Kay, if you haven't read Kristine's review of 'All Access' I'm thinking you should. She makes some really valid points about how CSI doesn't allow their strong female characters to have normal relationships or even normal experiences with men outside of the lab.

What do you think? Is CSI trying to put strong women in their place or are women being mistreated by men just good stories?

Again I gotta say that although I enjoyed some of the DL moments in the B case when one of the main characters is in jeapordy having a B case just takes away from the momentum. Now I'll give Kid Rock SOME kudos he did a hell of a better job at 'acting' than Travis Barker did on Vegas, his 'Hi-Def' was just horrendous...stick to drumming Travis...you're at least good at that.

Now for the episode. I absolutely LOVED Flack! I loved how sweet and gentle he was with Stella. How concerned and yet thorough. It was great to see that side of him instead of just the cranky sarcastic guy we usually get. His sweetness showed a bit last week with Danny but it was just amazing this week! He really is coming into his own that character...I wonder if that's a preview to...ehm I shall not inflict my spoilers.

I always love Danny of course. I just can't help it. (I watched RSRD again yesterday I love it when he's talking about the spray on panty hose and does the action! LOL Then when Stella explains he's like 'I love women.' and licks his lips...*sigh*) Anyway back to this episode. I really enjoy the maturity that has shown in his character. It only makes sense that over the course of the last two years he's gonna mature a little bit...I wouldn't think he'd keep his job otherwise...so it was nice to see him calm Lindsay down when she freaked in the interrogation room.

Speaking of Lindsay...can someone explain to me the huge amount of disdain for Lindsay/Anna that I have been noticing?? I mean believe me I get the inconsistancy with her character development (hating the nickname Montana and now loving it...are they sleeping together now? Does he call her that in bed and now she doesn't mind?) I also get the whole annoyance with trying to get people to like her character by thrusting (sorry poisonista I know how much you hate that word...lol) her next Danny in every episode like you are persuading us to like her by pimping her next to the franchises golden boy. But honestly the whole hating on Anna's acting and wanting Lindsay to die a slow and painful death?? Come on now people, it's TV get a friggin' grip. It's funny to me how the haters get annoyed when the supporters take their disdain pesonally, but then they seem to be over analyzing the show more than I do...and that's intense. Would I have liked Aiden to stay? Hell ya! Did I like her dynamic with Danny? Most definitely. But she's gone, she's coming back and will then be gone for good...so ease up on the new girl. Give her some breathing space people...frankly I like her for the most part. Yeah there are some scenes that are insanely wooden that I'd change...but I can't...it's TV...move on. And this is coming from someone who knows the character Danny Messer so well people say I live in his brain...lol

Back to the ep...Melina was fantastic...even though I'm not sure I totally buy Frankie's night and day transformation. However, I have heard that some of the scariest abusers are just that good...so it stands to reason that he could have been a closet psychopath the whole time...I mean what did we know about him except that he could sculpt and seem to persue Stella like a maniac? (okay so he may have been a maniac then...) The cold way he was setting up for dinner and the way he hit her...dragging her up stairs so her face hits them...holy shit! Her cutting herself to get free wigged me out...I actually almost changed the channel it was that affective. I'm a little 'eh' about the idiocy that Frankie had about not turning off the safety...but heck he was so cocky at that moment I can let it slide. It gave a thorough reason for her to shoot him because it was obvious he planned to kill her. Creepy. Her leaving at the end was great...I hope she took Mac up on his offer of getting her a hotel. That last shot of the blood spatter on that sculpture was just creepy...I loved it. Very artistic it worked for me.

The B case was a B case...the groupie killed the driver cause she didn't get a pass. Unfortunately there are creeps like that...and groupies dumb enough to do that...I've met some...totally sick. Again I liked it only for the DL interaction which is subtly working for me. If this is their subtle way of telling us that the two of them are closer than we know then I like it. We aren't been saturated with the soap opera aspect of it. They are acting normally at work which makes sense to me...much better than 'As the Lab Turns'. Speaking of acting normally at work, is it right that Danny is so composed with his brother either dead or still in a coma? Does he take meds to be that put together? And next week Stella is back at work...so uh...what Mac made it all go away? Or there is a time jump that we don't know about?

Either way all in all I liked the episode and am waiting with baited breath for the following ones...I honestly can't wait. So I'm done now...if you read this far...my kudos!

