Re: Grissom & Sara #30: Pin Me Down...But Not With a Mustan
OMG!! 2 Hours
Sara has to live.
I agree with Lady Disdain we all want the depth of relationship that Grissom and Sara have.
I love how the writers and actors have slowly developed it to make it real and deep.
I am an English major (who loves film and TV besides books being my first love) and I have rarely read or seen a love story as great, detailed, and subtle as Grissom and Sara.
It is actually quite lovely to see the complexity come from the actors and the writers collaborating.
I have always thought of GSR as the introverts love story. They are not flashy or have endless kissing or sex scenes but the love is all in the eyes which reveal more about a person than dialogue. Just as subtle body languge does more than hot sex. NOT everyone is loud with their emotions in the traditional sense. I know I am not. Sara and Grissom are deeply emotional, but not dramatic. They are symmetrical and it is what most of us want to be loved for who we are, not the way we style our hair or the clothes we pick.
Although I got to say Billy is handsome and Jorja really is the most beautiful woman on the show. Who doesn't love the Grissom smirk or the Sidle Smile, but i also think a lot of it comes from the natural chemistry they are famous for. The writers have often said Billy and Jorja do not always notice how in sync they are when they are acting. Several writers have said Jorja is the best actor or actress on the show. So there, you cannot kill her!!
Back to my other point, I also think CSI does not get as much attention from the magazines as buzz worthy because it has stayed true to traditional and high storytelling techniques. It is a classic novel unfolding on television.
It is Hitchcock and Sherlock Holmes and Dickens all rolled into one, but distilled enough for the average viewer. Yet it is complex enough to make an English major drool, but not everyone notices all the subtlies. For example, I laugh or smile and my parents dont and i have to explain why i am laughing at a reference or storyline. CSi is filled with all the subtle references, to the writers i mentioned, integrated into the show.
So CSI seems effortless and fades into the background because most people do not get its true brilliance. Sad, but even some people who watch it do not appreciate its true complexity and brilliance. It amazes me every week.
This means that the show does not go for cheap thrills like sex and caveing to what is trendy. (Although they need to use the sexed up Marg less this year, one flaw that goes for the trendy well and Sofia, more Jorja please!!!)
The writers do what great novelists do they leave you with questions and then bring it all back full circle. I mean they even mentioned Moby Dick (fantastic novel, by the way) again in the show after Season 5, in a pivotal GSR moment in "Way to Go" and the fact that Gil remembers Sara is a vegiterian when in Season 2 "Burden of Proof" he famously and completely forgets that she is one. Beautiful and thoughtful.
GSR Rules and CSI Rocks in that order!!!
Go Team SO!!!!!!!!!
PS they had better tell us she is alive tonight or I will never last until next week!!!!!!!