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April 9, 2007: Little Big Caine
Just to get this out of the way, was there ever a more nonsensical piece of dialogue than, “Harassment is not without its consequences/My team thrives on consequences”? I’m serious. What does that mean? How can one thrive on consequences?
I have to admit to being slightly uncomfortable with this episode. Did we really have to have a Native American scalping someone as retribution? Granted, this Doug Lansing fellow did not seem to be the most altruistic person, but… scalping? For those of you who might have fallen asleep before the end, the murderer did end up being the very first person the CSIs talked to: the room-service attendant, who did it because he was 1/16 Native American.
I do have to point out that O’Shay is a pretty brilliant evil mastermind. While in the end the Doug Lansing murder had nothing to do with him, he still managed to get Reggie Venton and his wife out of the picture by having a common thief sneak into Anna’s house to steal her black book (which apparently hookers pass down from generation to generation), which contained Reggie’s contact information. His wife was so incensed that she stabbed him in the face.
This face-stabbing incident brings me to my next point. I’m not the squeamish type, but this episode really had my stomach turning. From the oft-repeated shot of Doug getting scalped, to Ryan actually finding the scalp, to the big splashes of blood falling from the ceiling, it all seemed shocking just for the sake of being shocking. It was one of those increasingly rare times that I was glad not to have an HD television.
All of our CSIs (save Horatio) seemed a little more human than usual this week. In the past they’ve been somewhat one-dimensional, but this week, they tended not to exhibit their signature personalities. Ryan wasn’t an obnoxious know-it-all, Delko wasn’t defined by his brain injury (though in all fairness, he wasn’t doing anything particularly taxing), and Alexx didn’t even talk to the body on the table. It was a nice change of pace.
As much as I was not a fan of O’Shay’s in his first appearance, I’m kind of hoping that we haven’t seen the last of him. I’m almost a little sad that he wasn’t in the previews for next week’s episode, which looks like it’ll be suitably bizarre. From the looks of it, we’ll be back looking at scalps, but at least they’ll still be attached.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go not stare at “retracted” scalps. Till next week!
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Apr 9, 2007 11:49 PM
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Ryan took credit for finding the piece of evidence linking the supervisor to the victim. I hope he's the one that is fired at the end of the season.
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Apr 10, 2007 2:27 AM
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Wow, Leah, how did you know I fell asleep before the ending? Thanks for telling me who did it--I simply could not last those 15 minutes.
And someone is getting fired at the end of the season? Hope it's Horatio! Ha!
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Apr 10, 2007 8:33 AM
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OK I may be one of the few, but I liked this epi until about the last 15 minutes. "I killed because I am 1/16 Indian". OK!!!( ZZzzzZZZ). Was it really necessary to keep showing the scalping scene? I think once was enough.
Delko and his intimidating scowl at all the male suspects made me giggle. All the female castmates were well covered with clothing for a change, and this epi did not have the cartoonish feel that so many have had this season. As popular as Indian casinos are right now I was wondering when CSI would squeeze one in.
Still cant stand Ryan. Everytime he attempts to say something pointedly he just comes off sounding assanine to me. He is still taking credit for others work. I so hope he is fired at the end of the season. And I hope Natalia is not far behind him.
Calleigh looked great. She is probably my favorite of all the female CSI's, She is always so cool and collected. She has become quite protective of Delko lately.
HorMan got to spend a lot of time driving real fast in his Hummer this week. I swear he is more like "Dirty Harry" each week. One man uncaped crusader. "Save the Hooker save the world".
I'm looking forward to more of O'Shay also. Ed Begley Jr. can really play sleazy well. I'm sure he will be in the big end of season finale. I just wonder if HorMan will shoot him in the police station parking lot?
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Apr 10, 2007 9:20 AM
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I prayed for this episode to be good. Honestly. I was looking forward
to O'Shea, as the new arch enemy of HoCaine. I hoped for well-written
word-battles between "Miami Super hero numero uno " and the dirty,
dirty man. Howeverr, all we got was the special Ho Caine in-your-face
glower reserved for Very Bad Criminals.
I can't stand Ana who me reminds very strongly of that stupid nut
Aerosol. That, plus the Latina woman dressed in white, the
burglarized home, the heart-to-hearts by the sea... And of COURSE
Horatio steps in to take care of Ana at the end. Of course.
Yeah, how many kids *IS* HoCaine supporting these days? I guess he's
not financially supporting Yelina and her son, but he's probably
still paying the crack-girl and her daughter. Anna and her son. I
guess that's not so many...unless I'm missing some.
I guess he's keeping them so he can practice his Child Whispering.
Wouldn't do to get rusty at his only real skill.
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Apr 10, 2007 9:55 AM
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I fell asleep as well, so thank you for that information.
I had an epiphany of sorts. For you young viewers - it won't mean a thing - but the mature viewers might get it.
