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I figure, now that the trailers for my fall shows are starting to hit the web, I should at least make the effort to take a look-see.
The following commentaries may contain spoilers for SVU Season 9 and CSI: NY Season 4.
The following commentaries may contain spoilers for SVU Season 9 and CSI: NY Season 4.
Um…okay. I’m sort of not happy about this, actually.
See, this is what the trailer looked like to me:
Stabler: (gets in a fight with someone and breaks stuff)
Benson: (gets in a fight with someone and breaks stuff – oh, and smacks someone with a book)
Fin: (gets in a fight with someone and presumably breaks stuff, I’m not really sure)
Lake: (exists)
Random victims/suspects/folks: (have loud, poorly-lit, obnoxious sex, which probably breaks stuff)
Munch, somewhere off-camera: This is why we can’t have nice things.
Other first impressions:
1. Munch is not even on camera for the trailer. This is a bad sign.
2. You remember how I said I was okay with the sex scene in “Annihilated”, even though sex wasn’t supposed to happen on SVU? Let me remind you, producers, that I was only okay with it because Chris Meloni took his clothes off it was debatably character-relevant, and it set up the plot development in “Screwed” which I refuse to acknowledge. That comment was not, I repeat NOT, a free pass for you to include VOTW/SOTW sexing as much as you please. There’s no way you can tell me any of that’s necessary.
3. Wow. What with all this action and breaking stuff, are we going to have any time to take cases to court? Or are we just dropping that and assuming that Casey’s doing her job? (Seriously, she’s barely in the trailer either.)
4. I really hope all these guest stars aren’t in all the same episode. That’s gonna get crowded. (And odds are it’ll end up like “Screwed”, where they were chucking guest stars in just for the hell of it.)
5. Verdict: I am not pleased, and I miss the early seasons of SVU. Unfortunately, SVU looks to be going the way of Miami, where the writers/producers/directors crammed the show with so much Action! and Drama! and Poorly Lit Sex! and Breaking Stuff! that they lost sight of what made the show watchable in the first place (as well as turned it from a crime drama into a repetitive hour-long action movie). I really, really hope that’s not the case, since I don’t want to lose another show to The Quest for Better Ratings, but the trailer isn’t at all reassuring.
Well…not as troubling as the SVU trailer. There looks to be a lot of people beating other people up, lots of chasing, and a few gratuitous sex scenes (none of which appear to have Flack in them, much to my relief – I’m not acknowledging the existence of Girlfriend Canon Sue until I have to) – pretty typical of recent New York trailers. Couldn’t see most of it clearly enough to form as many thoughts as I did about the SVU trailer.
But two things stand out to me, and not in a good way.
One: A crime scene on the Statue of Liberty? You are kidding, right? I’m sorry, but I think that’s more disbelief than I can comfortably suspend. It’s going to take some pretty spot-on writing to make me believe this.
You’re also not getting off to a good start by having Danny rappel down the Statue’s face. I don’t know if you noticed, but the Statue’s pretty freakin’ high up. Also, it’s a rather important monument, and as such is going to be treated with the utmost respect and care. If someone has to collect evidence off of it, they’d send a trained professional with a lot of expensive climbing equipment and tell them what to do. They wouldn’t have a CSI with no climbing experience who has recently recovered from a hand injury dangling down there in what looks like pretty flimsy climbing gear. Fail, NY. Two tons of disbelief came crashing down from the ceiling.
Two: Danny saying “Where’s the bomb?”. We just had a bomb in the finale, unless I’m quite mistaken. Must we have another one so soon? Remember, explosions lose their impact when they happen every day!
One more complaint before we’re finished here: Hawkes. Where is he? Why is he not in the trailer at all?
And that’s all for now. Coming up next on Trailer Talk: House, CI, and L&O, so soon as I can find them.
No, I won’t be commenting on the Vegas trailer, as I’ve decided to go the completely spoiler-free route this season. Nor will I be commenting on the Miami trailer. I’m too busy trying to will the Miami premiere out of existence with the powers of my mind alone.
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I know Belz has a lot of side-projects, and I'm almost certain he has a 'play or pay' contract for at least $100K a week, but I'd still like to *see* Munch each week. Throw him a line, for crimeny sake!
I'm writing a second spec script with Munch at the forefront, but it's so discouraging to see him become The Mysteriously Disappearing Detective Munch over the course of the series.
Neal Baer, you can *bite me*!
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XD A ha, "The Mysteriously Disappearing Detective Munch". So true.
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You know, you can be totally scandalous and do, say, "Trailer Trash Talk"; find some trailer trash somewhere and interview them for a journal entry.
Yeah, I'm weird, I know. XDXDXD
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Does a Trailer Trash Barbie count?
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That comment was not, I repeat NOT, a free pass for you to include VOTW/SOTW sexing as much as you please.
--Wholeheartedly agree! There's more than enough of that to go around on the CSI franchise. Tuesday nights are supposed to be my break. Also, show, I didn't think I could ever get tired of Elliot & Olivia, but you know what? Two years of steady watching later, I've been proven wrong. Utilize other characters more, please. And by "other characters," I really don't mean Lake.
NY: I'm still too busy sulking in my corner of No Peyton to care about much else, but...yeah, show, when you match Miami's levels of both Explosion-Happy Action! *and* Ridiculously Unrealistic Job Duties, that's not an accomplishment.
Also, spoiler-free on CSI, WHAT? *pause* You konw, I was going to say that's just unthinkable, and then I realized that CSI spoilers are so difficult to *find* nowadays that I've given up looking. It's sad, really.
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A. I'm insane. I've got professional references.
B. I've been trying to get an agent to sell my SVU spec script to Neal Baer (SVU showrunner), since last November. (I finished it last October, and it's really Munchy!)
I need a miracle to get an agent. You'd think, with as many "Jews pwn Hollywood" conspiracies, I'd be a fricken shoo-in! :)
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I have tried writing scripts on occasion (though not for SVU - I'm not very good at writing interesting cases in any format), but I always end up lapsing back into regular prose within a week or two. I am quite curious about yours, though. :)
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There's more than enough of that to go around on the CSI franchise. Tuesday nights are supposed to be my break.
Exactly, and it makes me angry that now the producers feel the need to include that even though no one wanted it there. CI? TOS? Can I still rely on you for a break from needless screen sex? Awesome.
show, when you match Miami's levels of both Explosion-Happy Action! *and* Ridiculously Unrealistic Job Duties, that's not an accomplishment.
Don't forget the Miraculous Miami Healing Powers, too. Hey, by this season, Aiden might have healed up. She can join Speed's graveyard party.
And...well, I'm not completely spoiler-free for CSI. Mostly, I'm just staying away from the spoiler thread on TalkCSI (which, admittedly, I don't visit often anyway) and not looking at spoilery icons/images/articles for the premiere. I don't care if I know what happens in the episodes after that, but I want Sara's fate to be a surprise.
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