A few people on spoiler blogs don't necessarily represent the fandom as a whole. A lot of the posts on spoiler blogs come from the same people... to the point that I've even started to recognize some of the more unique names! And many of those questions are about "Danny and Lindsay."
I do get that, but several questions of a similar nature usually does suggest a trend...and well, particularly from the DL-fanbase. Since if this current setup was put in place to please everyone, I'd actually expect things to be a lot quieter on that front. (Read: not nearly as many questions about Lindsay’s whereabouts). Because S6 would be the dream season for someone who just wanted DL, right? Lindsay shares almost her every scene with Danny and when she’s not there it’s fairly safe to assume she’s at home being one of the real housewives of New Jersey York for him.
Where’s the problem?
Yeah, but both times--she's more invested in dead people than in the living... and what's more, dead people she thinks she has something in common with (young women trying to make it in the big city).
I think she was more intrigued with Lillian Stanwick than identifying with her (mostly because they didn't have a whole lot in common beyond both living in New York); but yes, I agree with that. It's why I figured they'd purposely been increasing the degree to which she gets invested. It's easy enough to get invested with the dead, it's a little tougher when it becomes about the people left behind (because according to Stella in "No Good Deed", that's exactly what they're not supposed to do). And they
'd been leaning more toward the latter in the last three seasons with Lindsay.
I'd have to go back and watch to comment further, but I remember the little girl responding to Danny more than Lindsay.
Fair enough
I saw it recently so I stand by what I said earlier...
That scene struck me as odd because I do remember her asking far fewer questions than Stella. And I remember the stone face. I guess you could call it awkwardness, but she's always kind of awkward, which kind of proves my point about her not connecting with people effectively, and therefore not being the right character to get across that emotional connection.
I'm not sure about the first interview, but Stella and Lindsay each asked three questions in that second scene. And yeah, I don't think she connects with people all that effectively. I just thought tptb were making a point of showing how she's starting to grow out of that these past few seasons (since that's what usually happens to similar characters in other shows/movies/books; if they try enough times, like Lindsay has, they tend to get it eventually). If they were, I think this could've been a good episode to continue that arc; but then again, I'm thinking it might not've meshed well with the tone of this episode. On that note:
There's almost always comic relief in CSI episodes just as a contrast for the dark tone of the premise of the shows overall. I thought the humor was effectively sectioned off from James here. Certainly the horror of what happened in the hotel room was driven home by Flack's intensity in that first interrogation.
The humour is usually a dry sort of sarcasm that meshes perfectly with the things they're seeing (at least, it is with CSI and NY; not too sure about Miami) -- not sitcom-esque comedy humour. Don't get me wrong, I thought the guest stars were one of the best parts of this episode. But between the clowns in James's flashback, the mini-wrestler, the bingo players, even Rufus in that first interrogation...these things effectively muted the horror James must've felt in this episode for me. (And of course, the shootout at the end capped that off.) There was no way for me to take it as seriously as the other mass murders we've seen on this show, like the ones from Darius in S2, or even the Amityville murder in Boo.
Moreover, I can't help thinking that I wasn't
supposed to take it super-seriously, because there were enough wisecracks between Adam, Danny, Flack, Hawkes, and even Stella to suggest they weren't seeing this as a particularly horrifying scenario, either. To me, Flack seemed genuinely furious in his interrogation with James because of (as he perceived it at the time) the utter stupidity of four people dying because James got wasted. Not because of the horrifying nature of the scene itself.
[Sorry, I know I'm breaking the order here :lol:, but I felt this was the best place to address the comment.]
I think they all do that. I know she did it with Danny in "Trapped," but of course, she was interested in Danny.
She also did it in All Access (that first scene when she's told by Danny what happened), Charge of this Post (during the case -- long before they all showed up at the hospital), and Page Turner, when she showed up at the hospital.
I just got a flat, robotic feel from her performance. She delivers the lines without really adding any humanity to them.
*A slight correction on my comments about Admissions earlier: having watched it again, I noticed that while Lindsay kept leaning forward during the interrogation, they never actually showed her hands, so there's no real way to tell if she had her hand on the girl's or not :lol: But those little things like the way she kept leaning forward and the way she kept stepping in whenever Gerrard's daughter started blaming herself again, for me those added the humanity, and made the whole thing come off as anything but robotic. And I thought her "I think I'm going to be sick" line in the scene directly afterward, denoted genuine disgust.
She hasn't had a single storyline this season, she's hardly done anything meaningful (aside from saving Flack once and one cheesy undercover operation). But as I've said before, I think the writers have a found a balance to keep both her fans and her detractors happy. She's married to Danny--pleasing the DL crowd--and she's not emoting much, pleasing those of us who don't think she can carry the weighty emotional performances. And she's gone from a lot of the episodes, which also helps.
I answered most of this above, but same thing: it hardly seems like this is a balance that's keeping "everyone" happy, and if they're having to provide sound bytes about Lindsay being a "crime-fighter", then you'd think that'd tell them something. I still want the storyline, but for me it's not so much about that (mostly because the same thing has literally been said for several seasons about other characters), as it is about the umbilical cord that attaches her to Danny during almost her
every scene. However, I don't get the "emotional-performances" angle. For me, I'm frustrated because the majority of Lindsay's character-driven emotive scenes are DL-related; I don't think they count because I dislike DL and think if they can spend all that screentime on it, they certainly have time to set up a similar dynamic between Lindsay and some other character. That doesn't mean the emotive scenes themselves don't exist
Just that, except for the ones you mentioned above, they're all surrounding a subject matter that doesn't interest me.
