Adzix MissDee? did you just break into Alyssa's account? see, i told you the password is her fiancee's name.
Adz my sweet, I can only wish I could be as insightful and eloquent as that. No, that was all typical
Alyssa... but I'm touched that you think I could even approach it.
liverpool
"So, you and Sara...."
eyebrow lifts...
"Oh com'on Gil, you think we did'n noticed?"
"It's a private matter"
"okey.....i'm just happy that both of you finnaly got a life"
.....crime scene evaluation continues
This? May seriously be my favorite GSR revelation scene ever....
Turtlebaby
Hospital Staff: We need to contact her next of kin so they can make arrangements with a funeral home.
Grissom: I'll take care of it.
HS: We can only release her to a family member.
Grissom: I'm her husband.
...until I read this, and now I'm torn. I love that the first one is exactly the kind of low-key reveal that the show would prefer to do, and is refreshingly matter-of-fact and in character (for the series as well as the cast). On the other hand, I love the second because it'd be a shock for the viewer as well as the other characters - just when we thought we knew everything about GSR,
bang! Another whammy! Please, TPTB, may we have both?
llachlan The cocoon isn't about Sara - its about Grissom: he's a man transformed.
I so agree with this. Sara went through her final metamorphosis in Season 5, when she owned her feelings for Grissom and started putting herself back together personally and professionally. In this season, it's Grissom's turn.
Alyssa I have an idea... Fav Geek Love moment from each season. Try to pick only one!
Oh hell. I haven't even seen all the episodes from Seasons 1-4.... But I'll try.
Now keep in mind when you read these that I've seen Seasons 1-4 all out of order, so my answers might not have much sense to do with what came before or afterward. I'm pretty much going on what my strongest GSR impression is from each season.
1: Cite your source.
For this one, it's the airplane conversation. It was the kind of flirty banter that writers tend to put in when they're setting up two characters for a romance (sooner or later) down the road, and "Cite your source" definitely flagged my "future canon ship" radar.
2: Since I met you.
This was the very first GSR moment that I ever witnessed (told you I watched the episodes all out of order). It was the moment that made GSR personal for me.
Full disclosure: Typically, I am open to all ship possibilities within a fandom (unless I have philosophical objections to a certain pairing for some reason), and should one of those pairings ever come to fruition in a logically and emotionally satisfying manner, I have absolutely no problems supporting the canon ship.
However, sometimes one of those possibilities will flare in my imagination and become especially dear to my heart, and this moment did that for me with regards to GSR. I barely knew who the characters were, but I was mightily intrigued by the fact that the weirdly sexy bug guy was apparently unaware that he was flirting with the intelligent & atypically cute brunette who was, in turn, apparently startled that the bug guy would go there even in his subconscious. I have a soft spot for unlikely romances that the members thereof never saw coming, and that made my heart warm for GSR. The above moment, which I saw later, cemented for me that GSR was indeed a canon plotline that would probably pay off sometime in the future (if TPTB didn't muck it up)... but it was "Since I met you" that made me
care.
3: You told me to get a life, remember?
Okay, canon proof that
Miss Dee is a naughty, naughty Geek Lover: I had to go to the CBS CSI-wiki in order to refresh my memory about what happened in Season 3. Don't shoot me; I never actually saw the season finale or many other Season 3 episodes, so I'm at a disadvantage here.
But I remember Grissom's uncharacteristic pissiness at Sara when she came in on her day off to help out... and when I realized later that a guy named Hank was in the picture, I went "Ah,
now I get it." Kind of lame, really - but that's all I got. Sorry!
4: Pin me down.
Yeah, yeah, "Butterflied"/Grissom's confession/GSR symbolism/yada yada yada... look, I'd heard all about the "Butterflied" episode before I ever saw it. I'd read the recap on TWoP. I'd perused everyone's reactions in the forum threads. It was, in the very deepest sense, spoiled for me - by the time I actually saw the episode, the magic had been siphoned from it.
