Heya, my dear Stellarinas, hope you´re all fine 
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I think it´s this artificial aura of Hollywood that makes actors/actresses go to extremes, they see these plastic people walking on the streets every day and maybe they feel that if they don´t catch up with them and their looks, they will be out of date, out of the business, it´s like a competition.
And the film bosses and industry take advantage from that, they create their puppets on the string. Meryl Streep, and recently Julia Roberts confirmed that from the age of 40+ it´s getting more difficult to get good roles for good films. But unlike weaker characters they just take it as it is, but would never betray themselves and their ages to please the producers.
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You´re right, if it had been someone else using the improvised mini-lab, the notorious complainers might have not complained; it´s just that it was Stella and Mac and the preoccupations some people had about this episode.
But it´s a show with so many different things and stories happening, there´s enough episodes that made me cringe in the past, but I keep my mouth shut and won´t complain, because tastes are so different. What I like may be disliked by someone else and vice versa. Live and let live, that´s what I keep saying. I can live with the D/L-story, some scenes were even good, though I´m not a fan of it, but so what, because there´s compensation for it in other stories.
Oh yeah, I saw that you couldn´t resist to reply to some silly comments recently. Save your nerves and health and just ignore them :thumbsup:.
I so wish you and all the others are right with the Lindsay-theory; it sounds too good to be true that´s why I`ll remain sceptical about it until I will know 100% for sure: Stella will stay!!!!! Of course she is unique and I feel TPTB love this character very much, too, considering how many good and special stories they´ve written for her and I still have Lenkov´s words in my mind, saying they have many plans for Stella, but.......if it´s all about Budget cuts, then I don´t trust anybody´s words.
It would be nice if the new girl Kaye could develop a friendship with Stella and surely Stella will be helpful and caring in the beginning when Kaye starts her work at the CSI, we know our big sis Stell. I agree with you that Aiden and Stella had a great chemistry, something that never happened between Lindsay and Stella, though there have been situations in S3 and in S5 where Lindsay confided in Stella and I always thought: OK, from now on they´ll be close friends, but then there was the same distance as before in Lindsay.
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, so I can´t wait for a leak concerning S6-beginning :lol:.
So all my best wishes for your writing contest, you´ll shine there, I´m sure :thumbsup:. And many congrats on having passed the exams. Love and hugs to you
Oooh, and thanks for the pics, especially the one from "RND", how suitable, because tomorrow they´ll repeat this episode over here, yeeeah:drool:. (udonna, don´t forget ).
Love and hugs to you all
.Dearest Ghawazee, I don´t think this Hollywood insanity will ever stop, despite shining examples of natural, great and great looking, non-plastic-surgery-used actresses being 40+ like the ones you´ve mentioned, I want to add Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett to this list. I don´t know if it´s also a matter of character- all these listed women seem to be strong and self-confident characters who feel happy with and inside their bodies. If someone, a producer or director would tell them: "your nose is too big or your forehead is too wrinkled", they would tell him to f... off. But weaker persons, even men would feel hurt by such comments and would be scared to not get good roles anymore if they don´t follow the trend and get all sorts of plastic surgery done. And it doesn´t need extreme examples: I was shocked to hear that Nicole Kidman is using Botox, too, somehow I´d always thought she´d be self-confident enough to allow her forehead to frownMy dearest Andromeda:
I really thought the insanity in Hollywood had been over since many actresses over 40 are starring popular shows (Melina,Lisa,Mariska, Glenn Close and Sally Field are some of them). Seriously i can't believe they could ever consider the idea. What do they want? A girl at the age of Ashley Simpson starring a show?:wtf: Meanwhile i don't have a problem with people who like them it's not the thing i would like to watch on television. Even years ago, my fav were "mature" artist and many people do like them too. So i don't know if it is a thing requested by the audience or this obssesion for young people comes from by the Networks???
.I think it´s this artificial aura of Hollywood that makes actors/actresses go to extremes, they see these plastic people walking on the streets every day and maybe they feel that if they don´t catch up with them and their looks, they will be out of date, out of the business, it´s like a competition.
And the film bosses and industry take advantage from that, they create their puppets on the string. Meryl Streep, and recently Julia Roberts confirmed that from the age of 40+ it´s getting more difficult to get good roles for good films. But unlike weaker characters they just take it as it is, but would never betray themselves and their ages to please the producers.
