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Aaaand we're down to only two weeks, at last...
Huh. So that was a strange three hours, scheduling-wise. Instead of "Playing with Fire," the logical lead-in to "Inside the Box," since it explains why the lab is all kersplooey, why Greg is bandaged and jittery, and so on, we get "Got Murder?" for the fifteenth time. And then, instead of "Fallout, part two," the logical choice to follow Sunday's repeat of "Fallout, part one," we get "Underground Railroad," the ep that was supposed to be on on Sunday. No logic in CSI/WaT-land tonight.
"Got Murder?" is waaaaay down on my preferred episodes list (ew, ew, ew), but I have to say that any episode that pairs Sara with Nick gets a bonus point or two from me. I'm not much of a Sara fan, though I don't dislike her (except for the Gil-obsession thing). Still, she and Nicky have this friendly/competitive sibling-esque vibe that I always enjoy. To me, she seems more comfortable and relaxed around Nick and Catherine than anyone else; if Sara had friends, I think that would be the Sara they'd see. She's still hyper-focused, abrupt, nerdy Sara, but Nick and Catherine sometimes get to see a slightly warmer version of her. Especially Nick- she lets herself play and joke with him (well, as much as she ever plays). "Last Laugh" and the towel bar is my favorite example of this, but they often get a sibling-y line or two, like the fortune cookie bit in "Inside the Box". So I liked that part of “Got Murder?”, at least.
I wasn't very enthusiastic about "Inside the Box" the first time around, and I'm still not- it's okay, it's solid enough, but it's not inspired. I'll miss Lockwood. He wasn't very interesting, but he was pretty. Three of my four favorite bit players were in it (David, Jacqui, and Bobby) and Hodges wasn't, so that's a plus (minus one point for no Archie, though). Brass was wonderful, as usual (I love Brass), as was Albert. Nicky was quiet but intense, and I love it when the writers remember that oh yeah, he's good at his job. It wasn't just the dimples that got him hired. Poor Greg was all sweet and wounded, and Nicky's keeping a close eye on him and making sure he eats, despite how stressed they all are after the last couple of weeks. Well, that was why they were sitting together at lunch, right? I'm still amused that Sara was given the most obsessive task at the crime scene, reconstructing the blast site, to work on- Gil knows her pretty well, I guess. But the whole Sam Braun-is-evil-and-Catherine's-dad... meh, who cares. Mediocre capper to an already Catherine-heavy season.
The one plotline I did like was the "Catherine confronts Gil about his hearing" thing. I'm sure there are lots of Gil/Catherine shippers out there, but personally, I think they have a wonderful friendship and I'd hate to see it be torpedoed by sex. It's like Sara and Nick- Gil relaxes and warms up around Catherine. He only seems to have three real friends, as far I can tell- Brass, Albert and Catherine. Albert and Brass are steady, sturdy guys, and I'm glad Gil has them, but Catherine's different- there's a subtle depth of emotion to scenes like when Gil tells Catherine that he's off to have surgery that I find reassuring for his humanity and emotional health. If Gil could ever, ever bend enough to admit to needing a hug or a shoulder to cry on, I'm sure it would be Catherine he'd go to. They do hug at the end of "In the Box," yeah, but she hugs him. The telling part, I think, is that he not only allows it, but that he smiles while accepting it. It reminds me a little of the bond between Mulder and Scully before Chris Carter screwed it all up (say, seasons 2-4 or so)- their love and respect for each other went without saying; they had a bedrock of affection and devotion wasn't romantic so much as familial (though subtext is in the eye of the beholder), and it gave them something to rely on, no matter what. Gil and Catherine are like the non-codependent version of that, I think. I'm glad he has her (which means NO pairing them up, PTB! You hear me? Catherine/Warrick, if you absolutely have to, but leave Gil and Cat as friends. There aren't enough men and women who are just friends on TV, and I like these two the way they are).
