Basric, I agree with you about the writing - in the new episodes there is too much stupid, meaningless and utterly pointless "stuff" going on, wasting precious seconds that could be spent on better showcasing the main characters - continuing their development, maintaining storylines from previous seasons etc. Goren and Eames have become utterly two-dimensional and it is hard to distinguish what makes them any more interesting than any other cut-rate cop show, cheaply produced and thrown together on a whim.
There is no tension or surprise keeping me on the edge of my seat in any of the episodes I have seen in this season. In older episodes, think how we LOVE to see Goren closing in on the killer, getting him or her to cave in under his relentless pressure to open up and confess. To do this, you need a complex plot and interesting characters. In the past, there was so much happening in any one episode that they sometimes had to change individual words to shorter versions, in order to save precious seconds of story-telling time. But now, they are padding the episodes out with a whole host of cheap filling - like the bit where Goren & Eames "chase" the perp at the polystyrene factory in last week's episode .. that was just unnecessary and embarrassing.
No wonder Goren appears to be "not himself", as mtwendyr says. D'Onofrio is an energetic and intelligent actor who says "You can only do what is written in the script." Normally, he does so much more than is written in the script! But now, there's just nothing for him to work with. LO:CI has become predictable and formulaic, and it honest to God makes me cry. Seriously, if I think about it too hard, I cry!
I think I need to go out and get a life, don't you? HAHAHAHAHA.
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Date: 2009-06-11 10:19 am (UTC)There is no tension or surprise keeping me on the edge of my seat in any of the episodes I have seen in this season. In older episodes, think how we LOVE to see Goren closing in on the killer, getting him or her to cave in under his relentless pressure to open up and confess. To do this, you need a complex plot and interesting characters. In the past, there was so much happening in any one episode that they sometimes had to change individual words to shorter versions, in order to save precious seconds of story-telling time. But now, they are padding the episodes out with a whole host of cheap filling - like the bit where Goren & Eames "chase" the perp at the polystyrene factory in last week's episode .. that was just unnecessary and embarrassing.
No wonder Goren appears to be "not himself", as mtwendyr says. D'Onofrio is an energetic and intelligent actor who says "You can only do what is written in the script." Normally, he does so much more than is written in the script! But now, there's just nothing for him to work with. LO:CI has become predictable and formulaic, and it honest to God makes me cry. Seriously, if I think about it too hard, I cry!
I think I need to go out and get a life, don't you? HAHAHAHAHA.