Re: Grissom&Sara #20 - Who Cares? The Shirt's Coming Off Any
Sidlreiana_15 the edit button functions for 24 hours, so please use it rather than creating a double post. Many thanks.
And I have to agree with Ziggy here. Where are all the thought-provoking, long, well-thought-out posts we used to have in here? It's becoming very chatty. Let's try and start fleshing out posts a little more and being a little more discursive, okay?
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Now, Zig's topic - Grissom's sabbatical. I'm both worried and not worried about this. He's been absent from episodes before and it hasn't been too big a deal, but this is going to be a couple in a row. And they'll be addressing his absense this time (which I'm really looking forward to)
I don't think him leaving for a while we be as a result of his relationship with Sara. He's been re-evaluating his role in the lab and his life for a while now - remember all those anvils that got dropped in season 6? I think he's got to a point where his job isn't doing it for him anymore. He loves the science and the catching the bad guys, but the other crap - the admin and politics and everything else - is getting in the way.
Also, he loves to teach, but who does he have left to impart knowledge on? Greg is the only one still coming up through the ranks, and Sara took over his early training. Warrick and Nick and Cath have each taught Greg. Grissom isn't the only teacher anymore. Which kind of begs the question - where is his place in the unit?
I suspect that Grissom takes the time to go and try to get his head together. Does his career really still lie in the lab? Would he be better off teaching again? Writing? Researching? Working in the crime lab for as long as he has, playing the role of Sisyphus (he keeps rolling that rock up the hill, but inevitably it rolls back down again and he has to start all over...) he must be feeling the burn.
I think all of this, apart from a great way to write WP out of the show while he goes off to do his play, its also a good gear-up for the end of season, if WP decides to leave the show. Or, as is being rumoured at the moment, if he signs a contract only requiring him to do a certain number of episodes in Season 8. Perhaps Grissom starts to teach at WLVU and only works part of the time in the lab?
Either way, i don't think (or, perhaps, I hope is a better way of putting it) that Sara isn't the reason for him leaving for a while. I have to believe that he is certain of his feelings for her (otherwise, why would he have finally taken the leap to be with her)
I'm hoping for an explanation to her from him of why he is going. I think she will be supportive of that, tell him she'll miss him, but she'll be there when he comes home. I'd also like to see her missing him a little when he's away - not a huge amount, just a tiny little moment where she's lost in thought and it looks like she's thinking about him) And, of course, the reunion. And he's coming back for the Feb Sweeps, so a little kissing action would not be inappropriate... :devil:
Ahem... anyway, that's my two cents worth.
Now, what do you think?