Re: "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp" Discussion *SPOILE
Incidentally, I'd just like to add...
I in no way meant that the GSR stuff has been that terrible or anything. I think they've kept it to a minimum for the most part and for that I've been grateful, since I'm not generally a shipper. And by saying that I'm almost glad Jorja's leaving because I don't really want to see any more of the relationship, I just mean that I'd prefer not to watch the "What's new with Mr. and Mrs. Grissom this week?" backstory that could potentially start happening in episodes.
Again, for the record, I've found the relationship stuff to have been done tastefully so far, and blessedly understated. While I'll miss Sara, if the only way for it to go from here is either UP or OUT, I'm glad they've gone with OUT- as in we won't be seeing it anymore. And I'm sure all the Fanfiction sites will be seeing a marked increase in the "Life After Marriage" stories anyway!
It's nice to know that as someone who's sort of ship-neutral (which is what I'm taking your responses to indicate - that you don't hate it, but you wouldn't have asked for it) that you can enjoy or at least not mind the scenes.
I agree - I think the majority of peoples' issues with the relationship is not so much in what has been shown, but in that fear of the other shoe dropping. Will they mess it all up and show to much/go too far?
I don't want this huge, white wedding. I don't want a pointless clip of Mr. and Mrs. Grissom romping in bed unless it is leading into the rest of the episode (aka. they get a phone call or something, but even then...) but I do think that a little scene here and there showing the progression is needed.
One of the biggest complaints about Warrick's "marriage" was that it was such a throwaway comment here-and-there kind of thing that it felt useless to even have done it.
I think that they're skating that line well. The interviews with Ecklie were what - maybe a minute each? The scene in the car, maybe two?
I mean, certainly the scene with Catherine and her mother at the beginning of this episode was longer than the bee one, wasn't it?
But it is risky. I think that the advertisers, at least, took it too far with the all-GSR promo, but ratings-wise that seems to have panned out regardless.
Ironically, though, as a GSR shipper the proposal was nice, but it was icing on an already good cake. I thought the episode was well done, and I'm rather confused by people saying it was a rip-off of A Little Murder (which I've seen elsewhere). Hanging and a hate crime? I just don't think there's enough of a comparison to go on. One was suicide, the other murder. One dealt with a disability or a genetic difference, the other with a freak accident.
I mean, in Season 1 they had a boy high on drugs killing his friend, and in Season 3 they had a girl high on drugs killing her friend. I see a much bigger "rip-off" there than here.
In any event, I just enjoyed it. I thought it was well-paced, I liked Greg's return to Kiss-Kiss Bye-Bye and his Raymond Chandler routine.
I'm hoping that after the kind of creaking return to cases that were A La Cart (despite some great team interaction) and Go To Hell (despite a good premise) that this shows the real return to last season's case and storytelling quality.
