PerfectAnomaly said:
I remember seeing an interview with Hill Harper at either the end of S1 or beginning of S2. He said the reason they moved Hawkes out of the morgue was fan reaction to the character. Fans wanted to see more of Hawkes. We've seen glimpses of Hawkes and his back story, but that's not enough. In S3 Hawkes has basically been MIA. We see him here and there working on a case, in the lab, etc., but we saw more of him when he was an ME than we do now. The one episode that should have shed more light on Hawkes and been a vehicle for Hill Harper was ruined by the inexplicable decision to pimp Carmine Giovinazzo as a fangirl pin-up boy. All of the commentaries about Hill Harper on the S1&2 DVDs are directors and writers praising what a talent Hill Harper is. How about TPTB actually use some of S4 to showcase that talent and make good on their decision to make Hawkes a CSI so fans can see more of him.
Amen! If he's so great (and he really is!), why isn't he being utilized more?