I don't really think this is that odd. We don't know what the scene is or the dialouge that's involved (or does someone know?) - it only says (in the casting call) that he looks at Calleigh, his future co-worker. Isn't it possible that he just sees her while he's walks through the station, not actually meeting her? I'm sure it's pretty easy for a 17 year old kid to forget a face 12 years later, especially when we have to imagine that he's there at the station, meeting & seeing all kinds of officers & different faces.
Well even if they didn't talk, it's quite odd to me. I mean he sees her, it is quite clear that he sees her and I highly doubt he forgot her throughout the years. I mean it sounds so strange he didn't recognize her during her course, firstly, and during their first actual meeting.
I haven't posted in a while so get ready for a long one! I am soooo totally not kidding either!!
From reading the dialogue in the spoilers; Ryan does in fact talk with Calleigh. He asks her for directions to morgue b/c he got separated from his group and she kindly tells him that she is new and doesn't really know herself. He asks her is she is working on a case and she replies that she has to go and hopes he finds his group.
I said it when the spoilers for this ep were first revealed by several people:
This will either rock the house or go horribly wrong. I mean, as most of you have said, how is it that he would completely forget meeting her? He is not a little kid, he is supposed to be of college age. This is the problem with flashback episodes when a show is this established. Asking the fans to totally abandoned all belief of what they (the writers) have established as fact is just, well kind of pathetic. Not only do I feel cheated but I find of feel insulted. Insulted that the writers seem to think that we, the fans don't pay attention to details and that we will simply believe and take whatever they put on screen as fact. When in fact it is the complete opposite. I mean there are little loopholes and contradictions that ALL shows use to make the story work but this, this is kind of rediculous, imo. The
idea is a good one in theory but it seems the practicality of it is not. Also, Ryan is supposed to be asking for the morgue, so if he does indeed go there and Alexx is working, how come she never mentions having met him? Or him for that matter?
Not only are we to suspend belief with Ryan, we are supposed to do so with Natalia as well.
I didn't see too much dialogue with Natalia but someone from the lab (might be a guest star) interacts with her. She is "special agent" Boa Vista. Remember she worked with the FBI and it does stand to reason that since the "lab" is not formed until the end of the ep that any DNA they want to run for this case would have to be done by the FBI and their liason. Plus they would have access to the most up to date technology and the blood sample found is relatively small so the FBI would have the tech to run it. But again, if H or Cal interact with her we are again supposed to believe that none of the parties involved remember her
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Again, I could be wrong and this ep could rock the house but as more spoilers come out and I read them....I just find all this very very hard to believe. Not only that, it changes almost all aspects of the show. Characters having met in the past but not remembering each other. Everyone's backstory is twisted slightly. I mean wasn't said in Cal's bio that H hand picks her for his team? Well according the spoilers, the boss of the police station transfers Cal in to be a CSI there, not H.
I would find it more believable if Natalia and Ryan were completely left out of the flashbacks and we just see them in the present time working the continuation of the finale. There is oviously more going on with that b/c the spoilers were relatively short so time jumps back and forth between the past and present. I know the writers want to get ALL the characters in on the flashback but including two characters who you introduced from scratch is what, imo, is ruining this story. And that is not a dig at Nat or Ryan but adding them in the way they are is overkill. I think in this case the writers are trying
too hard to give all the characters screen time. I think most of us would understand if, in this case/episode that Ryan and Natalia were not seen as much. I hope this isn't a prelude to how the entire season is going to go!!
I also, hope and will be very very pissed if, when he wakes up, Eric has amnesia!! They way they are writing this flashback is cliched enough imo so to add that on top if it would just send me over the edge. The only thing I am happy about with Eric's condition is that the fragment is finally being addressed in that is it being removed. To have him go around for the rest of the show with that in his head would be too much of a liability for the writers b/c then how much could the guy do w/o fans saying: "should the fragment be affected by that? etc" So addressing it and having be removed is something I like. It also means that he can now move on from that period in his life. Again, the only thing I dread is amnesia. This show would be the second show on tv to do main character amnesia (Booth woke up in the season finale of Bones not knowing who Brennan was). Massive cliche and going in circles is all I have to say if indeed Eric wakes up and asks who the hell the people around him are.
Someone did say something interesting, on the other hand, that would kind of allow the writers to get away with this flashback ep. Eric's brain is in overdrive b/c of the operation, trauma and the fragment being removed. Think Wizard of Oz type of "dream" or "altered perception of reality." Again though, cliched and very Bones season finale like. And yet, a very big possibility so whoever (I refer to the poster on this site) came up with the scenario; kudos
It is very clever.
I pose some questions to you all now considering the above scenario; why would his brain conjure up or remember that particular case or year? I know it is a pivital point in his life; it is the case that makes him become a CSI but what does it have to do, if anything with what is going on in the present? That's another thing, this episode seems to me to be a little random. I mean if they want him to be "dreaming" while in the coma, why not make it more like a "Wizard of Oz" episode or, and simply b/c there are just soo many similarities, make it closer to what Bones's season finale was like?
Again, I could be totally wrong and way off the mark and just being plain cynical. The idea is a good one. It is just a little hard to swallow.
I told ya my post was gonna be a long one! :lol: I was on vacation so I couldn't post but I had plenty of time to think about it !! :lol:
P.S. Feel free to call me crazy
