It was nice to see the “indigo child” again, but I was left both disappointed and satisfied in the Sara farewell.
On the one hand, she didn’t feel free to share her concerns with her supposed one true love, Grissom, and just left him a Dear John letter. On the other, it does seem true to their relationship, in that they didn’t seem to communicate that much, and each still felt a need to stay very private from the other.
Well, at least it leaves the way clear for Lady Heather to come sauntering back onto the scene.
I’m not much of a CSI fan. I catch it now and again when I’ve got nothing better going on and I take it for what it is. I thought they did a decent job in this episode of portraying Sara’s growing discontent with all the nastiness they have to see day in and day out without being stupidly expository about it. In other words, they showed her discontent, rather than talking about it (mainly by using a lot of close-ups on her face and slo-mo). I think this was a smart move - as it draws us into what’s happening in her mind and our imagination does the work.
Then they go and blow it completely by having that cheesebag letter read out loud, spelling the whole thing out completely. It completely ruined it for me. In my alternate edit, I would have cut out the contents of the letter completely, just showing Grissom reading the letter, cut to Sara in the cab, then back to Grissom’s final reaction as shown. Everything that needed to be known would have been known, but much more elegantly and minus a truckload of cheese.
I wish they would have just killed her off in the season opener. Would have made that episode a hell of a lot better, and why save her just to have her leave the show for good 3-4 episodes later anyway?
I wasn’t thrilled with the episode (I haven’t been thrilled with much about this season’s episodes), but I want to reiterate how GOOD an actress Juliette Goglia (Hannah) is.
She gave me the creeps (in both episodes in which she appeared) almost as much as Hannibal Lecter in “Silence of the Lambs”. Amazing actress for her age, really. I think she has a bright future if she keeps that up.
