Re: Grissom & Sara # 25 "Running up the Phone Bill"
I vote that we forget about all the other thread titles and just go with
GSR: Now with Theme Music!. That's seriously brilliant,
Al. (And in other news: your fiance sounds completely adorable; I always mean to tell you that and always forget.)
GSR moment with biggest impact on me: I also pick two. The first is PNN and "Since I met you", because that's the first time I noticed anything in earnest - of course, this was fall of 2004, well into the fifth season, and I'd only seen a handful of episodes from Season 1, so I missed a lot of others. But up until then,
CSI was just a cool mystery show. "Since I met you" pinged my ship-radar big time... I've watched a lot of television, and I know a damn set-up when I see it. I also understood enough about Grissom's character by that time to know that he wasn't the type to throw such flirty statements out to random women all the time; moreover, he looked as though he wasn't even aware he said it. Definitely a set-up.... Knowing that several seasons had passed since that time, I went online to see where they were now, found TWoP, and the rest is history.
The second moment was the bedroom scene in WTG. Up until that point, I was convinced that even if TPTB allowed GSR to happen, they might very well screw it up beyond recognition with way soapy plots and the usual dramatic shenanigans (dramanigans?) that happen on shows when two opening credits characters get together. But that scene was so perfect, it relieved all my fears. Not only was it quiet and reflective instead of soapy, it indicated that this had been going on for a while... which tied in with the little hints we'd been getting throughout Season 6 (and dismissed, except for faithful and perceptive
grisslybear) and proved to me that TPTB had put a lot of thought into this. I figured that if they were that careful then, they'd continue to be throughout Season 7. And so they have.
GSR is being handled beyond all my wildest expectations.
My suggestions for a thread title:
GSR: Laboratory Tango
GSR: "Watch as the entomologist stalks his prey...."
GSR: "You smell like garbage - that's so hot!"
GSR: Waiting seven years for this to hatch.