Re: Calleigh & Ryan #7: "You’re fantastic" - CaRWash
I just translate subtitles for last ep on Russian and what i notice (it's probably nothing), but Ryan for Calleigh is always Ryan,not Wolfe. And Eric sometimes is Eric, sometimes is Delko. It's looks like she more closer to Ryan then Eric. Like H never call Ryan and Nataia by they first name because they not that close to him like Calleigh and Eric.
I don't think that sounds crazy and stupid at all. I can't believe that I never noticed that before.
My A Level English teacher was always going on about how important 'Terms of Address' are in understanding the relationships between people/characters. He even came up with a little song about it (to the tune of Ghostbusters). So this is a massive thing to have!
I would say that there are a few ways that this can be interpreted: it would be possible to say that it has more to do with power/authority than closeness. When you are at school, a teacher will call you by your first name, but you will call your teacher 'miss... mrs... mr...' or just 'sir' etc. So, it would be fair to argue that this is simply because Calleigh was, in effect, Ryan's teacher for the first season that he was in. Whereas her and Eric are more on equal terms, authority-wise.
However, it has been a long time since Calleigh was acting as Ryan's 'teacher', and so that argument doesn't necessarily apply to their relationship now.
Calling people by their surnames can be a sign of friendship, but it is also implying that there is only a certain amount of their life that you know/have a part in. While you call them by their surname, it is highly unlikely that anyone in their family, or someone that has known them since they were very young, will be calling them that. Therefore, it implies a certain distance in the relationship. Obviously, sometimes nicknames just stick, and so calling people by their surnames is sometimes an intimate thing, but, in a work place where the majority of people are referred to by their surnames, it seems unlikely. More likely, then, is the idea that, as the characters in the CSI work place become closer, they begin to use first names a lot more. In that respect, they are sharing a part of who they are outside the lab with the others. While most people call Ryan by his surname, and know very little about him outside the lab, Calleigh calls him by his first name, and we know that they have, at least, had a beer together outside the lab. By using first names, they are bringing a part of the world outside the lab into their relationship, and that would seem to imply a closeness that we don't really see that much elsewhere (particularly in Ryan's case).
... Sorry about that.
I got a little carried away.
Aaaanyway.
At first, I thought the prank thing was rather childish
Yeah, I thought that too. I was especially surprised to see Ryan involved in something that happened to him in 'Curse of the Coffin' and really freaked him out.
