^^ yeah maybe, i dunno, it did seem a little odd (this is an edit as you posted at the same time as me, i said more about it below, but you may have a point)
Overall, I thought that first confrontation was rather odd. The emotion was there, but the dialogue was a bit clunky and didn’t really fit with what had happened in previous episodes.
yep, i'd agree with that, it was almost like they were spelling everything out which seemed a bit unnecessary. but that's my main gripe with CSI generally - they're always explaining everything and really, most people are fairly regular viewers and even if they're not most people are intelligent enough to work it out for themselves!
Mac found out about Stella being the informant from NYPD Communications? How did that happen? Did they do some type of voiceprint analysis, or did Stella make the call from her mobile, which they were able to trace?
i did wonder that - it seemed a bit odd, how would anyone else know? unless, as you say, the anon call was CSI'd, but we never saw that. it would've been quite an interesting scene actually, maybe mac being asked by someone upstairs to try to work out who made the call - because they do that in any other case with an anon call, as it could be a lead. i would quite like to have seen mac's reaction when he realised who it was. that was another issue i had with that confrontation which i think people have brought up here already, the fact that he confronted her with what he knew, and he seemed to know a hell of a lot for someone who'd just been given a file on it - how did he know what happened, and why didn't we see him find out? it could've really added to the storyline.
And Stella says it wasn’t her intention to mislead Mac, but seems like that was exactly her intent based on what she told Angell. She also tells Mac that she got a tip that Diakos was running and followed up on it when the reality is she had been working the case for months and found out Diakos’ whereabouts from Kolovos before locking him in the container. At that point, she was still “misleading” Mac and didn’t come clean about the other stuff until Mac confronted her again at Kolovos’ crime scene. As mentioned before, I thought the second confrontation scene worked much better -- Mac’s anger seemed intense and somewhat more realistic to me.
heh, yeah, it was like "i didn't want to lie, so i'll lie now instead!" - i liked the scene in the park too, i like it when mac is apparently trying to be reasonable and not go off on one. maybe he should've failed for once and actually gone off on one, that would've been quite cool :lol:
I didn’t notice the blooper – will have to look for it when next I see this one. It is a different sort of episode – more of a one-off, personal adventure, and it was interesting to see Mac and Stella outside their normal environment.
i think that's why i liked it, it was just a bit different. as for the blooper - i spotted it immediately but thought maybe my eyes were playing tricks because it seemed *so* obvious! i had to rewind a couple of times to check :lol:
And leaving aside the plot holes and contrivances, it was just nice to see Mac going out of his way to support Stella since I think it tends to be the other way more often – or maybe it’s just seems that way because Stella is the more expressive one.
i think mac's always been supportive of stella but he doesn't really show anything in that department so it would make sense for him to be more closed down about it, whereas she's definitely very expressive! but it was very nice to see
I was a bit disappointed with the resolution of the conflict between Mac and Stella, though. Seems like they spent time this season building up to what could’ve been a significant rift only to sort of gloss over it in the end. The scene where Stella apologizes to Mac as they are walking in the square is another one for which I thought the dialogue was inadequate. Stella apologizes for making things difficult for Mac and the department; Mac says it’s difficult because he cares about her; and Stella says “Thank you.”
that "thank you" really bothered me too - that's not the right thing to say anyway but even if it was it just seemed a bit odd. i kind of wish they'd gone down the rift route too - much as i enjoyed seeing mac and stella get a bit closer, it would've been almost more interesting to have a rift that maybe continued into the next ep and even beyond, it would've made for a different atmosphere to the show which could've been interesting. right now i think there's very little they can do with them other than pursue smack.
It seemed like there was something missing there – and no, I don’t mean a declaration of love
– perhaps something to express her appreciation for him being there to support her in spite of her transgressions. But this is a crime drama, so there’s probably a practical limit to how deep they can go with some of the material.
yeah, stella did seem to gloss over how supportive mac was - she really did go way out of line but was quite happy to just ask for her badge back (albeit in that convoluted way) and she seemed happy for him to support her but not remotely worried about the kind of trouble she might've caused. but yes, i guess there's only so much of that stuff they can fit in...
