Grade 'Personal Foul'

How would you grade Personal Foul?

  • A+

    Votes: 17 23.3%
  • A

    Votes: 15 20.5%
  • A-

    Votes: 10 13.7%
  • B+

    Votes: 8 11.0%
  • B

    Votes: 10 13.7%
  • B-

    Votes: 4 5.5%
  • C+

    Votes: 2 2.7%
  • C

    Votes: 5 6.8%
  • C-

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • D+

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • D

    Votes: 1 1.4%
  • D-

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • F

    Votes: 1 1.4%

  • Total voters
    73
I gave it an A- but it verged on a B...

~ It's like the writers panicked and went, 'Shit, we need to figure out what to do with D/L...let's just go back to the way things were before.' Heaven forbid a relationship actually EVOLVES on this show. :rolleyes:

Totally agree with you there..:thumbsup: The whole thing recently seems to be that they thought ahh crap we forgot them lets do something quick and pretty much mess it up... i would have been happy if they slowed it down and made some sense of it all.

The B case, was quite normal if i say that, nothing striking about it to differ from the other kind of fat people storylines they come up with... revenge.

D/F was lovely to watch it had me smiling and both boys looks mighty fine.
and watching the cheerleaders do the kissing thing was funny it was the looks on there faces and the fact Lindsay knew what they were doing.

I loved lindsays jackets they are really nice for some reason at one point i was like oooh i wouldn't mind that. :lol:

Reed i loved him but he was starting to wind me up the more he got involved as much as its his job he reminded me of a spoilt brat.

Jordan i didn't like her in the 1st ep she was in and i still don't know what to make of her.

Mac was great in this episode I love mac under pressure for some reason it brings out a good side to him which we see when he is determined and on a mission. Deserves a stiff drink after its solved.

Stellas comment about the sunblock was funny the confused look on his face was priceless. I like when the 2 of them go friend to friend not co workers it show how much they know about each other.

Hawkes was great loved his phonecall about the field trip.

DL.... Ok i was happy the whole shambles is finally getting cleared up and there is a possibly ending in sight. But it still seemed a tad rushed. Not talking about it at work i understand i mean i'm guessin she has been distancing herself but at work normally someone will overhear and then not so private chat. Over the phone... not the best but if it works then it works.
I like how he kind of realised what he did and the feelings about grieving... its like he could see what she went through.
You could tell he was a typical block when they talk about that sort of stuff slightly awkward not sure what exactly to say.

Lindsays reaction i kind of understood its the cold feet that she doesn't want to get hurt. and if i leave it longer it will be ok. When she said its hard to love him i could see her point he is such a mixed up guy its probably frustrating understanding how he feels or where they stood. Because one day you could think perfect then next you could think we're back to friends again.

Tbh i hope thats the last we see of the problems and now we can get back to when they joked around because as much as i do like them together and half ship them... they are best flirting.

And YES finally they get something right with letting Rikki leave on a good note and with a smile, it was the kind of ending which worked really well for both of them.

The ending was clever interesting too.
I really wanna see the end now as the killer just seems to be unknown everywhere so catching him wouldn't b straight forward.
 
Heh, now that I've watched the episode in full, I have only the following to say:

When Danny was telling Lindsay he missed her, I was laughing. Not because he was incredibly out-of-character, but because his voice along with his hilarious facial expression just cracked me up! :guffaw:Danny's voice just suddenly went all growly and off, like Carmine was telling himself that sounding like a drunk werewolf who had a rotten meal would make it easier for him to say the lines. :guffaw: And no, it really didn't help that he looked like he ate something disgusting and was trying his damnest to not spit it out either.

That scene just made his scene with Rikki afterwards even better proof of what real chemistry and emotion's all about. Danny displayed more emotional distress and pain about Rikki leaving than he ever has about any drama related to Lindsay in the whole show. He was definitely torn up about Rikki moving away, and although there was something of a finality to her asking him to just say goodbye, Danny will be remembering Rikki for a long time to come. He was literally tearing up when Rikki touched his cheek. I think he even cried alone at his kitchen counter after looking at Ruben's memorial pamphlet. :(

Nope, he's not going to forget Rikki or Ruben any time soon. The way it was open-ended, I actually won't be surprised should TPTB bring her back in the future. Moving away =/= Never seeing Danny again.

Oh yeah. I just realized there was no Adam.

Okay, people really need to stop saying things that make me luff them. I'm not accustomed to this alien feeling in fandom... :lol:

I'm just waiting for a member of the team to show up at Danny's apartment when he doesn't respond to the call-in. And for them to witness Danny's cheese finally slide off his cracker...it's almost that asylum time Carmine was talking about for the poor guy...
 
