#csi s7

[lilcathsmith]

Crime Show Meme - CSI insp [7/10 episodes]

"If one was horrifying, what is two?." "A possible serial killer." Post-Mortem (Season 7 Episode 7, 9th November 2006)

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Jo: *says something flirty to Mac* Mac: *accepts it with a combination of mild confusion, embarrassement and dignity* Mac: *stops* Mac: *wait…did she…?* *turns to Jo* Mac: "Are you flirting with me?" Jo: *eyebrow raised* Have been for the past year, but thanks for noticing."

[ashleyjohnsonoftheday]

Day 112

[addictedtostorytelling]

Hi! I’ve got a CSI question. Have you ever written about how, exactly, Sara & Grissom managed to keep their relationship secret for *two entire years*?

I mean, on one hand, neither seem to socialise with the team out-of-hours that much - so Grissom being weird and secretive is just Grissom, Sara spending a lot of time ‘alone’ is just Sara.

But I keep coming back to all the little things that the rest of the team of actual trained investigators should’ve noticed! Because IME you definitely notice when two people are sleeping together - little things like smelling like the same soap, or mentioning having watched the same movies, showing up to work at the same time, or both being suspiciously ‘busy’ at the same time. Two entire years, and not Catherine, Warrick, Nick, or Greg picked up on this?

(Also, they must’ve really had to go to an effort to cover it up, which brings up all sorts of questions about them feeling guilty about ‘lying’ to the team - though I’m personally of the view that, until Sara’s kidnapping, they hadn’t really spoken about what they ‘were going to do’ about their relationship re: lab policy and team dynamics, and were just kind of basking in the honeymoon phase, but your take on that might be different.)

But again - I’m more fascinated by the actual day-to-day nature of keeping it secret. I mean, it’s not like they can go away for a relaxing weekend - due to the nature of their jobs they’re nearly always on call, so it would’ve been very hard to not somehow get ‘caught out’. Just something I ponder, and was wondering what your perspective might be.

hi, anon!

so i have actually written a multichapter fic about the logistics of the gsr "secret dating" era (explored within the context of an s7 double-homicide investigation), which you can read here, if you're interested.

otherwise, in response to your question:

in theory, there should be a thousand-and-one different potential tells for team graveyard grissom and sara are a couple over the course of the two-plus odd years they are secretly together.

in theory, grissom and sara should in time start to smell the same, because they use the same laundry detergent and eat the same foods and sleep in the same bed.

in theory, they should always use the same sort of brought-from-home brands on the job, to the degree their doing so is potentially noticeable—the same water bottles and sunscreen in the field and the same silverware and tupperware containers for their lunches.

in theory, they should both have the same short, roan and white dog hairs covering their clothes.

in theory, grissom should sometimes have long, brown sara hairs covering his clothes, too.

in theory, sara should screw up at some point and call grissom gil or gilbert within earshot of a team member.

grissom does screw up and call sara "my dear" in front of super dave and a couple of uniform cops in episode 07x24 "living doll."

in theory, grissom should once or twice arrive for a callout with lipstick in sara's shade smeared on his shirt collar.

in theory, catherine should someday turn up at grissom's condo uninvited, looking to get his signature on some overtime approvals he neglected before the month runs out, only to recognize sara's car in grissom's lot—but not in the visitors' section.

in theory, sara should at least once, unbeknownst to grissom, during her off-hours, take a work-related call from nick or warrick or greg, only to have grissom walk into the room, already in the process of talking to her ("darlin', i was gonna run to the store. did you want me to pick up—?"), and the person on the other end of the line should recognize his voice.

in theory, one or the other of them should perhaps accidentally answer the other person's cell as they're both fumbling around in the dark, in the blear of sleep, hurrying to catch an emergency call.

in theory, they should use each other's mannerisms and turns of phrase too often to blame on coincidence.

in theory, they should at least once, by the law of probability, because vegas is not actually such a very big city, accidentally run into a teammate someplace during their off-hours—in circumstances where it's clear they are on a date or else doing household errands together.

in theory, someone should realize for as rarely as either one of them takes pto, whenever one of them does do so, it always happens to coincide with the other person's scheduled days off.

in theory, since the department provides their cell phones, someone in the accounting office should look over their records and notice they call and text each other five times as often as they do any of their other teammates—and at odd, non-working hours.

