Without a Trace Curbwatch

I have decided to give Without a Trace one more episode. If there isn't a dramatic improvement by then, it will be time to say goodbye to that show. I started watching for the cases, and in the past two seasons, I've been barraged with ineffectual personal drama and storylines that defy credibility. And I refuse to be mired in the Elena/Danny/Drunken Ex drama that they so clearly want to explore.

Cold Case, however, gets major kudos for balancing drama with personal development. The case was predictable, and the artist-themed gimmick they've championed of late is irritating, but seeing the captain playing Grandpa to a four-year-old was priceless. It gave a brief glimpse into the personal without beating the viewer into numb insensibility.

A second pimp for Part VII of Danse Macabre.

In Which I Explode on TalkCSI. Again.

I'm likely going to hurt some feelings or bend some noses out of joint with this post, but it's my LJ and I'll wank if I want to.

Fruitbat on TalkCSI is an idiot. A blithering, simple-minded dimwit. Why? Observe:

Earlier today, she made a post pontificating on why everyone was so bemused by Mac translating Nostradamus from French. I replied thusly:

I don't recall anyone having a big fap over Stella being familiar with dance, and I, for one, was glad to see her have an outside interest. As one who is routinely critical of the burgeoning phenomenon of Super!Mac, my irritation stems from the fact that not only does he have a basic knowledge of all the subjects you mentioned and then some, but he seems to be an expert in all of them as well. Doesn't the spoiler say it's 15th-century French, or am I mistaken? If so, that's not something you pick up in high school or basic training.

Add to that the constant, niggling reminders of Mac's moral infallibility, and it strains credulity. Nobody is that consistently perfect, and it makes Mac look like a smug ass. Not like he needs much help there.

An opinionated post, yes, but nothing I haven't said before ad nauseam, and I made no claims to the majority opinion.

Fruitbat replies:

Excuse me but where has it been pointed out that Mac was perfect? He has been wrong and has misjudged a few times. None of the characters are perfect, if they were then there were would be no cases to solve or they would be solved in a few minutes. As for the Stella comments I dint say there was a flap, just that comments were passed on a couple of threads after that ep that the CSI's had to know about everything and used Stella knowing the dance steps as an example.

As for Nostadamus I didnt get him in school, Scottish schools don't go in much for his stuff. I got interested after watching a ducumentary. His book Les Propheties was first published in 1550's.

As far as I know, nobody has explicitly commented on Mac's "perfection but me, though others have made jokes about him adding yet another notch to his superhero utility belt. It was just my considered opinion, but Fruitbat thinks I was claiming a majority consensus or canonical truth.

I lose my temper here:

Jesus Christ. I sodding did, because it's my opinion that the powers that be would have us believe that Mac can do no wrong. Other people have noticed Mac's occasional and ever-increasing lapses into moral superiority as well, though most of them take the tongue-in-cheek approach.

I'm sorry if you don't like my opinion, but I have just as much right to complain about him as you do to like him.

Fruitbat takes me to task for my "rudeness":

Well excuse me for not agreeing with you! I was just commenting that I did not say that Mac was perfect. And I was using him as an example as well as Grissom and Stella. Sorry you dont like my POV but as you point out we can all have our say and I do not see the need to be rude!

I don't see the need for her thick-headed idiocy, but I was smart enough to keep my ill-tempered yawp shut on that count. Gah. She asked a question, I answered with my thoughts, and her field of consideration was so narrow that she mistook it for me putting words in her mouth.

When it comes to Talk, it's getting harder and harder to keep a civil tongue in my head. Between the pudding-headed trollery of CSIxviper, the constant simpering of Lindsay apologists who take every criticism as Anna-bashing, and the monopolization of the Eddie Drool Thread by teenies Tristianna and AnastaziaxMarie, I think I need a vacation from the boards until the new episode airs.