Gill Grissom = Teh GOD!!!

19:11 / 21.03.06

SImply put, lets discuss the fact that Gill Grissom is not only my god, but your god, our god, and possibly the saviour of mankind.

Not only does he not do that CSI Miami thing where Horatio stands in a pose with his sunglasses on and say something shite and threatening to a suspect, but he's also going deaf, so he's a disabled hero, and a leader among men.

I said we hadn't found the bullet yet, not that we weren't looking for it.

He is the fuckest upest.

19:34 / 21.03.06

Gil Grissom and Mac Taylor are the men. Their crews are teh people. Horatio has a silly name. And his crew ARE the Weakest Link.

paranoidwriter waves hello

19:38 / 21.03.06

STRONG TRUTH!!!

20:59 / 21.03.06

Hell yes, I can't stand it when Harratio stands slightly at an angle, tilts his head, says something like "At CSI, we never close...", then slips on his sunglasses and puts his hands on his hips and gazes into the distance - he hardly ever looks anyone directly in the eye.

On a side note, the way they colour the films differently for each series is pretty annoying:

e.g. Just before CSI:New York started and there was that introductory cross-over episode of CSI:Miami, when the two head-honchos met in the victim's(?) apartment in New York, Harratio was shot in quite a colourful/bright/almost orange light, while Mac was shot with a sort of grimy green tint.

matthew.

21:14 / 21.03.06

I liked when Gil Grissom shot the Tooth Fairy while listening to Iron Butterfly. Now there's a fucking cop for you.

21:25 / 21.03.06

Even Gary Sinise (anagram = I RINSE GAYS) is shite compared to Gil. And his crew could take any of the other CSI crews in either a Investigation, or a pitched Anchor Man-esque fight.

Spatula Clarke

23:05 / 21.03.06

Even Gary Sinise (anagram = I RINSE GAYS)

You really are a comedy genius.

05:43 / 22.03.06

Grissom rocks. Intelligent, cunning, and honestly the only person on the show who literally knows something about EVERYTHING.

"Its a Little People's Convention..."
"How do you know this?"
"I get the newsletter."

Horatio...Horatio has a cool super-power that only activates when he takes a certain posture. Its all very rehearsed.

I generally find that Miami and New York have the weirder and less believable cases. I mean, CSI: Vegas has weird crimes, but I prefer it...the crimes are so much more...normal. Miami has random rings of assasination and harpoon killings. And New YOrk has...weird serial killers.

Yeah.

Gil Grissom is cool. He's also a nerd. That's the great thing about the Vegas CSIs. Between Sarah, Nick, Greg, and Grissom, the gang are predominantly nerds. No so in Miami or New York.

06:02 / 22.03.06

CSI Miami.

Act One= Rich people get killed.
Act Two= Horatio runs around brandishing a gun.
Act Three= Horatio saves the life of a pre-school child that is inexplicably in danger.

The Miami/New York crossover was one of the few times I noticed the camerawork. A rainy dull day in New York, everything dull, almost monochrome, with a beacon of colour in the middle when Horatio arrived.

Not in the Face

07:20 / 22.03.06

with a beacon of colour in the middle when Horatio arrived.

The use of colour is about the only interesting thing in CSI: Miami. I like the way they often use the sun and the white buildings to bleach everything. It gives the program a washed out, empty feel, which is of course undercut everytime by Horatio's 'Crime has happened here. . .and will be punished' opening line. Now I only watch it in the hope that when the crimescene is inside he still puts his sunglasses back on. Hasn't happened yet but I live in hope

09:22 / 22.03.06

Why does Horatio speak about crime like Jeremy Clarkson speaks about cars?

"I know you killed her ... and I'm gonna prove it!" vs. "This car ... goes like the clappers!"

Obviously it works better in audio then it does it the writen.

Mistoffelees

11:29 / 22.03.06

Ah, great, this thread gives me new hope!