in theory, warrick should raise an eyebrow at grissom bringing sara lunch in episode 07x01 "built to kill" pt. i.

in theory, any one of their teammates should question why sara knows where in his office grissom keeps his secret keys in episode 07x13 "redrum."

in theory, since grissom seems to be in the habit of having his personal post sent to the lab, at some point, junk mail jointly addressed to him and sara should be delivered to his desk, and someone should see it.

in theory, one or the other of them should inadvertently leave some personal item in the other person's car, only for another teammate to discover it there on a ride-along ("hey sara, how come grissom's checkbook is on your dashboard?").

in theory, there is no way, even for as clever and motivated as they both are, grissom and sara should be able to keep up their ruse for as long as they do without anybody being the wiser—and especially not considering they eventually do live together.

in theory, someone should at some point clock them.

—but there's "theory" and then there's "practice."

and for however unrealistic it may be, "in practice," the show suggests grissom and sara do a fairly good job of keeping their secret for the two+ years they're together prior to when natalie davis abducts sara.

so our question then becomes, "how?"

—and i think the answer to that question is twofold: i.e., "very carefully" and "because they get lucky."

more discussion after the "keep reading," if you're interested.

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so i, like you, tend to believe grissom and sara don't really have an "extraction plan" when it comes to their secret relationship—meaning i don't think they have ever set a hard deadline for when they might come clean to the team or how they might manage to do so without imploding their whole lifestyle.

to my mind, they never directly discuss those eventualities because a) as you posit, to do so would make them feel guilty about the depth and scope of their deception; and b) to do so would require them to discuss their probable future together, which is a subject they're both scared to broach, given they aren't 100% certain the other person is as "in it to win it" as they are themselves.

that said, i do nevertheless think they have "rules of engagement" regarding how they conduct their secret relationship itself.

in fact, i think they would have to, just given the very intricate nature of the thing they're attempting to do.

preventing a team of trained observers from noticing the fact two amongst their number are engaged in a long-term illicit intimate relationship is not the kind of deception one can just successfully maintain on the fly—and especially not when the two people in question eventually move in together and start blending their private lives.

there would have to be some game-planning involved. some strategy. some active maintenance of the moving parts of the whole delicate machine.

as i discuss in the post linked above, i think their rules more or less boil down to three main things.

firstly, i think they are both opposed to actively lying about being together. though they will lie by omission (i.e., by simply failing to disclose the fact of their relationship to anyone and by allowing others to draw incorrect inferences about their love lives that they then themselves fail to correct), they’re not going to look anyone in the eyes and say “i’m single right now” or “i’m dating [fill in the name of some imaginary person]” or “god, i could never date grissom” or “i can’t stand sara.” they’re just going to keep quiet about being together rather than loudly protesting they’re not or pretending to be in relationships with other people.

secondly, i believe they are of a mind not to drastically alter their behavior in each other’s presence for the purpose of “throwing others off of their trail.” while they’re not going to hold hands, kiss, or embrace each other in public, they’re also not going to avoid each other or completely refrain from touching, standing close to, and/or showing affection to each other, either. hence why, for instance, grissom will bring sara lunch, never mind that warrick is right there (see episode 07x01 “built to kill” pt. i)—because his mo is to always treat her like his romantic partner, even if he’s not explicitly acknowledging she is. if these overt displays of affection lead to someone realizing they’re together, then so be it; they’re not about to pretend they’re not in love with each other, though. thankfully, by the time they actually start officially dating, they’ve already been acting like a couple for long enough otherwise, their coworkers just expect them to be “like that,” meaning nobody really raises an eyebrow when grissom calls sara “dear” or sara knows where grissom keeps things hidden in his office. by that point, it’s just kind of par for the course with them as far as the rest of the team is concerned, you know? it’s just how they’ve always been.   

finally, i think they have a kind of understanding between them if anyone ever figures out their secret, they’re going to come clean, not just to whomever it is who finds them out but to everyone; at that point, the jig is up, and they’re not going to pretend anymore.

of course, they also undoubtedly have an even more practical set of rules related to how they conduct themselves (and safeguard their relationship) on a daily basis.

more on those rules in a minute.

even so, as discussed above, since even the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, and there are such things as accidents and quirks of circumstance no one, however careful, can anticipate or account for before they happen, i also believe for as much as grissom and sara do take very deliberate precautions, their long-standing success in perpetrating their ruse is also just as much the result of good luck as it is any actions performed on their parts.

