Sorry for the rant :scream: but it's been really bugging me for four seasons now, and I had to see if it's just me who feels the producers are wrong to neglect the characters/actors who have been with the show since the beginning.
No, you're not the only one. You've pretty much summed up how we all feel around here. Unfortunately, as much as I love Nick/George, I find it hard to muster up any enthusiasm at all for the show now.
Oh thanks! At least now I know I'm not alone.
It's a real shame the producers are so Hollywood they're blinded by pretentious fame and awards and can't see many fans are still watching 14 seasons in
because of Nick, Greg, Sara, Doc, etc and
in spite of Langston, Finlay, etc.
Maybe big Hollywood producers watch a show because an actor has a lot of hardware on his/her mantelpiece, but that's certainly not why I watch a show. I stay loyal to a series because the actors have made me care deeply about the characters, not because of Hollywood name-dropping.
Ironically, I thought Laurence Fishburne was a terrible actor on CSI. I don't know if he was phoning it in or what, but he hardly ever even had a facial expression. For example, if you look at the scene in All That Cremains where Langston and Nicky find out it was the young teen girl who murdered her father, on Nick's face you can clearly see shock in the first reaction shot, and total dismay in the second one. In contrast, Langston shows no reaction at all in either.
At least Ted Danson is good on the show, I can deal with that. But I'm definitely going to skip the parts that focus on Finlay. I'm not going to let her get in the way of my enjoying Nick and all the characters I have loved for 13 seasons!