Summary:
- it’s so great to see Leisha Hailey back on my tv screen – and recognizable this time, not covered from head-to-toe with hair.
- I know some didn’t want the Cath/Louis angst, but I actually enjoyed their dynamic. Lou needs to wake up from his “everything is perfect” daze and realize that Catherine is a very complicated puzzle. He has to know that she’s a “People person” and him getting pissy over her getting a hug from a guy is stupid. She used to be a stripper, for crying out loud. I wonder if Lou knows that.
Truthfully, I don’t think she needed to tell him that she has some part in the Eclipse. You know Catherine is going to be quiet with that information, seeing how there seem to be many people who didn’t like Sam Braun and his (sometimes) evil ways, and where Sam Braun went, dead bodies would pile up. Catherine probably didn’t want Lou influenced by the fact that she’s a somewhat wealthy woman, especially since she seemed to be the one always supporting Eddie through the years and how he tried to get at her money. I don’t blame her for not sharing that info. If she & Lou are engaged or married, then probably yes, that would be something for her to tell him. Until then, none of his business.
- the other part of the Cath/Lou angst – him scoffing at how a woman could be so drunk/drugged that she was clueless and didn’t remember anything from the night before. That reminded me of the Vartann of old, when they had him almost being a jerk at times back in seasons 5 & 6. I’m glad that Catherine told him her story. That was some nice continuity.
- I knew right away that the bird was the one to dial 9-1-1 on the phone, and that the bird & cat worked in cahoots to end up killing the couple. That was too easy to figure out. I loved that they showed the Tweety vs Sylvester-like comedy routine. It kind of reminded me of “Locomotives”, where the guy had all the bad luck and ended up killing his wife & the neighbor lady accidentally.
- the Cath/Nick/Ray experiment was hilarious! I loved that Catherine was worried about Ecklie being around. Too bad he didn’t show up at the end. And the “check out my ass” comment by Ray was unexpectedly funny (coming from him, anyway). The only thing missing in this experiment was Hodges.
- I’m glad that they didn’t have Nick on the bird case. I didn’t want to hear more Grissom-esque speeches about birds from him. They’ve done that too many times. It was cute how Greg would talk to the bird and ask him for answers. It was also cute to have Sara on the case with animals, seeing that Jorja does a lot of charity work & PR for animal rights.
- And how great was it to finally have another case where the CSIs processed the scene, examined the evidence and discovered that there wasn’t a ‘person’ to blame or someone for Brass to take away in handcuffs, just two family pets who used their natural instincts and ended up killing their owners
- one really big question I have for the writers these days: why is it always dead bodies? Whatever happened to the trick-rolls, or the scams/fraud, or the other non-dead-body type crimes. Why is it ALWAYS dead bodies? Just a thought that it would be nice to bring back the variety that we had back in the early seasons. To me, they’re even more exciting than always seeing dead bodies. I get enough of the dead bodies with NCIS and Chase.
my full review
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