September 21, 2006: They're Back....
Ah, haven't you missed those great shots of the Vegas skyline? The smell of stale blood and gunpowder residue? Hodges' smoothly relating everything he does to women, even if only talking about his mother? It must be
CSI in the air. I hope that many of you are going to join me in conversation this season and that
McDreamy hasn't taken you away.
Last season, a lot of people complained that the last few episodes contained more character development than crimes. I hear this season we'll have a good mix of the two, which should excite almost everyone. So in Part 1 of this two-part season-opener, we have a whole mess of crimes, but I was a little torn about the quality. Maybe it's because I've been dumbing it down, watching
Rock Star all summer or
'Til Death and
Happy Hour before this, but I was a bit confused as to what was going on in the first half hour or so. We had the death-defying Cirque du Soleil act with a woman crushed at the bottom, and we had a man in a tuxedo, dead at a party that looked liked a
Panic! At the Disco video. Then, in the 15 minutes after that, everything became clear. Actually, maybe way too clear. The woman dead at the show simply ran backstage with her date and stood in the wrong spot? That's it? That seemed way too easy to solve. At least they had to do something with sesame seeds to find out this was the first time they'd ever seen a suicide where the gun remained in the victim's hand.
The last 15 minutes were the excitement, though. Maybe "excitement" is the wrong word as it's hard to be overjoyed that
Catherine got drugged at a club and apparently raped in a hotel room. And if you saw the preview for next week, something happens with her daughter, so maybe this isn't going to be a good season for Cat. The intriguing case was at the very end, when a guy is found dead and right next to him is a quarter-scale replica of the entire room complete with dead body and blood. That's bizarre and something I'm looking forward to seeing next week.
It certainly was good to see
Brass on the job, too, even if he's not quite mentally ready to be back. It also looks like the most popular discussion from last season is now history.
Nick shaved his hair off. No more talk about his
Clay Aiken look from last season.
Overall, an interesting start to a new season, one in which every episode is going to have to be great to ward off the charging Patrick Dempsey.
