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Hardly seems worth the time for Paul/Brass to fly out to Hollywood from his east coast home for just 3 minutes on screen.  They really do need to give him more of a role in all of the episodes.

Too bad they didn't give Brass more time - he should have had more than Finn and Hodges.

CgrGrl - I sometimes think tptb hate all of the original cast and would like to get rid of them.

True - and and that was the 'ensemble' style they used in those days - unlike recent seasons.

Reflection of it being an ensemble production in the early days was the fact that there were usually two cases at the very least, often three so that we had different pairings almost every week with all of them involved in pretty substantial roles.  Now they seem to all work only one case at a time and one or more of the characters has such a minor role he or she might as well not be there.  This is more a cast that is led from the top down even when DB has a less important part to play.

Surprise - I didn't think Sara had that much time.  And I thought Morgan had more than four.  Very interesting.

Surprised that DB had so little time.  Thought he had a bit more than that.  Nice to see the the three left of the original team get the major share.  They do need to use Doc and Super more; also need to get Brass back into the swing.  He's just too often gone or not given enough screen time when he is there.  I wonder if there's a major Nick or Greg episode upcoming this season.  That would be nice.  So far there hasn't been much about what is coming up.

c-j - That's how a lot of us feel.  They used to throw in a word or two about the back stories but now they seem to concentrate more on the angst of the relationships, especially GSR,  than the forensics and the ignore Nick and Greg who both ought to have homes and families by now.  Don't want anything like we had with DB and his family problems, but back to the 'once-in-a-while' facts about their lives outside the lab.