This season has definitely been, well, great fun. Tonight’s ep was a great ride, both because of the off-the-rails Keppler storyline and because of the way the writers have kept dragging out this box thing which Grissom just seems to never get the right chance to open. I know that building suspense is important to shows like this, but this thing has been on Grissom’s desk for what, like 6 episodes already now, let alone many more weeks of reruns? The promo for next week implies that it will finally be dealt with, but I really hope it isn’t wrapped up all in one go and will carry into the season finale.
I guess they also decided to blow up everyone’s expectations about them bringing in Keppler to replace Grissom on the show in the most indelicate way possible. Personally, I think it would have been more enjoyable if they had played more with the idea of a compromised CSI in a more extended way, but I guess that’s been done.
Well the box has only been there so long because he wasn’t there to open it. And at least they gave an explanation why it wasn’t opened tonight.
I knew Keppler was gonna die just didn’t know how. The writers actually found a way for me to feel for him. Up until tonight I thought he was a creepy asshole. Good twist.
I think we’re gonna have to wait for this Mini Crime Scene stuff to resolve. CSI usually doesn’t do storyarcs like this so I think they’re gonna play it up. I think the mini crime scenes are really neat and I just hope they find an exciting way to end it. If they keep playing it up and it’s a letdown, I’m gonna be disappointed.
I wanna see what’s gonna go down between Grissom and Sara…you see how she was backing away from him? It’s not like she hasn’t smelled funky before (decomp anyone?) but he was super excited to see her. I know it can’t be all peachy keen with them without some drama. It took too long to get them together for it to be smooth sailing.
I think it was at least the fifth season when they got together, if not after. There was stuff in the fourth season and fifth that happened that would make no sense if they were involved already. I’m thinking it was after Nick got buried alive, but it’s a hunch since no one knows for sure.
Mike Keppler grew on me during his first three episodes. I was disappointed that the Powers That Be felt the need to equate “eccentric” with “haunted killer” for anyone not named Grissom. (I got a chuckle last week when Keppler compared Grissom’s accoutrements to that of a serial killer he knew; too bad that idea will never go anywhere.) I’d never heard of Leiv Schreiber so I can’t compare this to his other performances, but I liked his low-key style. That said, I don’t think the disproportionate screentime for his character was warranted, especially for un-CSI stuff like dream sequences. Plus we got tons of Catherine and Nick but very little Sara, Warrick, and Greg, and now that Grissom is back we may get even less of my three favorite CSIs.
Speaking of my favorite CSI versus my used-to-be favorite CSI:
IMHO, when I watched Sara stammering and backing away from Grissom I saw a woman for whom four weeks of masturbatory fantasies have just crashed and burned. She’s gonna need a shower all right, and pass the brain bleach please because her boyfriend came back from college looking like Grandpa Creepy. I can support the Sara/Gil pairing but only if it supports Sara, and from bitter experience I know that Bearded!Billy = Asshole!Grissom which leads to Sara being a piss target again. Drama from legitimate conflict is one thing, but reverting to the unhealthy dynamic of seasons past is another kettle of fleas.
Catherine’s reaction to Keppler’s death seemed out of place. I didn’t observe enough of a connection over the course of the last three episodes for her to take it that hard.
Please excuse me, but posting from the UK means I’m way behind.
But I wanted to offer one crumb of history - in season one (Sex, lies and larvae), Grissom stays up all night with a pig carcass to check insect evidence of time of death. And Sara turns up with coffee and sits with him.
And in the episode with the hockey players, when she asks him “Since when are you interested in beauty?” he replies “Since I met you.” And after Catherine blew up the lab he called her ‘honey.’
I am a huge Grissom/Sara fangirl dork…it’s so sad.
Well yeah, I know, but why would she be in the dead cop’s hotel room? You see her making a phone call in the elevator, leaving a message for her hooker friend - how did she get from there to the hotel room?
Was it the cop’s hotel room? I had the impression that he went to hers. Catherine only showed up because the CSIs found a matchbook or something in the dead hooker’s recovered purse with the name of the hotel on it; apparently it had a reputation as a base of operations for the short skirt set. And IIRC the conversation between the blonde hooker and the soon-to-be-dead hooker was recorded some time before the confrontation at the Blue Siren (the no tell motel). Of course if the room was rented to the dirty cop, he could have called her in using a different name.
That was my thought also - that, and “Someone’s angling for an Emmy nomination”. :rolleyes:
I concur. I’m thinking maybe the writers realized that the general fan base wouldn’t care that Keppler died so they had to make SOMEBODY care. That somebody was Catherine.
Just watched the episode tonight. I thought that the Trenton cop who killed the other cop planted the hair from the blonde hooker and faked the foot print with a high heel shoe so that there would be enough evidence to implicate her in the murder.
Eh. If that was the reason, it doesn’t pass the sniff test for me. You might clip her nails or wash her hands or something but
cutting her whole had off? So then you have to tote a severed hand out of the crime scene and dispose of it? And then it just gets thrown into a dumpster, which obviously doesn’t address the “DNA under the nails” issue?
Nah. I don’t buy it. I’m not saying you’re wrong; that might have been how the plot worked, but if so it was contrived, unnecessary, and not believable.
Well, yeah, it’s not what I usually do after I shoot a hooker who scratched me in a hotel room but then again I’ve never been caught either. Anyway, it was the reason he gave to Keppler when they met at the bar. It’s way easier to carry a severed hand out of a room than an entire body.
