Re: The Great Ship Debate
i think she was talking about the poll in one of the latest issues of TV Guide, where everybody could vote online on their web site.
Really...never saw this in the TV Guide, but then again I don't buy them. I just tried to find the poll online, and I can't find it anywhere. Even if its too late to vote...TV Guide on line shows all the old polls!
Oh and this is what I go by: Here is the site...
GSR
Actually, that question is kind of moot by now. But the debate rages as to whether CSI misstepped by showing Grissom (William Petersen) and his underling, Sara (Jorja Fox), in an intimate moment in the final scene of last season.
The producers admit the staff always argue about personal story lines intruding on the forensic meat of the show. During a press conference for CSI on Sunday, the producers acknowledged there's a 50/50 split in the audience over whether they prefer more or less of this sort of thing. And I suspected exec producer Carol Mendelsohn was being a bit
disingenuous(which means untruthful) when she described (according to her personal mail) what she called a 60/40 split in favor of the Grissom-Sara reveal.
Afterward, I cornered exec producer Naren Shankar to share my long-standing conviction that despite all of this, CSI was in no danger of turning into a soap opera, was it? "Please write that!" he begged. (OK, I have.)
He assures me, "You have to understand we're not changing the DNA of the show." Having crossed this Rubicon, however, Shankar says, "We realized that it opened up other possibilities for us as writers."
Case in point: somewhere around the fourth episode, Archie from the crime lab is going to try to set up Sara on a date with his roommate. "It's one of those awkward moments where she's gotta come up with 20 different reasons why she doesn't want to go out with this guy, who's got a great body and is super nice. Archie can't understand it, and Sara finally has to say, 'Leave me alone.' For the audience, that's a funny scene. For Jorja, it's fun as well. For Archie, it's just another strange moment in the workplace. It opens up possibilities, because the audience knows what's underneath it, but the other CSIs don't."
Shankar says the producers sat down with Petersen at the end of last season to discuss the implications of this twist. "From our perspective, when a guy like Grissom makes a move like this, to bring somebody into his life in a personal fashion, it says something pretty profound. Here's a guy who's been very guarded, kept people at a distance. When a person like that is letting someone into his life, what is he saying? What it's about is a guy who's reaching out."
"After six years, he's no longer a mentor teaching a bunch of raw recruits. The people that he started with are now almost teachers in their own right. So you get to a point in your life when you get a little bit older and you go, 'Is this all I am? Am I just the guy that solves the crossword puzzle?' And if the answer is no, the question is, 'Do you want to share that with somebody?' And with Sara, he's saying just that. Part of Grissom's journey this season is going to be to ask what else is he? Is there anything else out there for him? Is he only going to be that guy who is bailing out the ocean with a thimble? Because there's always going to be another murder."
As midlife crises go, Grissom's is a doozy. And I imagine we'll be arguing about its fallout all season long.
or shall we try and go with the majority 88%, and continue what we've got going now"! and the answer is
