Well, I'm chiming in, finally. I had a dance lesson (Swing, yay) and missed the episode. I recorded it, though, and just finished.
The MCSK: Oh my Vaughn what a great storyline. I really liked seeing Sara in action. I mean, Gris was on top of things, but she got a lot of work done on this one, and it was great. I also like how she and Cath are back to being friends. No more screaming at each other in the halls like in Season 5. They really have a good working relationship.
Though, I have to say, the first time I saw the two of them walking side by side in the halls, I just died laughing. Sara was in a nice V-Neck, and Catherine was in a shiny, low-cut swoop neck, no-sleeve shirt. My boss would shoot me if I wore that to work!
Loved the boys (Nick and Warrick) coming up with a way to help Greg. And, I loved watching Nick up there defending his friend. Their scenario, showing just how few seconds Greg had was really awesome.
That said, the court room stuff really bothered me. I'm not dissing the Greg storyline, as I really found most of it quite interesting, but I didn't feel like I was watching an episode of CSI.
Last year we had the episode, "Killer" which I very much enjoyed. However, as much as I enjoyed it, it felt like another show, like I wasn't watching CSI, anymore. All the court room stuff in this episode made me feel like I was watching another show. I enjoyed it, but kept wondering when CSI was going to come back on.
Loved Grissom saying something nice to Greg, and Sara's look of adoration for Grissom taking her advice. It was appropriately Grissom. He's not the type to apologize much, he's just not good at it, but he will tell someone every now and then that they did good. I'm so glad he told Greg.
I'm looking forward to more from the MCSK. Really am. I recently rewatched, "Anonymous" and it just struck me how much I loved having a serial killer taunting Grissom.
Grissom handled this one better than the Izzy Delancy one. He seemed a little more together, but I think that's because he felt a little more victorious. I mean, he was able to see that the killer was so obsessive, he had to fix the model, but not well enough to scrape off all the left over glue. Also, he spread the coupons around the room after killing Penny. That's a strange thing, because his plan was already ruined, but I guess he felt the need to make it precise, almost staged. That little detail is interesting to me, and I'm not sure why.
Also, the significance of the bloody doll gets more and more interesting. In the first case, it was plastered behind a picture of Izzy and his baby. In this one, it was going to be behind the dead body, an aunt, a family woman. However, as we go through crime scenes, we're getting a bigger version of the same doll. In the first, we were in a very tight shot. This time, we see more.
Does this imply that as time goes on, we'll get more of the picture? That the killer is playing a game, trying to hint that it'll all come together, someday, wondering if Grissom or whoever, will spot the significance of the doll?
Dolls usually speak to childhood, to innocence. Or, there are some people who spend their whole lives collecting dolls, especially porcelain ones, because they hold significance as being special. However, the blood on the doll implies a breach of purity. Porcelain faces are usually white, painted to reflect innocence. Blood suggests a breaking of that innocence, be it through learning pain by a bloodied knee after falling off a bicycle, or witnessing a cruel murder, or even a less physical breach of innocence, such as emotional abuse.
The doll raises many questions. We're getting more of the picture as time goes on, but how much longer can we wait for clarification before the killer kills, again? There's something to that doll. It's a pattern, it's a signature, but it's one that we're seeing more of with each kill. The killer wants us to see something, but they don't want to have to tell us outright.
We'll see, I guess.
Overall, enjoyed this episode. It just didn't feel like an episode of CSI to me. Oh, and Hodges dancing.. I laughed a full two minutes on that one. Awesome.
