| Oh my God, what the hell have they done to Neela? I've just watched episode 4 (I think it was episode 4) of s14 and the scene with Neela and Crenshaw where she does that stupid voice/impression/impersonation (whatever it was supposed to be) was so embarrassing I was cringing on Mindi's behalf the whole way through it. So far this season it's like something out of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers - she looks like Neela, she sounds like Neela (most of the time) but she's not acting like Neela at all and after reading here what's going to happen in the next few episodes it doesn't sound as if things are going to improve. Surely most people who had been through what Neela's been through in the last few weeks - almost dying herself in a terrible accident straight after finding out what had happened to Ray, a man whose life has been so entwined with her own for the past few years and who she was just about to start a relationship with - would be suffering from some form of post traumatic stress and taking time to recover from that not doing stupid voices at work. When Michael died we saw Neela alone at home crying as she watched the video message that he'd left for her and then later we saw her again at home on her own looking through some photographs of him. I just wish we could see something like that about Ray, a scene where we get some insight into what Neela's really feeling, maybe with her listening to the CD he made for her, or reading one of his letters, or even writing a letter back to him. |