#csi: immortality

[lilcathsmith]

Crime Show Meme - CSI insp [dynamics - bonus]

"I want my guys back." - The Graveyard Shift (2000 - 2015)

[bartramcat]

CSI: Immortality and the Zuiker Commentary

I got up early yesterday morning and, while I was waiting for the leaders in the British Open to tee off, I decided to take a listen to Zuiker’s narration over Immortality.

I will admit that I wasn’t hanging on to his every word, but a couple of things stood out; well, I suppose the main one is how there most certainly seems to have been several rewrites with the GSR interactions, since Zuiker’s perception of them was not exactly on par with the actors’ perceptions.

I thought it quite funny that he thought GSR started with Primum non Nocere (although he thought it was Pledging Mr. Johnson), but I suspect that during the first year of getting CSI up and running that he may not have picked up on the amount of subtext in the GSR interactions during that first season, especially since he wasn’t the primary writer on the most GSR-y episodes.

Zuiker also said he always thought Grissom and Lady Heather had slept together, but that Billy adamantly disagreed, and he spent a couple of hours one afternoon giving him a dissertation on why Grissom would not have slept with her….boy to have been a fly on that wall.

Given the amount of deleted scenes, as well as shortened ones, I don’t know if some of the other time-dictated rewrites are to blame for how uneven the finale is or not; I think the only way to judge would be to see them in context (sort of a Director’s Cut version), but I agree that cutting the scene where Catherine gets the Lab Director job was a good idea in order to keep up the suspense.

Honestly, though, the only parts of Immortality that work for me are the GSR parts, but only if I suspend my disbelief enough to think Grissom would have divorced her in the first place, which is a concept that will never make sense to me. I honestly have to look at it as a standalone “thing.”

A good deal of what Zuiker said also underscored the very real sense that one of the reasons GSR is so believable and compelling is that both actors were invested in being true to their characters. At least, as far as this show went, it seems as if Zuiker was willing to listen to both the actors and the other writers who were there for the bulk of the GSR story line.

[havco93]

[lilcathsmith]

Greg in every episode of CSI (325/328) • Immortality pt2 •

[lilcathsmith]

Greg in every episode of CSI (325/328) • Immortality pt1 •

[lifelong-latent-logic]

Happy 5th anniversary CSI: Immortality!

Original air date: September 27, 2015

[lifelong-latent-logic]

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The final song played on CSI...

[eddiemacads]

CSI: Immortality

just watched the CSI finale and holy shit that was one dramatic roller coaster of emotions.

it was nice to know how most of the main cast would end up (Catherine, Gil and Sara, DB)

Diebenkorn Russell I hope you’ll make Cyber worth watching

really sad about what happened to Finn though. We don’t really get the details of how she died, and there was no funeral or anything and everyone else seems okay so I assume there’s a significant time gap between when she died and the events of the finale? Although when DB said “where I go you go” was really heartwarming (I hope he’ll hang up Finn’s memorial plaque wherever his new office in Cyber is)

another thing is aside from DB, Finn, Catherine, Gil, and Sara, we don’t really get a glimpse of what happens to everyone else (Morgan, Greg, Hodges, everyone else) not like a proper send-off for everyone like Parks and Rec did but even just a final group shot of the remaining crime lab team would have been nice