^ I'd rather watch flies swarm around a dead squirrel carcass on a 105 degree day than watch Anna portray Lindsay for even one more episode, because the latter is the bigger stomach turner, not to mention inhumane.
The fact is the show doesn't and didn't need a new addition and a large cast is a detriment to the show Zuiker intended to create with NY. NY was going to be the character driven show and I'm guessing he meant that more along the lines of a Homicide and less along the lines of Dallas. The show needs an intimacy to allow the viewer a chance to make it feel like we are discovering the characters along with solving the crimes. The problem is not many people want to discover Lindsay, not enough people care whether she reports for duty come September, and her deep dark bloody secret is both cliché and counter-productive especially in the face of an incredibly weak season of NY. I mean at this point you could tell me that Lindsay was John Wayne Gacy and Aileen Wuornos's love child and her grandfathers are Charles Manson and Ted Bundy and she helped bury bodies in the basement for her science fair project and I sadly would be neither surprised, because this is the cheap crap I've come to expect from NY, nor interested because the voice work for Pebbles and Bam Bam on the Flintstones is more compelling and worthy than almost everything Anna gave all season long.
Am I being harsh, probably, yes definitely, but as a viewer I feel I've earned that right, it is my viewership that lets Tide try to sell me yet another product with bleach added to the detergent so maybe it is time for TPTB to sit down and listen for a change. The dogged arrogance you portrayed this season with your single-minded Danny/Lindsay agenda didn't win you any new fans or kudos, but it sure lost you some and pissed many people off.
Now maybe I'll regret typing this when the sun rises tomorrow, but here goes my supreme sacrifice in the name of saving NY. I love Danny and I love Carmine's portrayal, I think Danny is by far the most complex and compelling character on the show thus far and I'm willing to concede that may be a development issue, but I don't believe that entirely, but I digress, what I'm saying is I want less Danny if he's going to be saddled with Lindsay. The chemistry is non-existent and frankly, they aren't worth watching together because all that registers is Carmine's boredom, I waited all season for him to break out in a yawn mid-scene. I hate seeing Carmine so muted, reduced to an almost static state just because Anna's performances are soul sucking and talent reducing. I think it is fair to say that to an extent Carmine is the show’s goose and there was a time when his eggs were golden then came Anna and the eggs are now hollow gold-plated replicas. All that an she takes away from the rest of the casts screen time, we have truly arrived at a sad sad moment in the history of the CSI franchise, because with every false move Anna made this season NY came one step closer to proving William Peterson right – the franchise is diluted, spread around, spread thin, but highly ineffective and so unworthy.
To put it succinctly Anna/Lindsay must go.
Ali
The fact is the show doesn't and didn't need a new addition and a large cast is a detriment to the show Zuiker intended to create with NY. NY was going to be the character driven show and I'm guessing he meant that more along the lines of a Homicide and less along the lines of Dallas. The show needs an intimacy to allow the viewer a chance to make it feel like we are discovering the characters along with solving the crimes. The problem is not many people want to discover Lindsay, not enough people care whether she reports for duty come September, and her deep dark bloody secret is both cliché and counter-productive especially in the face of an incredibly weak season of NY. I mean at this point you could tell me that Lindsay was John Wayne Gacy and Aileen Wuornos's love child and her grandfathers are Charles Manson and Ted Bundy and she helped bury bodies in the basement for her science fair project and I sadly would be neither surprised, because this is the cheap crap I've come to expect from NY, nor interested because the voice work for Pebbles and Bam Bam on the Flintstones is more compelling and worthy than almost everything Anna gave all season long.
Am I being harsh, probably, yes definitely, but as a viewer I feel I've earned that right, it is my viewership that lets Tide try to sell me yet another product with bleach added to the detergent so maybe it is time for TPTB to sit down and listen for a change. The dogged arrogance you portrayed this season with your single-minded Danny/Lindsay agenda didn't win you any new fans or kudos, but it sure lost you some and pissed many people off.
Now maybe I'll regret typing this when the sun rises tomorrow, but here goes my supreme sacrifice in the name of saving NY. I love Danny and I love Carmine's portrayal, I think Danny is by far the most complex and compelling character on the show thus far and I'm willing to concede that may be a development issue, but I don't believe that entirely, but I digress, what I'm saying is I want less Danny if he's going to be saddled with Lindsay. The chemistry is non-existent and frankly, they aren't worth watching together because all that registers is Carmine's boredom, I waited all season for him to break out in a yawn mid-scene. I hate seeing Carmine so muted, reduced to an almost static state just because Anna's performances are soul sucking and talent reducing. I think it is fair to say that to an extent Carmine is the show’s goose and there was a time when his eggs were golden then came Anna and the eggs are now hollow gold-plated replicas. All that an she takes away from the rest of the casts screen time, we have truly arrived at a sad sad moment in the history of the CSI franchise, because with every false move Anna made this season NY came one step closer to proving William Peterson right – the franchise is diluted, spread around, spread thin, but highly ineffective and so unworthy.
To put it succinctly Anna/Lindsay must go.
Ali