Therefore, "Pin me down" wins by default. Why? Not due to the hugeness of the scene. It was the physicality of it. What I mean by that is that up to this point, GSR was largely verbal and emotional... the question remained: if those two actors ever got close, would they generate the kind of heat needed to make a TV romance successful? Seeing as WP and JF kind of brought that in spades simply by him pinning down her arms and encircling her waist* and sexing her up only with his eyes... it kind of relieved my mind that should these two actors kiss at anytime in the future, it wasn't going to come across like they were kissing their maiden aunts or something.
And I stand by that belief. I know some people complain the actors don't have chemistry, but honestly: look at the reaction across fandom to the shaving scene; very, very few people responded to it with "meh." They may have thought it was hot, or at least intriguing; it may have made them want to throw up, or at least cringe - the point is, there was a major visceral reaction from just about everybody. That, to my mind, is the very definition of chemistry: not that people respond with universal positivity, but that they respond, period. And I saw that kind of chemistry for the first time with "Pin me down."
5: You've always been more than a boss to me.
To be honest, for me it was a toss-up between this and Grissom's choosing to go to Sara over the suspect in "Committed". In my theory of how Grissom and Sara got together, that's a big moment. But it's only a theory... and in the above "Snakes" scene, we got a delightful canon moment of Sara Sidle - if I may beg the Kessom shippers' collective pardon and borrow a phrase - finally saying "Stop."
Up to this point, Sara had been kind of adrift on the sea of her life, pushed around by the winds: her violent childhood, her transient foster years, the major life-change to move to Vegas, her stalled ambitions in her current career - and, of course, her feelings for a man who could only give her a bloody plant to express his emotions yet could confess to a murderer both that he desired her and that he believed himself incapable of acting on that desire.
But in this scene, we discover that Sara has said, in essence, "No more." She is taking back ownership of her life. She's seen the PEAP counsellor. She confesses to Grissom exactly why she was willing to move to Vegas. And, most importantly, she lays out her cards on the table with regards to her feelings for him -
but she makes it plain that she's not going to hold on in the hopes of bluffing him into making a move. She's folding. She's moving on. If he ever decides he wants to move on with her and it's not too late, that's great... but if all he is ever able to get out is a "Let's...." then that's okay too. She's no longer looking to an outside source to trim the sails; if necessary, she'll break out the oars and row herself to dry land.
And she does it. That's the great part. After a rocky start in "Nesting Dolls", she talks about her past with someone who is not a counsellor, who is not there to be objective but to listen and share that pain with her. She sees Grissom and Sofia in "Unbearable" - but she swallows and moves past it. We can see her rediscovering her forensics mojo as the season wears on. She outwits suspects, bonds with colleagues, finds happy and funny moments with her friends, even teases her boss a time or two....
God, no wonder Grissom fell in love with her all over again. So did the rest of us.
6: May all of your dreams come true.
As much as I love everything in the season finale with regards to GSR, I think this is the moment that is dearest to my heart. Because here... I
knew. TPTB were gonna do it. All the previous scenes, the previous comments, could have been just more of the same old "throw 'em a bone and keep 'em happy" strategy... but here, it was pretty obvious that there was no case or science-based reason to have such a scene; it had no bearing on either of these. The only reason to have such a scene was that the story wanted to remind viewers of the connection between Grissom and Sara. And therefore, I knew that GSR was right around the corner.
Granted, I had no idea that it'd been around the corner for a while. That was a delightful revelation!
7: Dear Sara, etc. etc.
Yes, the Laboratory Tango of Grissom's Triumphant Return and The Shavening have their own distinct charms. But while the former was adorable and the latter downright sexy, the letter scene... it was romantic. Pure, unadulterated, sweet, vintage-lace and scent-of-faded-roses romance. Sara looks at her "gift" she's carefully placed in Grissom's terrarium and thinks of him... and, a country's width away, Grissom is pouring his heart out to her in a letter. TPTB would have needed a writer channeling Jane Austen to make that scene any more swoonworthy.
*sigh*
Just in case it's not clear:
I. freaking. love. this. ship. It ranks right up there with any classic-novel duo I've ever encountered and grown to love.
*Heh - I'd previously written "encircled her waste". Grissom, you scatological sex freak, you!
..loved Hodes comment 'I don't know why all pedophiles, just don't kill themselves" to Greg, good one!!!.. really!! not to much GSR, but enough 