Honestly I don't think I've ever disliked an ep like I did last night. I mean 'Jamalot' was bad, but it at least was forensic, if even a bit farfetched.

So let me get this straight. Ehm...Natalia was sleeping with Delko, she said they should take a break yet seems to think they're still together, then blames it on him when he takes it at her word...uh huh. Wolfe wants to go out with Natalia (I have no idea why!) so he asks Delko for permission and then consequently asks him for money to fund the date that he is going on with Natalia who really only said yes cause she wants to spite Delko...whew...I'm sorry did we morph into high school? I thought we were CSI's...thus schooled...thus adults...it turns out I was wrong.

And does anyone else think that Marisol and Horatio are probably one of the more disgusting couples on tv?? Seriously...she looks like she could be his daughter for the love of god! And speaking of her looks she is too damn put together for someone going through a shite load of chemo at the end of a fight with cancer...she is the furthest from looking like dying that there could be...the continuity fairies seem to only be blessing New York it seems.

I went away from last night's ep, confused with the case, wishing I could have seen more of Calleigh wondering if Tripp talks to Brass (the 'felony stupid' line is from season 2 or 3 of Vegas) and over all disgusted with that ending bit.

Not that I had a lot of hope for Miami...but really how can it be number one watched anywhere?? I just don't get it.

Any thoughts??

Ok - someone please tell me I'm not the last person to notice this...

In the link (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/csi_ny/aresanob/) that Dream provided which shows the preview for next weeks show - did anyone else notice that the ending part is Bonasera spelled backwards?

Or am I just slow??

I figured I'd throw your question up here Holly...cause I'm smart like that...and procrastinating like a QUEEN!

I wonder if Mac is gonna have to hug Stella in this ep...cause you would think that if he's got the kind of emotional attachment to Danny that'd he'd be there for him he'd most definitely do the same for Stella.

All the DRAMA at the end of this season is gonna make ME want a vacation. LOL

Any other thoughts??

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Damnit...what's up with the Stella story and my WORD is Frankie just...gross! The Kid Rock thing...sweet! WOW Mac is gonna need a drink or twelve after this month...lol

Hey guys,

I almost feel bad putting a post up about 'Run Silent Run Deep' cause Elainhe can't watch it yet (I'll see if I can't hook you up with at least some clips hun...or a transcript of some kind, it's that worth it.) And Holly has to wait for Jim, whom she loves more than life itself apparently. LoL You guys are troupers.

Okay so I made sure that absolutely nobody was bugging me for that hour. It was kinda funny I had the whole house on high alert that speaking to me or speaking in general around the TV was forbidden for that hour. No exceptions...no grace...shut up. LOL They listened, which was really nice of the people who own the house and the TV... :P PS- in case any of you do NOT want spoilers stop reading now...no seriously hit the close button on your window and leave this...you can't do it can you? Don't say I didn't warn ya. ;)







You know if I wasn't a spoiler reader I would have been greatly surprised by how they re-introduced the 'Tanglewood' theme. I mean it was pretty criptic until Hammerback uncovered the Tanglewood tattoo on the guy who called in the body to Mac and then killed himself. The interesting thing that struck me right at the beginning was the fact that they played off Sonny mentioning Danny's name last year as nothing. Mac knows there's a connection but appears to not have followed up on it and just tells Danny to stay away from the case. I was pleasantly surprised...it seems that both characters have matured for the better. Danny didn't freak out and Mac didn't right away get acusitory. (PS- Danny's comment about buy his underwear in a three pack for ten bucks at the beginning there KILLED ME...lol)

Okay we all know I'm a DL shipper...if you don't then you haven't been paying attention at all. Krista sorta let me have that part of our brain hence the reason she doesn't ship at all. lol Shipping aside though I found it interesting how Lindsay played in this episode. She's the one who found Danny's DNA on that cigarette butt and called to tell him first which isn't necessarily something a keener would do...although she obviously has an affection for him so it makes sense and probably put her higher in his regard books. :) Then she's the one he looks at when he's being stripped (don't get dirty now folks, focus here ;) of his badge and gun which I found interesting. She's also the one who comes in to collect the evidence off Louie at the hospital and sounds quite genuinely concerned about him. I liked the fact that though they had her involved it was subtle and not over the top...she was very obviously not being the primary relationship focus, which was good.

