OK, well, you can file this one under "Disappointing." If there's one facet of C.S.I. that we could always appreciate, it's that they've rarely delved into that whole "I know what the killer is thinking" scenario that we all got bloody well sick of in the '90's what with Profiler and Millennium. Yeah, on occasion, they'd get close, but they always stayed much truer to the chain of evidence and all those techno-scored DNA tests than to any, like, simpatico-ness between Gus Grissom and whoever was burying people out in the desert. Considering the fact that William Petersen pretty much invented that type of character when he was in Manhunter in the '80's, that's kind of saying something.
Well, no more. Sounds like whoever they're gonna get to replace Peterson after he leaves this season, he will (according to CBS's programming chief, Nina Tassler) have "an interesting genetic profile that in certain sort of medical contexts, they've noticed that many times serial killers have that same genetic profile.... This gentleman knows this about himself and is sort of in this journey and -- and to discover who his true character will ultimately become..."
To which we say: blah. Been there, done that. If we wanted that, we'd be watching Criminal Minds or all that crap on Lifetime. Unless they're hinting that the new guy -- might be Fishburne, might be Malkovich -- is gonna find himself in a Tarantino-style season finale Mexican standoff with Brass, Willows, the Minature Killer, and a resurrected Warrick Brown for the season finale, we are officially a little bummed.
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