LiquidCrystal said:
However, if you are suggesting that Lindsay is the sole factor for the slightly higher than last season ratings, well first I would chuckle softly to myself knowing that in television and with ratings it is never that simple, then I would say that NY’s ratings have been higher since the beginning of the season, the first episode in fact which was pleasantly Lindsay free, and there was no abrupt spike with Lindsay’s arrival.
I never said Lindsay was the sole factor. She's more like a "dummy variable" in the equatian, though I will say she doesn't have a negative coefficient to that ratings equatian, which in the end may or may not have a high degree of correlation. Oh friggin' hey, now I'm talking stats. Someone please stop me before I hurt myself. :lol: I sound like a text book. Wasn't I supposted to stop being an Educated Idiot??? I
AGREE she needs some character development. Take or leave it the Myers-Briggs thing was a joke, sheesh.
Top, I donno if "shrill" works for me, maybe a little desparate? Shrill suggests some sort of intensity, to me at least.
Dummy variable, descriptive, correlation coefficients, inferential, regression equations, so on and so forth, my point was Lindsay’s presence is insignificant on the ratings, for better or for worse, however I care not a bit because quality is my concern and she is not quality, she is vapid, moronic, shrill (yes, shrill), as in austere, inhospitable, callous, piercing, and basically an unnecessary addition to the cast.
Your caps lock got stuck again, remember when that happened in the Aiden or Lindsay thread, but this time a bolding and underlining of the letters was thrown into the mix, almost as if you had stated in your earlier post that Lindsay needed character development, which by the way you did not, perhaps you meant to do so and forgot. However, nice to see that you think she needs some character development, I would take it a bit farther and say she needs character period.
I am, however, willing to consider what
Top said, that a better actress may have proved better at creating a likeable character, but then I step back and say that might make Lindsay harmless, but it still wouldn’t fix the writing problem. The problem is absolutely at least two-fold, acting and writing, but the acting is probably the greater of the two. The two have combined and made for wasted scenes, space during an episode where we could have continued to know Flack or Hawkes better, a moment where a dead body could have continued to be a dead body, anything, everything, anybody, and everybody.
Oh, *hit forehead with hand* the Myers-Briggs thing was a joke, as opposed to my statement that fictional character should take a test in order to facilitate a career change, I see now, thanks for the clarification, surely I would have been lost without that necessary clarification.
I think it is interesting that quite a few people liked Lindsay and now do not, the reasons in all your posts are compelling and add a new dimension to the problems with the Lindsay’s presence and Anna’s performance on the show. She has always been a self-satisfied, over-eager, ass kissing, know-it-all to me, since then she has upped the ante by showcasing rudeness and pathetic attempts to secure Danny’s attentions, but through it all Anna has failed to deliver and it is getting worse not better, the acting has steadily deteriorated from inoffensive to painful.
Ali
