Alright, y'all, play nice. We all know that the characters aren't real people, but let's try not to criticize someone for speaking their mind.
I don't feel that emotionally invested in characters on this show, Detective Burn, but I kind of see what you mean. When Aiden left, I knew I'd miss her, and the show has been missing something since she left, but that doesn't make me think that Lindsay is lacking in any way. As loyal viewers, it says something about the writing and acting if we can miss a character once they're gone, but I also that it's good writing to endear a new character slowly. Maybe it wasn't intentional, but to me it seems kind of like this: Lindsay came on immediately after Aiden left, which was necessary to fill the job, and we all accept that. The writers knew that she was not Aiden, and they didn't try to make her into an Aiden-clone. In the first few episodes, Lindsay's character clashes with the other CSIs a bit, but she soon starts to settle in. This seems pretty purposeful to me--start out with discordant personalities, and then let them start to mesh. No matter what Lindsay was like in that first episode, we were all going to feel a little strange trying to think of her as suddenly part of the team. But as the season progresses, we get used to her more and more. The writers couldn't change how people would react to Lindsay, so they just went along with it and put out the show. I think they did a good job of that.
Whatever, maybe that's just me. I probably didn't explain myself well, but *shrug*.
I don't feel that emotionally invested in characters on this show, Detective Burn, but I kind of see what you mean. When Aiden left, I knew I'd miss her, and the show has been missing something since she left, but that doesn't make me think that Lindsay is lacking in any way. As loyal viewers, it says something about the writing and acting if we can miss a character once they're gone, but I also that it's good writing to endear a new character slowly. Maybe it wasn't intentional, but to me it seems kind of like this: Lindsay came on immediately after Aiden left, which was necessary to fill the job, and we all accept that. The writers knew that she was not Aiden, and they didn't try to make her into an Aiden-clone. In the first few episodes, Lindsay's character clashes with the other CSIs a bit, but she soon starts to settle in. This seems pretty purposeful to me--start out with discordant personalities, and then let them start to mesh. No matter what Lindsay was like in that first episode, we were all going to feel a little strange trying to think of her as suddenly part of the team. But as the season progresses, we get used to her more and more. The writers couldn't change how people would react to Lindsay, so they just went along with it and put out the show. I think they did a good job of that.
Whatever, maybe that's just me. I probably didn't explain myself well, but *shrug*.