Heh, now that I've watched the episode in full, I have only the following to say:

When Danny was telling Lindsay he missed her, I was laughing. Not because he was incredibly out-of-character, but because his voice along with his hilarious facial expression just cracked me up! :guffaw:Danny's voice just suddenly went all growly and off, like Carmine was telling himself that sounding like a drunk werewolf who had a rotten meal would make it easier for him to say the lines. :guffaw: And no, it really didn't help that he looked like he ate something disgusting and was trying his damnest to not spit it out either.

That scene just made his scene with Rikki afterwards even better proof of what real chemistry and emotion's all about. Danny displayed more emotional distress and pain about Rikki leaving than he ever has about any drama related to Lindsay in the whole show. He was definitely torn up about Rikki moving away, and although there was something of a finality to her asking him to just say goodbye, Danny will be remembering Rikki for a long time to come. He was literally tearing up when Rikki touched his cheek. I think he even cried alone at his kitchen counter after looking at Ruben's memorial pamphlet. :(

Nope, he's not going to forget Rikki or Ruben any time soon. The way it was open-ended, I actually won't be surprised should TPTB bring her back in the future. Moving away =/= Never seeing Danny again.

Oh yeah. I just realized there was no Adam.

Okay, people really need to stop saying things that make me luff them. I'm not accustomed to this alien feeling in fandom... :lol:

I'm just waiting for a member of the team to show up at Danny's apartment when he doesn't respond to the call-in. And for them to witness Danny's cheese finally slide off his cracker...it's almost that asylum time Carmine was talking about for the poor guy...

I'm starting to think he prediction might come true, also. Although if Lindsay keeps annoying Flack, the guy might just be joining his buddy in the room with the padded walls. :lol:

And Kimmy? Carmine as a werewolf? Stop giving my brain more ideas than it already has running through it!! ;)
 
~ I hate that they're making Reed a little douchebag, but I can't help but hope this is him learning a lesson--he's acting like this, and it's going to have consequences. Obviously, based on the end of this episode, those consequences could cost him his life. I'm going to hold out hope (despite being pessimistic about this show overall) that he'll be back next season and we'll see some personal growth.
Yeah. He is a douchebag right now. Judging by the scenes from next week, even though they usually are deceiving, don't bode well for him. (thinking about the tarp bundled up with what looks like a body in it.)
Didn't we see the guy toss a body in on top of Reed? I'm guessing he kills the girl, trusses her up as usual and goes to dispose of her while Reed is bound in the trunk--and Mac saves the day before anything bad happens to him.

"You should piss Lindsay off more often."

Oh, Flack, I love you so. That line is a thing of beauty, and more importantly, it sheds some light on the Danny/Lindsay relationship from the perspective of someone close to Danny. It was intended as a joke, certainly, but it also intimates that Lindsay might be what Vince Vaughn called a "Class 1 Clinger" in Wedding Crashers. It implies that Danny hasn't socialized much recently. Whether his isolation is the result of his grief for Reuben or of his involvement with Lindsay is unclear, but it warms my heart to think of Lindsay as the human equivalent of the grabby, priapic face-hugging, life-killing chest-burster from Alien, and so I shall.
Kindly help yourself to some

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Then again, Danny's once strong character has been so thoroughly demolished and contorted by the writers' obsession with this deathless embarrassment that defining canon Danny is impossible. If you had told me in S2 that Danny would make a weepy, spineless, blubbering phone call, begging forgiveness from a cold fish and navel-gazing succubus like Lindsay, I'd've laughed at you hard enough to break wind. Yet there he was, groveling like a lovelorn tween.
I laughed at the idea of Danny flying to Montana--then they actually had him do it. I rolled my eyes at the implication that Danny would tell Rikki it was a mistake to be with her and grovel at Lindsay's feet--and yet, here we are. I should really know better than to expect logic and something other than a fist full of cliches when it comes to these two.

Now I'm recalling Carmine's statement of Danny eventually realizing Lindsay's not who he thought she was. The last thing he can do now is see things from a detached point of view, much less see Lindsay for who and what she really is, but when he does ... yep, the axe is already raised above and just waiting for the signal to fall.
Personally, I think this storyline is going to be like the one jalopy at a car show. It's out of place, it's painful to look at, nobody knows why it's there or who thought it should have pride-of-place next to the snazzy cars--but there it sits, continuing to rust on the pavement, and show-goers just have to put up with it regardless. :rolleyes:

i cant help but wonder though....how did they start from the DL draft to end up with the Danny/Flack one? The DL dynamic was probably different in the first draft also...im wondering what it was.
Danny lost the bet, of course. And rather than money, they bet on who would buy the next round of beers.

I guess they were planning to have Danny get lucky.

yes ladies and gentleman she will not jump up and down simply because, he feels better now....the healing sex time with Rikki is over and he misses her.
Guess what....TOUGH LUCK!

