Watching CSI

It’s taking a me a few days to step back and offer some evaluation of The Good The Bad and The Dominatrix.

I’ve been trolling the internet and have seen everything from rabid Grissom/Sara shippers feeling hurt and disgusted by Grissom’s behavior to rabid Grissom/Lady Heather shippers feeling elated and thrilled with Grissom’s attentiveness.

I certainly can see both sides. It’s hard but I can see them.

I’ve looked at the clips over and over again trying to see what cooler heads seem to be seeing. That Grissom is just caring for a friend. That Grissom was trying to keep her from killing herself blah blah blah…

While all of that may be true. The sticking point for me was that Grissom, once again, does not consider his significant other. The bottom line is that he failed to include Sara and that just stinks.

There’s been a lot of talk about Grissom Sara conversations off screen and that may have happened but I can only operate off direct information and inferences made on screen. My TV vision is telling me that Grissom did not consider Sara when he started spending vast amounts of time with someone, that at the very least, he has history with. This isn’t old friend Catherine, this is a woman he had some romantic feelings for.

That whole conversation in the lab where Sara supposedly gave him permission to check on his friend clearly shows a hurt Sara. How hurt is certainly up for argument. But she was hurt and I’m baffled by any other interpretation. Just as I’m baffled by Grissom not stopping her before she walked out of the room. The Grissom we saw is very different from the Grissom we’ve seen with Sara over the season. Sure he’s not overly demonstrative but he does value his relationship with Sara-or so I thought.

I’m not a Lady Heather hater. Never have been. I’m not particularly moralistic about her lifestyle or behavior. I don’t think of her as a glorified prostitute though she very well may be one. There were times I found her character intriguing and she found her way into a fanfic or two of mine.

That being said, Lady Heather had been overused in some very preposterous ways and it’s just getting old. I’m really irritated with our cool headed Grissom being knocked off his game over and over again whenever she arrives.

We’ve never seen Sara knock him off his game and he’s supposed to love her. Hmmmmm well now something just occurred to me.

Maybe all that stammering and not sending letters and stilted conversation is Grissom being off his game-with Sara.

What do you think?

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AFTER THE LARGEST DRUG SEIZURE IN NEW YORK HISTORY, THE CSIs WORK TO SAVE THE LAB WHEN A DRUG LORD’S CREW TRIES TO RETRIEVE THEIR CONTRABAND, ON THE THIRD SEASON FINALE OF “CSI: NY,” WEDNESDAY, MAY 16

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“Snow Day” — Following the largest drug seizure in city history, Mac, Stella and Hawkes are forced to save the lab when, in an elaborate heist, a drug lord and his crew descend upon the CSI’s vault to retrieve their merchandise, and two CSIs are held hostage, on the third season finale of CSI: NY, Wednesday, May 16 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:

Det. Mac Taylor: Gary Sinise
Det. Stella Bonasera: Melina Kanakaredes
Danny Messer: Carmine Giovinazzo
Lindsay Monroe: Anna Belknap
Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Hill Harper
Det. Don Flack: Eddie Cahill

RECURRING CAST:

Dr. Sid Hammerback: Robert Joy
Adam Ross: A.J. Buckley
Dr. Peyton Driscoll: Claire Forlani

GUEST CAST:

Colm Gunn: Shane Brolly
Jackie Doyle: Tom Archdeacon
Bobby Maloney: David McSweeney
Sean Kelly: Chris Monberg
The Professor: Rob Zabrecky
Billy Morrison: Tom McComas
Reporters #1: Gina St. John
Reporters #2: Michael McLafferty

Written by: Executive Producers Peter M. Lenkov and Pam Veasey

Directed by: Duane Clark

RATING: TV-14-V

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Sqeeeeeee. This promo looks like something worthy of a big screen movie. Danny and Lindsey doing the nasty. Mac kicking some bootay. Sheldon running and with a firearm. Go Doc. Oh yeah this is going to be sooooo good. I can’t wait.

Drug king pins you don’t know who you are messing with.

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Notice how Calleigh and Delko are contrasting? She’s pale and has on black. He’s dark and has on white. Didn’t Horatio have that shirt on last episode?

Thanks for Modern Gallery for the stills. They rock.

