"The Happy Place" Discussion *SPOILERS*

Maybe they should have named the episode "The Unhappy Place." Or maybe they were being sarcastic and ironic.

 

"I'm too tough to die."

That is what's bad. For serious.

And when I saw the wheelchair, the first thing I thought was KARMA!

 

It was worse than bad, the only good case was the one Grissom had because it was the only one that was believable, plus it had an unexpected twist. I was so glad to see Sara leave at the end and it really made me angry that Greg was only used so it could lead to more Sara melodrama! Sorry but the Greg deserves better, Eric deserves better. Sara was back to her annoying, dark, whiny self. I reason I never cared for her in the first place and have not missed her.

As you know I have made my dislike for GSR pretty clear (but not overly so) so the only scene I liked was when we were given the impression that Grissom wanted Sara to go. This ep was nothing more than more GSR drama and nonsense, just another example that the writers lost their way.

 

I don't know how many times i slapped my face from cheesy parts...my face hurts now!

If Grissom doesn't dump Sara, then he is NOW the most pathetic man on tv.

 

I don't know. I'm already dreading it.

Tonight I felt like I lost 45 minutes of my life. I never watched a CSI episode in my life where I actually wanted to turn off the tv half way through.

The storyline was barely there. The second one creeped me out and the Sara one made no sense at all. We were supposed to see Nick thinking he sees Warrick, but that obviously was a rumour or it got cut out to make room for Saradrama.

It felt disjointed and bland. I know the mood was supposed to be sombre. This was suicidal.

The chicken clucking was so stupid and out place. The whole thing about the money was awful.

With all due respect to whoever wrote this episode, my kid could write a better CSI episode than this.

 

*shrinks in here* Well, I'm gonna take a shot at coming in here and say that it wasn't too bad.....

I thought the hypnosis thing was a bit much, as well as the one with the kid and the guidance counselor love affair, but I liked that they resolved the Season 1 "Too tough to die" epi. I kind of feel for the husband, you know? He's right. People are quick to criticize when they aren't in yours shoes - he was being called cruel for keeping his wife alive, but he goes to jail for "putting her out of her misery". It's a lose-lose situation.

I think there was a lot of tension with Grissom and Sara (I am a GSR fan), but I liked the scene in their bedroom. He looks stressed, knows she's ultimately gonna leave again, and doesn't want to lose her on top of everything else. The office scene ("who are we talking about now?")...I'm not too worried about it. Most couples take their frustrations out on each other. With Warrick's death and Sara dealing with this issue from her past, there is bound to be tension. Also, when the kid/father asked Grissom if he ever loved someone so much he would kill for them, maybe it made Grissom realize something with his relationship with Sara? Don't know...we'll have to see what they do with it. He did say it was darkest before the dawn in the interviews right??

The "I'm too tough to die" was cheesy but kind of neat that they put it in there.

 

Yeah, this episode just didn't click. Like, at all. I agree with what my dad said:

"I kind of see why she left. The entire episode made no sense, and two pretty innocent people went to jail. Right."

 

I guess everyone was on a high after For Warrick and this was just a big letdown. IMO, it was hard to top FW and many of us here have very high expectations. I was hoping that the quality in writing would have been sustained. I guess we were all wrong.

 

It wasn't that bad.

I liked the idea of tying in that Pamela Adler episode with Sara's exit. It just reinforced Sara's decision to leave.

I admit that the case about the hypnotist was a little weak. I understand her motive: I have the power to do this, therefore, I will. But it did not seem to be believable in the episode.

The other case had a good twist that I did not see coming. I figured that if the guy/son/lover did it, it would have been a son being mad at his mother for doing all the things she did; not because he wanted to make things work with his lover and she did not.

All in all, this episode was not the best, but not the worst episode.