laguera25 (Livejournal) (laguera25.livejournal.com) has great CSI: NY news, photos, videos and more
If you publish laguera25 (Livejournal) or are a publisher of a great blog, join THE BOXXET NETWORK.
CSI:NY 605: 'Battle Scars'--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Oct 22
I will give the writers credit for having Stella be the one to walk Brooke through the hotel room. As a victim who had her own struggle with piecing together the truth in "All Access", she's perfectly attuned to how Brooke might react. It was a touch of subtlety in an otherwise hammy, dull episo...
CSI:NY 604: 'Dead Reckoning'--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Oct 15
Permit me to erect a statue to your awesomeness in my backyard and do my Boobie Dance of Joy in honor of your beautiful smackdown of Danny "Woe Is Me" Messer. Danny deserves compassion for his pain and struggle, certainly, but he also needed a kick in the ass. Danny is often most comfortable bei...
CSI:NY 603: 'Latitude/Longitude'--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Oct 8
Just because your director and cinematographer are devoted Criminal Minds fanboys who aren't above stealing their techniques, that doesn't make them capable of delivering an episode the quality of most Criminal Minds fare. Why? Because every evildoer, no matter how unhinged or craft...
CSI:NY 602: 'Blacklist'--SPOILERS">
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Fri, Oct 2
You just *had* to inject a heaping dollop of Mactimony into what was promising to be one of your better episodes, didn't you, CSI:NY? Until Mac's closing speech, which I'm sure was designed to reinforce--for the billionth time his blinding awesomeness and utter moral rectitude--I thor...
CSI:NY 601: "Epilogue"--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Sep 24
Dear Danny, Dear Flack, For once, I found myself on Team Lindsay(well, except for the "I took a longshot before and ended up with you" comment, which stopped her laudable momentum like a punch in the face). Danny does need a kick in the ass. and a hard one.
Retirement Suits Me, I Think.
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Sep 10
Since I no longer have tedious, boring term papers leeching my will to put finger to keyboard and am no longer obsessed with the certainty that I'm going to be thrown into the street if I'm not the firstest and bestest with the mostest, my plotbunnies have gone into a frenzy. Hence, the next in...
Sunday Afternoon Hodgepodge for March 8, 2009.
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Sun, Mar 8
I had no idea it was Daylight Savings Time until faylinn_drake mentioned it. I'm glad I figured that out before Wednesday. Oh, the horror of missing my chance to rail at CSI:NY because the clocks were wrong. And anyway, Conrad Ecklie was better at the political game, and whether Grissom, Hora...
Because I Was Bored, I Looked It Up. If Only the CSI:NY Writers' Google Fu Were as Strong
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Sat, Mar 7
NYC marriage licenses are thirty-five dollars, not twenty-five. If a marriage license is acquired outside of NYC, the cost is forty dollars. Additionally, there is a mandatory twenty-four hour waiting period once a license has been issued. That means that it would be absolutely impossib...
Oh, Here We Go--Massive CSI:NY SPOILER
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Fri, Mar 6
I'll say this: If Flack goes, I'm done with CSI:NY. It's not good enough to stand on its own without the snark and the smoking hot manpretty. CSI:NY without Flack is Vegas as performed by the Dunwood Middle School Glee Club and Drama Troupe, or, The Gary Sinise Masturbation Hour. I won't be watc...
Nielsen Gave Me A TV Diary, But Not For My Fannish Emo
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Mon, Mar 2
I was going to clarify my position on the use of Adam Ross in "No Good Deed", but I don't see the point of reheating that pot of hash at this late date, nor do I want to expend the effort of rolling my eyes at the Adam apologists who will immediately leap to his defense.
CSI:NY 516: "No Good Deed"--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Feb 26
I do not, however, want to see him acting like an imbecile for the sake of fan pandering. Adam Ross is shy and quirky, but he shouldn't be behaving as if he'd indulged in a hashish suppository, as he was in various scenes with Mac and Danny. Why is reserved, highly intelligent Adam suddenly redu...
Wow, the Rest of S5 Sounds So Good, CSI:NY! Oh, Yeah, Baby! Harder! Harder!(Is It Over Yet?)
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Tue, Feb 24
As far as Hawkes goes, one line is not enough to go on. I'm sorry, but the writers overtaxed that credit with the Flack, Sr. reference that's been dangling in the fannish consciousness since S1. I can hope that it's a callback to Danny's cryptic comment in S3 about Hawkes needing more shifts. Per...
An Addendum to My Review of 'Party's Over'
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Fri, Feb 20
It's been a while since CSI:NY has stirred debate that didn't revolve around the festering mound of creative offal that is DL, but Danny Messer and his lousy case of the Blue Flu has done it. The hardcore Messer fangirls are resolutely standing by their man, and since I'm a card-carrying, ba...
CSI:NY 515: 'Party's Over'--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Feb 19
NEWSFLASH: Neither are you, Monroe. You transferred in from Bozeman, Montana. And don't act so scandalized and indignant when Hawkes points out that Danny is being selfish and irresponsible by refusing to work with a baby on the way. He's right.
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Tue, Feb 17
PROTIP: If you've managed to throttle the unstoppable killing machine and tether him to a running wood chipper by a length of heavy chain, LEAVE HIM THERE AND RUN AWAY. Do not remove him from the security of his tether and toss him into the lake; nor should you sit pensively on the dock and refl...
