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45 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:
Also, regarding COTW v. Season-Long Arc, the OTT Big Bads of the long Arcs tend to have near-supernatural abilities and to be 100% evil, which can cause the audience to eye-roll so much that they are no longer watching the TV.
The original CSI did “arcs” pretty well, IMO. They didn’t beat you up with it in each episode, but once every now and then they revisit their storylines - Paul Milander, Lady Heather, Tammy Felton, Kelly Gordon, to name a few. The only one that sort of tired me out was the miniature killer, I probably ended up checking out of that storyline by the third miniature model.
And yes, I am deliberately not counting the abomination of Ray Langston and Nate Haskell. To me, that was just a nightmare and not real CSI.
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On 5/6/2024 at 1:07 PM, Bookworm13 said:
I’m not sure why they couldn’t transition this show into being more COTW instead of creating an entire new show or where they think could be more interesting than Vegas. I’ll give it a chance, though. Nothing could be worse than Miami.
My guess, they probably want to reset the budget. I imagine Marg commands $$$, and they probably just can’t fire her and continue in this current iteration. This cast coming into S4 may also probably want a raise.
I like COTW formats. I don’t have to worry about missing episodes and then feel like I have to go back 2-3 eps just to get current. Two-part season finales work, or even in-season, like the original CSI did sometimes. But I can always catch episodes in my own time because it won’t affect the upcoming episode.
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1 hour ago, milkyaqua said:
The main case was interesting though I have no interest in whatever drama is happening between Penny and Chris. I really don't care all that much about characters shows like to make quirky and full of emotional ticks so I'm already not a Penny fan.
It’s hard to care because they didn’t build it up either, like Catherine/Warrick, or Grissom/Sara/Sofia. Out of nowhere, Penny is just mad at Chris, exactly for what?! I thought there would be a reveal there at the end where Chris would confess that he’s in love with Penny, and that’s why he’s sort of repelling this Penny/Jack thing. But it’s looking like they’re just bringing up this Chris/Penny drama thing as a convenient way to revisit Allie’s partnership system thing.
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12 hours ago, tvfanatic13 said:
All I kept thinking about was how come when the sister at the beginning was not at the pool within 5 minutes she didn’t jump out of the truck. There was no way she could have been locked in.
This was my thought too. It’s not like she was in the passenger seat where the driver has control of the lock. She could have jumped out of there, left the bike, and come away with a few bruises rather than being kidnapped. I think it was bad writing to have her on the truck bed than the passenger seat.
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6 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
Indeed. Too bad it all got shunted to the side because St Benson was right again. Just once, I wish someone could just tell her off and make it stick.
Yes, that would have been great.
But we have to take our wins when we can. At least Agent Sykes didn’t fall into St. Benson’s arms in a I-finally-got-closure warm, loving embrace. She still told Olivia to fuck off, in a much nicer “I need to be alone…” way. Or at least that’s what I think she meant by what she said.
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I’m just glad someone pushed back against St. Olivia being on her caped crusader mission again. Not sure if Agent Sykes will be back after throwing Johnny D. and William Lewis to her boss’ face, but man, it was cathartic to watch.
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Just saw this episode last night on Paramount. How was the killer able to make the those sculpture-like poses without ruining the organ systems? They looked so fragile to me. Like the cardiovascular system for example - how was he able to make it look like that kneeling sculpture without breaking most of it?
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I just read the article. She does confirm Kelli’s departure was out of her hands:
But Wolf still has the final call. Which means that Hargitay couldn’t stop him from writing Kelli Giddish off the show at the end of Season 24, after she’d portrayed Det. Rollins for 12 years. “Kelli is my favorite actor to work with,” Hargitay says. “Kelli is my heart. It’s a sore subject. I have a lot of say on the show, but I didn’t have enough there.”
Hargitay says she fought to keep Giddish and is trying to get her back next season. “I don’t like not being listened to, especially when I’m right,” she says. “That relationship was one of the most powerful relationships in television because you saw these two badass women, so flawed and so there for each other.”
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I thought the end would set up Serena to be kidnapped or almost killed. I was waiting for someone to bash her head from behind while she was making the phone call.
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On 4/22/2024 at 11:40 PM, Snazzy Daisy said:
Ugh, out of all the things to “wrap up” before its finale, I have zero interest in the Josh/Allie storyline. They tried to recreate the Sarah-Grissom storyline and it just sucked! Allie was annoying, and Josh was too brooding.
