Whilst looking up the history of the CSI franchise in Wikipedia, I came across this ominous note:
Recently in 2020, CBS is considering a limited series revival featuring original CSI: Crime Scene Investigation cast members, William Petersen and Jorja Fox
Now the worst thing about CSI mothership was “Sair ah”'s annoying personality, and the second worse was the Gil/Sara pairing.
The only way I can stomach watching an episode after Sara came back and Grissom was not is to assume Sara murdered Gil and has his dessicated corpse sitting in a chair in her living room. That way, he’ll always be there for her. She has conversations with him, even “calls him” on her phone. She had this whole Norma Bates vibe about her when she talked about Grissom.
They should just let the show die already. They already made a mess of it with Laurence Fishburn’s character. And the less said about HoCaine the better.
I watched the first couple of Fishburn’s episodes, and fell asleep in the middle of the third. Never watched the series again after that. It had been the high point of my week for years, and then just died suddenly. We didn’t even get the chance to watch it decline slowly, like Star Trek. I was SO disappointed!
There is or was a huge Girl/Sara fan base. They sent letters demanding that the characters get together, then when they did wanted the show to be about them. I think they did some sort of overhead banner stunt, too. They had their own website and harassed you on Television without Pity if you were not a fan.
I have a “thing” about reunion shows. I don’t particularly like seeing the same characters ten or twenty years later looking fat, grey, wrinkled, pregnant, emaciated, whatever. I just want to remember them the way they were.
Worst of all is when they haven’t moved on at all in the intervening period. They’re still clueless, stuck in the same boring job, doing the same old shit, whatever.
I never understand that need to “slash” characters on shows, especially procedurals. I don’t want the Grisidle. I want, well, procedure. Crimesolving! I don’t want CSI: Twilight.
L&O was right at the limit of slash with the discussion of Lenny and Rdogers having at least one date. And way too far with Ross and Rodgers’ pissy post-breakup scenes (especially since we never saw them together, just angry at each other.) And I REALLY didn’t need to hear about Van Buren’s sex life!
I got into it once at TWoP when I made some comment they took as GSR bashing, and I was told to get out of the thread - it was their thread. Joke’s on them, their comments got deleted -mine might have; don’t remember- and the thread closed.
Could be worse - pity poor Nathan Fillion and his Castle co-star Stana Katic, whom a subset of earnest fans really wanted to get together in real life. The two reportedly couldn’t stand each other.
I didn’t mind the Gil/Sara thing, and Jorja Fox was the most normal-looking person on the show which I consider a point in her favor. But the show is dead and there’s no reason to exhume it.
I think that I stopped watching around the same time. Looking through the IMDB page, it seems that I completely missed the Ted Danson and Elizabeth Shue years.
Didn’t Fishburn’s character go from learning how to dust for fingerprints to running the show within a few episodes? It has been so long that I can no longer remember.
And then went nuts and murdered a guy. Fortunately, I quit watching before that. The show became a soap opera by that point. I think it got back on track by Ted Danson time, but it was too late for me.
I got annoyed at his character - if they wanted a Gil replacement, why not just create a fully functioning leader, not someone that needs to be trained to take fingerprints?
I am currently working through all of the CSI shows at the rate of one episode per day for my daily runs on my treadmill, and I often have to reach for the remote to skip past the relationship stuff and get back to the core of the show.
As a tangent, I often skip over episodes where one of the team is involved in a crime. If I see “It becomes personal for …” in the description, I skip. The writers did that way too often, and it seems that being a relative of a CSI is a dangerous job indeed.
Then you’ll love it whem the CSIs actually commit crimes. Specifically Catherine. I can’t believe she kept her job after that episode. I guess all the PD is corrupt.
