Re: least favourite season
I have liked each season less and less. So #7 gets my vote.
The change over in writers is why. Over the years, the writers who created the original 6 characters left the show and new writers have come aboard who didn't have the same vested interest in those characters. They still write for Grissom and Catherine but they aren't as spunky as in the first season. The writers say it's because real-life investigators would have grown weary and jaded in the CSI job. To me, the newer writers just aren't as in touch with them. And they have their preferences among Sara, Nick, Brass and Warrick.
Warrick's almost completely disappeared from the show. Again, some fans say that's because Gary has other projects he's pursuing, but I know at least one writer (Alan McDonald) admitted in an interview he has trouble writing for the character.
The Sara and Nick dynamic that used to be a lot of fun was hardly seen in season 7 and when it was, they were like zombies with each other. Each could have been replaced with any other character in the same scenes and no one would have noticed.
So instead we've seen the more recent writers promote Greg to CSI so they could restructure the character. The Greg fans are split with a significant percentage wishing he'd go back to being lab rat (aka Liam). They don't care for CSI Greg (aka Grasshopper).
They brought in the new character Sofia -- a character they could build from scratch -- but then they redesigned her as detective. They had an overload of CSI-3s so that made some sense.
And they brought in Hodges, made him more and more likable and gave him more and more screen time to the point he had his own episode this year. It was one of the few I did like -- just to contradict myself.
I miss the first writers. I preferred the original characters and we got better doses of them in the early episodes. Hence my vote.
I have liked each season less and less. So #7 gets my vote.
The change over in writers is why. Over the years, the writers who created the original 6 characters left the show and new writers have come aboard who didn't have the same vested interest in those characters. They still write for Grissom and Catherine but they aren't as spunky as in the first season. The writers say it's because real-life investigators would have grown weary and jaded in the CSI job. To me, the newer writers just aren't as in touch with them. And they have their preferences among Sara, Nick, Brass and Warrick.
Warrick's almost completely disappeared from the show. Again, some fans say that's because Gary has other projects he's pursuing, but I know at least one writer (Alan McDonald) admitted in an interview he has trouble writing for the character.
The Sara and Nick dynamic that used to be a lot of fun was hardly seen in season 7 and when it was, they were like zombies with each other. Each could have been replaced with any other character in the same scenes and no one would have noticed.
So instead we've seen the more recent writers promote Greg to CSI so they could restructure the character. The Greg fans are split with a significant percentage wishing he'd go back to being lab rat (aka Liam). They don't care for CSI Greg (aka Grasshopper).
They brought in the new character Sofia -- a character they could build from scratch -- but then they redesigned her as detective. They had an overload of CSI-3s so that made some sense.
And they brought in Hodges, made him more and more likable and gave him more and more screen time to the point he had his own episode this year. It was one of the few I did like -- just to contradict myself.
I miss the first writers. I preferred the original characters and we got better doses of them in the early episodes. Hence my vote.
