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CSIV: Of Confessions and Consummations

I'll just throw it out there right off the bat: in no way do I think Sara was telling Nora that she and Grissom began their love affair the night she told him her backstory. While ND was undoubtedly responsible for them finally getting together, I just don't believe it happened then. Nor do I think that is what Sara was saying. I actually think that what she said left "the moment" as vague as it has always been.

Sara telling Grissom her backstory is not new information. Nor is the fact that "Gil understood, and, after that, he was just there” for her. Exactly what she means by “after that” and “he was just there” can be interpreted in many different ways. “After” could be any where between 5 minutes after she told him to a week later--or even longer. His “being there” to me does not imply only a romantic/sexual context, although I think that becomes part of their dynamic fairly quickly post ND, just not during ND.

I am well aware that it has been debated until long after the cows have come home exactly when they got together, with some people thinking it had to be ND and others thinking it didn’t happen until Time of Your Death. That’s a pretty large time gap. I suppose some folks want empirical evidence, while others try to peek through the keyhole and read between the lines.

Actually, to be blunt, this iteration of CSI is, thus far, full of temporal anomalies. On the one hand, we have the ND reference, and, on the other, all of this stuff circa Rashomama that makes no sense. As I said previously, Grissom's Performance Review of Sara doesn't sound like Season 6; at the latest, it could be from early season 5 IMO. Then, also in the conversation between Sara and Nora, Nora states that around that time is when Gil and Sara “became serious.”

Now what is that supposed to mean? When they started having sleepovers? When they moved in together? She actually implies it is the period in which they were so caught up in the Romance that they weren’t paying attention. And how would anyone outside of a small circle of friends (maybe) come up with that as a date that they “got serious”? Even Sara’s “two years” to Ecklie doesn’t fit within that time frame. As little entree as we, the audience, were given into the nuts and bolts of their affair, we actually had more information than the folks at the Lab ever did.

(The odds of Gil and/or Sara sitting down with anyone and giving a timeline of their affair....just didn’t happen. Even as to their first marriage, Sara is so closed-mouthed about their relationship, I doubt she filled in their history to anyone. And Gil certainly never discussed it with anyone after Sara left in Season 8. Hell, the only person to whom he opens up about Sara at all is Heather, and she certainly never talked to anyone at the Lab.)

It has occurred to me that perhaps Rashomama is a favorite episode of this new crop of writers. Heck it's easily among my favorites as well. Still, trying to make everything revolve around that one episode, from the evidence fabrication to a significant point in the GSR love story simply ignores too much of the history of everything we already know.

Hey, showrunners! Reruns are forever.

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I have to admit I couldn't stop thinking about this episode and what Nick said in this scene. And what do I do when a scene bugs me and doesn't leave me alone? An edit.

So a rose, a ring and Nick. There you go.

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6.21 Rashomama

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CSI Vegas - S6E21

Rashomama

One of my all time favourite episodes ever.

Firstly: as a Nick Stokes gal (let’s be honest, just pro George Eads in general) this episode is so great! Nick’s truck full of evidence getting boosted, his progessively pouty attitude as pretty much two days go by and he’s not allowed to go home, Wendy cutting his shirt off and laughing at him the whole time. Come ON.

But let’s move on to everyone telling their stories in different ways and how great it is. I specifically remember watching this episode originally, looking at my husband, and saying: “I cannot wait until Greg’s version, it’s going to be so great. $100 says it’s hard boiled detective-style.” I was not disappointed.

I’m done gushing now. Sorry... but I love this episode SOOOO much.