I’d rather see Penny and Jack’s wedding.
One of the previously unsolved cases, that I personally would like to see revisited, was that of Catherine’s ex-husband’s homicide. I thought that case would have been nice to actually get its own episode, rather than stashed with another Lady Heather case. The ending where Sara just sorts of throws her hands in the air and gives up seemed abrupt, and highly unusual to me.
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Aww, this is too bad. I have the feeling it’s on the bubble after it was moved to Sundays, and with so many procedurals right now, it just didn’t stand out, even for nostalgia purposes.
Sad we didn’t even get to see what Nick Stokes is up to now. I know there was a throwaway line in S1 that he’s in LA(?), but at least make up a story that will bring him to Vegas.
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4 hours ago, NeenerNeener said:
Somehow this one just feels unfinished, at least for me.
Yes, I have the same feeling. I thought they were insinuating that there something sinister about the robot guy driving into a tree and killing himself. And then all of a sudden it’s case closed?
I’m glad they’re dialing down the CSI dramas this week, with the Josh’s case and the partners system. Well, I guess except for Sarah who hasn’t gotten over it, I guess. She needed to vent.
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7 hours ago, vibeology said:
And how far was his car from the building? Because you'd think an officer would have noticed it and ran the plates during the hours they were trapped in the basement if it was right there somewhere. I get that it's a big place but there was a murder and then an explosion so secure the scene?
I would assume not far because he went to the health convention, and he had to haul his victim from his car to the basement. Unless the victim was alive when he went into the building. But why would you willingly go to an abandoned building with a complete, suspicious stranger?
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To be fair though, I don’t think it’s a window? More like the cannibal guy saw a hole where sunlight passes through and started breaking out the weak concrete wall to get more sunlight while he stayed there. Allie herself had to do a lot of breaking and her hands bled as a result because she has no proper tools and it’s concrete.
But yes, I assume she broke just enough for one person to pass through. Why she didn’t run either way (she got out first, or was left behind) is puzzling.
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My gosh, could they be any more heavy-handed with the ending (Chandler voice). “Thank him in your heart…” really?!
I guess I should be thankful that Olivia didn’t set him up to meet the actual real-life hero of his case.
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4 hours ago, Ceindreadh said:
whereas Allie seemed ready to treat him like he was still at his previous CSI level.
Thanks for pointing that out, I hated that part! Josh did a seriously, grave, criminal act, and while Max eventually forgave him for it, or at least gave him another chance if she hasn’t done the former yet, she’s still putting him at arms’ length distance and reminding him that he screwed up royally and she’s putting her ass on the line for him. Meanwhile, Allie is acting like all Josh did was forget to log in evidence with the lab, and speaking for everyone that they’re all fine with him. So unbecoming of a supervisor. He should be in jail for what he did - he kidnapped a suspect, injured him, and tampered with evidence. Just because he didn’t kill the guy doesn’t mean he gets a pass and a high-five. There’s nothing heroic about what he did. I’m glad Max and Serena are giving him the cold shoulder, which ought to always remind him of what he got away with.
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Was it bad to wish that Allie just be trapped there forever?!
I’m glad this show wasn’t too heavy-handed that it was Folsom who met Allie right when she got saved from the suspect. I expected Folsom to come running in there and scoop her in his arms and her crying hysterically and there be some kind of somber, romantic music in the background as they stare deeply into each other’s eyes.
So it was a pleasant surprise it was Serena who met Allie instead.
I guess I kind of get why Max was against partners. She’s right in a sense that partners often lose accountability to their bosses, and their loyalties eventually evolve to their partners, to the point they’ll cover each other, etc. Grissom sent his people on who best fits the situation, and so does Max. Aside from the loyalties thing, there’s also the “familiarity breeds contempt” thing, which is now slowly happening between Catherine and Max.
The show should really clarify what Catherine’s role is. The way they strut her out as some CSI Level 1, 2 or 3 in the field drives me crazy, considering at some point in the past she ran the lab herself.
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18 hours ago, ProudMary said:
It was a big part of the reason I was pulling so hard for a Lily Gladstone win over Emma Stone; not to mention why I thought it was not only correct, but also important that Lily's nomination was in the top acting category, not in the secondary one.
Well, like that article said, it’s arguable what Lily’s role really is in the movie, but it looks like she made the right choice because she just booked another lead role.