The Mac/Danny dynamic...bloody brilliant! Honestly it really was. I loved the fact that there was DRAMA without the melodrama. They didn't drag out this petty distrust issue that they had last year. Danny didn't freak out when Mac said he was a murder suspect and I loved how he stepped up to the plate when Mac said it was on record and he said 'I don't need a boss right now I need a friend'...that was great. And Mac became that friend for him which just, yeah don't get me started...the explanation as to how his cigarette butt got into the grave was interesting and I sorta suspected that Louie was a Tanglewood boy, what I didn't expect was a flashback to fifteen years previous where Carmine looked hilarious...I got why they did it...but damn I couldn't stop laughing...the hat, the whole outfit...the fact that Louie called him a geek. It showed him as so awkward and made me believe the scientist part of him more. Since right now he looks like a player who got a good job...so I did like the flashback...but man funny!

I liked how Danny told the whole story to Mac, looking him right in the eye not wavering for a second. And the dramatic pause before Mac said 'I believe you' just cut into me...I was almost screaming at the screen 'Don't you dare say he's the killer Mac, don't you dare!!' Then the fervancy that Mac investigates was beautiful. He tackled that case with an obvious passion, he wanted to get one of his own in the clear and you could see that was his primary goal. The fact that Louie is really the one who did it at the end was a twist I didn't expect and throroughly enjoyed. The fact that Danny's older brother wanted to be sure he got his brother in the clear and risked his life to do it! I don't blame Danny for that speech to Louie at the end there. Even if I'm pissed at Carmine for making me cry. Wow, I mean honestly that man is friggin' talented, hot yes, but FRIGGIN' talented!! When he choked up at the end of his speech saying he loved his brother and then had to leave to get some air...it played right into how I expect him to be. He's emotional but doesn't embrace emotion without a fight. It wasn't until Mac actually said that it was Louie who put Danny in the clear that Danny broke down. And seriously if the tears weren't flowing before that they sure were when he started saying how bad Louie was beat. You could tell it was just slamming into him that his brother and done that for him. And after all the years of thinking his brother hated him that was probably an insane blow. (As a sidenote I find it interesting that Mac said Lindsay told him that Danny had heard the tape...what did she run over to the hospital with it? How involved is she? It just seemed an intersting addition...I liked the subtly...still a shipper I'm sorry. ;)

This is turning into a damn book so I'll shut up now. Oooh can't wait for next week with the whole Stella thing...looks like her man is posting their sex exploits on the net. And I do believe this is the first time we've every seen a CSI rolling around in bed with someone...and boy were they rolling...like really didn't they get dizzy?? And of course she was wearing a shirt that had to show her gills...the girls need to breathe after all.

Ehm I'll shut up now. :)

The things I do because of love...

He'd so better appreciate this...

I can't believe that I'm waiting a week to watch this episode...

Ok...I'm making my first official contribution. :D I want to thank Krista and Dream for letting me be a contributor and for creating this site...Okay, here we go...lol.

This is just my list of things that I would hope that would be resolved by the end of this season...my biggest hope is that none of the CSIs leave it with a cliffhanger.

CSI:New York
1. I would like to see what the Tanglewood boys and Danny know about each other. I know that this is going to be tackled in Run Silent, Run Deep and I am so totally psyched about that.

2. I would like some more background on Lindsay. She's this totally blank slate and they really haven't done anything with her. I mean we've found out that she's a capable CSI and can hold her own regardless of what's thrown at her, but really what do we know about her?

3. What is up with Stella? Did someone film her and Frankie being intimate? I've heard rumors of him meeting an untimely demise. If it's true, it'll be interesting to see the storyline coinside with Danny and the possible death of his brother.

On a side note, I have to agree with what Krista said in an earlier post. While she's not a Danny/Lindsay shipper, I am; but I do not like it that they seemed to have forced the contact issue. There were a couple of instances where their contact seemed forced and just thrown in. I'm glad that in the last episode or two there were good reasons or atleast understandable reasons for them to be having the conversations that they were having.

CSI: Miami
1. Who is the mole? I've had several theories and slowly I've been disecting them. I'm leaning strongly towards Valera for the simple reason that she got in trouble and then was suddenly allowed back in the lab. Did she make a deal with the ADA to keep her job? I was leaning towards the snake for a long time, but after the scene with her and Delko with the case about the abused woman, I find it hard to believe that they would make it that obvious.