they get away with what they're doing not just because they're cautious but because they have the good fortune never to have a coworker glimpse anything incriminating.

however improbably, no one ever walks in on them at the wrong time and sees or hears the wrong thing. there must never be any accidents. no confluences of events which conspire to drag their secret out into the light.

the universe itself must help them perpetrate their deception—

—at least until it doesn't anymore and natalie davis is able to figure them out in a way none of their teammates ever has.

but just sticking to the teammates.

i have a longer post here on the subject, but i think they remain so oblivious to what's going on right under their noses when it comes to grissom and sara largely due to confirmation bias.

basically, they see what they are already disposed to see, where grissom and sara are concerned.

remember in episode 02x09 "and then there were none" when grissom tells brass that anecdote about the basketball game and the gorilla suit?

he says a harvard professor once conducted a study in which he asked test subjects to count the number of times the ball was passed during the game. then he had someone dressed in a gorilla suit run across the court mid-game. afterward, he asked the subjects if they noticed the gorilla, and fifty percent of them responded, "what gorilla?"

his point in telling the story is people often develop "situational blindness" and focus on the wrong details when they don't know what they're looking at.

the same principle can be applied to team graveyard and grissom and sara's secret relationship.

each member of team graveyard has their own conceptions of both grissom and sara as individuals and of what their relationship dynamics with each other are, and those conceptions color the ways they interpret grissom and sara's interactions during the secret dating period.

honestly, very few members of the team view grissom as someone who has much of a social life at all, let alone as someone who might ever be in a long-term romantic relationship.

however, even if they were to picture him dating someone, they would probably either imagine that someone as a more peer-aged woman in an adjacent professional field to his (such as teri miller the forensic anthropologist and/or jane gilbert the president of the gilbert college for the deaf) OR as someone completely "left field" (such as lady heather kessler the dominatrix).

since most of the team views grissom as above all being highly devoted to his work and protective of the lab and its interests, not many of them would ever imagine he would engage in any romantic relationship which might go against lab policy and especially not that he would be so unprofessional as to sleep with his years-younger subordinate.

nick in particular probably recalls how hard grissom came down on him for the whole kristy hopkins debacle in s1 and so would never imagine grissom would himself be such a hypocrite as to endanger the lab and its work for the sake of his own sex life.

in fact, the only person on the team who might possibly even consider grissom might be capable of doing such a thing is catherine, whose personal opinions about the male libido and how sex-motivated people tend to be in general, plus her perceptions of both grissom and sara individually, dispose her to such views.

—however, she just so happens to be of the belief grissom and sara were in a sexual relationship years ago, which culminated in explosive fashion shortly after sara moved to vegas*, and so is not in the right headspace to recognize their current sexual relationship for what it actually is.

* and who knows? she could be right.

she believes they're ancient history—emphasis on the ancient part.

meanwhile, while certain team members (such as warrick and possibly greg) may be more aware of sara's attraction to grissom, most of them nevertheless would see it as being more of a one-sided thing and have no expectation it would ever lead to a real relationship between grissom and sara.

they also might not recognize just how persistent her attraction to grissom is, continuing past her first few years in vegas, especially after she dates hank peddigrew in s2/s3; some of them might erroneously believe though sara starts out "hot for teacher," she eventually gets over her crush on grissom and develops more of an interest in guys her own age (and especially in meathead guys who might be easier for her to boss around).

looking at grissom and sara's dynamic itself at large, they might be similarly confused.

first of all, the fact grissom and sara have always, since day #1, been markedly weird around each other probably serves as some very effective camouflage for their relationship once they become a couple.

as i talk about in this post,

those two geeks have been standing way too close to each other, finishing each other’s sentences, staging uncomfortably intense staring contests, lobbing strange innuendos, having weirdly charged tiffs, being way too openly defensive of each other, etc., etc., since the very first day sara walked through the door to the las vegas crime lab. and maybe initially their teammates wonder if anything ~more~ is going on between them than just “friendship,” but then over time that bizarre intensity between them just becomes a baseline. while particular interactions might temporarily resurrect old suspicions for various team members, nothing to definitively overturn the “it’s just platonic weirdness” assumption ever occurs. so eventually, everyone becomes inured to gsr.

essentially, since they've always acted kind of like they're in a romantic relationship since even before they're actually in a romantic relationship, no one really bats an eye when they do finally become a couple, because their dynamic doesn't really change.

