Patrick Sun
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CSI hit the big 1-0 with its return on Thursday night in its usual 9 p.m. EDT timeslot.
I think the show itself was a little "off" last year, and the transition to a post-Grissom (and post-Sara, and post-Warrick) series didn't run as smoothly as they had hoped. So this could be both a subtle way to acknowledge that to the fans (substitute the producers for Catherine), and to set up changes they hope will make the show stronger. Losing Warrick, in particular, which was clearly not planned, caused some problems. I think he would have been one of the characters to pick up the slack for Grissom, and it might well have been Warrick, rather than Nick, who ultimately became the assistant supervisor.I realize that they needed a reason for why they wrote Riley out but was there any serious problems with Catherine's leadership last season?
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Sara seems to be more of a canned / frozen / mean with a microwave type, not a cook by any means. :)
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She's not even that (or at least she wasn't when she was living alone.) In 2.12 ("You've Got Male") Sara compares herself to the wallflower murder victim who shops out of catalogs and has a collection of take-out and delivery menus on the refrigerator door. Even at the end of the episode, when Sara self-conciously tosses all the catalogs and menus in the trash, she doesn't make a move to cook dinner. She calls a friend and arranges to meet him or her at a restaurant.
Not only does it suck, I think it is a stupid move on Paramount's part. The installed base of DVD players is still several times the size of the installed base of Blu Ray players. A widescreen standard def DVD release with the same extras as the Blu Ray version would give a lot of people a reason to double-dip on this set. I know I would buy it. (The existing DVD set is almost extras-free as I recall. Without stopping to check, I think there are only a couple of relatively short documentary segments and maybe one episode has a commentary track.) In this economy I can't justify a Blu Ray player (especially since I'd also have to replace my non-HDMI receiver) or pricey new Blu Ray discs, but I do buy the odd DVD and I'd love to have a CSI season one set that really deserves to sit next to the rest of the seasons on the shelf - which the current one just doesn't.Originally Posted by Nicholas Martin
While seeing CSI season 1 is fantastic in widescreen HD, it sucks that Paramount / Alliance didn't take the step to issue a DVD version.