... now that he has changed his mind Linds is supposed to just go to his appartment or talk romance with him again so as not to come out selfish? PLEASE!
And yet, it was love when Danny flew to Montana and Lindsay was willing to suck face in the courtroom as soon as she was over her shit? What's good for the gander should be good for the goose as well, one would think.

he cant have his cake and eat it out
*snort* Sorry, the phrasing made me chuckle. :lol:

*stops being 14-years-old*

just because some of you dont like her face that does not make her character pointless or useless.
Yes! Let's turn every argument and comment against the character into 'we think she's fugly.' Did we not just have this discussion elsewhere? :rolleyes:

so when she is not troubled over Danny what makes her so different from the rest of the CSI's that she deserves to get out of the show??????
See: the 'Why Lindsay Must Go' threads 1-3.

OFCOURSE...i means Lindsay clearly lacks biceps :rolleyes:
OF COURSE! Because we just hate women. :rolleyes:

You cant go around blaming the writers for ruining Danny but blame Linds herself for the flaws of her character.
The writers create the character, so it essentially comes down to the same thing. But I hope Lindsay isn't offended.

I'm just happy Rikki will finally be gone. When she was telling Danny about moving away, I actually said out loud to the tv, "Buh Bye! Don't let the door hit ya on the way out!" LOL!
Those damn grieving mothers.

Oh, and I loved it when Mac said he was giving Reed the warning out of 'love and respect' for Claire. I think the reason Mac held off a bit on giving Reed the smackdown was because of that. The whole reason he made the effort to reach out to Reed in the first place was 'cause of Claire, and that's really sweet.
Yeah, that's a good point. *pet pet*

And the Danny felt much more 'Danny-like' in his scenes with Flack than he did in any of his scenes with Lindsay. He really came alive in those scenes with Flack, while the scenes with Lindsay just felt...flat. Emo Danny is good, but I preferred Emo Danny with Rikki to Emo Danny with Lindsay. He just didn't 'feel' like the Danny I know in that scene where called Lindsay for forgiveness.
Does the Danny you know have balls, by any chance? :)

-The Danny/Rikki scene was really sweet. Just like Danny is. I'm sad Rikki's leaving because she was a great 3-dimensional, adult, believable character, and all her scenes with Danny have been really interesting to watch. But I'm happy for her that she's moving away from all the painful memories.
Yeah. It's good for her as a character, but it's a shame for the audience that we won't see more of her. For a few episodes there, we really had some believable, meaty stuff with the whole Ruben/Rikki situation, and it'll be sad to have it all disappear into the ether.

-If I hear ONE more time that Lindsay is from MONTANA I will not be responsible for my actions. It really really is starting to p*ss me off. I mean, how many times have we heard that Mac's from Chicago? Or that Peyton was OMG from England? Who cares that Lindsay's not from New York? I think that probably a LOT of people who live in NYC aren't from there.


My sentiments exactly. Why TPTB need to keep reminding us that Lindsay is from MONTANA three seasons into her character is ridiculous. It just shows how poorly written and acted the character is. If they want to make Lindsay distinct because of where she's from it should come through in her character, not from constantly mentioning her native state. :brickwall:
Yes. 'Montana' is her nickname (and one that I hate because it's become more overused than 'boom', but I digress)--it shouldn't be her entire identity as a human being.

They treat MONTANA like it's another planet where people do, say and feel things no one else on Earth would ever understand. :cardie:
Hey, maybe it is.

-Stella & Hawkes together.... Nice to see that since she was the one who picked him up from prison last season and where she could have gotten her jungle fever on, they dropped... :lol:
Damnit, now that song is stuck in my head! :lol:

-The Last Sceen... I couldn't help but to question the decision to have him get in the taxi at the end of the episode when it was he who got Mac to admit that he wouldn't ride a cab until the killer is caught. I know it's an attempt to personalize it even more for Mac, but that makes Reed look even more stupid. After Mac says to avoid cabs, he jumps in one. :brickwall:
It makes me think that he kinda doesn't respect Mac--or at least doesn't really want to pay attention to him. Like 'oh, he's got a stick up his ass *rolls eyes*' and so he doesn't put much stock in what Mac says--he's going to learn his lesson after this, though!

starting an episode with Danny happy (for once) and just dragging him back down at the end was troublesome for me.
Seriously. He was so upbeat at the beginning, and then he just took a nosedive.

Nope, he's not going to forget Rikki or Ruben any time soon. The way it was open-ended, I actually won't be surprised should TPTB bring her back in the future. Moving away =/= Never seeing Danny again.
He shouldn't forget about them, and if we're lucky, the writers won't drop this storyline into the dusty old shoebox they have Louie in. I can't help but hope they bring Rikki back next season for at least one episode so we can see how they're both coping, and how they would react to being around each other again.

