Re: Grissom&Sara#21 - Cuz Dating Secretly is SO Much Coo
I really didn't think that TV Guide was going to GSR for the ENTIRE layout. I knew they might have a little blurb in there when talking about the show in general, but not the entire article devoted to GSR. Way to go TV Guide, way to go.
Agreed. I was rather surprised that they went that in-depth. I thought they would ask a couple of GSR questions and then be like "So! What's up for the next season" and maybe that would be a page and a side-line snapshot on the front cover.
I'm not saying that TV Guide covering GSR "makes" the ship or "makes" the show for me, but it's nice to see some akowledgement that we weren't the only ones who saw it coming, and that the fanbase is so crazy over it.
Plus? I imagine that the ratings reflect that sudden interest in wanting to know what's happening with the ship, which can't hurt.
ETA
Thought I would post some comments from Billy during a recent interview with the Chicago Tribune (note, these are only comments referring to GSR, so to read the whole thing, go here:
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2006/09/post.html)
"I believe that we [Grissom and Sara Sidle] have had a relationship since I met her before the series started.
“Obviously there was some sort of mentor-protégé relationship that was developed at the very beginning, that Grissom was tenuous about and has been and whatnot. I don’t know exactly when this thing started."
“All the scene was last year was, the audience gets to look through the keyhole for a minute, and go, ‘Oh, [these characters] go home."
"I think they’ve been very careful, because it’s obviously a very dicey situation at work if this was a relationship that was uncovered. And yet, they found themselves together on some levels. We don’t know what levels for sure, you know?"
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But they obviously always have been interested in each other. And there’s an intimacy there. We just thought it was time for the audience to see that there is an intimacy there. We don’t know what it is, I don’t think. I mean, I don’t think anyone knows exactly what’s going on."
“Oh, I do[have an idea of how long it's been going on] I don’t know that the people who are perceiving it do [know], you know? Sara and Grissom know. And they’ve been very careful to avoid anyone else knowing."
Interesting Q&A Bit, so I'll just fast-quote it:
Q: Do you think they’ve been together since she got to Vegas, or do you not want to say when you think this happened?
“Well, does it matter, really?’
Honestly, I would have said, for me personally, no, it doesn’t matter, but for readers and fans and people who’ve emailed me, they’ve really wanted to know.
“But if you invite all your friends to a barbecue and this couple shows up together, don’t you go, ‘Hey, are they together? We know they’re friends? What exactly is it?’ Jorja and I have our ideas about it as actors, but again, the show needs to spool this out. If we’d gotten into this relationship in the second or third year of the show, we’d be done now."
"“If you want a lot of the audience to come with you and be part of the journey, then you have to trust the creators to take you there. And if I say, this is what happened and this is where it’s been and this is where it’s going, then, [the audience might] watch ‘Grey’s Anatomy’!
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I’ll give you an example – TV Guide desperately wanted to do a cover of me and Jorja, for the premiere week. I was a little against it, but then we decided we’d do it, but we wouldn’t do it as if there was some sort of other thing beyond what we do [for a living]."
AAK. There's just WAY too much, he goes on about his feelings on GSR for buckets and buckets. My advice? Skip the article and just go straight to the Q&A. It contains all of what was said without the interviewer cutting in with other comments of his own, or quotes from the other CSI crew people (Naren, CM from older interviews)
PS - it sounds like he's not coming back next year, guys.
