
- Will this show be about a new situation or an ongoing situation?
- And if it’s ongoing, will the audience just get caught up on the fly, or will there be a new POV character who needs to get to know everybody and everything?
- And if there is a POV character, will he or she then become the lead character, or just a junior member of the ensemble?
“CSI” did a very neat job of cutting this Gordian knot (by shooting it). The pilot is told from the POV of the newest member of the squad, Holly Gribbs, who gets to know everyone and the world of the show …but this is a show about hot-shot experts, and they didn’t actually want a non-expert newbie hanging around after she had done the job of letting us into the world of the show, so they killed her off at the end of the pilot!
(This also let them establish that, though our team would mostly be in lab, they could still face physical jeopardy—Gribbs is killed while at a crime scene by a criminal who has come back to retrieve the evidence he left behind.)
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