I have recently discovered CSI Las Vegas (I don´t have a tv), and bought the first two seasons (I can´t rent them, my video stores only carry the first seasons of CSI NY and CSI Miami). Yes, Grissom is cool and Sarah is hot. That space between her front teeth is so cute!

They revealed that "going deaf" in the last episode of season 2. But I wasn´t worried, because I saw seasons 3 and 4 lying around in stores and thought "Hm, he probably got a hearing aid = problem solved." So it seems, they milk it convincingly for dramatic purposes?

It pisses me off, that I can only buy half a season though, and they are very expensive.

To compare:
Buffy or X-Files complete season 1 = 20.00 €.
CSI Las Vegas 1/2 season 4 = 45.00 €.

12:03 / 22.03.06

To be honest, every time it's brought up, it's kinda moot, because Gil's just being awsome, not allowing deafness effect him.

Oh - also he's never had to drive out of an exploding building in a Hummer. Horatio did, and that made him even more the red headed step-child of the CSI family.

Triplets

12:19 / 22.03.06

Science shows the CSI tv movie would be two hours of Horatio rotating on the spot slipping off one pair of sunglasses after the other.

13:33 / 22.03.06

Science shows the CSI tv movie would be two hours of Horatio rotating on the spot slipping off one pair of sunglasses after the other.

Was this science done in a laboratory setting, using a control group? It feels like truth though. Strong Truth.

Mistoffelees

14:01 / 22.03.06

I immediately disliked the Horatio actor years ago, in the movie where Nic Cage played a thug.

I´ve only seen the first episode on CSI NY. Is it worth watching?

19:04 / 22.03.06

It's certainly better than Miami, though Stella's awful puns may make you wince.

Speaking of which, did anyone see the episode of Las Vegas where they approach the end of the teaser, Grissom does one of his puns, they pull back and the music swells as though they're going to go to the title sequence, then they do the needle-skip to stop the music, crash-zoom back to the team and then continue with several minutes more of the teaser? Comedy genius right there...

Did Grissom have the operation for his hearing? I Seem to remember it came up in the Lady Heathers Box episode, which I hear rumours is going to be revisited...

MissLenore

19:31 / 22.03.06

Yeah, Grissom's hearing was fixed in one of the episodes, which one escapes me, though. I know it was rather understated, like in the end of one episode he left for surgery and then the next episode he had hearing again.

I love Grissom. I love his catchy one liners right before the theme music starts. Although they haven't been doing those of late, which I can only assume is a deliberate attempt to make me sad.

20:02 / 22.03.06

Which one you people like best: the original beardless Grisson, or the new improved bearded Grissom? (This is pratically a rhetorical question)

My sister commenting on Grissom: "But he's kinda chubby..."

The use of colour is about the only interesting thing in CSI: Miami. I like the way they often use the sun and the white buildings to bleach everything.

I thought it was cool when they came up with CSI: Miami because I thought: "CSI: Las Vegas = night lights; CSI: Miami = day nights. The cycle is complet!" But then they came up with CSI: NY and it all went down the drain.

The problem with the Horatio character (other than everything already exposed here) is the name. How can a guy named "Horatio" be cool? "Grissom", on the other hand...

How about a few new CSI shows? "CSI: Bhagdah"; "CSI: London"; "CSI: Rio de Janeiro"; "CSI: Moscow" and my personnal favourite, "CSI: the island of Lost"...

21:02 / 22.03.06

The beard makes him look more like God.

My sister commenting on Grissom: "But he's kinda chubby..."

Does she not dig the chub-love? The extra weight is actually just his brains spread throughout his entire body, allowing him to know everything.

That is why he is god. Becuase he is teh omnipotent!!!!!11!!!1!11!

02:00 / 23.03.06

I preferred pre-beard Grissom.

I want to see "CSI: Nowhere, Ohio".