Horatio is very much like Jack Lord from Hawaii 5-0. Don't ask me why I thought of it - but all of a sudden I thought -- wouldn't it be cool to put Jack Lord and H. Caine together? Who is more "cool"? You young people don't know Jack Lord - but he played Det Steven McGarrett, a character who was one of the first really "cool" detectives. "book him Danno" is to Jack Lord as all the "horatio-ism" are to H.
Anyway - I wonder if anyone can see the resemblance.
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Apr 10, 2007 10:07 AM
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I loved Steve McGarrett. Hawaii 5-0 now that was good television. Jack Lord did it so much better.
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Apr 10, 2007 10:27 AM
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This "relationship" between Horatio and Anna is not good for the the show. I was quite dissapointed to hear Horatio accept Anna's rationalization for her criminal behavior. Bottom line providing for one's child is no excuse for criminal activities. If the "lady" wants to provide for her son she should get a real job, clean up her life and set a good example for him. Then perhaps she can revisit the custody situation with the child's father.
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Apr 10, 2007 12:44 PM
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Good comparison with Jack Lord and Hawaii 5-0 - same "big man" type "hero" but wouldn't have thought of it without your post.
I thought this show was more gory than normal - think it was mostly because of the dead body lying on a glass floor with the blood dripping off downstairs. Greesed me out.
Like Ana, and she did make me think of Marisol, and think it's nice for him to have a heart for a hooker. One thing I didn't get, where IS her son? She mentioned his father only having a bit of money - does his father have him and was he the result of her being a hooker? Wondering whether this will come up in the future because I think she WILL be an ongoing part of the plot, as will O'Shea, who I was hoping got zonked this time around. Gives me hope for the future though!!
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Apr 10, 2007 12:46 PM
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I know I've already posted once but may I rant a little more???
If I knew there was going to be so much schmaltz on this show, I would have taken an extra Vytorin. It was cheesier than Wisconsin during a Green Bay Packers pep rally.
Does Hocaine qualify as a Marty Stu? The whole helpless-damsel-in-distress don't-move-I'll-save-you-I'm-your-knight-in-shining-Hummer is way too over-the-top. The whole opening sequence was hard to decipher, whether because of stupid camera tricks or just a stupid plot. So Anna passes out in a hotel room, wakes up in a pool of blood, wanders out to the beach, calls her Savior for help, and rather than telling Him what's wrong, she just keeps repeating how terrible her situation is, because apparently He didn't get the picture the first time. Then she hides behind a beach umbrella, so Ho can't find her but anyone in a boat can.
When Ed Begley's character was warning Ho that Anna was trouble, I was hoping he would turn out to be right and for once Ho would suffer from ignoring other people's advice, but of course that can't happen ("not on my watch").
PS.I was waiting for Anna to ask HoCaine "if she could make him dinner...."
I'll enjoy this comedy much more when they go back to their normal everyday events (you know, like a bear eating someone, or someone getting shot in the eye, or a woman selling her boy to settle a gambling debt, or triplets who murder somebody).
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Apr 10, 2007 6:29 PM
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Pilialoha, I agree with you. It really bugged me when Ryan said he got the evidence. What a weiner. I can't stand him.
Count me as another one who kept getting very tired and grossed out by the repeated scalping scenes. Yes, I know one really didn't see anything graphic, but the idea of it is so repellent that it really makes me ill. And please - tell me it's not true someone can get Native American status by being 1/16 Native American?
Horatio always seems to think with a certain body part - not his brain - with these women. When will he ever learn?
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Apr 11, 2007 6:53 AM
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It's O'Shea not OShay. Kinda makes me uncomfortable watching him in this sleazy role after seeing him on Veronica Mars as such a nice guy.
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Apr 11, 2007 7:05 AM
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Cheesy as the line may have been, did you really not get what "My team thrives on consequences" means? It is a CSI's job to see that the criminal pay for what he/she has done. A successful case is one where justice is served, and the criminal faces the consequences.
I've been increasingly bored with the writing this season. Here's hoping they pick it up soon.
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Apr 11, 2007 8:39 AM
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When I was an Indian education tutor in northern MN, the kids had to be only 1/32 to qualify to tutoring. Don't know how this answers iliketowatchtv's question, but I think this makes it seem likely being 1/16 would qualify someone.
I loved the hummer/hero-on-the-beach scene. I kept thinking H was gonna kill someone in the sand with that behemoth. Am I the only one bugged by the fact that so many episodes involve solving the crime with all its twists and extra murders ALL IN ONE DAY???? Especially when it can take an hour to get from one part of the city to another.
When I watch the old episodes on A&E, I realize how much sillier they've gotten, and that H actually used to do CSI stuff, unlike now.
And exactly how did the confetti piece implicate the wife? It was her husband's office, right? Wouldn't she have been there regularly? I didn't get that.
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Apr 11, 2007 10:17 AM
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Running late with this - had to DVR the show and watch last night (Tuesday). Anyway - the one question I ended up with was...Did I miss where they explained how they came to be drugged? The killer stated that they were passed out already when he entered the room but I never heard any discussion about how they came to be drugged in the first place. ??? Anyone?
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Apr 11, 2007 11:52 AM
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