hollygl125 🐰💕🐰
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Just here for the two lovely science nerds. // The year is 2025, and I’m (still) writing GSR fanfic. // Stories on AO3 + FFN. GIFs on Tumblr. Same username everywhere. 💛
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Feminist. Romantic. Dog-lover.
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Also, side note, because I like these kinds of connections, but Grissom was born August 17, 1956 in Santa Monica.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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!
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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! 🤷♀️)
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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?)
November 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
(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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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.
November 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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.
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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.
So it’s like . . . the cheat sheet says Sara’s a nerd and she’s emotional and she’s sometimes angry. All of those things are true, of course, but in very specific, nuanced ways.
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
So it’s like . . . the cheat sheet says Sara’s a nerd and she’s emotional and she’s sometimes angry. All of those things are true, of course, but in very specific, nuanced ways.
So it kind of feels like they’re writing based on, for example, a Sara Sidle cheat sheet, rather than having actually researched and gotten to know and to understand the character in-depth. So this really interesting, complex character becomes something of a caricature of her former self.
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
So it kind of feels like they’re writing based on, for example, a Sara Sidle cheat sheet, rather than having actually researched and gotten to know and to understand the character in-depth. So this really interesting, complex character becomes something of a caricature of her former self.
The writers in the later seasons also didn’t seem to care as much about the characters from the earlier seasons as they did the new characters.
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The writers in the later seasons also didn’t seem to care as much about the characters from the earlier seasons as they did the new characters.
The writers in the laters seasons seemed to care more about and write more for the joke, the scene, the episode, maybe the arc than for the characters or their development. Whereas I’d say the early seasons did a really good job with characterization and created interesting, complex characters.
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The writers in the laters seasons seemed to care more about and write more for the joke, the scene, the episode, maybe the arc than for the characters or their development. Whereas I’d say the early seasons did a really good job with characterization and created interesting, complex characters.
(Many thanks to addictedtostorytelling for all her amazing meta! Also sorry because this is certainly way more than you wanted to know. This isn’t specific spoilers, but it’s a take on some general shortcomings of the later seasons, if you want to stop reading.)
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
(Many thanks to addictedtostorytelling for all her amazing meta! Also sorry because this is certainly way more than you wanted to know. This isn’t specific spoilers, but it’s a take on some general shortcomings of the later seasons, if you want to stop reading.)
The thing about the early seasons versus the later seasons is that it’s not just Grissom versus no Grissom. It’s also different writers. I haven’t rewatched the last four seasons, so this is based on Tumblr meta and specific examples that I’ve seen or have been pointed out, but . . .
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The thing about the early seasons versus the later seasons is that it’s not just Grissom versus no Grissom. It’s also different writers. I haven’t rewatched the last four seasons, so this is based on Tumblr meta and specific examples that I’ve seen or have been pointed out, but . . .
(But I do love the GSR of “Immortality,” despite everything else, and the GSR of CSIV. 💕 So at least there’s that at the end!)
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
(But I do love the GSR of “Immortality,” despite everything else, and the GSR of CSIV. 💕 So at least there’s that at the end!)
I mean, uh . . . probably not; if the early seasons were for slowly enjoying the GSR goodness, the later seasons may be more about binging while you do something else just to have watched it all, to get a sense of it, for completeness, etc.—in my opinion.
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I mean, uh . . . probably not; if the early seasons were for slowly enjoying the GSR goodness, the later seasons may be more about binging while you do something else just to have watched it all, to get a sense of it, for completeness, etc.—in my opinion.