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Cinders said:
The problem that many mashabiki agree on is that the writers are focusing way too much on Langston. (I have a suspicion that it's somewhere in Fishburne's contract that he has to have so much screen time). kwa focusing so much on a brand new character and practically ignoring the established characters (Hello! Catherine is the head of the team now, shouldn't we hear zaidi about her???) the writers are alienating their fanbase.
The season finale was pretty anticlimactic, if wewe ask me. The basic storyline is this:
Everyone's been hit bad kwa the economy-- Vegas is no different. It's a town that's made a business out of greed. The lab is feeling the pressure of the cut backs, and meanwhile, two people are murdered out of pure, classic selfish avarice. There are chips that have been discovered which are worth a tiny fortune a piece, on account of the casino they used to belong to went bankrupt and had to destroy all their chips, so they're very rare. That's what these people are killing over.
While the whole team is featured in this episode, it once again centers on Langston, with a side of Riley (who I actually really like), and a smattering of Catherine, with the rest of the cast (including Hodges and Wendy) being represented fairly equally after that.
Riley accuses Langston of being too medical-minded when he rushes to the aid of a suspect holding a gun. The most interesting thing in the episode (to me) was (spoiler alert), when Catherine says to Langston, "Riley thinks you're a little reckless," and Langston returns, "Well, I think she's too trigger-happy." I remember thinking, "Ooooh, burn!" and that was the highlight of the episode for me.
MAJOR SPOILER:
At the end of the episode, Langston shoots and kills a suspect, and the episode ends there. Supposedly, this means he'll have to deal with the fact that he took a life, and maybe even a hearing ala "Post Mortem" that Greg went through way back in season seven for killing a suspect.
(In other words, they're recycling a plot line.)
I'd be fine with the series if they stopped giving all the story lines to Langston. Hell, even GRISSOM didn't get that much screen time when he was the nyota of this mostly-ensemble based cast. And even if he did, Grissom DESERVED it. Langston's the new guy. He doesn't deserve to automatically become the nyota (again, in my opinion). What about veteran Catherine, struggling to run a team that used to be Grissom's, in an economy that's just plummeting lower and lower?
That's my question.
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