Re: CSI: Season 6 ongoing thread
Oh, there's no question that Sara has been interested in Grissom since she was his student - as I noted above. But it was almost entirely one-sided for a very long time. That Grissom
trusted Sara was evident from the fact that he brought her in from the outside to investigate Warrick's actions. That he probably had to push to keep her on (an experienced CSI from a major police department would command a higher salary than probationary CSI Gribbs, whom Sara effectively replaced) also suggests a personal interest in her. But Grissom was constrained - first by the teacher/mentor-student relationship, then by the supervisor-employee relationship, then by his own history of isolation and the difference in their ages. (Clearly played out in "Butterflied" where a young woman who looks strikingly like Sara is murdered by her older lover.) Catherine saw Sara's interest and also saw that Grissom wasn't going to do anything about it - and warned him that he had to deal with it one way or another. When Sara laid her cards on the table more directly, Grissom made it clear that he
couldn't respond (and thereby necessarily revealed that he'd like to.)
But I don't believe for a second that there was a romantic relationship prior to Sara's arrival at CSI:LV, or at any time prior to "Butterflied" (and probably not for some time after that.)
Quote:
| Now it's just like a freaking soap opera. |
How does one scene in 6 years make it "a freaking soap opera"?
I love TV fans and the Chicken Little that lurks in the heart of all of them. Change one thing in a show, replace an actor, try something different and the reaction is always the same: "The Sky is Falling! We're Doomed! The Show Sucks!" Or (that most tiresome of TV cliches) - "It's officially J*U*M*P*E*D T*H*E S*H*A*R*K!!!!!"
Relax. The writers didn't all suddenly get lobotomized, and neither did producer William Peterson, who certainly knows what makes his show work.
Gradually, over many years, and in the margins of many episodes, we've come to learn a few things about our characters. So what? Did you want
Dragnet where we never saw the character's home lives and neither they nor their relationships changed? Almost every TV show gradually evolves its characters. Professional acquaintances become friends and more over time because that's what happens in real life, too. You may start a job and be all business, but if you work someplace for 6 or 7 years you're going to witness birthdays, and weddings (even if you're not invited) and the birth of children and you're going to start liking some co-workers and disliking others. You're going to learn about them when you work long hours on projects and some you'll hang out with after work and on weekends, and some you won't know what town they live in 6 years into the job. That isn't soap opera. That's reality.
It isn't like the show is going to start focusing on the characters personal lives for 40 out of 44 minutes every week. But their personal lives have
always been a part of the show: Grissom's mother and his hearing problems, Catherine's ex, her daughter, her relationship with Sam Braun, Nick's sexaul abuse, Sara's horrific childhood, Warrick's gambling problem (there in the pilot), Brass and Ellie. The fact that Grissom and Sara are in a relationship is just another one of those personal threads that has always been and will always be part of the background fabric of the show. And the fact that we're trying to figure out how long it has been going on is a tribute to how
unobtrusively the writers have been in setting this up and presumably how careful they'll be in pursuing it.
Regards,
Joe
