howdy doody folks, hope you're all gearing up for a fun All Hallows bwah hah haaah! i'm playing a gig in london in fancy dress on the day itself, can you believe it?! :lol:
as for this week's epi, i thought it was a good, all round csi story with solid preparatory bits for Grissom's Way To Go out
i'm going with the pro-riley brigade too, as i think she is a properly unique character and will add some much needed diversity to the group - especially with the loss of 3 strong, fundamental links in the csi chain (post 9.10).
i liked the fact that hodges helped everyone out in little ways here as well - trying to make grissom feel better about his mistakes, not making comments about seeing greg in counselling, and even telling the shrink about hank! Poor old hank - he misses his mummy, that's obvious if you ask me
just like his master.
we can see the cracks really showing in grissom now, like just before his sabbatical... i wondered if he might go slightly loopy during that interview with the murderer (yuk he was properly creepy) - it felt in the end like he was just holding on to his patience by a thread.
as for someone to talk to... surely it's going to end up being LH? (can't avoid knowing that she's going to be in a future epi, no matter how spoiler free you try to be!!!). i believe they are just good friends and he has been there for her when she has fallen apart - twice. i am hoping she will give him insight into sara and get him to understand and wake up. after all, in TGTB&TD there was that nice interaction between sara and LH where they showed they are similar in some interesting ways (their strong characters and approaches to life, leading to certain types of men having a hard time with them).
i would love it to be sara that he talks to, but i think he still has issues in himself to reconcile before he can accept what has happened and finally, fully open up to sara. we know that, despite them getting together, he has still been pretty crappy in some ways(!) like not telling her directly that he loves her for one!!! and crumbs - she waited 8 YEARS for him to pull his finger out so he really owes her some decent attention and care.
run away to the galapagos, that's what i say!