WTF, CBS?

[bedlamsbard]

Right, that's it, CBS is officially on crack and should die a long and painful death. I can deal with the new medical examiner. I can - just barely - deal with the new lab, so long as they explain it.

I CANNOT DEAL WITH THE NEW CSI.

She sounds like a Mary Sue. Her name is Summer. SUMMER. No wonder Mac is dubious about taking her on. One new character is enough, please. On the behalf of a neighbor of Idaho, I would also like to add that not all people from the Pacific Northwest are blond-haired and blue-eyed, blabbermouths, or Midwestern. Also, Idaho is not in the Midwest, it is in the Pacific Northwest.

Blond, blue-eyed, blabbermouth, from Boise, Mac doesn't like her, female - can you say Mary Sue? I can.

*tired* I don't want new characters. I want the same normal characters that we had last season. Now, I don't watch most TV and I sure as hell wasn't watching CSI or CSI: Miami when they started out, but I don't think they added TWO new regulars to the show in the second season. Don't think so at all.

Also, CBS? When you're trying to be subtle about "lightening up" a show (not that it needs to be lightened up) - don't add a character named Summer. It's not subtle, it's like being hit by a bus.

...please let her die, quickly. And please don't let her be a love interest for either Mac, Danny, or Flack, because if she is I'm leaving the fandom. And I'm not kidding.

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[geekslasher.livejournal.com]

Totally agree on everything. I freaked when I read it and it annoys me to no end. And if she goes after Danny, Mac, or Flack, bad things are gonna happen.

And what's wrong with our 6 regulars? I think the shows formula is good as it is, we don't need anyone else.

It's just aggravating and I cannot deal with the news of stupid, stupid, idiotic Summer Hamilton. Let's hope she last only an episode, if that.

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

She sounds like a Mary Sue
*cracks up* Oh, christ, the first thing I thought reading the news piece was, "Oh my god, it sounds like a bad fanfic!"

I've decided that Zuiker got into the bad crack. And I agree on all points. I swear, every new character they've introduced (Chad, Jane) is just... obnoxious. CBS, for the love of all that is holy, *stick with what you came out with*. *bitchslaps executives*

Summer is, by all that is cliched, going to be someone's love interest. I suspect Mac's since they're *trying* to shake things up and say "see, no cliche!". (well, but then Rose obviously went bye-bye somewhere. mmm, fallout). And because she's from the midwest and clearly Mac can only identify with his own species midwesterners.

I'm going to go drown my sorrows in porn.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*cracks up* Oh, christ, the first thing I thought reading the news piece was, "Oh my god, it sounds like a bad fanfic!"

God, that's what I thought. "Mary Sue" was the first thing I thought when I heard the name. Summer! Where the hell did they get Summer? Realistic names, people. They've managed fairly well with that, what's the problem with them now? WHAT? Are they deliberately trying to force all their fans away?

...and why do they have to do this to the first fandom I've been seriously invested in in ever? I've walked out of a fandom before, I'll do it again.

Chad...is not all that bad. I can deal with him. Jane should die a long and horrible death, and I hope when the lab blew up it took her with it.

Summer is, by all that is cliched, going to be someone's love interest. I suspect Mac's since they're *trying* to shake things up and say "see, no cliche!". (well, but then Rose obviously went bye-bye somewhere. mmm, fallout). And because she's from the midwest and clearly Mac can only identify with his own species midwesterners.

Of course it will be Mac's. Although not after making Danny and Flack and Hawkes and probably Chad and that new guy too all pant after her, in the best tradition of all Mary Sues. And they damn well better make up their minds whether she's from Idaho or the Midwest, because I'm pretty sure the two are mutually exclusive.

Please let this all be a bad rumor. Please let this all be a bad rumor. Please let this all be a bad rumor. *hyperventilates*

Off to go drown my sorrows in the original, where I control everything MWAHAHAHA.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*seethes* There is NOTHING wrong with our regulars. It's only the second season, and they're adding two new regulars? Can you say TOO MANY PEOPLE? You can emotionally invest in a small number of people, and then you work your way up slowly, not go "Okay, here's a bunch, and then here's another bunch, love 'em like you loved the last bunch."

...please let her die soon, please let her die soon, please let die soon.

And if she's a love interest? I may fly down to LA and throw the actress into the Pacific. Let's see what CBS can do then, ha!

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

...and why do they have to do this to the first fandom I've been seriously invested in in ever? I've walked out of a fandom before, I'll do it again.
I'd say "stay, I'd be sad and lonely!" except I'd probably end up leaving too out of, "you people are snorting far more crack than is healthy." frustration.

I swear, this week gets worse and worse and worse.

Chad...is not all that bad. I can deal with him. Jane should die a long and horrible death, and I hope when the lab blew up it took her with it.
Chad's...abrasive. Jane, you're right, is like... "Chica, I know dust rags with more personality than you."

Of course it will be Mac's.
See, what makes me crack up about that is that it cements my view that he totally flipped out after his hump session date with Rose. And that he'd so do it again with her. Because no way is that boy over his dead wife, not after refusing to deal with it in any real capacity for 3 and a half years.

