Grissom/Sara from CSI

[jjtaylor]

Title: Follow the Evidence
Author: jjtaylor
Pairing: Grissom/Sara
Fandom: C.S.I.
Spoilers: Through the current season
Notes: Many thanks to sprencious. All episode dialog from The Body Farm transcripts.

Comments

[nursedianaklim]

Mmm, thank you for this. My faith in the geeklove has been waning in the past two seasons, and this is a nifty retrospective on the good times.

I think you have a few little typos:

It's eassy to assume, since there's no explanation for her change in behavior, that it has sometihng to do with Grissom.

Lovely essay, nonetheless.

[jjtaylor]

Thanks! I go back and forth with the geeklove, but I'm on an upswing, so this was a well-timed essay. Thanks for reading!

[poisonapple73]

Great essay. I've heard about Sara/Grissom, but really had no idea what the pairing was about. You did a wonderful job communicating their chemistry to someone who's never seen them on screen together. I don't know if you've made a convert of me, but I'll definitely watch a rerun on Spike TV and give it a try.

[jjtaylor]

Thanks! I'm glad I was able to communicate some of their dynamic to you without you even having seen the show. I've been watching so long that most of it has become obvious to me and I didn't want to skip over anything vital. I do hope you catch a re-run or two and check out the way they stare at each other and smile and stand just a little too close...

[spikespeigel]

Been waiting for this one. The wait was definitely worth it. Love how you managed to summarize the conflict between Grissom and Sara without really taking out too much. As for this season, I wouldn't be surprised if Sara's history with her family comes into play. After all, in Viva Las Vegas, she's sitting in front of a mirror practicing her speech to Grissom when she's interrupted. And, since then, they haven't had that conversation yet. Couple that with the blatant religious foreshadowing with Grissom, and you've got to wonder if Sara's backstory and Grissom's upcoming struggles will relate somehow. Here's hoping they do, because it'll make Grissom finally sit up and notice Sara as more than an acquaintance. Five seasons of this, it's time for some resolution.

[sassygirl]

'religious foreshadowing'?

[spikespeigel]

Ep two weeks ago, Harvest. At the end, the victim's brother makes an allusion to Grissom doing God's work followed by a cut of Grissom pondering the brother's words, Christ on the cross the next shot after that. Some say it's a throwaway, but based on synopses for future episodes, Grissom's about to take a fall.

[jjtaylor]

Thanks so much! I too want to know more about Sara's history, and I'm hoping they follow through with the hints of a new (maybe religious) plot arc for Grissom. I just hope that arc leads him to Sara.

[ci5rod]

I've got to say, I find Gil and Sara to be fascinating in the same way that a car crash is. Part of this comes from my view of Grissom; I think the character's written as someone with borderline Asperger's Syndrome. He's very smart, intellectualises everything and doesn't handle other people and their emotions at all well. While he can keep things at a professional level, he's fine. The moment it becomes personal, like with Sara -- boom.

Lovely essay.

[jjtaylor]

Thanks! I like your analysis of Grissom - Sara does seem to be the one variable he can't make conform to the rules of his life. She does her own thing, and he can't figure out what to do or how to react to her.

[astraynotion]

Great essay, and in many ways it very much suited the pairing. The steady accumulation of evidence, sifting through the twists and turns and then laying it all out. It's like you're working their case :g
Alas for our extremely likeable protagonists, I suspect that like every case, it's at it's best the moment just before it all falls into place! Anyway, I very much enjoyed reading the evidence, I mean the essay ;)

[jjtaylor]

Thanks for reading! Their relationship is so often about work that it makes lovely subtext to look at them from a "collecting evidence" angle.

[astraynotion]

And the evidence usually points to a single, unavoidable conclusion ;)