While we all agree that Ryan in ep 720 is very heroic, the city (ie mayor) nor his co-workers (or some of them) will see it that way. He's not going to be given a medal for his heroics or the key to the city. His heroicness is going to get him nothing more than rants from his coworkers (two in particular) and possibly facing losing his job again in 721. Maybe I'll relax a little if we find out that the why of Stetler returning (in the episode directly following the ep where Ryan is forced to betray his team) has nothing to do with Ryan. But until then, I'm going to remain unable to be calm. I'm sitting on pins and needles. :lol:
My biggest issue is and always will be the fact that its redundancy. Ryan's gambling storyline was basically a rewrite of Warrick's gambling storyline (only the outcomes should have been reversed since Warrick's gambling bascially got someone killed). Ryan's storyline in 720 is basically a rewrite of Greg's storyline in "fannysmackin" with a few elements of Calleigh's storyline in "all in" added in. That's what is the most frusturating for me. And the more I think about it, the more it upsets me. :lol:
Ryan does get the stories where he's in trouble,but for some reason,I'm more optimistic with this story.You are right about C/E,but at some point hopefully they will see it differently,them giving Ryan crap all the time is getting old and maybe will stop soon . I'm even hoping(which may be too much)that it gets everyone to see that they haven't been much of a team lately.We know Ryan is working in episode 7.21,so perhaps the aftermath won't be too bad. I know this is the episode that Rick Stetler appears,but he could be there for Eric,Calleigh or even Horatio.I going to try to keep thinking postive thoughts. Maybe we will be surprised.
I might be more optimistic if it weren't for the fact that E&C were going to be giving him crap about keeping secrets (that's the part that really is upsetting to me). But, along with rewriting old Vegas storylines, the writers are also seemingly destroying the team dynamics one by one. And I have a feeling its only going to get worse in that respect. It just feels like the writers are taking everything I loved about this show and ripping it apart piece by piece.
I really hope that while E&C are fussing at Ryan that he says to them that they have no idea what those people did to him and then goes "wanna see? do you?" and then pulls up his shirt showing wounds so bad that it makes Calleigh either tear up or gag/puke (only please don't show those wounds to us only show from point of view behind Ryan so we can see immediate reactions from E&C). I can see Calleigh being immediately regretful after seeing Ryan's wounds. Eric, well... maybe he'd be so ticked that he'd go find H and help him get revenge on the guys. :lol: If they did that then maybe it would all be worth it, redundancy and all. However, I don't trust these writers so it probably won't go that way lol.
I dunno, maybe I'm just in a depressed mood right now, but it really feels like to me that the writers have made the Ryan character their own personal whipping boy (and now very literally lol). And I'm not a real big fan of angst either unless it's the kind given to Nick on thursday night. Why can't Ryan get a case that affects him emotionally like Nick got? I don't mind emotional pain, I just don't like him being in physical pain, well I wasn't that mad about the nail thing, but him being beaten really bugs me. I would have been a lot less upset if we didn't actually have to see any of the beating to be honest.
