Cheated by Television Production

The writers' strike has created an interesting issue. They strike, production stops, and we the viewers get the short end of the stick. The writers' strike ended in mid- to late February, production began again, but most shows did not air until the end of March or mid-April. That is about four months without new viewing except for those few shows willing to air then - maybe second stringers who did not make the cut for the last season initially. Eli Stone might be one of those shows.

So now as we come into the mid-May time, season finales are beginning to air. Season finales? After leaving us high and dry from our favourite shows for three to four months they still get to go off the air in May? Oh, no, no, no, I don't agree with that at all. I think we are getting the shaft for something that is not our fault. How is that fair?

It isn't.

I'm re-watching CSI: Crime Scene Investigation now from Thursday, and it's great! In the opening scene, Grissom and David are looking over a body of a famous actress who is wretched. Well, was wretched. Anyway, they found a rubber chicken stuffed in her mouth, and when David pulled it out, he looked at Grissom and said, "What? Nothing to say? Like, 'It's foul play' or 'poultry evidence'?" Since Grissom always closes the opening scene of any episode that way, it was really funny.

Later on they are doing an autopsy, and determined that the COD was something other than strangulation or airway obstruction and when Doc Robbins asked Grissom why the chicken, Grissom replied, "I don't know... for a gag?" Badum-bum.

And then just to make it better, Doc Robbins was going over all of the other things that would have killed her slowly had she not been murdered, and David leaned over, looked really confused and said, "She has no lady parts." (This from a forensics scientist?) Doc Robbins said, "She had a hysterectomy," with scorn, and David asked, "then why is she using this?" and pulled out a jar with clear liquid and a very engorged tampon in it. Doc Robbins replied with a straight face, "For nostalgia?"

Ugh!

Too funny. And they are going to rob me of several episodes because the writers were unhappy and so was the guild that they were striking against? How is that right? I'm not ready to stop watching new episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation yet. Not even close.

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