lemon_grass
CSI Level Two
Well said, you guys 
Ah, “Gum Drops”… It’s one of my – if not the – all-time favourite episodes. Everything about it is beautiful: the setting, the dialogue, the music, the voice-over, the interaction among the Young Turks. Oh, and the fact that it features that guy that I kinda like.
Going into it, I wasn’t expecting too much given the last-minute changes the script went through, and what we got was absolutely breathtaking. (“Daddy’s Little Gril” was the exact opposite – funny how things turn out, eh?) The writers pulled off such a seamless rewrite, it’s hard to imagine anyone else in Nick’s role. I’m sorry for WP, but at the same time I’m glad George got to take over. It seems to me that tptb would never give Nick so much screen time if they could help it, which is sad. I loved being able to see our guy in pretty much every scene for 45 minutes– it was almost too good to be true.
I liked the offhanded “whatever happened to just flippin’ burgers?” line, because of how it reflected his more old-fashioned values. Very true to character. And the “If they didn’t care before, I bet they do now” - it’s interesting that he used present tense, as if he automatically assumed the parents were alive. It’s the little things that tell the story.
The Sage scene: It really got to me how he said he’s just trying to make it through this life. This had to be one of the lines that were written specifically for Nick, and the writers just blew me away with their rare burst of insight, because I did not see this kind of continuity coming at all when Sage asked if Nick believed in past lives. You think the “feminine energy” comment could be why Nick grew a moustache?
I love how they used the same kind of gum as the one Nick had in “Grave Danger”, whether intentional or not.
Love the breakfast scene and the Young Turks joking and bouncing ideas off each other. Nick was quiet in this scene; “all right” and “thank you” was pretty much all he said. Even though he was laughing along with the others, you could tell there was something else weighing him down. And his conversation right afterwards with Sara was truly the heart and soul of the episode, imo. The thing I love about this episode is that although the case related to Nick’s history, most of the time the connection was implicit.
Well, I have more to say about this scene and the rest of the episode, but don’t have time to finish typing it up right now, so…*to be continued*, I guess.
Ah, “Gum Drops”… It’s one of my – if not the – all-time favourite episodes. Everything about it is beautiful: the setting, the dialogue, the music, the voice-over, the interaction among the Young Turks. Oh, and the fact that it features that guy that I kinda like.
Going into it, I wasn’t expecting too much given the last-minute changes the script went through, and what we got was absolutely breathtaking. (“Daddy’s Little Gril” was the exact opposite – funny how things turn out, eh?
) The writers pulled off such a seamless rewrite, it’s hard to imagine anyone else in Nick’s role. I’m sorry for WP, but at the same time I’m glad George got to take over. It seems to me that tptb would never give Nick so much screen time if they could help it, which is sad. I loved being able to see our guy in pretty much every scene for 45 minutes– it was almost too good to be true. I liked the offhanded “whatever happened to just flippin’ burgers?” line, because of how it reflected his more old-fashioned values. Very true to character. And the “If they didn’t care before, I bet they do now” - it’s interesting that he used present tense, as if he automatically assumed the parents were alive. It’s the little things that tell the story.
The Sage scene: It really got to me how he said he’s just trying to make it through this life. This had to be one of the lines that were written specifically for Nick, and the writers just blew me away with their rare burst of insight, because I did not see this kind of continuity coming at all when Sage asked if Nick believed in past lives. You think the “feminine energy” comment could be why Nick grew a moustache?
I love how they used the same kind of gum as the one Nick had in “Grave Danger”, whether intentional or not.
Love the breakfast scene and the Young Turks joking and bouncing ideas off each other. Nick was quiet in this scene; “all right” and “thank you” was pretty much all he said. Even though he was laughing along with the others, you could tell there was something else weighing him down. And his conversation right afterwards with Sara was truly the heart and soul of the episode, imo. The thing I love about this episode is that although the case related to Nick’s history, most of the time the connection was implicit.
Well, I have more to say about this scene and the rest of the episode, but don’t have time to finish typing it up right now, so…*to be continued*, I guess.