—and especially not because, while there are certainly plenty of instances over the years which might suggest attraction between grissom and sara (mutual or not), depending on if one is inclined to see things that way, there are also just as many instances which might suggest frustration between them or even outright annoyance.

yes, they often act strangely couple-y, but they also often come to loggerheads in highly public ways, enough so as to potentially throw off anyone's sense of their deeper feelings for each other.

for every one time grissom rushes a case for sara (see episode 01x16 "too tough to die") or sara makes a fool of herself grubbing for grissom's approval (see episode 01x17 "face lift"), there is another time when he publicly chews her out over some case (see episode 04x07 "invisible evidence") or when she gets visibly pissed at him for what she views as his mismanagement of her/the team (see episode 04x08 "after the show")—so it's not like all of the available evidence necessarily points toward them being in love.

and especially not when they have both to their teammates' knowledge showed more obvious, uncomplicated romantic interest in and dated other people in the time since sara first moved to vegas (grissom teri miller and potentially heather kessler in s1-s3, and sara hank peddigrew in s2-s3).

so given their preconceived notions of grissom and sara and of grissom and sara's relationship dynamic, it's not necessarily surprising the members of team graveyard don't recognize any evidence they may encounter of grissom and sara's secret romantic relationship with each other for what it is.

their views of the situation as participants are much more limited than are ours as outside observers, after all.

they don't get access to the totality of the information available in the same ways we do. not only do they not get to see the close-up shots or hear the nondiegetic music cues we do as viewers, but they also aren't privy to the overarching story beats. none of them has seen or heard as much as we have overall, nor in the same condensed format.

remember: lots of time elapses within the universe of the show between individual episodes, so whereas to us it might seem like the events of episodes 02x15 "burden of proof" and 02x16 "primum non nocere" take place in fairly short order, for the characters themselves, nearly three full weeks pass between those two cases, which means any connections between grissom's treatment of sara in the earlier episode and his actions toward her throughout the second might be much less obvious to them than they are to us, say.

and, then, of course, there is the fact, in addition to whatever confirmation bias might help to cover over the truth of grissom and sara's relationship, grissom and sara are, within the universe of the show, in the business of actively trying to deceive their teammates regarding what's going on between them.

which brings us to the part of this post where we talk about all of the ridiculous lengths they must go to in order to keep their secret secret.

first of all, while i do believe grissom and sara try to avoid outright lying as much as they possibly can, there are some lies they simply have to tell in order to make this whole complicated situation work.

though they might try to avoid more egregious and forward-facing falsehoods, like pretending to their teammates they're in relationships with people than each other or feigning like they loath each other to conceal the fact they are in love, the fact is, they almost certainly end up not only lying by omission but also occasionally lying more outrightly (especially where hr is concerned).

since neither grissom nor sara is very social outside of work and never has been, they're likely able to take advantage of that fact, when it comes to avoiding coworkers outside of work hours.

however, since during the early seasons of the show, teammates—and especially catherine—do seem to turn up on grissom's doorstep unannounced from time to time, i suspect once grissom and sara move in together, they actually have to take some actively evasive maneuvers.

as i talk about in this post, once they decide to make the whole "living together" thing official, they likely move to a completely new condo somewhere slightly out of the way of the lab. grissom then likely makes a point never to invite anyone over or to advertise where it is he is living.

moreover, he and sara probably choose to move into a condo with no public access, meaning only people who have keys can get into the building past the lobby and all nonresidents must check in with the doorman. they probably give said doorman instructions not to confirm their address to anyone without their permission, citing safety issues related to their work in law enforcement.

meanwhile, sara probably has to keep the lease and continue paying rent on her old apartment even after she stops officially living there and most probably can't sign on the lease of her and grissom's new shared place and/or put her name on any potential mortgage contract there.

maybe she sublets her old place.

she also may or may not rent a po box to receive official mail from the lab, separate from the address she shares with grissom.

she likely also maintains a separate bank account from grissom, even if they somehow split the cost of living otherwise (e.g., buying groceries together, paying for hank's care, divvying up their rent or mortgage payments, etc.), which means she may end up cutting grissom monthly checks to reimburse him for shared expenses.

