The Subtext Report, now with more BWOC crossover ideas.
I went to work yesterday, despite the good advice of my friends list. What followed was a comedy of errors that was mostly not all that comedic, including me getting stuck in the driver's license office for an hour and getting literally run off the road by some moronic woman while on my dinner break. But I'm fine now, and I don't have to work today. I wanted to watch CSI when I got home from my exciting day in the wilds of central Florida, but I forgot to set up the timer record, so I had to download and wait until this morning to watch. It was worth the wait.
CSI Episode 6.11: "Werewolves"
Oh, creepy. It's like a Halloween episode in January. Nice, PTB. You sure know how to woo a girl.
Bastards.
Anyway.
Let us all take a moment for the obligatory SuperDave squee. I love it when Nick flirts with SuperDave. Love. It. Partly because I know Nick's not serious, and I know David's straight, but I love how it flusters David anyway. Because it's Nick, and who wouldn't get flustered? For all he's a big goober, he's still the hottest thing going. Just ask Greg.
Greg/Archie geek squared scene. My head has gone all explode-y. Especially when Greg's hair is rumpled like he just rolled out of bed, which clearly he did. I'm just going to infer the part where he rolled out of Nick's bed, and that's why Nick is in such a jocular mood. Because clearly that's what the writers meant to imply.
And the hits just keep on coming. Bobby! I think this is going to be my new favorite episode, and I'm only ten minutes in. I so love it when Bobby gets his ballistics on. The only thing that would have made the silver bullet scene better would have been if Nick was in it instead of Catherine.
OMG. Can't breathe. I'm typing as I watch, obviously, and the geek squad arriving at the morgue to harrass SuperDave is just...I have no words. INCOHERENT WITH GLEE, PEOPLE. This is officially the Best Episode Ever. Christ. It's like finally they figured out what all the fangeeks really want, and tossed it to us in the first ten minutes of the episode. Now if only Nick and Greg are in a scene together, I will die happily. If they actually touch I think my brain really will explode.
Maybe I died of the plague and I'm just dreaming this episode. If so, I hope I never wake up.
Oh God, Nick, I love you so much, but please, cut your hair. Season two, hair, George. Season two hair. You'd be bringing us all so much joy.
Christ. They ARE trying to kill me. Sophia/Sara, with the snippiness and the 'I've been waiting' and Sara's obliviousness to Sophia's hotness and...yeah. My brain is going to lovely, femmeslashy places and I like it a lot. Then they go straight to Sara/new lab tech (Wendy? Is that it?) and I really must be dreaming this episode. And then, with the gratuitious Sara/Catherine stroll-of-hotness scene (because yeah, Cath is annoying, but she is hella hot), and it's like the writers are sending us a message. It goes a little something like this:
"See?!? SEE??? Look at all the femmeslash potential on this show! We're trying to help you, fanfic writers, if only you would just see it. Please. Write some femmeslash. The world will thank you."
To which I say a hearty 'amen'.
That bit about excess body hair being a genetic 'quirk' is rich coming from the ex-stripper.
Nick's hair looks better in the 'deep, dark secret' scene. (Poor Nick and his secrets. Why do the writers torture me this way?) I'm going to blame the stylists for making him look like such a goober sometimes. Still, though, the season two hair wouldn't kill him. It was the hottest by far.
I see what's-his-face from ER is still as sensitive and caring as ever.
And now Hodges is getting the musical lab tech sequences. ::sigh:: I miss the good old days when Greg would have been the one to reference crapfests like the Howling series. Which is what they are, Hodges, you poser.
I love Sophia's complete lack of bedside manner. And that scene with her leading the uniforms up to Brent's house? H-O-T. sadsdlgkdgtshlkg INCOHERENT WITH LOVE. I would give a lot for some decent Sophia femmeslash.
Alas, no Nick/Greg scene, but you know, I don't mind so much, because this is the first episode I've thoroughly enjoyed in a really long time. The denouement was weak, granted, but really, how could it not be, considering. Although if some random neighbor had actually believed the vic was a werewolf and shot him for killing his chickens or something, that would have been better. Still, though, I am not complaining, because for all the heavy-handed 'we are very sensitive!' writing, this whole episode was really, really fun to watch.
Plus, there was the sex-rumpled Greg hair and smug-looking Nick, which almost makes up for the lack of shared screentime.
And the whole 'Werewolves of Vegas' theme kind of begs the question, what if the Werewolf Syndicate relocated to Vegas? It would be an ideal location, after all, considering the number of freaks in the city. They could blend pretty easily, and there are lots of drunken tourists to prey on. And of course Tommy and Merton -- okay, Merton -- would hear about it eventually on whatever werewolf-type message boards he reads on the internet, so Tommy would be obliged to go to Vegas and kick ass. Which would make him a suspect in all the murders the Syndicate commits, because that's how red herrings work, and CSI is nothing without at least one red herring per episode.
So Tommy would be questioned by Nick, or maybe even Sophia, or BOTH of them, and then my brain would explode from hotness AGAIN. But they wouldn't have any evidence so they'd have to let him go, and meanwhile Merton would be playing Junior Detective, trying to clear Tommy's name in some dramatic fashion, and Greg would probably think he was funny in a completely geeky way, because Merton would remind him of his gaming friends from high school.