Oh yeah. I just realized there was no Adam.
*smack* :p Admit it, the episode was missing a little geeky somethin'-somethin'. ;)

i would have been happy if they slowed it down and made some sense of it all...it still seemed a tad rushed.
It's like they don't plan things out. Wouldn't it make sense to sort of come up with a basic outline of where character storylines can go for an extended period of time and then work around that, rather than just winging it? It comes across as kind of half-ass.

And YES finally they get something right with letting Rikki leave on a good note and with a smile, it was the kind of ending which worked really well for both of them.
Yeah, I'm glad they left it on a positive note, but it seems like an easy-out to me, to be honest. Kind of a 'people don't like change, they only like the illusion of change' (or whatever the actual quote is) sort of thing. The Ruben/Rikki storyline represented potential for long-term changes and character development, but they just want to pretend they're doing that and then snap right back to the same old, same old once the novelty wears off. *sigh*
 
Pretty much everything has been said already. Favourite scenes:

Flack and Danny :drool: Could they have been any cuter? :D

When Mac gets pissed off
- at Jordan
- at Reed. "Watch who you mess with"
You go, Mac. Don't let Reed use you like that. :scream:

Personaly, I don't care much about D/L, but did anyone else had the feeling Danny was drunk when he was on the phone? :confused:
He seemed disorientated, weird... I don't know..

And then of course, there was this:
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:guffaw:
 
did anyone else had the feeling Danny was drunk when he was on the phone? :confused:
My initial response was that he sounded drunk, yeah. That's kinda how my dad sounds when he gets drunk. Sort of 'ho hum' and kind of pathetic.
 
Pretty much everything has been said already. Favourite scenes:

Flack and Danny :drool: Could they have been any cuter? :D

When Mac gets pissed off
- at Jordan
- at Reed. "Watch who you mess with"
You go, Mac. Don't let Reed use you like that. :scream:

Personaly, I don't care much about D/L, but did anyone else had the feeling Danny was drunk when he was on the phone? :confused:
He seemed disorientated, weird... I don't know..

And then of course, there was this:
Dannycellphone.jpg
:guffaw:


BAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHA!!!!!!
THIS KILLS ME!
 
And then of course, there was this:
Dannycellphone.jpg
:guffaw:

That had me giggling i was like its a serious scene but really a photo like that.
Its one of those i leave my phone out on the side and someone steals it and takes pics of themselves (yeah have friends who do that)
 
I'm starting to think he prediction might come true, also. Although if Lindsay keeps annoying Flack, the guy might just be joining his buddy in the room with the padded walls. :lol:

And Kimmy? Carmine as a werewolf? Stop giving my brain more ideas than it already has running through it!! ;)

Danny totally losing his shit would be interesting - for about 2 seconds until Lindsay has an even bigger breakdown because OMG it's all about her. :rolleyes: :lol:

Faylinn said:
Yes! Let's turn every argument and comment against the character into 'we think she's fugly.' Did we not just have this discussion elsewhere? :rolleyes:

I'm starting to get brain damage from banging my head on the desk due to this line of discussion. :rolleyes: :scream:
 
Elsie's screencap, shamelessly ganked:

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Anybody else look at Flack's hair and get a distinct 'Ken doll' vibe? It's like a perfectly shaped little hair helmet. O.O
 
I'm starting to think he prediction might come true, also. Although if Lindsay keeps annoying Flack, the guy might just be joining his buddy in the room with the padded walls. :lol:

And Kimmy? Carmine as a werewolf? Stop giving my brain more ideas than it already has running through it!! ;)

Danny totally losing his shit would be interesting - for about 2 seconds until Lindsay has an even bigger breakdown because OMG it's all about her. :rolleyes: :lol:


That would be one for the books, now wouldn't it? *goes into daydreaming mode*


"Danny, stop drawing on the walls and LOOK at me for a second, I'm talkin' here!"

*Lindsay stamps her feet like a small child*

*Messer keeps drawing on the walls of his cell with the same grin as the one in his picture on her phone* :p
 
I will take Ken over Mutton Chops ANY day. *scampers back off to her corner*:lol:

Oh yes. Jeez, his hair in S1 really sucked. Even if his current do does make him look like a real-life Ken doll... ;)

That would be one for the books, now wouldn't it? *goes into daydreaming mode*


"Danny, stop drawing on the walls and LOOK at me for a second, I'm talkin' here!"

*Lindsay stamps her feet like a small child*

*Messer keeps drawing on the walls of his cell with the same grin as the one in his picture on her phone* :p

Danny would be that one you get on every psych ward - that tongues their meds, draws on walls, runs up and down the halls screaming at 2am and who puts cigarettes out on their arms. And as a result, spends vast amounts of time in P-ICU lock-up banging on the door and pulling the padding out of the walls.

Uh, maybe I shouldn't highlight my experience of being institutionalised... *whistles*
 
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