I was watching a chunk of season 1 this afternoon (well, what else are ya gonna do when there's four inches of ice on the ground outside?...!) and one thing that struck me quite hard is that the order in which the episodes were broadcast doesn't seem to in any way match production order and, heck, renders some of the story a little...odd.
I mean, the most obvious thing is George Eads' hair which goes from long to short to long (well, comparatively long in both cases) in a three episode period, and there's nothing to suggest that there's supposed to be that much of a gap between the second episode (which I think was Blood Drops) and the third episode (which would be Anonymous), but there's other (slightly less shallow) things, too.
I mean, there's a conversation in I-15 Murders where Grissom and Brass are talking about the fact that Grissom's now in charge at the lab and Brass is back in homicide, which would make much more sense if this was the third or fourth episode in the season - by the eleventh, you'd think they'd have both long since settled into their new positions!
Also, there's the whole Sara investigating Warrick for the second time thing. Grissom's justification for her doing it is that Ecklie won't see her as being biased, but given that she's an established team member by this point, I'm not sure that would hold water.
And that's not even touching the places where relationships seem to go backwards or the fact that Cath gets notice of the Child Services review on her and Lindsey in Blood Drops but that doesn't get picked up again until Sex, Lies and Larvae.
So is all that just me? Or, if it's not me, does anyone know why they decided to alter the episode order?
