And now that I think of it, Grissom was really an ass when he told Cath of at the end of Wheeping Willows. That was so unnecessary! It's like beating someone who's already down.
*nodding head vigorously in agreement* Yes, that's what I'm talking about! And supposedly by that time he had already been secretly having an affair with
Subordinate Sara, but he stands there and shakes the verbal finger of
"Shame on You!" at Catherine? Definitely one of the things that I feel never should have happened. I know alot of viewers who started taking a long look at the Grissom character at that time, and not at all liking what they were seeing. The writers turned him into a judgmental hypocrite.
I also agree with the above conversation about the "romantic" hookups (if you even want to call some of them that :lol: ) throughout the CSI franchise. I don't think I've seen a show, let along entire franchise, depict such an array of normally strong willed, intelligent, charming people travel down such butt-clenchingly ill advised romantic paths, on such a steady basis. Right from the get-go, we learned about Cath's experience with Eddie, which sometimes bordered, from what it appeared, on the Downright Horrible - and it never really got much better for her from that point, relationship-wise (or did it? I stopped watching the Vegas one a couple years ago, but up to that point, Cath really had a string of bad ones, or at least ones that were no good for her).
And soon after that we had Sara and Hank, and then Sara just...well,
hankering after Grissom for years (sorry, couldn't resist the pun :lol: ) until she finally caught him, and then suddenly, as someone pointed out above, her (arguably) previously messed-up life was suddenly A-OK. :wtf: WTF? Like Sara wasn't savvy and smart enough to get herself together
without Grissom leading the way? What a slap in the face to the character of Sara, IMO.
Things aren't much better romantically on NY, either. We've already discussed the Danny/Lindsay thing, and how much it appeared to
take away from both characters after the hookup. Not only did it not give enough time/opportunity to establish the new character of Lindsay except as "The Chick Danny Might/Might Not Hook Up With", but it seemed to take away alot of Danny's spunk and independence too, which had already been very
firmly established as a major part of his personality in previous seasons. The hookup didn't appear, IMO, to make either character stronger, just the opposite.
I kind of liked Mac/Peyton, IMO this is one of the few relationships that CSI had actually gotten pretty right most of the time, but alas, since it was doomed from the start anyway (Claire Forlani was always a limited guest star) the OOC ending ("Dear John" letter? Peyton would never had done that) ended up ruining the entire thing for many people, after all was said and done. And don't even get me started on Horatio's poor doomed Marisol on Miami...
Of course there have been many more through the years which I won't even mention, but it does beg the question,
Why are the CSI writers so unrealistic at writing romance for their characters? And of course this is just a matter of opinion since I'm very aware that many fans think they're doing a bang-up job on the Romance Storylines, and that's great, but I still think that overall, they just don't seem capable of - or simply aren't interested in - depicting a good old fashioned normal relationship. Doesn't have to be front and center, on a crime drama, the romances
shouldn't ever be. Heck, it can even be 100% behind-the-scenes and we just
hear about it and don't really ever see it, but we just know that it's there, someone amongst the CSI teams is actually having a loving, happy, stable relationship outside the job. Too much to ask, I guess...
:lol:
Oops, that got long-winded. Sorry!
But it still falls into this thread, definitely
Things I wish never would have happened... blah blah.
