Macslady, are you familiar with stellaluna at LJ? She writes fantastic ep recaps and I love how she views Mac
Now there is a lady that loves the show even with its flaws, which she points out. Loves the whole cast, and gives an even, unbiased view of how the ep went down and even points out when a character is out of line, including Mac.
Plus she writes GREAT fic.
I checked out her reviews and fic lately, and I love both. I like how she reviews the show and characters - pointing out both their good points and their flaws, but not in a hostile way. And her fic is great - I was reading the Mac stuff earlier. stellaluna, if you ever read this I LOVE YOU!!!
MBGrissom said:
A Men of CSI calendar?!
Oooh, sign me up, if anyone ever made one! Nekkid Mac under the Christmas tree? *drool* Now,
that's the pic that I want!
See now I wont be able to look at my tree in the same way...
Me neither. My mum just put ours up, and thoughts of Nekkid!Mac are running through my head right now. God, it's a good job no one in my family or at work can read my mind - they'd be shocked by the Mac-centric Gutter Thoughts in there. You guys are the only ones who know about those!
MacsLady, I noticed the fairly recent animosity from a few posters on
this board towards Mac too, but I try to ignore it; as you said, each to his/her own. They say "To-may-to", I say "To-mah-to", and all that jazz...
I totally agree. I try not to let the animosity towards Mac bother me either. There are certain characters on the CSI shows I can't stand, but I accept there are others who like/love them, and that's fine. 'All that Jazz'....hmmm, makes me think of Mac at the end of Stuck on You.
*Edited to remove a cranky-pants comment on my part
OOOOHHHH tell me tell me tell me!!!!!!!!! I am feeling REEAAALLLLYYYY cranky an its nice to know I am not the only one.....PM me I wanna know cause there is some stuff I would LOVE to post but I might not be able to stop if I started... :devil:
Oooh, tell me too! I'm feeling cranky lately too. Only tell me if you want to, of course, if you wanna keep it private, that's fine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're just 'testing' your new system. And I never ever have guttery thoughts about Mac.
My Mac-Fest starts tommorrow - Corporate Warriors is first up. And we SHOULD have a Mac Fest as Channel 5 has deprived us of our Mac dosage for the next two weeks, the meanies.
I love it too, LMH. Mac in just a big red ribbbon, what a lovely present. :devil: :devil: :devil:
It's fun how everyone views characters differently, depending on how well they like them. Many people mentioned how Mac wasn't capable of comforting Danny in Child's Play. But I saw it differently. Sometimes, what you really need is just someone to be calm and to listen, because honestly there's nothing they could say that would make it any better. Mac knows this - so he mostly let Danny do the talking. Also, I felt that Mac really understood when Danny mentioned not wanting to be home because he wouldn't hear Ruben behind the walls. How many times has Mac not wanted to be home at night because his wife was gone?
Firstly, welcome to the Mac thread, DakotaCal.
Secondly, I agree with you about Mac in Child's Play. I think Mac was comforting Danny in his own way - being someone there who is calm and listenining to him, and letting him stay at work because he understands why he doesn't want to go home. Like you say, Mac has often worked late/avoided going home, and like you, I always thought it was because Claire is gone. Poor Mac. *hugs Mac* Also, like you say, I think Mac knows all too well that when someone you love/care about dies, nothing anyone says can really make it all better - I have noticed how when he talks about Claire (for example in The Closer in s1) Stella just listens, as she does in Charge of this Post when Mac tells her about his experience of the '83 Beirut barracks bombing.
Some people have called Mac 'emotionally stunted', which I don't think he is. I think he just struggles to acknowledge his own emotions and to open up emotionally even with those closest to him, perhaps because he is frightened/worried that he will get hurt somehow. I mean, his wife died, a woman he clearly loved deeply, and whose death still effects him, and then he opens up emotionally to Peyton, and she dumps him. Also, he's a Marine and I assume that as a Marine he was told/taught to keep control of his emotions, that he had to do so in the face of war. But I think that we do see Mac be there emotionally, or at least try to, for his team - for Stella in All Access and The Ride In, for Danny in RSRD and Child's Play, for Lindsay in Obsession and Stealing Home, and Hawkes in Raising Shane. We've also seen him open himself up emotionally to Stella, Flack, and Hawkes. Just because Mac isn't as emotionally open/involved as Danny is doesn't, IMO, make him emotionally stunted. I always liked that Mac's emotion was expressed in a more subtle way than Danny's, it marks him out as a unique character. And we already have a very emotionally open/very emotionally involved lead CSI with Horatio in Miami. Mac is more like Grissom when it comes to emotions.
I fell in the gutter two minutes ago I rather like it down here
Welcome to the Mac Gutter, Tequesta.
EDIT- Gorgeous pic of Mac and Flack, FB. *drools* I especially like the Mac Arm Porn, yum.
And I like Adam too. He's a cutie. What is it about the men of NY and their General Hotness? Seriously, there must be something in the water.
