Faylinn said:
I believe it was only three episodes (3.15-3.17?), but my viewing experience was much improved during that time. She wasn't going to pop up, and seeing the non-reaction from the other characters to her absence was telling IMO. I don't watch Vegas very closely, but I believe when Grissom left for a few episodes, his absence was important to the plot of the episodes he was not in. When Lindsay was gone, it was like she may as well have fallen off the face of the earth.
Same here. Those episodes are some of, if not
the best proof that Lindsay is expendable and, well, useless as a main character. Even as a recurring (which TPTB
did originally plan to make her), she won't have much to keep her around apart from being the Llama in the Drama Llama. So if my suspicion that TPTB is separating Danny and Lindsay and distancing her from him in order to stop using Danny as a prop, season five may be the make-or-break season for Lindsay.
Either that or she's hoisted onto the rest of the cast so they become her new props instead, with the difference that the Prop Job may now be spread out to everyone.
Gah.
miss_bolshoi_bz:
The romance between her and Danny is so forced and stiff,with the passion of p##.
That made me :lol: big time. The Passion of Pee!
The storyilne between them is just beyond ridiculuous.But what makes it worse is her acting.
Yeah, that's one of the biggest gripes people have about her. The emotion never reaches her eyes, and half the time not even in her voice. Pretty damn difficult to figure out what she's emoting, unless you look to other actors in the scene for cues and play the guessing game. (And then there are those who simply don't care whether she can emote or not because she's only useful as a proxy for their fantasies, but that's a whole other discussion.) Why else was she lobbed onto the most popular and emotionally expressive character?
If her acting was much better and she actually put in effort, things might be different. As it is, yeah ... the phrase 'dead fish eyes' comes to mind.
privatename said:
I do wonder if they had just left her the way she was in Season 2 and not tried to give her a lot of drama (e.g. the deep dark secret and a rocky relationship), if I would be as annoyed by her presence as I am because where she really falls short is in the scenes where she needs to express emotion.
I think TPTB came up with all that drama for the very sake of getting Lindsay into the limelight in the hopes it would generate interest from the audience for her character. Without that drama, would we even have taken notice of her? She's never been able to stand out even though she's from Montana and all that, hence the writers coming up with drama for her to 'force' the audience to know more about her. Seeing as the WLMG thread is going strong as ever after three seasons of her being on the show, TPTB's failed to endear her to viewers.
(Hah, don't even get me going on how desperately they're pimping Lindsay where I am right now. They're resorting to giving free prizes, with the catch that you have to, I kid you not, '
listen to what Detective Lindsay Monroe has to say about the show'. :guffaw: :guffaw: :guffaw: It's so sad you wanna send TPTB pity checks or something.)