she probably has to have calls from her home phone number—which, remember, was a usual thing for a person to have in the early 00s—forwarded either to her cell or to a designated alternative landline at her and grissom's shared place (which only she is allowed to answer).

both she and grissom also probably choose to keep their numbers and addresses unlisted from public record.

which is not necessarily an unusual thing for law enforcement officials just generally, but in this case is especially expedient for more than just the usual "we don't want criminals we've helped to prosecute to find out where we live" reasons, as they are also trying to ward off their friends.

coming and going to work, they likely have to make a point to stagger their departure and arrival times and to drive different routes (sara always being sure to come from the direction of her old apartment, even if she has to make a big out-of-the-way loop to keep up that appearance).

if either one of them is on call, they probably also have to drive separately to anyplace they might go out together, in case that person has to leave.

when they answer work phone calls at home, they likely have to signal to each other verbally when they are going to do so, especially if the other person is in a different room when the call comes through, so no one makes the mistake of talking within earshot of where they might be overheard by the other person on the end of the line ("honey, i'm getting a call from nick! don't talk for a second, okay?").

sometimes, when they receive simultaneous calls, one of them might even have to rush outside to answer their phone, so they're not occupying shared space while one of them is talking to catherine and the other person is talking to greg or what have you.

they probably have to avoid areas of town where they know their coworkers live during their off-hours, and when they go on dates, stay away from any of the kind of common places where they might be likely to run into someone they know. they may even occasionally use sara's old police scanner to avoid areas where there might be active crime scenes or heavy police presence so they don't accidentally bump into anyone from the department.

maybe they go as far as getting unscented detergents and cleaning products to avoid having their clothing smell the same.

grissom already doesn't wear cologne (see episode 01x03 "crate n' burial") and probably also uses unscented deodorant, and maybe sara takes to doing so, as well.

they probably have to be meticulous about using a lint brush on their clothes before heading to work so as not to show up covered in hank fur. ditto for checking they don't leave identifiable marks on each other after they've been intimate—so no lipstick on the collar or visible hickeys with noticeable diastema bruise patterns in them.

obviously, only one of them would be able to bring leftovers from home to work for lunch, and they'd have to be careful not to show up with matching tupperware.

as supervisor, grissom couldn't, no matter how badly he might want to, schedule himself and sara to have too many of the same nights off, meaning there would be plenty of times when one or the other of them would end up stuck home alone for hours on end while the other person still had to work.

they also couldn't afford to always go to the same conferences.

they would have to be judicious about using their pto at the same times and have airtight cover stories for if they ever did happen to be absent from work at the same times (which is something we know canonically probably occurs at least once, based on what nick says in episode 07x11 "leaving las vegas").

though doing so in the early 00s would definitely be easier than is the case nowadays, they still probably have to be careful about curating their online presences. they almost certainly use a vpn on one or both of their laptops so they don't show up using the same ip address while doing work-related online tasks. moreover, while neither one of them probably has any social media profiles to speak of (as not only was social media not as ubiquitous from 2005-2007 as it is today but also, again, grissom and sara would personally be unlikely to be on a site like facebook, just given their jobs in law enforcement), they also probably eschew conducting business online, as well, preferring to do things like banking and paying rent in person, so as to avoid accidentally getting their wires crossed with each other on the web.

in theory, someone could maybe trace them both logging onto the same bank account online.

tragically, they probably cannot risk naming each other directly as their ice contacts. however, they may designate some kind of mutual nonwork friend or neighbor as such and then give whoever it is instructions they are to contact the other person, if the other person is not already apprised of the situation ("if anything happens to me, call sara").

for sara in particular, she probably has to be very careful about how she refers to grissom at work, as it would seem she is in the habit of calling him gil or gilbert at home, though doing so is not her norm when they are on the clock (and, indeed, would be an unusual thing coming from any one of grissom's younger subordinates).

of course, grissom also probably has to be equally careful not to call sara by any endearments when they're working, as he seems to be quite liberal in his use of them when they are in private.

he also probably has to be judicious about how he handles sara's evaluations at work, being sure to mix in criticisms with his praise.

sara likely has to resign herself to never seeking any kinds of promotions or negotiating pay raises, either.

still.

even with all of these precautions in place, there are undoubtedly still times when grissom and sara do have some close calls or even slip up in small ways (which thankfully don't tip anybody off but do probably give them both momentary small heart attacks).

