Oh, dear God, NY has begun to adopt Miami's cracktaculous production values. The grainy, comic-book stock quality of the herky jerky opening chase scene did not, alas, inspire thoughts of Sin City or 300, but rather reminded me of the efforts of a university Communications and Television freshman after several hits off a Red Bull and doob-smoke bong. It was annoying and unnecessary and removed me from the story before it ever began.
The "mystery" itself was boring, and though I was clearly supposed to sympathize with the young fashion accessories magnate, I could not have cared less. The only background we receive is the fact that she used to sew purses in her dorm room. Well, boy, that sure humanizes her for me. She was just another rich victim murdered by a rich asshole for a vague, trite reason. Yippee. If only the killer hadn't been such a stock, one-note villain.
NY math strikes again. In "The Box", Lindsay tells Danny she's pregnant and has known for "a few weeks". The following episode, "The Triangle", she tells Danny that they won't be able to determine the sex of the fetus "for a while yet", which makes sense since she shouldn't be out of the first trimester and sex is determined after the twentieth week(I think). Now, two weeks after the revelation that she's pregnant, she's suddenly sporting an enormous belly and the baby is moving?
Uh, what the hell happened? While fetal movement is likely present beforehand, it usually isn't felt until after the first trimester, often in the fourth or fifth month. What mutant sci-fi, flesh-eating demigod is Lindsay incubating? And if there has been a time jump, it would have behooved TPTB to indicate this with a handy throwaway line. Perhaps Stella could've asked Lindsay how she's been feeling these past few weeks because she's seemed tired. But that would require effort, and we know how the writers feel about that.
Dear Lindsay,
A pregnancy is, as the Internet says, serious business. It is not a Get Out of Responsibility card and does not give you carte blanche to be a smug bumcankle. Mac is under no obligation to "humor you" because you're a lazy imbecile who couldn't be arsed to use protection before you buffed Danny's crankshaft with your honey duster. Mac is not to blame for your stupidity; you are.
Would you mind too terribly if I stabbed you in the eye with this sterile swab? Humor me; I'm enraged.
That's not to say that the episode was without intrigue. Indeed, Stella's defiance of Mac's direct order is going to come back to bite her in the ass, methinks. No doubt she thinks she has everything well in hand, but I'm afraid innocent people are going to get caught in the crossfire of her personal crusade. Stella's let her emotions override her better judgment before, but in those cases, she'd only endangered or compromised herself; a misstep here could cost Angell or the counterfeiter their lives or Mac his job. Stella is dangerously blinkered right now, downright Dannyesque in her recklessness, and I shudder to think what lies ahead.
It was incredibly rich of Mighty Mac to be the one chiding her for her recklessness, and I didn't blame Stella at all for her expression of indignant incredulity. Isn't Mac the same Mac who disregarded departmental protocol in the Dobson case and blackmailed his superiors to quash the internal investigation of his unquestionable violations? The same Mac who channeled Rambo Norris to take down the Irish mob and blew up his lab in the process? The same Mac who told Gerrard to kiss his great divide on numerous occasions? He's ordering Stella to stand down and put the lab first?
Pot, meet a highly decorated kettle.
Speaking of Mac, the story arc with Ella could be wonderful. It's certainly started well. Ella is clearly extremely damaged and sees Mac not only as a surrogate father, but a potential lover, as evinced by her creepy postcard declaration of, "I will make him love me." Given that Ella was recently being romanced by her father in "Sex, Lies, and Silicone," it's not going out on a limb to posit that Ella has a severe Elektra complex and profound abandonment issues. In doing his job and the right thing and saving Ella from a suicide attempt, Mac has only encouraged her delusional behavior, and I fear that things are bound to get worse.
If Stella's defiance of a direct order and Ella's obsession with Mac don't culminate in him temporarily losing control of the lab by next season, I'll be very surprised.
