For the most part, i agree with what i've read on these posts. Lindsay is a completely unbelieveable character, and that makes it hard for anyone to watch her share a scene with dynamic characters like Stella, Flack, or Hawkes. Not to mention how she's ended up butchering every scene with Danny since she's been on the show. I think that can be chalked up to the fact that the two of them, whether it be themselves as actors or simply their characters, have no chemistry whatsoever. The only time i remotely liked them interacting was when Lindsay brought the DNA results to Danny in RSRD, and even that was a brief shining moment among hundreds of bad ones.
What really annoys me though is that the writers can tell that the scenes are awkward and forced, yet they continue on with it, one week throwing Danny at Lindsay with his hallucinations of her walking by in the crime lab, and the next with Lindsay flirting and throwing herself on him. The fact is, Lindsay is a very inconsistent character. At first, she's this tough kid from Montana making it in the big city. Ok, that was believable, and the writers could have run with that angle and made the character likeable. She turned from being the tough country girl to being the teachers pet, popping up everywhere to get Mac's attention and trying to please him, flirting over Danny. Then she went to being this whiny child, whining that Mac was sending her back to the lab so she couldn't process a scene with murdered teenagers. Then, all of a sudden, her deep dark past out of nowhere starts giving her hallucinations back to when she witnessed her friends being killed and she can't do her job, even though she had begged to process a crime scene where teens were slaughtered earlier. This to me is more the fault of the writers than the actress, though im not saying that Anna Belknap is totally off the hook. While the writing is terrible for her character, Belknap seems to not even run with the good scenes she has, putting little emotion or passion into her scenes, or at least, not enough to stand out against the others. I;ve never seen Anna Belknap in any other tv shows, and i really didnt even know who she was before she came on CSI:NY, so i dont know if this is normal or just some terribly written role that she can't run with. Either way, it makes the show painful to watch, and leaves me wondering whether or not the show will ever get back to details that are killing me and demand more attention....like Stella's HIV situation, Danny's brother Louie (who we've heard nothing about, is he alive or not???), and even the Mac/Peyton romance storyline. While i much more prefer Mac with Stella, Claire Forlani and Gary Sinise at least have decent chemistry, and their relationship isn't being force fed to us like the DL 'ship...so watching it isn't the equivalent of hearing nails scratching on a blackboard.
