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bedlamsbard) wrote2007-10-04 04:45 pm
bedlamsbard) wrote2007-10-04 04:45 pm
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this is like kicking a puppy, and I feel bad
I feel kind of bad about saying this, but CSI:NY didn't impress me very much last night. Nothing in specific, but I've been loosing interest lately; I'm a lot more interested in my other shows.
One thing that's been annoying me is the fact all my other shows with kickass season finales -- The Unit, Numb3rs, Bones, Criminal Minds, Cold Case -- have been following that up well into the next season, or at least the premiere, and CSI:NY isn't doing so. I know CSI:NY has a thing about continuity, but compared to everything else on the air? It's like they've wiped the slate clean, pretty much, and it's bothering me, especially when I stack it up against my other shows. I mean, some of them have dubious continuity as well -- hello, The Unit, there was that big subplot in S1 that hasn't been touched on since -- but at least they try, and their season finales had seriously big repercussions, just like CSI:NY should have had. We need one throwaway line, that's all. Is that so hard? Danny's hand, the lab blowing up, Adam's torture, hell, the passage of time -- we didn't get any of that, and we should have at least got a ref. It's been two episodes already, and nothing.
This season isn't unique, either. They did the same thing with the S2 finale and the S3 premiere, but at least we got a throwaway line there; here we've got nothing, no follow-up at all. CSI:NY seems like it's caught in this weird continuum of changing things without any explanation at all (or the barest explanation possible), and pretending nothing ever happened. And it's been getting on my nerves low-level for a while now, and now I'm watching a ton more shows than I did last year, and stacking it up against all of those? It's got nothing.
I mean, look at the others (all CBS except for Bones). Cold Case: Lilly got shot, she's having flashbacks; Danny's in big trouble for breaking protocol to rescue the building. Criminal Minds: Gideon's having trouble dealing with Sarah's death, he leaves the FBI; Hotch is screwed over by Strauss and so is Emily -- set up in the finale, by the way -- and previous bad incidents are reffed. Bones: Zack comes back from Iraq, Brennan's father is in jail, Angela and Hodgins are still marvelously in love but are searching for Angela's husband, the fact that Booth and Brennan were left standing at the altar is reffed. Numb3rs: Colby is arrested for treason despite two seasons of evidence to the contrary and it turns out to be a trick, Larry's still at a monastery, Megan's still screwed up from her stint at the DoJ, everyone's screwed up because of Colby's percieved betrayal. The Unit: big damn season finale, big damn two-part season premiere with stuff that's a holdover from previous bits in S2. SO MUCH LOVE. *cough* Or in other words, CROSS-SEASON CONTINUITY (except for that one bit from S1, but I trust this show so much that I'm positive they'll come back to it, especially with how certain things are turning out).
Except for The Unit, which is big damn military action/drama, they're all crime shows, which shows that it's not just a crime show thing, and except for Bones, they're all CBS, which shows that it's not just a CBS thing, and I know at least one of them is Jerry Bruckheimer, so it's not just a Jerry Bruckheimer thing, and I know that CSI Mothership at least had a big damn finale and a big damn premiere, so I know it's not just a CSI thing, so what the hell is CSI:NY's problem anyways?
I mentioned before that I felt really bad about saying all this, right? Yes. I feel really bad about saying all this since CSI:NY's been my baby for three years now (it's my high school show! it was myfirst second LJ fandom!), but it's seriously pissing me off. And I'm mid-fandom jump anyway -- I swear to God I'll finish the Snafu rewrite, by the way -- but even if I wasn't I'd be leaning away from it. I was leaning away from it before I got into Star Wars. I mean, it's not like I'm feeling much of an urge to fic any of my other shows, but I'd much rather watch my other shows than CSI:NY at this point. Especially when it comes on after Criminal Minds, which is pretty damn awesome.
Shows I watch: Cold Case, K-Ville, Bones, The Unit, Criminal Minds, CSI:NY, Moonlight, Numb3rs, Supernatural, and Eureka. I would watch NCIS, House, and Two and a Half Men, but they're on at the same time as various other shows.
One thing that's been annoying me is the fact all my other shows with kickass season finales -- The Unit, Numb3rs, Bones, Criminal Minds, Cold Case -- have been following that up well into the next season, or at least the premiere, and CSI:NY isn't doing so. I know CSI:NY has a thing about continuity, but compared to everything else on the air? It's like they've wiped the slate clean, pretty much, and it's bothering me, especially when I stack it up against my other shows. I mean, some of them have dubious continuity as well -- hello, The Unit, there was that big subplot in S1 that hasn't been touched on since -- but at least they try, and their season finales had seriously big repercussions, just like CSI:NY should have had. We need one throwaway line, that's all. Is that so hard? Danny's hand, the lab blowing up, Adam's torture, hell, the passage of time -- we didn't get any of that, and we should have at least got a ref. It's been two episodes already, and nothing.
This season isn't unique, either. They did the same thing with the S2 finale and the S3 premiere, but at least we got a throwaway line there; here we've got nothing, no follow-up at all. CSI:NY seems like it's caught in this weird continuum of changing things without any explanation at all (or the barest explanation possible), and pretending nothing ever happened. And it's been getting on my nerves low-level for a while now, and now I'm watching a ton more shows than I did last year, and stacking it up against all of those? It's got nothing.
I mean, look at the others (all CBS except for Bones). Cold Case: Lilly got shot, she's having flashbacks; Danny's in big trouble for breaking protocol to rescue the building. Criminal Minds: Gideon's having trouble dealing with Sarah's death, he leaves the FBI; Hotch is screwed over by Strauss and so is Emily -- set up in the finale, by the way -- and previous bad incidents are reffed. Bones: Zack comes back from Iraq, Brennan's father is in jail, Angela and Hodgins are still marvelously in love but are searching for Angela's husband, the fact that Booth and Brennan were left standing at the altar is reffed. Numb3rs: Colby is arrested for treason despite two seasons of evidence to the contrary and it turns out to be a trick, Larry's still at a monastery, Megan's still screwed up from her stint at the DoJ, everyone's screwed up because of Colby's percieved betrayal. The Unit: big damn season finale, big damn two-part season premiere with stuff that's a holdover from previous bits in S2. SO MUCH LOVE. *cough* Or in other words, CROSS-SEASON CONTINUITY (except for that one bit from S1, but I trust this show so much that I'm positive they'll come back to it, especially with how certain things are turning out).
Except for The Unit, which is big damn military action/drama, they're all crime shows, which shows that it's not just a crime show thing, and except for Bones, they're all CBS, which shows that it's not just a CBS thing, and I know at least one of them is Jerry Bruckheimer, so it's not just a Jerry Bruckheimer thing, and I know that CSI Mothership at least had a big damn finale and a big damn premiere, so I know it's not just a CSI thing, so what the hell is CSI:NY's problem anyways?
I mentioned before that I felt really bad about saying all this, right? Yes. I feel really bad about saying all this since CSI:NY's been my baby for three years now (it's my high school show! it was my
Shows I watch: Cold Case, K-Ville, Bones, The Unit, Criminal Minds, CSI:NY, Moonlight, Numb3rs, Supernatural, and Eureka. I would watch NCIS, House, and Two and a Half Men, but they're on at the same time as various other shows.