05:27 / 23.03.06

What do people think of 'CSI: FBI' or Bones as it's officially known? They have a computer with a three-dimensional realtime display man! It is teh coolest!!

08:49 / 23.03.06

STRONG TRUTH!

And Angels an FBI guy. But now he goes out in the day. So it's a change of pace for him.

Axolotl

07:47 / 25.03.06

CSI: Milton Keynes. It's just 2 blokes in overalls driving around in a Transit complaining that the budget's been cut again. "DNA testing? Alright, we'll get it back to you three weeks tuesday. Lab's backed up again and Derek's off on holiday."

Seriously though, me and my ex-flatmate often discussed the merits of the various CSIs. I personally go for Vegas with its collections of geeks and oddballs and Grissom, who I may have a bit of a man-crush on. He prefers NY with its darkness, cinematography and slightly rundown air, as evinced by their morgue with the vaulted ceilings. Miami we both agree is silly and over the top, but enjoy never the less.

08:04 / 25.03.06

I liked CSI: Miami when they had Sofia Milos in it. But just because I'm in love with her (ah, Sofia, why do you ignore me so?). I thought about going to Miami and commiting a murder just so I got investigated by her, but then I reminded myself this is only a TV show and the chances of her being assigned to my case would be kinda slim...

...although, I'd love to be investigated by Horatio too, but that would be just to laugh at his face when he did his cool/menacing-posture/speech thingy

"I know you killed her...[tilts head] and I'm gonna prove it"

"Bwah-hah-hah-hah-hah! Do it again!"

17:09 / 26.03.06

Just finished watching season 5 on DVD. Wasn't as happy with it as previous seasons, but Grissom kept up being cool. Gotta love a man who has an entymological library in his office.

Though watching Greg Sanders try to do witty one liners like Grissom was definitly worth a laugh. So...so bad. Also, Eckley being a moron and not knowing how to actually do his job.

Megatron, you forgot to add one important line to Horatio's dialogue: "I know you killed her. And I'm gonna prove it. FOR JUSTICE!"

Axolotl

17:24 / 26.03.06

I can imagine Horatio as badly written superhero actually. Prone to florid monologues about how he must right wrongs and punish evil-doers for the sake of Justice, all while constantly rescuing small kids from burning buildings to show how sensitive he is despite his brutal two-fisted justice-dealing.

01:04 / 27.03.06

Bard, I didn't forget. My compulsive laughter would never let him finish the sentence.

"I know you killed her. And I'm gonna prove it. For...

"Bwah-hah-hah-hah-hah! Do it again! Wait a minute, you were saying?

02:23 / 27.03.06

Ok, that's it.

Lets talk about CSI characters as superheroes. I mean, I'm using Nick Stokes as the basis for a superhero I play in a game at the moment...

...but Grissom is kind of a Professor Xavier-type figure. Either that or Mister Fantastic. And Horatio would make a hilariously blunt Green Lantern...

02:26 / 27.03.06

Scratch that.

Horatio as a Tick/Hulk-style hero. So either "HORATIO SMASH!" or "Hey, you, knock off all that evil! Oooh, evidence!"

Triplets

06:06 / 27.03.06

Horatio Caine: SUPERCOP! He's a one-man SWAT team! He can defuse a bomb! He's a crack shot! He can drive a humvee out of an exploding building! Women love him! Men want to be him! He's caring and kind but ruthless in his war against crime!

08:23 / 27.03.06

Sofia Milos is Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
All the world's waiting for you,
and the power you possess.

In your satin tights,
Fighting for your rights
And the old Red, White and Blue.

Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
Now the world is ready for you,
and the wonders you can do.

Make a hawk a dove,
Stop a war with love,
Make a liar tell the truth.

Wonder Woman,
Get us out from under, Wonder Woman.
All our hopes are pinned on you.
And the magic that you do.

Stop a bullet cold,
Make the Axis fall,
Change their minds, and change the world.

Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman.
You're a wonder, Wonder Woman.