"Underground Railroad" is an interesting episode as far as Martin's implied woman issues go. Sam gets a boatload of bitter subtext, too. Mostly, though, I like it because Viv gets to actually do something for once. She's fabulous. I wish she were the team leader instead of Jack. Jack, I might add, who could so easily be the kind of fed who scares me silly. He's a good guy, basically. He's on the side of the victim; he's tenacious and intelligent and can be incredibly compassionate; he's willing to go to whatever lengths necessary to find the victim and the criminal both. But it's the "whatever lengths necessary" part that makes me skittish. The missing woman's father was a jackass and a wife-beater, and he stupidly, stubbornly put his daughter in danger, so yes, I'm glad that Jack knew what to do to get his cooperation. But what he did, what he did more often as the season wore on, his slash-and-burn methods of threatening people's civil liberties or threatening them with violence... that's tougher. It's like the Graham Spaulding disaster- I hate that this terrible man went free on a technicality, and I hope the character turns up as a mangled corpse next season, but all the same, their evidence was illegally gotten, and evil Spaulding's Constitutional rights were infringed. In that particular case, they had the right bad guy and I wish they could have made it stick, but that sort of "trample the rules, success at all costs" thinking can easily ruin innocent lives when they don't have the right bad guy, like with what's-his-bucket, Annie's godfather, in "Maple Street". I'm glad the team has such a good success rate, of course I'm glad, and maybe it's just my inherent lack of trust for the government and its agencies bleeding into my viewing of the show, but Jack makes me nervous.
But Danny picking on Martin's food? The dynamic duo bored and snipey as they watch surveillance videos? Very cute. Very cute.
Oh, and LJ isn't letting me post or respond to comments (again), so if I haven't answered you, I'm not ignoring you intentionally. I'm just stuck. I'm still sorry though. 'Night all!
"Got Murder?" is waaaaay down on my preferred episodes list (ew, ew, ew), but I have to say that any episode that pairs Sara with Nick gets a bonus point or two from me. I'm not much of a Sara fan, though I don't dislike her (except for the Gil-obsession thing). Still, she and Nicky have this friendly/competitive sibling-esque vibe that I always enjoy. To me, she seems more comfortable and relaxed around Nick and Catherine than anyone else; if Sara had friends, I think that would be the Sara they'd see. She's still hyper-focused, abrupt, nerdy Sara, but Nick and Catherine sometimes get to see a slightly warmer version of her. Especially Nick- she lets herself play and joke with him (well, as much as she ever plays). "Last Laugh" and the towel bar is my favorite example of this, but they often get a sibling-y line or two, like the fortune cookie bit in "Inside the Box". So I liked that part of “Got Murder?”, at least.
I wasn't very enthusiastic about "Inside the Box" the first time around, and I'm still not- it's okay, it's solid enough, but it's not inspired. I'll miss Lockwood. He wasn't very interesting, but he was pretty. Three of my four favorite bit players were in it (David, Jacqui, and Bobby) and Hodges wasn't, so that's a plus (minus one point for no Archie, though). Brass was wonderful, as usual (I love Brass), as was Albert. Nicky was quiet but intense, and I love it when the writers remember that oh yeah, he's good at his job. It wasn't just the dimples that got him hired. Poor Greg was all sweet and wounded, and Nicky's keeping a close eye on him and making sure he eats, despite how stressed they all are after the last couple of weeks. Well, that was why they were sitting together at lunch, right? I'm still amused that Sara was given the most obsessive task at the crime scene, reconstructing the blast site, to work on- Gil knows her pretty well, I guess. But the whole Sam Braun-is-evil-and-Catherine's-dad... meh, who cares. Mediocre capper to an already Catherine-heavy season.
The one plotline I did like was the "Catherine confronts Gil about his hearing" thing. I'm sure there are lots of Gil/Catherine shippers out there, but personally, I think they have a wonderful friendship and I'd hate to see it be torpedoed by sex. It's like Sara and Nick- Gil relaxes and warms up around Catherine. He only seems to have three real friends, as far I can tell- Brass, Albert and Catherine. Albert and Brass are steady, sturdy guys, and I'm glad Gil has them, but Catherine's different- there's a subtle depth of emotion to scenes like when Gil tells Catherine that he's off to have surgery that I find reassuring for his humanity and emotional health. If Gil could ever, ever bend enough to admit to needing a hug or a shoulder to cry on, I'm sure it would be Catherine he'd go to. They do hug at the end of "In the Box," yeah, but she hugs him. The telling part, I think, is that he not only allows it, but that he smiles while accepting it. It reminds me a little of the bond between Mulder and Scully before Chris Carter screwed it all up (say, seasons 2-4 or so)- their love and respect for each other went without saying; they had a bedrock of affection and devotion wasn't romantic so much as familial (though subtext is in the eye of the beholder), and it gave them something to rely on, no matter what. Gil and Catherine are like the non-codependent version of that, I think. I'm glad he has her (which means NO pairing them up, PTB! You hear me? Catherine/Warrick, if you absolutely have to, but leave Gil and Cat as friends. There aren't enough men and women who are just friends on TV, and I like these two the way they are).
