CSI Shocker: Laurence Fishburne Out!

#goodbyecsi

Maybe he can send his wife in his place. I could do with some full-time Gina Torres.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! The show can become about the team again not the Laurence Fishburne Show. I hope they bring in somebody well neough known but not a massive movie star type name to where they have to build the show around this said person.

Good! He made csi very hard to watch the last couple of seasons.

I see people saying Goodbye CSI if anything i think this will rejuvenate the show as i no many peopler hated how much focus was put on LF myself included.

Hey, CSI, Chris Meloni is available.

I’ve found CSI rather hard to watch with him. He just doesn’t possess the same gravitas Billy Peterson had. With Fishbourne, vets were often relegated to the background. George Eads hasn’t had a real storyline in years, nor has Eric Szmanda, and there has been far too little of Jorja Fox. The last two seasons have almost seemed forced, as if to push Fishbourne as the savior of CSI or something. Other shows have survived and even thrived after their lead left (calling Criminal Minds), but CSI hasn’t. Perhaps with finding new cast members and a new timeslot will change things.

I’m neither surprised or upset! Mr Fishbourne really never clicked on the show.

Well, it was a new an different experience having him on the show, but I can’t say I’m sad to see him go. This opens up a door for something or someone else, so I’m interested in seeing how they’ll cope. I’ll still be watching, 12 years strong!

This actually made my day! I was starting to give up on the show, but hopefully now with Fishburne gone, it will get better. He was getting WAY to much screentime for someone who joined the cast just 2 and a half years ago. It was basically a show about Ray!

I totally agree. Didn’t like his character or how the show was all about him. I will come back now he is leaving. And 1 person can make a difference in the show and who watches.

Whether it was Fishurne’s decision or the writers to have him “act” exactly like Grissom is unknown to me. However, I felt his character was too “know-it-all” for a new CSI and, yes, they did shift all the focus to him. His character/performance was just very annoying! Have enjoyed the show since season one, but every time I would watch, since he joined the ensemble, I would say, “I can’t stand Ray!!!” I for one am thrilled his character is going. I remember reading that they had lost viewers when he joined the cast and I realized why in short order.

And to James, your comments are the most disgusting and racist I have had the displeasure to read. It is a sad little person, with a sad little mind, that is filled with such contempt and self-hatred that they need to make such horrid comments. This IS NOT the forum for that! You should be ashamed of yourself.

This could explain why the penultimate episode had a cliffhanger feel to it while the finale felt more like first-episode-of-the-season follow-up to the cliffhanger, with Haskel dead and the ep focusing on the investigation of what happened.

It cracks me up everytime I hear viewers/fans say they want a specific character to return to a show when it was that actor who left – not the character being taken off canvas by the producers. William Petersen wanted out. He’s not coming back. I’m a huge Grissom fan but you can’t put blame on Fish for his absence nor the direction the writers and producers went with his character. I actually liked this season but I didn’t see where they could take Ray after this. I was hoping at the end he would confess and do time or resign and go join his ex-wife. Now those look more like possibilites.

I agree that Chris Meloni would make a great addition, providing the writers and producers remember it’s an ensemble show. Don’t put the weight on Meloni or whoever joins.