#I've rebooted and recycled a few of them even

[cosmindart]

i feel so bleh

[kim-ruzek]

I really wish the three shows OC get new showrunners/ writers. They are successful but need some creativity and some new leads to keep going on strongly. OC survived popular & original characters exiting, so there's not a huge risk, but now they are just messes. fire,Taylor sudden leave just exposed how fire have been mostly revolving around Stella and Kelly and pd centric episodes without continuously and always about tormenting the character not once about their skills or how good as cops.

They've been recycling stories killing the parent & adoption or just exploring one thing about the characters,keeping the character one dimension like Will Med every season he goes against orders with good intentions, Sharron fighting for the hospital always winning, Voight PD every he covering up a murder to protect someone or the unit, platt has the same lines for the last 3 seasons, Upton centric episodes are all the same she got tormented, injured, keep going one then save herself.

I mean they all somewhat have. Those issues are less about creative direction and more to do with the formula. Granted, the writing for all could be done so much better, and that is very much an issue so I agree there but they have had new people.

For me it's not even necessarily going against their usual story cycles, they could follow the same beats over and over, as long as there's character development within that, and still be entertaining to watch if the creative mind behind it was right.

I am wondering about the longevity of these shows now. I think med will begin limping on it's last leg. Fire, if Sylvie, Mouch and Kelly all leave, could probably still go on but it'll be a new era of the show (like season 1-12 of svu compared to 13+). PD is a police procedural so that'll take a while to be limping on it's last leg and potentially has the greatest chance to go on longer than the others, especially if fire fumbles losing all three but it'll probably become more like every other cop show.

I mean they all honestly need somewhat soft reboots, especially pd and med. Fire is the outlier because it depends on the actor's future with the show. And that doesn't necessarily mean they need new blood, just to refocus a bit. Which I've been begging them to do for ages now but they never will, especially with all the budget cuts.

Whatever the longevity of the shows though I am seriously considering my future watching. PD I'll be sticking with because even though I still have critisms, I have had a renewed love for it with Sigan at the helm and I'm hoping that the writing is just going to keep getting better and better instead of stagnating at the already done improvements.

Med I'm not interested in watching again now all the characters I adored are gone. Will was the reason for my remained tertiary interest in it but now he's gone there is no reason for me to even have that vague interest.

Fire it greatly depends on the actors. If all three leave, I can't imagine myself watching again, at least not for a few seasons. It might get to a point like with SVU or even Grey's anatomy where I'm bored and need something to watch/miss my comfort show (svu) and tune back in, but that does depend if they manage to bring a new vibe to the show in the absence of their old regulars. Honestly, even if just Kelly and Sylvie exit I might not watch again. If it's just Kelly I'll probably watch like I did this season, just a few episodes here and there that look promising Sylvie/Violet wise if anything.

I have so many ways these shows could improve themselves, especially PD and it is frustrating that it's so obvious and so needed but that the showrunners/writers/producers/network is stifling so much of the show's potential. And as much as I have hope for the future seasons of PD because of season ten has shown an uptake in quality, I know in my heart that it will never fix itself in the way it can and should.

Thank you for asking! I'm not sure if I answered this in the way you was meaning but I hope you got something out of it! 💖

[addictedtostorytelling]

Hey there! Been enjoying your ep-by-ep reboot gifsets! Since it looks like you might be rewatching the reboot (or at least combing it for footage) I'm curious: have you noticed anything new? I know when I rewatch a movie or show that means a lot to me (even, or maybe especially, one I've seen a million times) I tend to always notice or focus on something different. Salt welcome! But the neutral/positive/miscellaneous is as well!

hi, @clintbeifong!

thank you for your kind words! i'm glad you've been enjoying the gif series.

so, uh���

confession: i have rewatched very little of the reboot even doing this latest project. 

a lot of the gifs are ones that i made previously and am now just recycling into the new sets, and even of the ones i’ve made new, entirely "from scratch" (complete with freshly clipped video from the show to work from), i've only really rewatched the individual scenes themselves and nothing much around them.

the truth is, since gsr was the only part of csi: vegas i actually enjoyed, and, even then, i was infinitely less interested in their work on the hodges case than just their interactions with each other, i haven't really been able to bring myself to revisit the reboot at large just yet.

i’m in it for the cute middle-aged marrieds™, and that’s about it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

that so, there’s not much i can speak to in terms of new observations.

like.

i’ve noticed a few little visual parallels between the reboot and the original series here and there, but nothing especially significant or revelatory.

certainly nothing related to narrative.

of course—and here’s the salt—i suspect that even if i were to actually sit down and rewatch each episode in sequence, taking good notes, there might not be a lot there to notice, as, frankly, the story itself is underwritten/sparse. there’s just not much going on with it, either in the macro sense, with the hodges case overall, OR the micro sense, with the individual characters. everything is so superficial and one-note that there just aren’t “hidden depths” to plumb or subtexts to be read into or character developments to analyze. it’s pretty much a “what you see is what you get” kind of deal.

that said, with what very minimal, "just the gsr interactions" rewatching i actually have done, my main takeaway is just how impressed i am with the texture billy and jorja managed to give grissom and sara’s marriage—which is something i’d appreciated before, too, but which now seems even more impressive to me, the more that i think about it.

as they both talked about in their bts spots leading up to the reboot, they’d really never gotten the chance to play grissom and sara as a happy, stable, committed couple with their relationship “out in the open” before, so what they were doing for the reboot was in many ways new to them.

returning to a character after years spent away would be a hard enough challenge just by itself, but bringing something new and believable to your performance—taking something that had previously been hinted at and making it explicit in a way that feels organic and substantive—to the degree that they did is just wildly impressive.

there’s just no question that the grissom and sara we see in the reboot are “old marrieds” who’ve spent just about every waking moment of the last six years on a tiny boat together.

they feel so worn into each other, so comfortable around each other.

there’s just no hesitation between them.

and it’s not like we get that sense because we get to see a preponderance of deep, emotional moments with them, because really we don’t.

their almost total lack of personal storyline denies us anything more than just the hug in episode 01x03 “under the skin,” the ring return in episode 01x08 “pipe cleaner,” the kiss in episode 01x10 “signed, sealed, delivered,” and a few other scattered comfort moments here and there.

it all just shines through in the quiet, everyday interactions between them—the little affirming glances, the subtle nonverbal communication, the way they play off of each other, how they anticipate each other’s moves.

it has almost nothing to do with what’s in the script (which is again, next to nothing); it’s all in the portrayal that billy and jorja bring and what they imply, which is just so wonderfully, classically gsr, plus that little bit of “we’ve been together forever by now” extra sauce.

anyway.

among all of the other stuff about the reboot that i don’t enjoy—including how very much the whole production feels like a “first draft” as opposed to a “finished product”—i do appreciate getting to see this incarnation of my otp, where there’s just so obviously so much history and knowing between them as a couple.

it’s very validating.

thanks for the question! please feel welcome to send another any time.