—which is why i say, ultimately, they also need just some good, old-fashioned luck to get away with their whole secret dating arrangement for as long as they do.

try as they may to use all of their genius-level intellect to outsmart their teammates, the fact is, there's no way they're able to account for everything, so at the end of the day, they just have to hold their breaths, hope for the best, and see how much they can get away with before the jig eventually comes up.

turns out, they manage to get away with quite a lot for quite some time.

—at least until natalie davis, with her outsider's perspective, is able to recognize the proverbial gorilla on the court for what it is.

anyway.

i've rambled a lot now.

thanks for the question! please feel welcome to send another any time.

[chippdhearts]

I'm watching csi for the first time and I'm currently on s8 but I have a dumb question lol. why did sofia disappear without trace? is she coming back?

not a dumb question at all! This has never been properly explained (to my knowledge) they just yanked her away from us 😭

In all seriousness I suspect it was to do with budget, because they would have been paying her a main cast member salary, and possibly some other BTS logistical stuff. At that point they had a LOT of main cast members. I'm not sure if they knew Jorja was going to leave at the point where they would have been making the decisions about who to renew and stuff.

From a story POV, they literally never explain her leaving. As a whole they did a HUGE disservice to her character imo. They could have developed her a lot more and a lot better. I think because she was largely there, initially at least, to create tension between grissom and sara (a huge ick for me but we won't go into that) it caused a lot of fans not to warm to her at the time. And then in s6 and s7 I don't think they did enough with her character to make people (at the time) really feel strongly about her either way, so they just.... got rid of her. (last in, first out.) I'm still extremely bitter about this, as you can probably tell, because I TRULY think that she would have been a very beloved character if they just put in a little more work.

Also, we get little moments of her with Cat and Sara. But they def wanted to pit all the women against each other and I feel this could have... not happened. (This is a huge tangent, I am so sorry. But also I could talk about this for 5 days.)

To answer your question simply, yes, she comes back. More in depth answer below the cut but this will be minorly spoilery for you, so you can choose to read or not.

She comes back for ONE guest star towards the end of season 11. They SORT of explain where she's been, in that she's got a new rank when she comes back, deputy chief, so we can esentially say that she was away somewhere else climbing the ranks. I think we decided that deputy chief was one step below the under sheriff so she was doing SOMETHING to further her career in the 3-4 years that we didn't see her. But they don't really touch on it beyond that.

[limbel]

Bothering you with questions 🫡

Which moment/episode/scene from Supernatural you find the warmest to your soul? It doesn't have to be your favourite moment, but when you're watching this moment you should think "ha, life is worth living" and feel metaphorical sunshine on your skin.

hi hello!!! thank you for being annoying in my inbox (lie!! you're not) i'm srry if it took me some time to answer, but i had to think about this for a while lol

this is actually not an easy question because a) i suffer from Very Bad Memory Syndrome and i suck at recalling specific things/events especially when it comes to a series as long as supernatural where there are sooo many things and events. and b) many moments or situations that i think of as heartwarming at first are inevitably tied to so many other moments and situations that are just. plain depressing (supernatural thesis statement) and i didn't want to include those

this to say that my answer will not be a definitive one and that there are probably a thousand more moments that simply didn't come to mind at the right time. rip 😔 so im going to list things off the top of my head in no particular order (recency bias warning: im on s7 with my rewatch so they'll mostly be from the first seasons)

-- frontierland. so very deangirl of me to be fair, but they gave me my favourite guy in a little costume and the sheer excitement of a 8-year-old at a theme park and expected me to be normal about it. seeing dean so overjoyed and act so silly and goofy is actually the point of it all. for me

-- dean eating m&ms in 1x02. this is purely sentimental because it is the very first scene that made me go 'yep. that's him. that's my guy'. it all went downhill from there and all these years later im still here talking about him heh

-- free to be you and me, the alley scene. THE destiel scene to me. im sorry but that is the beginning of it all. AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW. the whole scene is just soooo innocent and genuine and wholesome... dean's laughter and his 'it's been a long time since i laughed that hard', cas' shy tentative smile when he glances at dean... YEAG

-- not really a specific moment, but cas and jack's relationship in later seasons. i love when they show how much similar they are and all the little idiosyncrasies they have in common. i'm thinking about the scene with jack and the fbi badge ('i just graduated from csi' 😭) but also about the head tilt + eyes squint. they mean everything to me!!!