And I think there’s some truth to that. You bag a win for Supporting, and it’s hard to get to the next level. People see you as a great team, ensemble player, but not really someone who can carry a movie. Case in point - Lupita Nyongo. You’d think after her inspiring win for 12 Years A Slave, she’d be the next IT girl and be booking roles left and right. But the truth is, since then, she has nowhere been close to another Oscar than her peers are, and also hasn’t exploded in lead roles like Brie, JLaw and Emma Stone have. There’s US, but what else is there? That project is also known more as a Jordan Peele movie, rather than a Lupita Nyongo movie.
Look no further than the last black woman who won the Lead Actress Oscar - Halle Berry. There is no one single factor in her career trajectory - Halle’s career choices, Halle’s life choices, Hollywood opportunities, etc. - that has determined where she is now. But the sad truth is, the likes of Jessica Chastain, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, even Meryl Streep, Frances McDormand, etc., have been much closer to their second, third, or fourth Oscar than Halle ever was, or sadly, ever will be.
18 hours ago, ProudMary said:IMO, the Academy must nominate more non-white women in the Best Actress category and then, vote for them to win!
Yes, it eventually comes down to the law of averages. When a lot more minority women are nominated in the category, not just the token single slot, the chances are higher that somebody, someone, someday, will eventually win.
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18 hours ago, ProudMary said:
The Oscars' website has another photo gallery posted with tons of backstage photos of winners, presenters and performers. Although there wasn't an official portrait of the six Best Actress/six Best Supporting Actress winners, there are, thankfully, backstage photos. I'm posting those here along with two photos from "I'm Just Ken" performers that I particularly enjoyed seeing.
You can see the full photo gallery here.
I think there was no “official” photo of Supporting Actress because JLC left shortly after giving the award. I assume the official photos happened at the end of the show. It looks like she had to fly away somewhere immediately:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4WpLl_Pq4z/?igsh=MW40c3h4djl4cjQ3dA==
The juxtaposition of the Actress and Supporting Actress shows there’s still so much more to be done in Hollywood in the diversity on quality lead actress roles. If not for Michelle Yeoh - who just won last year - that’s an all-white lineup. And they probably couldn’t ask Halle again because she already presented last year. Who else is there?
Contrast with supporting, and they probably still have someone they can call from the bench (Viola, Ariana, Penelope, Whoopi). Heck, Octavia was also at the show and she got to present the Oscars with her bestie MM instead for another category, because they can afford to have her do that instead.
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If your victims when you’re a detective are now all grown up and joining the police force, then maybe it’s time to think about retirement, Captain Benson?!
One can only hope….
2 hours ago, DanielleBowden said:I though Olivia and Curry were really harsh on the wife. I understand having to eliminate her as a potential suspect, but it was over the top with nothing to base it on other than "some alibis are performative".
Plus didn’t she say she was eight months pregnant?! How in the world would she able to chop up a husband, even one who’s already dead?! When I was 8 months pregnant, I can barely get up from a chair or a bed, let alone have enough energy and strength to chop up a dead man.
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7 hours ago, tv echo said:
Oscars Team Tells All: Getting John Cena Naked, Jimmy Kimmel’s Trump Joke and Why Al Pacino Skipped the Best Picture Nominees (EXCLUSIVE)
'Jimmy Kimmel Live' executive producer Molly McNearney and Walt Disney TV alternative head Rob Mills share the behind-the-scenes scoop on how this year's Oscars telecast went down
By Michael Schneider Mar 11, 2024
https://variety.com/2024/tv/awards/oscars-producers-nude-john-cena-trump-tweet-1235938486/Interesting that they didn’t address Michelle Pfeiffer’s absence. Maybe it’s really Al’s solo? Last year the producers mentioned that Glenn missed the show due to getting Covid.
On 3/11/2024 at 4:09 PM, Phebemarie said:Dame Judi Dench won her Best Supporting Oscar for 5:52 minutes (four scenes) in Shakespeare in Love doing some fairly straightforward work as Queen Elizabeth. I imagine the only acting challenge for her was wearing the heavy costumes. I think Da’Vine’s screen time and work were more than award worthy.
Some of the more memorable small screentime supporting work that were nominated were Viola Davis in Doubt (8 minutes) and Michelle Williams in Manchester by the Sea (11 minutes). I remember Michelle Williams wrecking me while watching that movie. That was definitely an Oscar-worthy winning performance.
Incidentally, Michelle lost to Viola Davis (Fences) that year, whose win was considered by some as “fraudulent” since Viola was arguably co-lead alongside Denzel. But she had a much surer shot at Supporting.
