GSR & Danny & Linsday on NY, did it take them so long to finally show their feelings.
Once it was clear they’re going to play with them, it didn’t take them more than 2 years to finally play their cards as it happened with E/C.
That’s one of the major reason why I don’t like this couple.
For most the issue is not the pairing itself, but the way it has been written so far.
Let’s say it has been erratic for lots of episode since s6 and the fact they’re now together after some episode like the last one “Head Case” included, leaves me kinda “uh what did I saw last week?”
I'll admit that I have several issues with the E/C hook up. I guess my biggest issue is that it has caused me to loose most of my respect for the Calleigh character.
It is one of my biggest issue too.
When I first saw her (it was her hilarious scene in “Dispo Day”) I thought she was a normal (well probably it’s too much considering the scene :lol: ) who enjoys working and having fun with her collegues.
Whenever it’s time to help some of her friends she’s ready to do it as long as it remains professional.
When Speedle died she could have wrote a colmpletely different reason from “malfunctioning gun”. It was a professional way to say “look his gun didn’t function & we all know why, but let’s not do it since we don't want to speculate on a dead person”. It was a form of respect towards both Speed and her professionalism.
Whenever she’s helping Eric she’s on the verge of being unprofessional & what she did both in “Down to the Wire” & “And how does that make you kill” was way unprofessional and yeah she left me kinda disappointed w/ her character. This is not Calleigh Duquesne, the one I know. This is Calleigh Duquesne, the one who has to be put together with her co-worker she has never loved since she chose for other people instead of him, more than once.
Calleigh is Eric's supervisor. In that capacity she knows tha a relationship is a violation of the fraternization policy of the department. The same was true with Jake. I can be a little more forgiving with Jake in that she wasn't his direct superior and she didn't work with him day in and day out. But still, Jake and Calleigh were in violation. Eric and Calleigh are in violation. So, if this relationship continues, who moves to another shift, Calleigh or Eric? Or will the writers simply rewrite the show's history just for Calleigh and Eric?
Considering what they have been doing in these last season I can easily picture this rule completely disappeared. I just can’t imagine TPTB ruining this couple with this very simple rule so that they won’t disappoint their fans.
If I were a TPTB I wouldn’t do that, considering what fans have been waiting for more than 2 years. I promised it and I have to keep promises.
So if you ask me, the real problem is that TPTB wanted to make their fans happy, but they don’t know that not all of people love this couple. Let’s say that there are lots of non-E/C fans. So they should have just written something else for the other characters or for the whole team, instead of going on with this romance.
Calleigh has hidden and covered for any number of emotional and health related issues that Eric has experienced from Horatio - their superior. These issues should have been reported to Horatio the moment she became aware of them. That is her duty.
What she did in “Down to the Wire” was completely irresponsible & that’s exactly the moment which really disappointed me.
Eric is still suffering from the bullet lodged in his temporal lobe and surely a CSI who uses a cheat sheet on a crime scene isn’t a good thing, even if he didn’t read it while on the crime scene. Still he had it & that cheat sheet put Calleigh in danger. If Cooper hadn’t seen that piece of paper, he wouldn’t have created his website & we all know what would have happened, if the website hadn’t existed.
When she was taken off the case by Stetler b/c of it (it was pretty clear by their discussion) I really hoped she was going to talk with H ‘cause she risked her life b/c of that cheat sheet. There’s no way to deny it and it was pretty clear also in her discourse while she was confronting Eric. The fact she didn’t tell H the whole stuff left me really disappointed with her character. I never thought she could behave the way she did. It was really disappointing &, let me say, out of character.
My respect for Calleigh took a serious hit when she read Eric's psychiatrist's files because the writers needed an easy way for Calleigh to find out how Eric felt about her. They sacrificed Calleigh's integrity because they couldn't think of a better way to do it. Calleigh has been in control of this relationship from the beginning with Eric trailing her like a whipped puppy.
As much she’s still my fav. character, yeah I lost respect for her right in this moment.
It was unprofessional the fact Eric was reading through his shrink’s files. There’s no way he could have done it, but he did it. The most disgusting thing was that they had to put Calleigh in that scene too. Not to mention the purpose of it. So that she could read what Eric’s feelings for her were? WOW!!! What a great way to do it!!!
Seriously, do you need to make your lead character (since she’s having a far major role than H in this season) the less professional person at work? So that everyone can trust her?
That’s absolutely the worst way to do it.
That is not Calleigh Duquesne. That is the girl who Eric is going to jump on!
I miss the friendship that I so enjoyed with these two. Possibly the writers could have Ryan and Natalia fill the void. I've really grown to love these characters - along with Frank. God, I do miss the team!
The positive thing of this romance is that the idea of not wanting it made me love Ryan, Natalia & Frank.
I already loved them since they were growing on me, but definitely this romance was a huge step for me to love this trio.
I'd like to see a promo that isn't all about Calleigh and Eric. I'd like to see an interview with another member of the cast where they aren't hounded about Calleigh and Eric. I'd like to see anything having to do with CSI Miami that doesn't have to do with Calleigh and Eric. I'm really tired of hearing about Calleigh and Eric.
This promo should have been about a murder on a ship (or something like this, if I recall correctly), Eric’s biological father and Eric in prison. But no, it was about Calleigh & Eric.
As much as I hate Eric’s stuff, I would have preferred to see Eric in prison, Eric crying, Eric punching his father (well that’s the only thing that happened along with his arrest) and Eric talking about his family with someone like H or Ryan.
They've taken people who really didn't care either way and made them dislike this whole thing because of the constant bombardment!
That’s the reason n.1 I don’t like this couple. I enjoy CaKe or even Carwash or Ducaine just b/c you don’t have to see it in every single episode.
The only time that I've seen Calleigh act appropriately with regard to Eric's inadequate performance was when he mixed up the chemicals and as a result compromised the testing and they had to find another way to get the killer. She was awesome in that episode.
Exactly, but still she didn’t talk about it with H. At least, we never had the chance to see it.
There are too many behind the scenes things regarding Calleigh’s behaviour (towards Eric) when she’s with the other members of the team.
Again, I just can’t see the team anymore.
Again, I still love Calleigh & appreciate Delko, but I find it more & more difficult everyday to cope with them as a couple because of the reasons I just mentioned.
I really hope I didn’t offend anyone’s feeling with my opinion/rambling & I’m ready to discuss it with anyone
