I felt it was finally time to add my two cents to this long-dead, now recently-revived thread.
I'm unable to watch CSI:NY due to it coming on when I work on Friday nights but have followed it from afar. It has made me very upset, that there has never been a single mention of Stella, except brief mentions by Lindsay, who Stella was least close to, through the entire time since she left for N.O.
As much as I actually have come to like Sela Ward on this show, the fact that there has been virtually no acknowledgement of Stella's presence on the show, the lack of any mention by Mac, whom she was very close to, nor does anyone seem to miss her, has left a perpetual wound on my heart. I mean, Stella was there for Mac numerous times, not to mention him saying he couldn't do his job without her. Many, including Jo fans, have said they would love to have a scene with Mac talking to Stella on the phone, or even Mac mentioning talking to Stella on the phone about some case she dealt with in N.O.
Yet as of the middle of Season 9, it's like he pretends she doesn't exist or existed at all, the same goes with the other characters. Not that I expected a lot of mentions of Stella, especially not in every episode by any stretch of the imagination but almost every other show I've watched where characters left, they still mention him/her and acknowledging the mark he/she left with the team or died. Catherine Willows is an example. Same for the late Warrick Brown.
That has not happened at all on CSI:NY. The fact that Mac seems to not even remotely miss Stella, as a partner or a friend, not even any mention during the 9/11 episode, just leaves a nasty and unpleasant odor with me.
I really, really loved Stella, still do, and while I thought season 6 was the weakest with MK on the show, at the time, I thought it was just an ebb-phase and that they'd give her better material next time. Then the unthinkable happened on 7-12-10.
Now, I will say that I've done my best, to separate Sela Ward from how I endure MK's sudden departure and I try to be careful about walking the thin line between Jo now on the show, and the leftover sadness of Stella's absence. I can't say all of the Stella/MK fans have been successful at this. But anyway, SW is for a separate thread.
I really wished MK would've let us know what she is up to. As of this writing, I've seen nothing of MK except for a movie called Snitch which comes out next year.
All of this, and the fact that neither MK nor Stella seem to get any mentions by the cast and/or crew upsets me sometimes to the point that I actually, deliberately tried to let this thread sink into the abyss, in the sense of suppressing the whole MK/Stella topic. I do want to thank whoever revived the thread though.
Many MK sites, including some that I shared with this forum, have sadly closed completely, and the number of clubs have dwindled considerably. Are there any MK sites left anymore? The only one I know is on Fanpop.
http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/melina-kanakaredes
This, from my knowledge, is the only surviving MK site I know of.