2. Marisol. I have never known someone to be as supposedly sick with cancer to look as good as she does. Not that I'm trying to bring her character down, but a little realism would be nice for a woman in her supposed condition. But my main resolution would be I want to know what's going to happen to her -- the rumors are that she meets an untimely end but it has nothing to do with the cancer. And she gets married to Horatio! Hello - how come no one on these shows can find love...

3. Delko. Please oh please get him away from the snake. 'Nough said -- but don't you dare kill him off. I don't think the show could handle the loss of Speed and then Delko.

CSI: Las Vegas

1. What is going on with Warrick and his wife? I mean first you hear that everything's hunky dory, then you see him have a discussion with his wife about schedules and in the last episode they are still having issues.

2. Doesn't Nick have any after issues after being buried alive? I mean he had that Cassie episode, the episode where the bomber's daughter killed herself, and where he hesitated about going underground for the cult episode -- but other than that I haven't noticed any after effects of being buried alive.

3. The last four episodes seem like they are going rock. Can't wait to see them. I love the hint that cbs.com has on the website - but for the life of me I can't figure out what the clues are.

Ok - I think I've rambled enough for tonight....

Just over 24 hours until Run Silent, Run Deep

I just watched the 'Run Silent, Run Deep' Promo. I'm freaking out. There's no way this episode is not gonna have me in tears.

Someone hold me... :P

So, I'm gonna start off this amazing, one of a kind blogging experience with my personal favorite of the CSI trio: NY. Why is it my personal favorite? I guess I feel invested in the characters somehow. I have the most to say about this series, at any rate.

Here goes:

I've decided I like it when Gary Sinise produces NY episodes. The bone I've been picking all season is that the story lines have seemed so...shallow of late. Weird deaths with nothing to make me empathize with victim or killer. The crimes have seemed so impersonal and irrelavent.

The past two episodes have made up for that, in my humble opinion, and the only thing that seems to have been different is that Mr. Sinise has produced both eps. So, kudos to him. Perhaps I will keep a running tab of kudos and see who comes out on top... :P

My other beef has been that I've felt somewhat patronized to of late. Maybe it's because I know what's going on in the fangirl world re: Danny and Lindsey's characters that I've reacted so strongly, but here's my thing:

1. I admit that I'm not a Danny/Lindsey shipper. I'm not really a shipper, period. I don't watch ER mainly for that reason and I've resented that CSI:NY has shown inklings of sliding down that slippery slope.
2. If you're gonna pander to the fangirls rabid desire to see Danny get some action from one of the canon characters, DON'T FORCE IT! Their first few 'encounters' were so contrived and ridiculous that it made me angry.

Okay, having said that, the past two episodes have made up for the contrivedness. Danny and Lindsey's run-ins with each other have seemed more natural. I have a big heart. I will forgive. And, if they continue with the flirting and innuendos without forcing me to watch the outcomes on screen, I will remain a happy girl.

Not that I don't want to see Danny get some action. Let's not put the cart in front of the horse here, I'm as attracted to the guy as the next girl. However, my attraction isn't so much about what's under the clothes as it is what's under the thinly veiled venir of the character of Danny Messer. He's intense. He's needy. He's reactive. He's got a definite 'bad boy'edness about him. He makes me want to be the one to fix him. It's good stuff.

Mr. Giovinazzo is a pro at playing Danny's character, let's be honest. He's so wicked good at the non-verbal communication it can be painful. Take 'On the Job' for instance: Never have I wanted to mother a complete stranger so bad in my life. All from a look. Terrible.

Maybe this is why I haven't completely warmed up to Lindsey yet. She just doesn't have that same force of character that Danny does. Aiden had it, Lindsey...not so much. I'm gonna need backstory or an honestly vulnerable moment or something.

Dream tells me the promo for 'Run Silent, Run Deep' shows Danny crying while hugging Mac. Come on now. How wicked awesome is that?? I. Love. Character development! I've already decided that this episode is destined to be my favorite. I can't wait!!!

A home for our unique ramblings about CSI! I know what you're thinking...why in the world do we need yet another place to blather on about CSI? Is it really all we ever talk or think about? Hardly. We do have lives outside of these shows, believe it or not.

But we're writers. We need an outlet for our thoughts. We had one...it was attached to an e-mail address, but, alas and alack, that brief stint of fun seems to have run its course. Besides which, on this particular blog, we can talk about whatever we want. Our last outlet, for obvious reasons, needed to be focused on a particular character.

So on with the show!