vr_trakowski | Drivin' me nuts

I watched the latest ep of CSI:M on Tuesday. Grr. Way too much bikininess. Honestly, they could have cut the opening scene in half and substituted some actual plot! Do they think that the only people watching it are eighteen-year-old males? No offense to such males, of course, but I suspect the priorities of many watchers are a little different. Not to mention, apparently that spa is only open to gorgeous slender twenty-somethings? I can deal with rich, sure, but no one forty-something and slender? No one twenty-something and voluptuous? Honestly. It wasn't even a pretense.

And Horatio, you have no business messing around with Eric's sister. I've no objection to age gaps in general, but she is NOT your emotional equal, and my view of you as a stringently moral character is slipping badly. Not to mention, Eric is her BROTHER. You are just the boyfriend. Making him stay at a scene while you go to visit her in the hospital is bad, bad, bad. It is an abuse of your power as his boss and you definitely know better. Bad H, no bikini!

Marisol really doesn't look like someone sick enough to be using marijuana to offset chemotherapy-induced nausea--and what does she have, breast cancer or leukemia? I think both were attributed to her at different points.

I liked watching Calleigh. I always like watching Calleigh, as long as she doesn't go back to curling her hair again. And Wolfe is a blessing--he's almost Sidle-intense and isn't bad on the eyes either. And Alexx is always a riot. I like her very much, for her compassion, her brains, and her wit.

The plot was relatively clever, and for a moment there I thought Marisol had actually killed the guy they found in her apartment. And I admire H for covering for Wolfe--give him that, he's usually intensely supportive of his people (which is why the hospital thing shocked me). I suspect the writers are messing with his character.

Oh, and guys? Quit it with the screen-splitting thing. That is one of the fastest ways to throw me out of the plot and remind me that I am watching a TV show. If I want pic-in-pic I'll buy a TV that does it. It's just distracting--and it looks like you're suddenly doing the opener to The Brady Bunch or something. Sheesh.

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Hee, I don't watch anything but CSI:LV, basically at all, not only CSI-wise, but reading your CSI:M recaps always cracks me up! Seems awefully shallow to rely on bikini-clad flesh, but I guess thay have to stand out somehow?

And with the split-screen one might fit in twice as many bikinis you know;)

Oy, don't give them any ideas! : P

I don't watch CSI:M anymore, but I do know what you mean about the bikinis. I'm not too fond of that being paraded on my screen, either. My husband appreciates women and doesn't mind seeing the occasional bikini-clad woman, but he has also commented about the gratuitous nature in which shows display skin these days.

It's unavoidable, but I guess I just expected better from CSI. It's not like Vegas has showgirls in every ep or something.

In it's first season CSI:M had a certain tropical flair/flavor that made me overlook rather bizarre flights of fancy -- a chief who obviously suffers some form of spinal deformity making it necessary for him to stand sideways at all times, a CSI and ME who would put a supermodel to shame, and two rather surly young bucks(buried hearts of gold, one can only hope), who spent an inordinate amount of time in wet suits. With the Marisol storyline, we've gone from sublime to ridiculous. For God's sake, what kind of boss dates his subordinate's terminally ill sister (or any sister, for that matter)? She, by the way, is the healthiest looking cancer patient I've ever seen, and I spent 20 years as an oncology nurse. Gotta tell you, this baby bunko is just that. ANY patient undergoing chemo would either be sterile or be told not to get pregnant under any circumstances. ALL chemo is tetrogenic, i.e. causing severe birth defects, if not fetal death, in the off chance that a pregnancy could be established. This doesn't even begin to take into account the emotional issues involved with bringing a soon to be motherless baby into the world. Cancer patients should definitely live their dreams as long as they are able: travel, connect with family & friends, read War & Peace, go to a Springsteen concert, whatever.....NOT GET PREGNANT. This is especially true if Daddy is your brother's boss, with whom you had dinner for the first time 2-3 weeks ago! And the RayBan wonder must be having a hell of a mid life crisis to decide THIS is a good idea! Sheesh.......
Sorry to rant on, but this really frosted my cookies -- shows absolutely no insight into the struggles cancer patients really go through, alopecia, blood transfusions, radiation burns, true n/v, mouth sores, fatigue. This is a contrived, desperate storyline for the Sullen One to show how well he can do "tormented". (as if we hadn't figured it out by now!)
Thank God for out beloved if dysfunctional group on CSI:LV!
Eileen_

Now now, Speed never wore a wet suit...he didn't like diving. ;) But yeah. They've given this one a good helping of soap opera melodrama; I thought the only thing that indicated how sick Marisol was supposed to be was her extreme slenderness, and unfortunately that tends to blend right in with everyone else on screen. H's comment about having a baby was right off the scale for him, unless he means both not with him and that he believes she will go into remission and then be able to reproduce. Maybe she did hit remission and nobody told us?

Ah, the heck with it--just hook H up with Calleigh and have done with it... *grin*

I used to love CSI:M but I don't like what the writer have done with it recently. I don't like H with Eric's sister that's just wrong. I do love Calleigh now that she's back in the ballistics lab and I love Wolf. I've always though he and Sara would be good together. Do you think the writers would switch shows with the characters?

Hm, it's an intriguing notion, but as a committed G/S shipper I'm not inclined to consider it. They're certainly both intense enough!

It's a pity they don't do more crossovers, though.

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