Yeah, Lynn, I know what you mean. I was looking forward to seeing him in the new episodes the entire summer. All that time I was hanging out on the forum with no idea he wasn't going to show up when the show started again. TPTB should have been upfront and said that he wouldn't be back. And yes, I hope DLS gets to be in a new show. I just wish he could still play Rick Stetler in it.

And the Horatio/Julia storyline. Ugh. I didn't mind her when they had her as a baddie, but then to all of a sudden have her be bipolar so all the fans are supposed to feel sorry for her--ridiculous! I write fiction, too, and my writing partner had to stop watching the show because she gets this horrible reaction to both Julia and Kyle. They make her ill. LOL. She knows I laugh about her reaction to them. She calls them Madame Plastique and the Weasel. LMAO. But they have forced those characters on us. But even with them in the show, I would've put up with almost any bad storyline as long as I got to see Rick in episodes. And the interesting tension *ahem* between him and Horatio.