Once again, the case was little more than a shoddy prop for the personal drama, but that was enough to sustain my interest, for the most part. The D/L drama continues to be a soggy morass of pungent bogwater, but Mac and Stella continue to carry the day, and hopefully Flack and Hawkes will soon shine as well.
B-
The "mystery" itself was boring, and though I was clearly supposed to sympathize with the young fashion accessories magnate, I could not have cared less. The only background we receive is the fact that she used to sew purses in her dorm room. Well, boy, that sure humanizes her for me. She was just another rich victim murdered by a rich asshole for a vague, trite reason. Yippee. If only the killer hadn't been such a stock, one-note villain.
NY math strikes again. In "The Box", Lindsay tells Danny she's pregnant and has known for "a few weeks". The following episode, "The Triangle", she tells Danny that they won't be able to determine the sex of the fetus "for a while yet", which makes sense since she shouldn't be out of the first trimester and sex is determined after the twentieth week(I think). Now, two weeks after the revelation that she's pregnant, she's suddenly sporting an enormous belly and the baby is moving?
Uh, what the hell happened? While fetal movement is likely present beforehand, it usually isn't felt until after the first trimester, often in the fourth or fifth month. What mutant sci-fi, flesh-eating demigod is Lindsay incubating? And if there has been a time jump, it would have behooved TPTB to indicate this with a handy throwaway line. Perhaps Stella could've asked Lindsay how she's been feeling these past few weeks because she's seemed tired. But that would require effort, and we know how the writers feel about that.
Dear Lindsay,
A pregnancy is, as the Internet says, serious business. It is not a Get Out of Responsibility card and does not give you carte blanche to be a smug bumcankle. Mac is under no obligation to "humor you" because you're a lazy imbecile who couldn't be arsed to use protection before you buffed Danny's crankshaft with your honey duster. Mac is not to blame for your stupidity; you are.
Would you mind too terribly if I stabbed you in the eye with this sterile swab? Humor me; I'm enraged.
That's not to say that the episode was without intrigue. Indeed, Stella's defiance of Mac's direct order is going to come back to bite her in the ass, methinks. No doubt she thinks she has everything well in hand, but I'm afraid innocent people are going to get caught in the crossfire of her personal crusade. Stella's let her emotions override her better judgment before, but in those cases, she'd only endangered or compromised herself; a misstep here could cost Angell or the counterfeiter their lives or Mac his job. Stella is dangerously blinkered right now, downright Dannyesque in her recklessness, and I shudder to think what lies ahead.
It was incredibly rich of Mighty Mac to be the one chiding her for her recklessness, and I didn't blame Stella at all for her expression of indignant incredulity. Isn't Mac the same Mac who disregarded departmental protocol in the Dobson case and blackmailed his superiors to quash the internal investigation of his unquestionable violations? The same Mac who channeled Rambo Norris to take down the Irish mob and blew up his lab in the process? The same Mac who told Gerrard to kiss his great divide on numerous occasions? He's ordering Stella to stand down and put the lab first?
Pot, meet a highly decorated kettle.
Speaking of Mac, the story arc with Ella could be wonderful. It's certainly started well. Ella is clearly extremely damaged and sees Mac not only as a surrogate father, but a potential lover, as evinced by her creepy postcard declaration of, "I will make him love me." Given that Ella was recently being romanced by her father in "Sex, Lies, and Silicone," it's not going out on a limb to posit that Ella has a severe Elektra complex and profound abandonment issues. In doing his job and the right thing and saving Ella from a suicide attempt, Mac has only encouraged her delusional behavior, and I fear that things are bound to get worse.
If Stella's defiance of a direct order and Ella's obsession with Mac don't culminate in him temporarily losing control of the lab by next season, I'll be very surprised.
Once again, the case was little more than a shoddy prop for the personal drama, but that was enough to sustain my interest, for the most part. The D/L drama continues to be a soggy morass of pungent bogwater, but Mac and Stella continue to carry the day, and hopefully Flack and Hawkes will soon shine as well.
B-
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