And they damn well better make up their minds whether she's from Idaho or the Midwest, because I'm pretty sure the two are mutually exclusive.
I think it may qualify as "upper midwest", but yeah. Midwest is the lumpy configuration of Wisconsin/Minnesota/Illinois/Iowa, in my view. And then you have michigan. And "the Dakotas". And some land Montana and Wyoming. And Idaho's it's own special state. Mac qualifies as "midwestern". (and for heaven's sake, where did this stereotype of midwesterners--women, especially-- being all squodgy and friendly come from? Come on, the northeast is not composed entirely of assholes.)

Please let this all be a bad rumor. Please let this all be a bad rumor. Please let this all be a bad rumor. *hyperventilates*
It could very well be. Sometimes their "prelimary reports" are wrong in some big ways.

On the other hand we might have to take a trip to LA and issue a citation. Someone needs to come down to the Writers Precinct for a serious beatdown.

Off to go drown my sorrows in the original, where I control everything MWAHAHAHA.
Isn't it nice to play God? ;-)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I'd say "stay, I'd be sad and lonely!" except I'd probably end up leaving too out of, "you people are snorting far more crack than is healthy." frustration.

I really love this show. Crap. This is what happens when you get invested in WIPs.

Chad's...abrasive. Jane, you're right, is like... "Chica, I know dust rags with more personality than you."

Don't add new characters until you add personality to the ones you already have. At least the new ME isn't a woman, I think I'd kill something then. *blink* Actually, if they did it well, that would be really cool. But it's not happening, so... *headdesk*

See, what makes me crack up about that is that it cements my view that he totally flipped out after his hump session date with Rose. And that he'd so do it again with her. Because no way is that boy over his dead wife, not after refusing to deal with it in any real capacity for 3 and a half years.

Mac will never be over Claire. He'll be a little more over her, but he sure as hell won't be completely over her. And it's not happening over one summer, so if Summer tries, she damn well better run up against the brick wall of his indifference and Stella's baseball bat.

I think it may qualify as "upper midwest", but yeah. Midwest is the lumpy configuration of Wisconsin/Minnesota/Illinois/Iowa, in my view. And then you have michigan. And "the Dakotas". And some land Montana and Wyoming. And Idaho's it's own special state. Mac qualifies as "midwestern". (and for heaven's sake, where did this stereotype of midwesterners--women, especially-- being all squodgy and friendly come from? Come on, the northeast is not composed entirely of assholes.)

Idaho's Pacific Northwest. I know. I live next to it. It is not Midwestern.

...why is my first reaction "Herb Brooks sure isn't friendly"?

Dude, if you're setting a show in New York, it helps to have New Yorker characters. One that's not is okay. Two borders on overkill.

On the other hand we might have to take a trip to LA and issue a citation. Someone needs to come down to the Writers Precinct for a serious beatdown.

I'm up for it if you are. *checks brass knuckles*

Isn't it nice to play God?

Except evidently not, because my originals are on some special kind of crack. Must be the LA air.

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

Mac will never be over Claire. He'll be a little more over her, but he sure as hell won't be completely over her.
True, true.

And it's not happening over one summer, so if Summer tries, she damn well better run up against the brick wall of his indifference and Stella's baseball bat.
Exactly. He's... he's Mac. Look at his behavior over the course of the entire first season. *shakes head* I don't think he's got the energy, let alone the emotional stability, to engage in that kind of serious, dates-drinks-sex-I-like-you relationship. Not right now, anyway.

*weighs CBS vs. Mac Taylor on the moron scale*

Idaho's Pacific Northwest. I know. I live next to it. It is not Midwestern.
Ah yes. Forgive my insular geographics.

...why is my first reaction "Herb Brooks sure isn't friendly"?
*snicker*

Dude, if you're setting a show in New York, it helps to have New Yorker characters. One that's not is okay. Two borders on overkill.
Right. I mean, as much as New York is like, the whole immigrant, start new life, wonderfully quintesstially "american" city, it *is* it's own place. It has vernacular and its personal horde of possessive natives, to say nothing of their police department being *huge* and famous and infamous and insular in its own ways all at once.

I'm up for it if you are. *checks brass knuckles*
I'm always up for percussive maintenence.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

*weighs CBS vs. Mac Taylor on the moron scale*

CBS wins. Mac Taylor can't screw up his entire show.

Er. I may be taking this too personally.

Ah yes. Forgive my insular geographics.

Er, I think it is, anyway. Don't take Pacific Northwest History till next year, but I'm pretty sure it is.

Right. I mean, as much as New York is like, the whole immigrant, start new life, wonderfully quintesstially "american" city, it *is* it's own place. It has vernacular and its personal horde of possessive natives, to say nothing of their police department being *huge* and famous and infamous and insular in its own ways all at once.

Yeah, and the whole immigrant this is, well, pretty much over. Well, I mean, it's not, but New York has its own people. Leave the place to its people, please. Or if you have to add someone from out of the city, make it some ex-wannabe movie star that joined the cops for the heck of it.