See, Oscars itself can be so political! No need to bring in any crazy, outside politics 😂
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2 hours ago, blackwing said:
As for Stone, it was nice of Michelle to post what she did, but in the clip, it definitely looks like Michelle got moved over by Emma pushing towards Jennifer. Then Jennifer pointedly pushes the Oscar into Emma's hands.
What's telling about this to me is that the amazing Sally Field is seen tugging on the back of Jennifer Lawrence's Laura Ashley looking dress (which, BTW seemed more appropriate for a picnic in Paris on the banks of the Seine instead of the Oscars). I can't make out any words but Sally seemed to be saying, back off Jennifer, this is Michelle's moment, let her hand off the Oscar. I think maybe she said "oh, come on!" Sally Field rocks.
I get that Emma and Jennifer are good friends but it did seem odd that Emma beelined right for Jennifer and kind of ignored Michelle. Barely looked at Michelle. No "thank you" or handshake or hug. Said thank you to Jennifer and hugged her.
I probably would never win an Oscar in my lifetime, or even come close to it, but in Emma’s case, I can probably imagine how overwhelming the moment was. You didn’t expect to win, your brain is a fog, your dress ripped up, and all of a sudden there’s 5 people onstage trying to get a piece of you. If there’s another argument against a 5-presenter bit thing, this is it. It can be pretty overwhelming for a winner to try and greet everyone graciously and properly, especially for an award towards the end of the show where producers are most anxious for the running time. This should just have been Michelle’s moment alone to congratulate Emma. And I imagine if there’s one presenter on there, who didn’t try, or look like it, at least to congratulate the winner, there will be a different controversy. In the barrage of her emotions, Emma was probably glad to see a familiar face there.
Last year, it was already overwhelming as it is to have dual presenters onstage. And not everyone will have the quick thinking of say, a Jessica Chastain letting Halle and Michelle have their moment first, before going in. JLaw was probably so excited to get to her best friend, that it looked like she mowed through Michelle. I don’t think there’s anything malicious in it, but that will always be an issue for a multiple-presenter thing.
As for RDJ, I think of it differently because he’s been the favorite for that award all season long, and clearly he expected to win, so I can imagine he’s already had some time to think of how he’ll be onstage.
I’ll close with this - if Meryl Streep had been in RDJ’s shoes and had his issues instead, I don’t think she’ll get the kind of comeback that he did. Good for RDJ for turning his life around, but he’s lucky he’s also working in a position of privilege.
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35 minutes ago, libgirl2 said:
No, but it brings up the point that roles can be subjective. Some that are nominated for supporting can seem more like a leading role and vice versa.
More than the roles being subjective, it also comes down to the studio’s decision of what category to submit whom. They all want Oscar glory - the actors and studios themselves. If they feel their actor has a better chance in a certain category because of “weaker” competition despite of their actual role, they would do it. Category fraud has long been an accepted game in the Oscars. If you can manipulate it to your advantage, then so be it. Is there a solution to this? Who knows. And if there is even one, I would think there’s not much appetite to fix it.
I agree that if Lily had been submitted for the supporting category she probably would have been the runaway winner. But to the article’s point, the studio didn’t want the perception that her character, the reason why there’s even a story in the first place, is only a supporting role. And then this goes back to the criticisms of KOTFM that they centered the wrong character and chose the wrong POV in the first place.
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Here’s an interesting article that opines on why Emma won over Lily - that Lily is really more in a supporting role whereas Emma is undoubtedly lead, and Emma pulled from the international vote.
https://www.vulture.com/article/why-emma-stone-beat-lily-gladstone-at-the-2024-oscars.html
12 hours ago, paul4295 said:Since they were reuniting castmates from classic movies, I wonder if they asked Robert DeNiro, who was also in The Godfather, Part II, to present with Al Pacino, but he refused.
I highly doubt DeNiro was asked - he was part of a BP nominee, and although it’s not the front runner, it would have still been awkward to stand on stage with your film losing.
Unfortunate re: Michelle Pfeiffer. Two years now that we have been deprived of glorious reunions - last year we missed the Air Force One reunion, and now, Scarface.
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S03.E10: Tunnel Vision
in CSI: Vegas (2021)
It’s kinda sad thinking the cast didn’t know at the time they’re shooting what would be the series finale.
I know she’s a vet, so she knows these things happen, but probably new territory for Marg too, who was able to say goodbye to CSI on her own terms, come back again, left again, and did the TV finale.