I have not watched a lot of CSI for a few seasons. I am pretty sure the usual time slot ran against something else I usually watched, and if I had a chance to catch a show or two I would. I liked the show. Never watched it w/ my feminist lens on. There was quite a bit I loved as a not yet feminist/womanist identified woman (I really liked the character Catherine).
There is a channel here that broadcasts a lot of US shows on one ad free channel about mid-season on the Singapore time zone, and it started the newest season, of which I caught last season’s finale. Good a time as ever, I supposed.
(Spoilers ahead)
Another character I genuinely always like, Warick, died. He was gunned down in an alley by a crooked cop high up on the food chain, the Undersheriff. A white guy in a suit, no less. I was extremely disappointed to see the only PoC principle from the show murdered in such a gruesome manner. It made me sad in a way that I can’t describe (and I am one of those people who shamelessly cries during TV shows). I remember seeing Warick pull through a lot of personal trouble, a gambling problem, being framed for murder, and now he just finds out he has a child. It just feels wrong.
As touching as it was to see “The Team” pull together, and to see Sara come back from wherever she went, I can’t help but be gravely disappointed in the decision to kill off the only lead PoC on the show. I don’t know a lot of background or situation w/ the actors, but it just left a foul taste in my mouth.
Any one else see this?
I just got purely sick of the moralizing on that show.
But wtf, they killed of Warick?!!
Admittedly, I haven’t watched it in a long time. It might be in the middle of the Grey’s time slot…I dunno. I used to really really like it, even though it feeds into that “extraordinary dude, plain jane” thing that I hate (why are there no woman leads, personally I would make a great lead star! HA!).
So imagine my dismay when the first time I watch it in over four years (is that how long it’s been?) and they kill Warick.
I personally find it more obnoxious than David Carusoe’s one liners on CSI: Miami. Blech.
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