Oh! And maybe the Syndicate runs a hotel on the strip, because they are bigger and badder now that they've gotten better management, and they're partnering with Catherine's dad in some underhanded and questionably legal deal. Which would bring their victims right to them, so it's perfect. It would be a whole, huge AU universe that makes my heart leap with joy just thinking about it.
Somebody needs to write that, man. That would kick all kinds of ass.
CSI Episode 6.11: "Werewolves"
Oh, creepy. It's like a Halloween episode in January. Nice, PTB. You sure know how to woo a girl.
Bastards.
Anyway.
Let us all take a moment for the obligatory SuperDave squee. I love it when Nick flirts with SuperDave. Love. It. Partly because I know Nick's not serious, and I know David's straight, but I love how it flusters David anyway. Because it's Nick, and who wouldn't get flustered? For all he's a big goober, he's still the hottest thing going. Just ask Greg.
Greg/Archie geek squared scene. My head has gone all explode-y. Especially when Greg's hair is rumpled like he just rolled out of bed, which clearly he did. I'm just going to infer the part where he rolled out of Nick's bed, and that's why Nick is in such a jocular mood. Because clearly that's what the writers meant to imply.
And the hits just keep on coming. Bobby! I think this is going to be my new favorite episode, and I'm only ten minutes in. I so love it when Bobby gets his ballistics on. The only thing that would have made the silver bullet scene better would have been if Nick was in it instead of Catherine.
OMG. Can't breathe. I'm typing as I watch, obviously, and the geek squad arriving at the morgue to harrass SuperDave is just...I have no words. INCOHERENT WITH GLEE, PEOPLE. This is officially the Best Episode Ever. Christ. It's like finally they figured out what all the fangeeks really want, and tossed it to us in the first ten minutes of the episode. Now if only Nick and Greg are in a scene together, I will die happily. If they actually touch I think my brain really will explode.
Maybe I died of the plague and I'm just dreaming this episode. If so, I hope I never wake up.
Oh God, Nick, I love you so much, but please, cut your hair. Season two, hair, George. Season two hair. You'd be bringing us all so much joy.
Christ. They ARE trying to kill me. Sophia/Sara, with the snippiness and the 'I've been waiting' and Sara's obliviousness to Sophia's hotness and...yeah. My brain is going to lovely, femmeslashy places and I like it a lot. Then they go straight to Sara/new lab tech (Wendy? Is that it?) and I really must be dreaming this episode. And then, with the gratuitious Sara/Catherine stroll-of-hotness scene (because yeah, Cath is annoying, but she is hella hot), and it's like the writers are sending us a message. It goes a little something like this:
"See?!? SEE??? Look at all the femmeslash potential on this show! We're trying to help you, fanfic writers, if only you would just see it. Please. Write some femmeslash. The world will thank you."
To which I say a hearty 'amen'.
That bit about excess body hair being a genetic 'quirk' is rich coming from the ex-stripper.
Nick's hair looks better in the 'deep, dark secret' scene. (Poor Nick and his secrets. Why do the writers torture me this way?) I'm going to blame the stylists for making him look like such a goober sometimes. Still, though, the season two hair wouldn't kill him. It was the hottest by far.
I see what's-his-face from ER is still as sensitive and caring as ever.
And now Hodges is getting the musical lab tech sequences. ::sigh:: I miss the good old days when Greg would have been the one to reference crapfests like the Howling series. Which is what they are, Hodges, you poser.
I love Sophia's complete lack of bedside manner. And that scene with her leading the uniforms up to Brent's house? H-O-T. sadsdlgkdgtshlkg INCOHERENT WITH LOVE. I would give a lot for some decent Sophia femmeslash.
Alas, no Nick/Greg scene, but you know, I don't mind so much, because this is the first episode I've thoroughly enjoyed in a really long time. The denouement was weak, granted, but really, how could it not be, considering. Although if some random neighbor had actually believed the vic was a werewolf and shot him for killing his chickens or something, that would have been better. Still, though, I am not complaining, because for all the heavy-handed 'we are very sensitive!' writing, this whole episode was really, really fun to watch.
Plus, there was the sex-rumpled Greg hair and smug-looking Nick, which almost makes up for the lack of shared screentime.
And the whole 'Werewolves of Vegas' theme kind of begs the question, what if the Werewolf Syndicate relocated to Vegas? It would be an ideal location, after all, considering the number of freaks in the city. They could blend pretty easily, and there are lots of drunken tourists to prey on. And of course Tommy and Merton -- okay, Merton -- would hear about it eventually on whatever werewolf-type message boards he reads on the internet, so Tommy would be obliged to go to Vegas and kick ass. Which would make him a suspect in all the murders the Syndicate commits, because that's how red herrings work, and CSI is nothing without at least one red herring per episode.
So Tommy would be questioned by Nick, or maybe even Sophia, or BOTH of them, and then my brain would explode from hotness AGAIN. But they wouldn't have any evidence so they'd have to let him go, and meanwhile Merton would be playing Junior Detective, trying to clear Tommy's name in some dramatic fashion, and Greg would probably think he was funny in a completely geeky way, because Merton would remind him of his gaming friends from high school.
Oh! And maybe the Syndicate runs a hotel on the strip, because they are bigger and badder now that they've gotten better management, and they're partnering with Catherine's dad in some underhanded and questionably legal deal. Which would bring their victims right to them, so it's perfect. It would be a whole, huge AU universe that makes my heart leap with joy just thinking about it.
Somebody needs to write that, man. That would kick all kinds of ass.