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Who’s that kissing Calleigh? What officer is down? Haven’t been been through this before? Yes Calleigh you might trust Eric with you life but do you trust him with your heart?

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WHEN HORATIO AND THE TEAM CATCH AND JAIL A SERIAL KILLER SUSPECTED OF KILLING YOUNG WOMEN AND BRANDING THEM WITH A ‘Y,’ THEIR CLOSED CASE IS SUDDENLY REOPENED WHEN THE KILLINGS BEGIN AGAIN, ON THE FIFTH SEASON FINALE OF “CSI: MIAMI,” MONDAY, MAY 14

Includes Scenes Shot on Location in Miami

“Born to Kill” — When a serial killer suspected of killing young women and branding them with a ‘Y’ is caught and also identified as having the extra Y chromosome, the ‘criminal gene,’ the team feels that they have closed their case until the killings begin again. On the fifth season finale of CSI: MIAMI, Monday, May 14 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS: Horatio Caine: David Caruso
Calleigh Duquesne: Emily Procter
Eric Delko: Adam Rodriguez
Alexx Woods: Khandi Alexander
Ryan Wolfe: Jonathan Togo
Det. Frank Tripp: Rex Linn
Natalia Boa Vista: Eva La Rue

RECURRING CAST

Valera: Boti Bliss

Written by: Ann Donahue, one of the executive producers & Sunil Nayar, one of the co-executive producers

Directed by: Karen Gaviola

RATING: To Be Announced

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Shudders. Check out Sara’s hand twitching. Spooky.

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Soo William Petersen doesn’t think Grissom feels bad about the whole Lady Heather thing? Yeah I don’t even know what to say about that.

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Two of our favorite CSIs will be be presenting at the of Country Music Awards. Me loves some photo ops. It’s always fun to see what they will be wearing.

The 42nd ANNUAL ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS ceremony honoring
country music’s top talent as well as the industry’s hottest emerging
talent, will be broadcast LIVE from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas
on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 8:00 PM live ET/delayed PT on the CBS
Television Network.

Gary and Eric rock the Museum of Television & Radio Honors Leslie Moonves and Jerry Bruckheimer in October of 2006

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Looks like everyone is holding their own.

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Sorry I didn’t get this up earlier. I actually missed it. This is nice little chat with John McEnroe along with Melina Kanakaredes and Gary Sinise. Stella telling Mac that he doesn’t play politics very well sounds like Catherine talking to Grissom. I don’t guess any of our three leading men do the political scene very well.

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Thanks to Black Tie Affair and Ricker.

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This article talks a little bit…well a lot about the various locales. Heres a snippet which explains the premise for Vegas during the first season. Apparently it wasn’t supposed to be so… Vegasy, Actually it wasn’t. The stories could happen mostly anywhere. Of course that all changed later.

The rest of the article can be found

Here

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. When series creator Anthony Zuiker, who lives in Las Vegas, received the go-ahead for the original “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” it included a caveat from his bosses at Jerry Bruckheimer Television: America’s gambling capital could be a backdrop, but the setting shouldn’t be too location-specific.

“The signature shot of strip was to say We’re in Vegas, but we’re not,’ ” said “CSI” executive producer Carol Mendelsohn. “The story could happen anywhere.”

The first season, in 2000-01, generally stayed true to that premise. But Las Vegas started to become prominent the next year — one episode featured Lady Heather the dominatrix in a look at the seedy side of Sin City.

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Okay so I didn’t think it was possible but CSI Miami, in it’s wonderful cheesiness, has actually made me care about Ryan Wolfe. A dressing down by Calleigh will do that for you. I appreciate the fact that she ran down all his issues and made him really look at ALL the crap he’s pulled. And our Ryan has pulled some crap.

Ryan has had a number of issues since he replaced Speed. He started out as a straight arrow and went strictly downhill after that. He’s done everything from fib about the condition of his eye after the accident to leak information to a reporter he thought was cute

While Ryan’s “doesn’t this job ever get to you” conversation with Calleigh certainly doesn’t justify all of his bad judgment it does help to explain some of it. Wolfe jumped from patrol to CSI without much of a blink.

What I’m not clear on is what Horatio plans to do to help Ryan. Then again it’s CSI Miami. I don’t have to understand all the time I just have to enjoy most of the time.

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