Re: Season 8 Spoiler Discussion - There's Nothing You Can't Do In New
Lindsay is arguably the most polarizing character on the show. There are people who love her and people who hate her. People on both ends of the spectrum are going to view her depending on their individual perception of her. When confronted with a fact or statement about any given character, people who like hir are more likely to take a positive view of everything ze does, and people who dislike hir are more likely to take a negative view. In the case of Lindsay, people's opinions have been formed over multiple seasons. There are years of background when it comes to why someone likes or dislikes her, and that's going to have an effect on how people view new information and situations involving her.
It's not personal, it's a fictional character - Lindsay isn't going to get offended if I assume (for example) that I'm going to be annoyed when she runs in with the Key Piece Of Case-Solving Info for the umpteenth time. *shrug* It sucks when people don't like a character I like, but that's their right. I'd love it if everybody adored Jo as much as I do, but I know they don't. I think it would be great if everybody wanted Adam to get more screentime because that's how I feel, but that's not the case. Opinions against these characters might not be as strong as the ones against Lindsay, but unfortunately, that's just the (bad) luck of the draw. In another fandom, my preferred characters and pairings are really popular, but there's also a significant portion of the fandom that can't stand them. Preferences and favorites are a divisive topic, and we'll probably never really understand what makes another person love/hate a character we hate/love.
Spoilers are never a complete picture of what happens in an episode, and in a lot of cases, they lack context. You can't really blame someone for misinterpreting spoilers when they don't know what
else happens in the episode. They only know what they read in this thread, and they can only form opinions based on that.
Having taken a glance at the spoilers, including some that
vegaslights presumably hadn't seen when he posted about the episode last night, here's another version:
8.04 "Officer Involved":
~ The episode seems to pick up where episode 8.03 left off. Danny wakes up on the ground and looks around, seeing a dead body and feeling blood on his head. He notices that his ankle holster is empty, and Officer Lauren Cooper is holding his gun nearby. Two of Danny's other rookies, Officer Cates and Officer Foley, tell him what happened: a couple of guys started a fight, and they hit Danny over the head with a bottle. One of the guys pulled a gun and shot at Lauren, and she took Danny's gun and fired back. She killed the man in self-defense.
~ Lindsay comes to the scene and tells Danny she got a babysitter. Danny says she doesn't have to worry about him, but she says she wants to get some dinner together so they can spend a few hours not worrying about what's going to happen.
~ The team finds GSR on the victim's sleeve, but there's no sign of the gun. It looks like Lauren, Cates and Foley are hiding something, and the CSIs need to figure out exactly what happened because Danny was unconscious during the shooting. The search for the gun gets more urgent when it is used to kill someone.
~ Adam works the scene. I see everyone but Sid (although he could still be there, of course). Later in the episode, Lindsay confronts Lauren about whatever she's hiding, pointing out that Danny's career could be ruined.
Great, so much for Lauren being a potential friend.
I should have known not to get my hopes up. I figured it wouldn't end well with Jeananne only signed on for two episodes, but still. (Sometimes I wonder if there are any ~good cops~ who aren't on our team.)
