Season 11 "Spoiler Lab" Discussion Part 4

In my opinion you need to go back and watch season 9 MacsgirlMel

I know that I can't get a great amount of my favorite character especially Greg all the time, love to , know it can't always happen plus actors and actresses have lives outside work too, and other characters need to have stories and episodes too, it's when they start having him do Archie's job all the time and hardly use him for several episodes then I start having a probelm

Ray, he had a great start in The Grave Shift, acted like a newbie and it was fun watching him trying to lift prints , THEN things got just wierd after that :wtf: in Disarmed and Dangerous, Ray acted more like the boss and all the sudden knew everything, I know they're paying him the BIG BUCKS and all and want to get they're moneys worth (I'd want to too) but seriously there's no reason to dumb the other characters down and make the show ENTIRELY ABOUT RAY!!!! :scream:

I mean I don't mind him getting an episode or two during the season, but he's been here two and a half seasons, he's had the Dr. Jekyll storyline, the stuff about his father, Mascara the 200th episode, then there's everything that's gone on with Haskell like his kidney and all the episodes that's involved Raskell including the last three episodes, also including the 250th episode and another season finale, third in a row about Ray and the second about Raskell

 

I feel like I have stumbled onto the Ray/Laurence Fishburne thread.

Is there any non-Ray spoilers? I mean there has to be something else going on. I guess I'll just be glad for the season to end at this point and finish this whole Raskell mess, hopefully.

 

Spoilers without additional conversation can always be found in the Spoiler Reference thread.

While you all are welcome to discuss/debate Ray in relation to the spoilers about the rest of the season, if you want to just talk about the character in general you can do that in the Character Development thread.

 

Certainly this will be interesting, especially if there is any conflict what-so-ever with her father..seeing we all know what Ecklie is like. But even though the possibilities are nil, more so then slim, I was still kinda rooting for a Liz Vassey return. Oh well! :lol:

Thanks for the find, Beaujolais

 

Kind of figured this would happen. I don't think she's a big enough name nor an appropriate age to replace Marg. It will just seem too much like the Tara/Alexx thing where Alexx/Khandi was replaced with an actress much younger than her. However, it makes me wonder if they smartly decided that they just need more females. I still think they will end up replacing Marg/Cath with someone more well known. Not a huge movie star like Laurence Fishburne, but maybe a fairly well known tv star... someone like Lauren Holly (not her necessarily, just someone as well known as her). Unless they plan on bringing Frankie back (full time) when Cath leaves. That would at least be better than having to get used to a completely new character, which can be a difficult transition for some.

As for Ecklie being moved up to a main character, ONLY IF LF leaves. Otherwise, we have enough men in the cast full time LOL. I like Ecklie, but not sure I would like to see him every week. He's one of those characters that's better in smaller doses lol.

 

Technically, Ray did somewhat replace Grissom as the lead male character. Job-wise, however, Catherine replaced Grissom.

I'm a little bit annoyed that Vartann will not be returning in the rest of the season. They kind of left us hanging with that storyline LOL. But, I guess they can only fit so many storylines in... and apparently Haskell is their top priority. I'm still irritated that they took this great villain character and used him so much that now I get annoyed whenever his name is mentioned on the show LOL. Guys (the writers), there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. :lol: