Love the comic,
forensicsgirl...We can't blame Sara..."Pin me down" is the magic phrase
WARNING: LONG RANT BELOW
Sarahvma, interesting point about Terri Miller. I am not sure I would put Terri and Sofia in the same category though.
This whole "other women" thing is a very intersting issue for me. Grissom seems to be comfortable and flirty with some women in his life. I think we all agree that this is when he doesn't feel threatened. Terri Miller: close to his age, no subordinacy problems, he admires her work...I don't know, I got the vibe that he genuinely thought she was a good "date" for him. Grissom has no problems courting women if he allows himself. With Sara he doesn't, and I believe there is this whole psychological set of reasons why he doesn't, some of which we discussed many times.
With Sofia, I don't get the vibe that she is "fit" for Grissom. Maybe it is because I always saw her as a plot device. But, for me, she will be "the woman trying to seduce Grissom", unlike Terri who was more his equal.
I can stomach the thought of Grissom and Terri much more easily than I can that of Grissom and Sofia. This is because there are real reasons why Grissom and Terri could work: (closer age, he is impressed by her intellect etc.). I have said many times here that the appeal of GSR for me is that it turns the cliched older man-younger woman dynamic upside down and does not involve seduction based on looks/trading of beauty-brains only. I never got the feeling it was all about youth and appearance with GSR (yes, yes "since he met her", but that's a bonus
). With Sofia, it seems much less deep, and therefore more cliched and unacceptable to me. I would get exactly that vibe from a Grissom-Sofia relationship with all the "in-your-face" young woman-older man flirting. If Grissom yields to Sofia, I am saying, it would lower the character so much in my perspective that I don't think I could really "like" him again.
That said, I don't see Sofia as a threat at all this season. They've tried multiple times, deliberately, to show that he doesn't care. So we should be all good