Welcome ILoveCSIMuchly! That's a long name. :lol:
Okay now to start the discussion on the eps for this week.
First: Slaves of Las Vegas (Season 2)- We have some classic Greg moments in this one. First it is the scene with him telling Nick about the Liquid Latex and it's uses and leaving you guessing if he ever used it or not. I still think he has.
Then of course the scene with Grissom and Catherine. Him getting a bit excited about the whole S&M thing and Grissom's knowledge of it. Then the classic sharpies in the nose bit. Ahh only our Greg would ever have done that. :lol:
Then another classic scene in Abra Cadavar (Season 3). The Swami scene aka as a homage to
Carnac the Magnificent. I still love the look on his face when he realizes Grissom is behind him. And I love that Grissom does not really say anything to him. Again it is a moment where I just think Greg has simply amused and entertained Grissom. :lol: Then his busted look on his face as Sara starts smirking at him. So adorable and sexy at the same time. :drool:
The main episode for the week is Precious Metal (Season 3). Greg gets to go sort of work undercover in a way, you could say. He got to act like he was interested in selling his coin only to find out if this guy was possibly the killer. His first scene with Grissom and telling him about his coin collecting was a nice little insight into his character, although we've never heard that mentioned again since that episode. I think it is funny how they combined Greg's likes with some of Eric's actual likes when Grissom is listing off what he was into. Really goes to show the character was really sort of modeled after Eric in some aspects.
Of course we saw Greg's excitement about being part of group to bust the killer. But then back in the lab he was reduced to his results on the DNA test proving who the killer was. Granted he prefers the excitement of being out there able to bust the bad guys, but he tended to forget that without half of the DNA results he had given, most of those bad guys would have never been put away. Granted sitting in a lab all day and running tests on machines is not exciting but it was still very important work.
Of course, overall I do prefer Greg out in the field simply because we get to see a more serious side of him. But I would not mind seeing him doing some DNA work still as that was his core job at one time. Not A/V work... :lol:
One thing that I always notice about the first two seasons of CSI, even some of season 3, Greg did more than just DNA. He also did Toxicology and sometimes Trace. He really was a lab tech of all trades. I think the writer's forget sometimes he did all that and really he has that knowledge. Sometimes I feel like they have dummed him down for the benefit of the other lab rats now, but back in the beginning he did half their jobs. He should know about a lot of that stuff without them having to tell him what the results meant. I know overall they do it for us, the viewers, knowledge, but I wish they would say it again. I remember Nick always calling him Einstein. We don't hear that anymore.
I sort of miss it.