Diddy, you're just not trying hard enough!
I would just like to say that this is what I get for defending CSI: Miami and P. Diddy in rainbowstevie 's journal. Seriously, WHY does this show have to be such a big bucket of fail??? At some point, wouldn't you think the writers would wake up and say, "You know what? Today, we're NOT going to rape a character! We're NOT going to reference Paul Blart: Mall Cop in our screenplays!"???
Apparently not.
I just don't understand how a show could be sooo blind to the actual product being created here. Below are just really random points from tonight's episode that pissed me off.
1). Diddy's character thinks no defense attorney could find a problem with Eric's testimony. Really, you can't think of a single character flaw that Eric possesses? Diddy, stop being a dumb ass. I can name a bunch right off the top of my head like a). how he premeditated murder and then carried it out, b). didn't really spend much time with sissy when she was dying in the hospital, c). continued to work on cases, even though he knew he was having brain problems -- because clearly, keeping your pride is more important than maintaining the integrity of the team, d). the shit he said about Megan when she first returned to the ob, e). sexually harassing a co-worker, despite the fact that it was pretty clearly apparent that she didn't care about him that way. Which leads me to...
2). I can't get on board with Eric/Calleigh. While I think Calleigh is a naturally flirtatious person, I don't think that's the same thing as two characters having a ton of chemistry together. They just don't sing together as a couple, and only part of that has to do with the fact that she never really seemed interested in him and that they're only getting closer because one of them is almost dying every 10 seconds. That kiss? SUCKED. I can't even believe that was advertised as a thing. I've kissed my cats with more passion. ;-)
3). Maybe I could buy the E/C ship if everyone stopped trying to sell me the bullshit that they'd been working up to this for seven seasons. Cause, no, you haven't. At best, you can say you've been forcing it down everyone's throat for the last two or three seasons to the exclusion of actually writing good drama. Calleigh flirted with everyone, but she's a flirtatious person. That doesn't necessarily lay groundwork for anything. But then neither does removing Calleigh from the rest of the team and essentially forcing her to only work with Eric.
4). Or maybe I could buy it if we didn't have to ret-con the living SHIT out of both characters to make them compatible. How have we gone from Calleigh being dirt poor and the first person in her family to go to college to the "you almost had a nanny" crap? And don't get me started on what has happened to Eric's character.
4). Or maybe I could buy it if you hadn't used up all my good will in the romance department with the MARISOL/HORATIO IZ TWU WUB!!!111ELEVENTY!!
5). Or maybe I could buy it if I didn't feel like the one romantic pairing who DID have a great set up, DID have great chemistry, and up until recently, DID have great writing had been written for the entirely ridiculous, idiotic, and inferior storyline that was the MARISOL/HORATIO IZ TWU WUB!!!111ELEVENTY!! storyline. Honestly, I still can't believe that they let go of the actress who is a thousand times more talented than every other actor on that show combined - and more beautiful than everyone else. Sofia Milos is a gem, and it sickens me to see her and something that could have been so well done tossed aside for no reason.
6). Speaking of Sofia, can we please stop dangling her in front of me with lame ass storyline after lame ass storyline??? She deserves some real material, if you're going to hire her. And frankly, the most recent storylines make NO sense. Horatio was sooo against her being a P.I. So why is he hiring her and actually the one responsible for putting her in the most dangerous situations??? Side note: if he though that Eric's daddy was the one who set up the hit, why lay it out as though you knew about the hit, thus potentially endangering Yelina's life? It's just so stupid.
7). Also stupid? How Natalia was all like !!!NOT ERIC!!! one second, and then as soon as he was arrested, she basically shrugged her shoulders and returned to work as though nothing happened.
On the other hand, the crime kind of made perfect sense this week. Which is shocking!
Anywho, meme stolen from tinpra : Post a sentence from your works in progress. No context, no nothing, do as many as you like but only post one sentence. (*cough* It seemed related to the topic of shitty writing, so... )
--- But it is true - and truly screwed up that, instead of talking about what’s going on, they play a version of tug-of-war that involves her panties and his future staff.
--- “And the poop came from… where exactly?”
--- Just when you find yourself drowning in a sea of white noise, of helicopters and mayhem, just when the pain seems to be too much to bear, you wake up to the press of her lips on yours, her air now yours, and the heat of her hands and lap cradling you protectively; this is not the first time Cuddy’s done this for you (you are afraid to admit that it won’t be the last), but you’re tempted to revel in it anyway, hesitant to utter the one word that will break Wilson’s heart: “Amber.”
--- The persistent beep of the heart monitor is a welcome sound.
--- And part of him hated the fact that, the moment she had become something else to him, she had chosen House.
--- Almost immediately, he responded, “Do you think, if she had lived, that’s what your own daughter would have looked like?”
--- There is a desperation to it all; he doesn’t want to forget, needs to remember, must remember, but in the back of his mind, he knows that he will, because time marches on for him, and he will forget all the things that made Marisol who she was.
--- And as Yelina sits down at the kitchen table from the weight of the news, she thinks, in the back of her mind, that Frank is the last person who should deliver news like this.
--- “There are worse ways to spend three minutes of my life.”
--- The dinner was, for all intents and purposes, a disaster, and Danny was quickly sobering up to the realization that perhaps he should never unleash C.J. on the restaurant population again.
