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John Kelly Versus Horatio Caine, or, Who Brought in the Xerox Machine?
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gairid commented to my last post that she'd like my thoughts on John Kelly, the character played by David Caruso in NYPD Blue. She wanted to know how he compared to Horatio Caine, and the answer is that there is little difference. Caruso uses the same gestures, phrasing, and tone of voice as he does with Horatio. Given CSI:Miami's increasingly frequent references to Caine's past in New York, a morbid part of my mind wondered if they weren't going to intimate that Caine was Kelly and had simply assumed a new identity to escape his past. I doubt it'll ever happen, of course, given the minefield of copyright and character ownership in Hollywood, but I like the idea, and if anyone wants the plotbunny, it's free to a good home because my hutch is criminally overcrowded as it is, and I loathe Caine.
I was worried for the first few episodes of S2 that they were molding Bobby Simone into Kelly 2.0, but Jimmy Smits quickly made the character his own and, quite frankly, demonstrated quite the devious streak with the mentally unstable Miss Novak. It was more than a little repulsive, actually, but I still like him, and I can't shake the feeling that he's headed for trouble with Miss Russell, the closet boozer and alarmingly easy lay. One dinner and they're rolling in bed. Gag. I realize it's not the repressed and repressive Victorian Era anymore, but a single date? I felt the same way when the Flack spoilers emerged. Why can a fictional relationship not be granted legitimacy until the pairing has bumped uglies? Good Christ.
Flack brings me to the latest spoilers for CSI:NY. As of Episode 405, it appears that Peyton has opted to remain in London, leaving Mac bereft. As a non-shipper, this pleases me, but on the main, it makes no sense. If this were their cunning plan all along, then why not break them up for good back in mid-season three, when they had their tete a tete over the Hand Slap Incident? I can only surmise that Claire Forlani is too busy having honeymoon sex to care about filming. Either that, or the producers were too cheap to pay her and Miss Plastic Happy Tits, so rather than go with an established storyline, they opted for the-they think-short-term hotshot of Flack's rich, "drop dead gorgeous" girlfriend. Oh, smooth.
Some of the scenarios proposed by fans for Peyton's possible dramatic return leave little doubt as to why TPTB are slowly devolving it into CSI:NY Turns. "She's pregnant, OMG! Dying, OMG! Pregnant AND dying, OMG!!!!eleventy!!" No. No. Just fucking stop. Take your sticky hands out of your pants and go watch the Soap Network instead. Or write fix-it fiction like the rest of us. At least then, it will be available only to those who want it rather than inflicted upon the fanbase at large. With such perspectives on the loose and available to lurking producers and writers, I'm not optimistic about the show's direction, and I'm growing more certain that S4 will be my last.
gairid commented to my last post that she'd like my thoughts on John Kelly, the character played by David Caruso in NYPD Blue. She wanted to know how he compared to Horatio Caine, and the answer is that there is little difference. Caruso uses the same gestures, phrasing, and tone of voice as he does with Horatio. Given CSI:Miami's increasingly frequent references to Caine's past in New York, a morbid part of my mind wondered if they weren't going to intimate that Caine was Kelly and had simply assumed a new identity to escape his past. I doubt it'll ever happen, of course, given the minefield of copyright and character ownership in Hollywood, but I like the idea, and if anyone wants the plotbunny, it's free to a good home because my hutch is criminally overcrowded as it is, and I loathe Caine.I was worried for the first few episodes of S2 that they were molding Bobby Simone into Kelly 2.0, but Jimmy Smits quickly made the character his own and, quite frankly, demonstrated quite the devious streak with the mentally unstable Miss Novak. It was more than a little repulsive, actually, but I still like him, and I can't shake the feeling that he's headed for trouble with Miss Russell, the closet boozer and alarmingly easy lay. One dinner and they're rolling in bed. Gag. I realize it's not the repressed and repressive Victorian Era anymore, but a single date? I felt the same way when the Flack spoilers emerged. Why can a fictional relationship not be granted legitimacy until the pairing has bumped uglies? Good Christ.
Flack brings me to the latest spoilers for CSI:NY. As of Episode 405, it appears that Peyton has opted to remain in London, leaving Mac bereft. As a non-shipper, this pleases me, but on the main, it makes no sense. If this were their cunning plan all along, then why not break them up for good back in mid-season three, when they had their tete a tete over the Hand Slap Incident? I can only surmise that Claire Forlani is too busy having honeymoon sex to care about filming. Either that, or the producers were too cheap to pay her and Miss Plastic Happy Tits, so rather than go with an established storyline, they opted for the-they think-short-term hotshot of Flack's rich, "drop dead gorgeous" girlfriend. Oh, smooth.
Some of the scenarios proposed by fans for Peyton's possible dramatic return leave little doubt as to why TPTB are slowly devolving it into CSI:NY Turns. "She's pregnant, OMG! Dying, OMG! Pregnant AND dying, OMG!!!!eleventy!!" No. No. Just fucking stop. Take your sticky hands out of your pants and go watch the Soap Network instead. Or write fix-it fiction like the rest of us. At least then, it will be available only to those who want it rather than inflicted upon the fanbase at large. With such perspectives on the loose and available to lurking producers and writers, I'm not optimistic about the show's direction, and I'm growing more certain that S4 will be my last.