I loved this episode! The last one that made me giggle that much was "Kiss Kiss Bye Bye" - Greg/Grissom is rapidly becoming one of my very fave team pairings, almost right up there with Nick/Warrick! (Speaking of N/W and the promo, squeeee!) It felt a lot like the early seasons, what with the small talk and bantering and cute zaniness Greg brings to the show.
"Use your other five senses" and "was the second one Greg's" - I guffawed both times. Sorry Greggo! Yes, Grissom was coming down on him, but it's nothing he hasn't done with the other young turks (with the exception of Warrick, maybe), and for some inexplicable reason I've always liked it. The thing with Greg though, is that these comments don't phase him one bit. You know that if Grissom said such things to newbie!Nick or Sara, they'd spend the rest of the episode dwelling on it, but not newbie!Greg. Now that he's gotten a little more comfy in his CSI shoes, Greg is confident and assertive and not afraid to put himself out there, which is really refreshing after watching the other young turks tiptoe around Grissom to avoid making fools of themselves during the earlier seasons.
"I might back you off a cliff" - Heeee! I love the big brother/little brother vibe between Warrick and Greg.
Wendy is cute! After this I may finally remember what she looks like.
The continuity fairy was hard at work this week. The ditzy girls from season 1! Yoko! Grissom's surgery! (Again, I don't see newbie!Nick or Sara ever saying that to Grissom if it were them. Greg you cheeky monkey.
) (And the digging scene, complete with spider bites, did remind me of "GD", but then again I'm officially delusional when it comes to possible Nicky angst.)
I was all ready to start squeeing when I saw a pair of hands doing trace analysis, but the camera panned up and it turned out to be some random lab guy named Henry. Grr. But then my beloved Hodges showed up in the tight (-lol!) suit and, well, squeee!
(What's wrong with me??)
Grissom's hat is back, yay! (I just found out people are apparently referring to it as SHMAG - straw hat of middle-aged gayness. ...Lol.)
Grissom's expression when the girl snatched his file folder to autograph - priceless! :lol: I shall have to watch for the pen toss next time.
Nice to see Vega again! So that means there's still hope for Vartann. *daydreams*
I don't get people's issues with the cast rotation. I like it
waaaaaay better than the giant all-hands-on-deck type of cases with characters appearing and dissapearing at random. I always thought it's ridiculous to have six CSIs on one case, anyway. The A/B format works better, but this way there's more screen time to devote to individual characters. I don't mind not seeing Grissom and Greg for one week and Nick and Sara for the next, as long as the episodes are as strong as these last two have been. And I think the cast agrees - George for one has said that it's frustrating to come into work and have three lines, or something to that effect.
And last, but certainly not least: Braaaaass! I thought the whole thing with his friend obssessing about an unsolved case for 15 years sounded vaguely familiar. Maybe it was in a fanfic..? Or was it one of the CSI books...Anyway, I totally dig it. I just love it when life (on CSI that it) imitates fiction. (Again, squeee w.r.t. the promo!)