"Underground Railroad" is an interesting episode as far as Martin's implied woman issues go. Sam gets a boatload of bitter subtext, too. Mostly, though, I like it because Viv gets to actually do something for once. She's fabulous. I wish she were the team leader instead of Jack. Jack, I might add, who could so easily be the kind of fed who scares me silly. He's a good guy, basically. He's on the side of the victim; he's tenacious and intelligent and can be incredibly compassionate; he's willing to go to whatever lengths necessary to find the victim and the criminal both. But it's the "whatever lengths necessary" part that makes me skittish. The missing woman's father was a jackass and a wife-beater, and he stupidly, stubbornly put his daughter in danger, so yes, I'm glad that Jack knew what to do to get his cooperation. But what he did, what he did more often as the season wore on, his slash-and-burn methods of threatening people's civil liberties or threatening them with violence... that's tougher. It's like the Graham Spaulding disaster- I hate that this terrible man went free on a technicality, and I hope the character turns up as a mangled corpse next season, but all the same, their evidence was illegally gotten, and evil Spaulding's Constitutional rights were infringed. In that particular case, they had the right bad guy and I wish they could have made it stick, but that sort of "trample the rules, success at all costs" thinking can easily ruin innocent lives when they don't have the right bad guy, like with what's-his-bucket, Annie's godfather, in "Maple Street". I'm glad the team has such a good success rate, of course I'm glad, and maybe it's just my inherent lack of trust for the government and its agencies bleeding into my viewing of the show, but Jack makes me nervous.
But Danny picking on Martin's food? The dynamic duo bored and snipey as they watch surveillance videos? Very cute. Very cute.
Oh, and LJ isn't letting me post or respond to comments (again), so if I haven't answered you, I'm not ignoring you intentionally. I'm just stuck. I'm still sorry though. 'Night all!
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I agree 100%. Those two are *so* not romantic, but really wonderful friends. (Me, I think Gil and Lady Heather should get together -- they're well suited if he apologizes properly.)
I think my personal fave is Warrick, though I also adore Greg. I cheered when Greg went from recurring guest star to regular cast. (For those that don't know, it also means that whether he's in the episode or not, he gets paid, which is why they limit how many are regular, opening credit actors as opposed to recurring guest stars.)
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Me too! He'd have to really grovel, though- he wrecked that relationship but good (and I'm not convinced it was entirely because of the job, no matter what he says).
For those that don't know, it also means that whether he's in the episode or not, he gets paid...
Ah ha, that's good to hear. Yay, Eric! I'm glad we'll get more Greg, because he's my second favorite character, and it seems like the writers like him, so hopefully he'll get a good plot or two. But I'm also a little apprehensive. Nick's my favorite (what a shock, eh? *g*), and last season he was barely around- there were a bunch of episodes that he wasn't in or was in really briefly (George Eads was filming movies for part of the season, but not that much), and he was the only one of the main characters who didn't get a spotlight episode. So I'm a little worried that since adding Greg to the mix will mean chopping up the screen time even more, Nick will lose out. Of course, if they decide to start pairing Nick and Greg a lot, say, by having Nick help train him because they're friends and have a rapport, then I'll be happy happy happy. So fingers crossed. :)
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Yeah. He'll need to admit to her that he sabotaged the potential relationship, I suspect, before she'll see him again. I can relate to him doing that, I confess. Scary as hell, finding someone who can match you intellectually and interests you physically and as far as kinks go. Not that I've found one, yet. :-)
So I'm a little worried that since adding Greg to the mix will mean chopping up the screen time even more
That does happen. But they also cut back on Catherine's screentime, or so it seemed to me. I'm just looking forward to the new stories. My favorites are the urban legend ones, like the scuba diver found dead in the tree, and the woman drowned in the desert. :-)