Re: "The Good, the Bad & the Dominatrix" Discussion *Spoiler
I gotta say... I really liked it. I liked that Sara wasn't unbelievably thrilled with the whole situation, but that she was nevertheless calm and understanding. I LOVED that they went there with the long-postponed Sara/Heather meeting. Both women were very classy. No mention of their shared mother/daughter experiences with murder, but I can live with that.
Look on Grissom's face when he saw them together in that hospital room? BEST. FRIGGIN'. EXPRESSION. EVER.
This is not something I usually say about Grissom, but... I really liked him tonight. Yeah, I know, it's WP, we all love him, and we all love Grissom's quirkiness... but this is the first time I ever really felt I could look at Grissom and think, you know, he's a nice guy. He's a decent guy. I just adored the way he said to Heather, "What do you want me to do? You're my friend." That was such.... such a Nick thing to do, you know? I really loved that, after all this time of Nick trying to impress Grissom, we get this moment of Grissom emulating Nick... and that it felt so real. The Bugman reaching out to the human world. I flove it.
Man, I think Catherine was possessed by the Continuity Fairy in the first act! LOL Fess up, TPTB - who went on the forums and took down Grissom's romantic history? Poor Sara, trying to remain nonplussed in the face of Catherine's reminiscing. LOL
I can understand Catherine calling down Grissom for his "hypocritical" behavior. Sure, he had a good reason, and sure, she's done a few hypocritical things in her life, but still... she must have wondered what the hell he was smoking. It's one thing for the crew to go off half-cocked but when the captain does it.... Anyone else think back to the ol' boating "accident" in Season 1 with their conversation about Grissom's personal life? Hey Catherine - at least now you can admit that he has one, right?
As a secret BrassCat shipper, I loved their camaraderie tonight. Was Brass actually going to spill the beans on GSR before finding the sheriff? Naughty, naughty lawman! (Unless he was talking about the obvious hidden yearning between Nick and Hodges....) And was it just me, or was Brass REALLY cold to Heather tonight? Guess a good, stolid lawman like him prefers his dominatrices to serve out their jail time.
I'm not sure what I think about depressed!Heather. I like the old one, to be sure. And I really wish we'd seen a lot more of her in the episode. But I guess, considering the loss of her daughter, and getting sent to jail (before her contacts got her out of it), and having to sell her business to prove she could be a fit guardian for the granddaughter she found, only to lose her to her ex.... yeah, I can see where she'd get depressed. I think... I think I rather like human Heather. She's real. MC and WP do have a wonderful chemistry (granted, WP would have chemistry with a coat rack), and the idea that they've both let down their guard to each other and are interacting as real, flawed, human beings is very moving to me, somehow. I hope that Heather gets to build a life with her granddaughter... she deserves that happiness.
BTW, I keep thinking that Melinda Clarke would make an awesome Sarah Connor for that supposed Terminator series they're making for Fox.
Not sure I liked Nick and Warrick's case taking up so much time... what a time to go back to the old A/B format!! And not a single MCSK crime among them! I think the biggest problem was that it felt like the entire case was sandwiched between the Lady Heather case; I kept waiting for them to go back to that one. But I did feel sorry for that cabbie... broke my heart how that jerk took advantage of him. And is it just me, or did we actually see Warrick for more than two minutes twice in a row now?! (He's getting killed next episode, isn't he?) Of course, that meant: no Greg. But did I ever LOL at the episode neatly dispatching of his right at the beginning of the first act! It was like TPTB were saying "Fine; you're gonna bitch about expecting characters all episode and never getting them? Well, we're going to tell you exactly where they're going right away, so that you can turn off the episode in disgust and go watch Grey's or something!!" Hee.
All in all, I would have liked it better with a l'il more Heather and MCSK. (Not necessarily together.)
Seeing LH sad made me sad! 
