Re: Grissom&Sara #23 - Hot, Butt-Kicking, Chainsaw Wielding
Holy Hell are you serious? That's kinda ridiculous. She hardly even looked at it. Not only that but she says "hey you missed one" but um, he didn't miss it. He just wasnt finished. There were like a crapload of other missing ones, lol. Either way, what a coincidence that the word was misanthrope.
I think that she canned the list of clues and one of the clues was misanthrope - not the answer.
I totally agree. Him quoting that particular line didn't have double meaning, it was probably just...the sentence he was on. And she was teasing him, but when it came down to it she was still rather serious. It probably didn't really hurt her feelings too deeply, but it seemed to kinda smart her. So she shook it off and teased him a bit to let him know how she felt... without getting melodramatic. She's incredibly tolerant of his lack of tact in the relationship department.
I'm going to say this scene was an answer to
Bite Me for a couple of reasons. The first is that it's a Sarah Goldfinger script (Happenstance) and Bite Me is a Josh Berman script. Those two are/were big Sara fans. And so I seriously doubt that two people who are/were Sara AND GSR fans are going to write a scene where Sara is wounded by Grissom without it meaning something good.
In both scenes, Grissom says something potentially hurtful IF it is in fact about Sara. In Bite Me, it's a little clear that he is perhaps trying to get her attention, but I think that it was meant to always feel like a fight they'd had prior to coming to work, and Grissom maybe feeling like Sara was doubting his commitment to Sparkle Motion (GSR) and wanting to hold off on "romance" wink-wink nudge-nudge until she was sure.
His thinking? It's been 10 freakin' years.
(according to Billy)
ANYway, again we have a scene where Sara assumes that what he's talking about it precisely connected to their relationship.
Here's the difference: Sara is now secure about it. Maybe because they're living together, maybe because they're sleeping together, maybe because he made it clear he wants to be with her forever (Way to Go), but she's secure.
And she felt secure enough to actually jab back at him.
The problem in this instance is that while Grissom didn't have their relationship on his mind before, he does now.
And again - you can't expect a man who's lived alone all of his adult life to immediately realize exactly what he's supposed to do if he has to leave town now that he's in a relationship.
I think that Grissom was used to just... leaving.
And it's at this moment when he realizes that Sara isn't a sure thing, necessarily.
I think Sara wouldn't leave him unless he cheated on her or did something awful, but again - Grissom is still in the Butterflied frame of mind - she's beautiful, she's young, and she'll leave me when I get boring.
Which may have been why we saw him bringing her lunch or doing little romantic things this season, to sort of prove that "things are different now"
Pairs himself with her all the time to make up for the years that he shoved her away.
But now he's worried again. And he probably wouldn't be AS worried if he didn't also have the migraines, didn't also have the MCSK, and so on.
It's bad timing, and while I don't think that they're going to break up, I do think (or rather hope) that we're going to get an emotional goodbye scene.
Rather like Willow/Oz (the OTP of Buffy... pointedly glares at Tara and raises an eyebrow at
Fogi - WOZ FOREVER) scene at the end of Wild at Heart when he has to go on his spirit guide quest.
In that instance, she did leave him.
But then - the guy playing Oz was leaving the show, so...
Oh. Crap.
Um... nevermind.
