^The scene in "Snow Day" is a perfect example of her self-centeredness. Maybe it wouldn't have made sense for her to ask Danny if he was okay when he obviously wasn't, but some reassuring words like "You're safe now" or "I've got you, let's get you some medical attention" would have gone a long way to show how concerned she was about him. Instead, she makes it all about her and starts whining about it being her fault, which kind of forces him to reassure her. Which, interestingly, he didn't.
Anyway, yeah, I agree, the character's "me, me, me!" attitude is really off-putting. I don't see how the writers can think that's "cute" or "sweet" behavior. It doesn't help those of us who are trying to like her at all.
And yeah, I gotta say, the less Lindsay the better. She's not been around much for the eps this season and it's really helped. And those three eps she was gone for last year might not have been the best-written ones of the season, but they were strengthened by her absence.
And I think an episode like "Snow Day" really shows how little her character actually matters to the show as a whole. Everyone but her really had an essential part to play.
Rad said:
An excerpt from Carmine's interview back in June.
CSI Files: Danny does find himself in those kinds of situations quite a bit; he's kind of the 'damsel in distress' on the show. He gets locked in panic room, he gets taken hostage, the Tanglewood Boys are after him and so on. Why do you think Danny so often finds himself in danger?
Giovinazzo: I think that was the character we wanted to create. I think it's both that and what I came in and did with this character. I think it's that combination. Like I said from the beginning, Anthony wanted me to be this kind of [guy]--it wasn't exactly this, but the idea was he's that guy. Everybody else was a little bit more calm. So I ran with that in the beginning and wanted to create a character that has this kind of temperature. So the writers sat back and went, "So this is who this sucker is, so this is where he'd probably go." I think that's why it happened.
Tho' the writers have an idea of what they want the character to be like, its ultimately upto the actor to portray it believably. Anna, somehow, IMO, never managed to pull it off.
Exactly. Carmine hasn't been given such great stuff to work with because the writers were like, "Oh, let's make Danny a cool character." They think that about all of their characters. But Carmine is so good that people have written episodes for him because of what he does with Danny. "Trapped" was born out of the character's popularity.
Though I agree she was given a crappy storyline, its still partly up to her what she does with her character. One important aspect of acting is the actor's ability to generate empathy or sympathy for their character. But even tho' Lindsay had a really bad experience in her childhood, I was never able to empathize or even sympathize with her. That is b'cos of the way she played it, IMO.
Exactly. And I felt like that storyline was rushed not because of Anna's pregnancy but because of how poorly she played it. Even late in season two she was sucking wind out of scenes with her "emoting." The storyline would have played out better if she'd been a better actress.
However, her personality does not strike me as "cute" or "sweet". She comes across as an arrogant show-off. And I can't figure out why my interpretation of the character is so different from that of her fans, or which one the writers intended.
