I have watched it lately - I passed on ER a while ago. I think it is a better complement to CSI than CSI: Miami. Anthony LaPaglia is a similar lead to William Petersen, yet nuanced in his own way and does not come across as a carbon copy.
Overall - seeming to be worth it - I will continue to check it out when I can…
Your thoughts?
I stopped watching ER because it was too depressing. I watched this last night and. . . it’s depressing! At least on Without A Trace bad stuff happens to characters I don’t give a happy hoedown about.
I guess I’m better off not watching TV.
Actually, the episode last night (10/17) was the first one in which they did not find the missing person safely. This is good, imho, since if they always found the person it would lose some of the tension. (Sort of how, in CSI, they sometimes don’t find the evidence they need or it turns out not to have been a murder at all.)
I do have a question that maybe someone can answer. The characters in the show are members of the FBI Missing Persons Unit in New York. In last nights episode, two of them travel to Indiana to interview the mother of the missing woman. A few weeks ago, they flew to New Mexico to intercept a missing boy who had been lured there by a pedophile.
Would the members of the New York unit, who are admittedly investigating the case, actually fly to Indiana or New Mexico in these cases, or would they simply contact the local FBI branch or local authorities and have them handle it? Given that they have stressed several times that time is of the essence in a missing persons case, would they really take the travel time when a phone call would be so much faster?
I stopped watching ER after Dr. Green could not get over being stabbed and turned into Mean Dr. Green. That wasn’t the only reason! It just seemed that every bad thing in Chicago (except the Cubs) happened right there in that hospital emergency room.
I do like WITHOUT A TRACE and agree that it makes a dandy companion to CSI. It’s not as good, but I stick around and watch it.