But, yeah, I can totally see them watching The Natural together and her telling him it was a beautiful movie then doing her little puckery lip thing.

I did a whole Redford marathon this fall, so I’ve now seen almost every Redford movie there is to be seen (whereas before I’d seen a small fraction of that).

Oooh, that’s so smart about saving some of your faves’ films. How do you decide when to watch a new one?

Yesss, honestly I almost mentioned the part about September 16/Sara’s birthday, too, but I didn’t want to make it sad for you if you hadn’t already made that connection!

Sorry, I swear I’m coming back to respond to these threads! I’ve just been spiralling recently. 😭

Also, side note, because I like these kinds of connections, but Grissom was born August 17, 1956 in Santa Monica.

I read a fic written before GSR went canon in which after retirement Grissom just disappears up to a cabin in the mountains.

They both love some of my favourite movies, too—funny how that works! All Is Lost is so appropriate for Grissom—especially in 2013—the title alone could be his motto that year! He’d have to like The Natural. Jeremiah Johnson also seems like a very Gil Grissom film.

You can totally @ me when you get there and give me your thoughts!

Overall, I feel like the early seasons were genuinely good, and the later seasons are just some procedural with characters who look like characters you used to know. (But some people like them! 🤷‍♀️)

The annoying thing with Fishburne’s character is they make him someone who’s new to being a CSI, but obviously he’s the lead, so they want to give him the insights of a leader, which means they often have to make our established super smart characters appear less smart than we know they are.

Okay, overall, the seasons with Laurence Fishburne have a darker tone, and then the seasons with Ted Danson I think maybe overcorrect in bringing in a lighter tone.

But, yeah, I’d rewatch the later seasons if I thought they’d give me more insights into Sara’s character. Instead it’s the opposite.

(Like, just write him having moved back to Vegas but make clear that he’s sworn not to set foot in the lab again? He’s doing research or writing a book or something?)

It’s such a pity regarding the writing in the later seasons because, okay, I think better writers could have handled WP’s absence better, but, even if there’d be a storyline I didn’t like, I’d have rewatched the later seasons at least once if the writing for Sara had been good.

The vibe for me was that the male writers were getting some sort of vicarious thrill at the thought of nerdy Grissom sleeping with a dominatrix, whereas WP didn’t need any vicarious thrills and cared above all about what was right and true for the character.

Yeah, Zuiker says they slept together. In the “Immortality” commentary he says, well, I say they did, Billy says they didn’t, I’ll let you decide. And it’s like . . . Billy. Obviously we trust Billy—especially knowing how much he cares about everything and won’t do anything he doesn’t believe in.

She’s a science nerd, but she demonstrates the most (diverse) music appreciation of anyone. She’s emotional or angry in very specific circumstances, with very specific triggers; she’s not a randomly angry person. She gets excited about cases, and she’s sassy, but she can also be quite soft and calm.