aynatonal replied to your video “I love Brass so fuckign much. Anyway, it’s Season 3, babey! Greg has...”
Go long, I say! Your writing is always a treat, regardless of subject matter.
strinak replied to your video “I love Brass so fuckign much. Anyway, it’s Season 3, babey! Greg has...”
I LOVE the CSI recaps, my grandma and I did a rewatch last year bc it was marathoning on Syfy for some reason
copperfire replied to your video “I love Brass so fuckign much. Anyway, it’s Season 3, babey! Greg has...”
I have not watched CSI but I am /really/ enjoying your CSI thoughts when I run across them on my dash. You are always so delightfully eloquent and thinky and funny all at once! <3
Aww shucks babes okay <3 <3 Here’s what I’d cut for time/MPAA rating so far —
In Season 1 Episode 22, I wrote down the following three exchanges:
Sara: “What’s gotten into you?”
Nick: “Grissom.”
me: “high-oh”
Brass: “Why are we in the closet?”
Grissom: “I got a call from Greg Sanders at our lab.”
me: “I love dialogue.”
Man: [is hauled away for killing his boyfriend]
Grissom: “Y’know reminds me—I gotta remember to take Greg Sanders to lunch, he did a nice job sniffing out those peanuts.”
Nick: [smiles ruefully]
me: “WHAT IS HAPPENING”
Essential CSI Side Characters You Must Include for the Proper Texture:
- Detective Vega
- the local Las Vegas news anchor lady with the short blonde hair
- Bobby Dawson in Ballistics
- someone refers in dialogue to “Linds”
Atmosphere: Warrick, Sara, and Greg are quietly hanging out in the break room. Warrick is eating something out of a styrofoam takeout container from the deli, Sara is playing some form of solitary checkers, Greg has folded an origami crane out of a newspaper. ‘Limbo Rock’ is playing.
The full list of things that go wrong for him on Warrick Brown’s Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day:
- in his and Catherine’s absence, Grissom puts Warrick in charge of the shift
- Sara and Nick are, as Warrick anticipated, annoyed at this. mostly Sara.
- his murder suspect is suddenly BRASS’S DAUGHTER
- Brass’s daughter begins very explicitly propositioning him—in front of Brass
- Sara deliberately doesn’t tell him that the case developed a counterfeiting angle and he’s blindsided by a fed showing up in the lab
- in the middle of an interrogation he discovers Brass *pulled a gun* on another of his suspects, meaning the whole case they’re building can now be undone by the defense (rightfully!) calling police brutality
- is just trying to get some darn work done in Grissom’s empty office when Gil’s phone rings—answers it like Han Solo posing as a Stormtrooper
- Brass himself is now a suspect in the death of his daughter’s boyfriend, their only other suspect
- ECKLIE
- finally, fucking Greg has to go and discover that Ellie isn’t Brass’s biological daughter
Anyway, I like to remember sometimes that Warrick is stated by more than one other character to be Grissom’s favorite CSI. When I think about this I usually think about the scene where they’re sitting in companionable silence playing a game of chess in a warehouse as they wait for their spinning bus tire to blow.
The definite best part of the crossover episode in season 2: all the scene transitions where they want Miami to come across as seedy and sexy and exciting, and so have the hilarious task of trying to make LAS VEGAS out to be pedestrian and bookish, for contrast
Season 1, Episode 1: Greg spontaneously informs Nick that the best swabs are anal swabs
Season 2, Episode 1: Greg spontaneously informs Grissom that you can take heroin through an anal suppository
Season 3, Episode 1: Greg’s record of opening every season by volunteering things you can put up your butt ends :(
I like moments where actors forget that their character would probably not be as natural a performer as they are. Like George Eads having Nick just casually drop a fantastic impression of a suspect they talked to earlier, or Jorja Fox holding up a piece of lingerie she’s found with a truly adorable & sparkly little *click-click* shimmy gesture
Someone I would like to know more about: the woman who appears twice in season 3 as seemingly...a forensics veterinarian??
Something I just feel we should note: when Grissom's latest experimental abuse of his team is to have an office assistant drag Warrick around on the floor, he pleads with her, “Hey, I like it gentle okay?”
I’m keeping a whole master list of everything the main characters eat that I’ll share at a later date, but a highlight right now is
Sara: apple and fistful of Twizzlers
Grissom: “Greg.”
Greg: “Yeah.”
Grissom: “I need you to take off your shoes and socks.”
Greg: “See, now we’re getting into this whole strip forensics thing, and I’m not so sure I can hang with that—even if you are my boss.”
Greg: “Look I uh, don’t have time for your ‘humor’. One servant, many masters, you know what I’m saying.”
Grissom: “Greg, this is your DNA lab. You are the master, we serve you.”
Greg: “...Well your stuff just moved to the top of the pile.”
Greg: “You know what I have that you want in the mornings? Apart from my devilish grin and rakish good looks of course.”
Grissom: “—”
Gil you have brought this on yourself by this point, and I’m so mad about it
