JellyBelly said:
I'm not saying Mac is the closest to them in the world, but I think he's the common thread between them in terms of work. I don't think enough time has been invested to develop Lindsay much beyond her relationships with Danny and Mac, whereas Danny has established and developing relationships with all the other characters.
That's true, she's been under-developed and reasons as to why are largely theoretical on all parts. But Danny has had considerable out-of-work expansion too, probably more than most. I just can't help but think: wouldn't a common confidant between them in their personal lives say new and interesting things about them? Bring more substance to their relationship that they're trying to sell me as being on solid ground? It was another shunned chance at supporting some of their claims about the foundation of Danny and Lindsay's relationship. Unless of course there is no such person, in which case I'm still just as confused as I was in seasons two and three about what the hell was going on with these two and that leaves me frustrated with the delivery of this story.
At the same time, choosing the head of the crime lab, because this the story of a super hero team and their leader is their guiding light from the lab to the bedroom says some tacky things about the writing, that I'm not yet willing to believe the show has sunk to, however naive that might be.
The whole issue about their outside of work relationship is always going to come into question because of their relationship being portrayed in terms of their jobs.
That doesn't really excuse the fact that other relationships have been suggested and alluded to with so much more clarity than Danny and Lindsay. Not all of them of course, others have fallen short here too. I just mean it's something the writers & actors have been successful with through other inter-office relationships, so I have to wonder what Danny and Lindsay lack that can't sell this for me.
You're right, they do like to enforce that team dynamic stuff, but these suggestions are important especially if they ever want me to connect to a character like Lindsay, who coming from so far away feels like she has no story when she clocks out. For example we'll probably never
meet Sheldon's uncle Frank, but it helps his believability as a character just to know he isn't cryogenically frozen between shift at the lab. It strikes me as yet another avoided opportunity to make her three dimensional. And if she has abandoned other relationships in her life when she came to NY, that's a potentially interesting thing to expand upon too that's also being ignored.
While 'they' as you say, can't have it both ways, neither can we. Either tptb portray a realistic angle on working relationships and we lose the emphasis on the characters and their personal struggles, or we continue to get great moments between the team members but call into question whether any of them has a life outside the lab.
I actually think if they were more realistic about the portrayal of their working relationships we'd have a lot
more emphasis on their personal struggles and see less of them being defined as Team Taylor: a self sustaining entity, especially now that they're reproducing amongst themselves. I'm as willing to suspend my disbelief as most, but when you add all these things up, these grains of salt are starting to make the whole dish unpalatable.
We have no idea if or how many siblings Lindsay has.
Actually we do. When Danny was on his 'we're going to have a boy' naming mission he told Stella that his mom had two boys and Lindsay's mom had three boys. I'm assuming from that comment that Lindsay is the only girl in her family.
Since he said "my mom had two boys, her mom had three boys" for whatever reason I took that as his maternal grandmother have three boys along with his mother. But I guess you could be right.
I took it to mean his maternal grandmother too. Now I wish that line had been more clear.