I dunno, but Mac isn´t such an out-going guy who loves to show a lot of emotions, so even if it´s changing slowly from friendship to a romance, I think we´ll only know it in a way that perhaps the two will hug each other a bit more often and not only in extreme situations of life and death
.Yes, Melina did her best to cram everything important in this episode, more was just not possible and so it´s needless to complain about the lack of small details or explanations (like why Mac could run around in Greece with his gun; certainly there a rules for a detective to be allowed carrying his gun in a foreign country, but why explain this and waste precious moments of the show time?)After seeing Melina's and Gary's movies believe me i would LOVE to have just one movie with them *sigh* But you are absolutely right. No way to have a whole script without editing and without taking out some scenes. But if you ask me, 5.24 had all scenes that episode needed to have. No more, no less. Just like that, it was perfect:thumbsup: And Didn't Danny call Stella "Mrs MacGyver?" I think he did in "Trapped". I remember pretty well because it was the last episode where i really enjoyed old Danny and i think it was the first episode written by Mr Lenkov:bolian: It was very interesting then how Danny manage to get fingerprints following Stella's advices. So for me the mini lab in Greece was totally in character for Mac and Stella considering they are the senior CSIs in the lab. But i guess that scene woouldn't have been critized if it was Danny who had made it
I wish i had followed this advice:lol: well, since you wrote this, i have thought i was ONCE one of those narrowed minds fans who dimissed a storyline even before watching it. Of course those storylines were related to DL. However in my defense i can affirm i changed my mind and i have watched ALL episodes from S5. And also i have enjoyed those episodes i thought they were going to be a nightmare for me. I can't say i am pleased and i have become a fan of that pairing because that would be a lie. But i am more tolerant now than when the baby storyline was revealed. At the beginning of S5 i thought Smacked was never going to happen just because DL was going to have their happy ending with baby included
You´re right, if it had been someone else using the improvised mini-lab, the notorious complainers might have not complained; it´s just that it was Stella and Mac and the preoccupations some people had about this episode.
But it´s a show with so many different things and stories happening, there´s enough episodes that made me cringe in the past, but I keep my mouth shut and won´t complain, because tastes are so different. What I like may be disliked by someone else and vice versa. Live and let live, that´s what I keep saying. I can live with the D/L-story, some scenes were even good, though I´m not a fan of it, but so what, because there´s compensation for it in other stories.
Oh yeah, I saw that you couldn´t resist to reply to some silly comments recently
. Save your nerves and health and just ignore them :thumbsup:.I so wish you and all the others are right with the Lindsay-theory; it sounds too good to be true that´s why I`ll remain sceptical about it until I will know 100% for sure: Stella will stay!!!!! Of course she is unique and I feel TPTB love this character very much, too, considering how many good and special stories they´ve written for her and I still have Lenkov´s words in my mind, saying they have many plans for Stella, but.......if it´s all about Budget cuts, then I don´t trust anybody´s words.
It would be nice if the new girl Kaye could develop a friendship with Stella and surely Stella will be helpful and caring in the beginning when Kaye starts her work at the CSI, we know our big sis Stell
. I agree with you that Aiden and Stella had a great chemistry, something that never happened between Lindsay and Stella, though there have been situations in S3 and in S5 where Lindsay confided in Stella and I always thought: OK, from now on they´ll be close friends, but then there was the same distance as before in Lindsay.Agree, if Mindy won´t come back then hopefully this Kaye chick will be a good friend for Stella, someone she can trust and confide in, she´s such a good person, she´d deserve someone who´s good to her, too (OK, OK, you´ll say she´s got Mac, and in a way that´s trueAwwwwwwwww I WOULD LOVE to have Mindy back. You know i would. See? That's what i am telling you: Stella neds a girl friend. If it is not Mindy i want Kaye Sullivan. Stella needs to talk about men with someone. And if Mindy cannot be there then the best choise is the new chick
).I love and I loathe spoilers, it´s a love-hate-affair, but I can´t resist them
, so I can´t wait for a leak concerning S6-beginning :lol:.So all my best wishes for your writing contest, you´ll shine there, I´m sure :thumbsup:. And many congrats on having passed the exams
. Love and hugs to you Oooh, and thanks for the pics, especially the one from "RND", how suitable, because tomorrow they´ll repeat this episode over here, yeeeah
:drool:. (udonna, don´t forget ).Love and hugs to you all
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