Well, it’s official. Laurence Fishburne is joining CSI next season when William Petersen (Gil Grissom on the show) leaves.
I really don’t know about this. I was a fan of CSI in it’s first few seasons, but it started getting so repetitive and unoriginal that I lost interest. Recently I’ve been getting back into it a bit, especially during season 7 with the season-long story arc of the miniture killer, as it brought back a lot of what I liked about the first few seasons. Having every episode be indipendent is great, but there’s something about longer story arcs that tend to keep my interest more.
As for Fishburne’s character, he’s playing a college lecturer that joins the Crime Lab as a level-1 CSI, specializing in criminal psychology, who is fighting with some inner demons as he notices aspects of his own personality fitting with the profile of a killer. It sounds interesting, and I’m sure he’s up for the task, acting-wise (I mean…he’s MORPHEUS, he can do anything…right?), I’m just not sure how well he’ll fit in with the rest of the cast, and the feel of the show.
I guess only time will tell. I’ll be looking out of the premiere of season 9, that’s for sure.
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