--- Horatio does not dream that he is Speed, does not imagine himself in the same scenario, because he has never hesitated with his perfectly clean gun.
Apparently not.
I just don't understand how a show could be sooo blind to the actual product being created here. Below are just really random points from tonight's episode that pissed me off.
1). Diddy's character thinks no defense attorney could find a problem with Eric's testimony. Really, you can't think of a single character flaw that Eric possesses? Diddy, stop being a dumb ass. I can name a bunch right off the top of my head like a). how he premeditated murder and then carried it out, b). didn't really spend much time with sissy when she was dying in the hospital, c). continued to work on cases, even though he knew he was having brain problems -- because clearly, keeping your pride is more important than maintaining the integrity of the team, d). the shit he said about Megan when she first returned to the ob, e). sexually harassing a co-worker, despite the fact that it was pretty clearly apparent that she didn't care about him that way. Which leads me to...
2). I can't get on board with Eric/Calleigh. While I think Calleigh is a naturally flirtatious person, I don't think that's the same thing as two characters having a ton of chemistry together. They just don't sing together as a couple, and only part of that has to do with the fact that she never really seemed interested in him and that they're only getting closer because one of them is almost dying every 10 seconds. That kiss? SUCKED. I can't even believe that was advertised as a thing. I've kissed my cats with more passion. ;-)
3). Maybe I could buy the E/C ship if everyone stopped trying to sell me the bullshit that they'd been working up to this for seven seasons. Cause, no, you haven't. At best, you can say you've been forcing it down everyone's throat for the last two or three seasons to the exclusion of actually writing good drama. Calleigh flirted with everyone, but she's a flirtatious person. That doesn't necessarily lay groundwork for anything. But then neither does removing Calleigh from the rest of the team and essentially forcing her to only work with Eric.
4). Or maybe I could buy it if we didn't have to ret-con the living SHIT out of both characters to make them compatible. How have we gone from Calleigh being dirt poor and the first person in her family to go to college to the "you almost had a nanny" crap? And don't get me started on what has happened to Eric's character.
4). Or maybe I could buy it if you hadn't used up all my good will in the romance department with the MARISOL/HORATIO IZ TWU WUB!!!111ELEVENTY!!
5). Or maybe I could buy it if I didn't feel like the one romantic pairing who DID have a great set up, DID have great chemistry, and up until recently, DID have great writing had been written for the entirely ridiculous, idiotic, and inferior storyline that was the MARISOL/HORATIO IZ TWU WUB!!!111ELEVENTY!! storyline. Honestly, I still can't believe that they let go of the actress who is a thousand times more talented than every other actor on that show combined - and more beautiful than everyone else. Sofia Milos is a gem, and it sickens me to see her and something that could have been so well done tossed aside for no reason.
6). Speaking of Sofia, can we please stop dangling her in front of me with lame ass storyline after lame ass storyline??? She deserves some real material, if you're going to hire her. And frankly, the most recent storylines make NO sense. Horatio was sooo against her being a P.I. So why is he hiring her and actually the one responsible for putting her in the most dangerous situations??? Side note: if he though that Eric's daddy was the one who set up the hit, why lay it out as though you knew about the hit, thus potentially endangering Yelina's life? It's just so stupid.
7). Also stupid? How Natalia was all like !!!NOT ERIC!!! one second, and then as soon as he was arrested, she basically shrugged her shoulders and returned to work as though nothing happened.
On the other hand, the crime kind of made perfect sense this week. Which is shocking!
Anywho, meme stolen from tinpra : Post a sentence from your works in progress. No context, no nothing, do as many as you like but only post one sentence. (*cough* It seemed related to the topic of shitty writing, so... )
--- But it is true - and truly screwed up that, instead of talking about what’s going on, they play a version of tug-of-war that involves her panties and his future staff.
--- “And the poop came from… where exactly?”
--- Just when you find yourself drowning in a sea of white noise, of helicopters and mayhem, just when the pain seems to be too much to bear, you wake up to the press of her lips on yours, her air now yours, and the heat of her hands and lap cradling you protectively; this is not the first time Cuddy’s done this for you (you are afraid to admit that it won’t be the last), but you’re tempted to revel in it anyway, hesitant to utter the one word that will break Wilson’s heart: “Amber.”
--- The persistent beep of the heart monitor is a welcome sound.
--- And part of him hated the fact that, the moment she had become something else to him, she had chosen House.
--- Almost immediately, he responded, “Do you think, if she had lived, that’s what your own daughter would have looked like?”
--- There is a desperation to it all; he doesn’t want to forget, needs to remember, must remember, but in the back of his mind, he knows that he will, because time marches on for him, and he will forget all the things that made Marisol who she was.
--- And as Yelina sits down at the kitchen table from the weight of the news, she thinks, in the back of her mind, that Frank is the last person who should deliver news like this.
--- “There are worse ways to spend three minutes of my life.”
--- The dinner was, for all intents and purposes, a disaster, and Danny was quickly sobering up to the realization that perhaps he should never unleash C.J. on the restaurant population again.
--- Horatio does not dream that he is Speed, does not imagine himself in the same scenario, because he has never hesitated with his perfectly clean gun.