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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