CSI:NY 514: 'She's Not There'--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Feb 12
On a minor note, is Ukranian even a language? "Russian" is, but I've never heard of "Ukranian" as a language. If it's not, way to fail and make Hawkes look like a moron, writers. C- This well-intended episode suffered from terminal earnestness. Then again, I guess it's hard to expose the seamy...
Sunday Afternoon Hodgepodge for February 8, 2009
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Sun, Feb 8
I bought seasons 1 and 2 of Night Court and season 2 of Without a Trace last Tuesday and got them all for sixty bucks because they were on Best Buy's "Please Take These Off Our Hands" rack for twenty bucks a pop. Yay! I have fond memories of Bull Shannon and Dan Fielding and Mack. The best episodes w...
A Little Much-Needed Vegging Time
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Wed, Feb 4
Spike TV has been my one-stop shop for all things CSI:NY for nearly two weeks. Every time I turn on the TV, there is Flack in all his glory. I'm hardly complaining, but I've seen the same episodes three or four times this week, and each viewing makes me want to choke Mac "Fear My Double Standard" T...
I Could've Been a Nielsen Household
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Jan 29
Still, it might've been fun to participate in the survey, and part of me wants to just to see what it's like. Then again, maybe not. Things would go smoothly until we reached the Wednesday portion of the survey, and at that point, I'd start frothing at the mouth and screaming invective about th...
Coming Down From Defcon1
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Fri, Dec 5
Now that that's settled, my gleeful ficcing shall resume in the morning, but the next letter is the CSI:NY alphabet will still be a few days in coming because it's Flackcentric, and damn if that pretty man doesn't like the limelight.
I Have a New Toy
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Wed, Dec 3
I bought CSI: Hard Evidence and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix as my games of choice, or tried to, any road. I'd bought a used copy of the latter and got it home to find that the clerk had placed the PS3 version in the 360 case. Roomie is going to exchange it tomorrow.
FIC: A is For Aiden: The Road Not Taken
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Mon, Dec 1
Fandom: CSI:NY Pairing: Implied Danny/Lindsay; gen Disclaimer: All recognizable characters, places, and events are property of Anthony Zuiker, Jerry Bruckheimer, CBS, and Alliance-Atlantis. No infringement is intended, and no profit is being made. For entertainment only.
I Present Virtual!Flack
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Fri, Nov 28
He looks more like Jacob Hood from Eleventh Hour than Don Flack. Actually, he looks like a government agent from Project Zero, a drone who comes in the night with black gloves and a fast-acting tranquilizer and whisks unsuspecting souls away to have probes jammed ruthlessly up their asses...
The Stupidity of the Hive Mind, Flack's Badge, and the Hunt for FrankenFlack
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Fri, Nov 28
Speaking of Flack, rumor has it that the animated Flack from the new PC game is a monument to fug, but I can't find a screenshot to confirm this because I refuse to tax my aging and decrepit OS with another Flash upgrade. Does anyone have a screenshot of FrankenFlack?
CSI:NY 509: 'The Box'--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Nov 27
I say "cheated" here because Danny tells the couple that he "messed things up", which to me indicates a knowledge of wrongdoing on his part. It's possible that Danny considered his liaisons with Rikki "cheating", and probable that Lindsay does as well. Oh, Flack, I love you so.
Another Step on the Road to Middle Age and Pop Culture Obsolescence
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Mon, Nov 24
My only regret is that the new CSI:NY game is PC only; if it weren't, I'd buy it just so I could poke around New York and have virtual!Flack stare at me with his trademark expression of genteel disbelief at the astonishing levels of WTFery displayed by his fellow man. It would be sublime, a poor...
CSI:NY 508: 'My Name Is Mac Taylor'--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Nov 20
This episode, despite its promises to "kill Mac Taylor" was absolutely devoid of suspense. I knew Mac was never going to be in danger, and I also knew that the case would be neatly resolved in forty minutes. The only surprise came when it was revealed that for once, Mac Taylor wasn't the primar...
CSI:NY 507: 'Dead Inside'--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Nov 13
Samantha Flack can guest star any time she wants. Flack received more development in one episode than he has in the previous ninety-seven episodes in which he has appeared. We've seen Flack the cop for five years, but here we saw Flack the man and older brother. He was recognizable but also fab...
CSI:NY 506: 'Enough'--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Nov 6
There was a lovely exchange between Flack and Danny about sibling affections and the limitations of the law in delivering justice. I have no doubt that Flack would kill anyone who attacked his sister, nor do I doubt Mac would do the same. It was a lovely moment, and I can't help but wonder if it i...
CSI:NY 505: 'Cost of Living'--SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Oct 30
That's two strong showings in a row for CSI:NY. Maybe it was because Mac was in a more supervisory role while the rest of the team took front and center, but this case was firing on all cylinders. I'm on tenterhooks about Stella's Greek consulate storyline and want to know why Mr. Tall, Dark, and...
Speculation About Criminal Minds S4 SPOILERS
Original at laguera25 (Livejournal)
• Thu, Jun 19
By La Guera We limpers aren't well represented in media. you get the occasional disabled character, like Doc Robbins on CSI or the short-lived and mysteriously disappeared Dr. Giles on CSI:NY. I suppose if you want to expand your entertainment ...