CSI Exclusive: Vampire Diaries' Matt Davis Joins Season 14 in Recurring Role
CSI is resurrecting Alaric.
Vampire Diaries vet Matt Davis is joining the venerable CBS procedural’s fourteenth season in a recurring role, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Davis, last seen in The CW’s short-lived Cult, will play a smart, athletic and competitive son of a decorated fireman. While on the surface outgoing, he is deep down a bit of a loner, with the soul of a poet and the mind of a mathematician.
And lemme guess, his name is Gary STUart, right? I mean, how bloody cliché can you get? How bloody perfect can you make a character? This is not a CSI, this is Ken with a brain. Talk about massively boring, predictable and generally careless character design.
His first episode airs in late October.
Davis’ casting comes as CSI is set to lose original castmember George Eads for a handful of episodes following an on-set altercation with a writer.
CSI opens its new season on Wednesday, Sept. 25.
No, really? George blew his fuse because he felt like most CSI-groupies in general and his fans in particular did, when they realized that he got the 'Full David Hodges Treatment'? Developing a character until it has built a decent fanbase and thus ensuring constant and stable ratings; then drop the character gradually by turning it into a farce and thus killing off the entire fanbase.
Does anybody else get the feeling from this that they may just be preparing for George not coming back?
Susan
If he's lucky, they'll let him off asap on good terms. CBS has become extremely ungrateful to the veterans who made this show, and thus the company, great. They screwed up so many of the show's best characters, chased off decent writers and actors and basically fed us with such infuriatingly stupid, aggravatingly forced and nauseatingly unrealistic plots and stories, it just makes one want to throw the whole boxset out the window. The entire show has become so overly angsty, dramatic, trite and unnecessarily dark and violent, there's hardly a spark of levity in it.
What little humour comes through is so bitter and twisted, it leaves a bad aftertaste in the mouth.
They want to shake off George? Go ahead; I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing backfired and CSI crashed like a drunk albatros. There's only so much major players you can chase off before the show goes belly-up.
Don't get me wrong; I don't want the show to end. But I'm so sick with the overall drama and dumbassed let's-replace-science-and-wit-with-action-and-personal-obscure-and-ooc-turmoil-to-push-the-ratings -crap; it makes me hurt seeing the actors having to suffer through such self-sanctimonious scripts.
Anyway, enough ranting on my behalf. I really don't want either David H., Nick nor Brass to buy the farm.
Felidae
, sheesh. Dear writers, if you really can't make up your minds, or you feel like someone who's young and pretty has to be everyone's love interest, you might as well, just stop the potential romance on this show (at least within the lab) and keep everyone as friends. Some flirtation here and there like early in the series or more subtle and mature relationships is fine, but this?? It doesn't say he's joining the main cast or that he's another CSI, but we'll see, I wouldn't be surprised if he did.
