He does seem a lot happier, and more open than he used to be, more human too.
The fact that he could embrace his feelings for Sara speaks for itself.
She changed him -no doubt about that -Gawwd, she even got him to shave his beard!!
:lol:
*sorry, guys, I realized not long ago that that's the one thing I'll probably never get over about CSI = The Beard
Well, maybe next season *I wish*
Interesting question,
Des. As far as Grissom is concerned this season was -VERY different for me. In many ways.
Less screen time.
No Grissom-centered episode.
No more witty and funny one-liners.
I know that will sound kinda weird, but the fact that Griss was always that weird guy with a bug fetish, who spent his nights off at the body farm, and who only lived for his job was kind of comforting for me.
Grissom was like the one constant in CSI. I always thought that it was impossible for him to change, I've always kinda hanged on to that thought. Of course I've always wanted him to be with Sara, but that was it.
It's like, now that he's in a relationship, we got the proof that he's normal after all ... no more wondering who he is -most of our questions about him, about his past, about his feelings, have been answered these past two seasons, and it kinda feels like the end is coming. It's just sad.
I have mixed feelings about the way his character has evolved. Four years ago, I was cursing the writers because things were stagnating, and I was dying to know more about this guy ... but then, this year I sometimes had the feeling that maybe things had gone too fast -they didn't really, but I just couldn't accept the fact that he'd changed, because I loved the Grissom of the early years -say, up to season 5.
On the other hand, this season was more focused on the team itself -I believe that every other character got more screen time than they used to get in the early days of CSI ... which is good, and probably why some might argue this is one of the best seasons so far.
This year it was more about the cases, and the team working its a** to solve them. Together. It was different. Maybe too different. Or maybe that's because I got too attached to the 'old' CSI, where Grissom appeared in just about every scene of every episode.
As much as I hate to admit it, this season was less addictive for me for the simple reason that it wasn't about Grissom anymore -a few years ago, they could have changed the name from "CSI" to "Grissom", it wouldn't have made one hell of a difference. I bet no one would have noticed. I mean, it made sense. He WAS CSI.
I guess what I didn't like is that this year the show tried to prove that it could pretty much continue without Grissom -hence WP's symbolic 'absence' *btw, IMHO, the show's NOTHING without him*
That's why I kind of lost interest. This year felt like Grissom was gone already. And I sure hated that feeling
WOW! That was one hell of a loooong post :lol: :lol: Don't feel compelled to read all of it ... I just had to get that out of my system.