-- other honorable mentions: very basic, but the impala scene from swan song. the night moves scene from baby (it's always so nice to see them enjoy the little moments) and also the firework scene from dean's heaven in 5x16. aannnnddd dean when he has genuine & positive interactions with jack, like teaching him how to drive or baking him the birthday cake etc etc. also every jack scene ever

that's it! but the list could go on forever :^)

what about you?? now i'm curious about your favourite moments (and if anyone else wants to share theirs please reply or @ me or whateverrr i'd be happy to read them!)

[buckybarnesss]

Heather have you watched 9-1-1?

only via tumblr.

it's not because i'm pretentious or anything but rather i did my time with procedurals. i was in the goddamn trenches in the early 2000s.

i own seasons 1-3 of the original ncis on dvd and consider these seasons to be the epitome of what a crime procedural should be. i've seen up to s7 with a few episodes here and there after. ncis legitimately probably saved my life during my parents divorce in 2007.

i have seen all 15 seasons of csi and own seasons 1-5 on dvd, i own all of csi ny on dvd and have 41 pages dedicated to it on my blog when i rewatched it in 2021. i wrote a 5k essay about lindsay monroe and her trauma and have another probably 6k written that i never posted.

i watched about 7 seasons of criminal minds and only stopped watching when cbs was fucking around with aj cook and paget brewster.

psych is still one of the best shows of the the oughts and i own it on dvd.

these shows walked so the 911 franchise could give us canon bi evan buckley. i'm glad we as a culture moved on to firefighters instead of doing yet another cop procedural but every time i think about watching it my heart goes

the stars just haven't aligned yet for me to watch it i guess.

[reckless-rider]

A list no one asked for! Anyway a list of all the Wilhelm Screams found in media according to IMDB Part 1.

Happy Family

1000 Ways to Die

16 Blocks

2.0

21 Jump Street

22 Jump Street

30 Days of Night 

Lost  (S5.E6) 

51

6:66 PM

A Christmas Story Christmas 

A Day to Die

A Dog’s Way Home

A Goofy Movie

A Simple Request

Simpsons (S32.E10)

A Star Is Born

Abominable 

Accepted 

Agent Cody Banks

Ainoat oikeat

Aladdin (2019)

Aladdin (1992)

Alex Cross

Dexter: Early Cuts (S1.E2)

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (S1.E14) 

Aloha

Always

American Hero

Manipulated by Fingers

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 

The Angry Birds Movie

Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie

Animator vs. Animation V

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (S3.E8)

Arctic Dogs 

Are We Done Yet?

Assignment to Kill

Astro Boy

Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potions

Atomic Blonde

Avatar 

Avengers: Infinity War

April and the Extraordinary World 

Game of Thrones (S1.E9)

Leap!

Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2

Barbie in the Pink Shoes

Batman Returns

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Battle Creek Brawl

Baywatch 

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Money Heist (S2.E6)

Ben 10: Race Against Time 

Beta Test

Clarence (S3.E12)

Bionicle: The Legend Reborn

Black Sheep

Mythbusters (S9.E6)

Family Guy (S6.E1)

Bolt

House (S7.E15)

Bon Bini Holland

Borrowed Time

Bounty Killer

Brainstorming 

Bratz

Calamity Jane: Wild West Legend

Captain America: The First Avenger 

Cars

Cars 2

Lupin (S2.E5)

Stars Wars: Clone Wars (S2.E7)

Stars Wars: Clone Wars (S3.E4)

The Book of Boba Fett (S1.E7)

Chisum

Stars Wars: Clone Wars (S3.E20)

Clash of the Titans

Clifford the Big Red Dog 

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Colin 

Fast & Furious Spy Racers (S2.E4)

Amphibia (S3.E11)

Blindspot (S2.E5)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Corto Maltese (S1.E1)

Community (S3.E18)

Cowboys & Aliens

Cradle 2 the Grave 

Crawlspace

Fantasy Island (S4.E8)

Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales (S1.E2)

Community (S2.E18)

Dragon Wars: D-War

DOA: Dead or Alive

Daddy’s Home

Daddy’s Perfect Little Girl 

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (S7.E7)

Dante’s Peak

Agency of Vengeance: Dark Rising 

Date Movie

Day & Night

De film van Dylan Haegens

Deadpool 2

Lego Star Wars: All-Stars (S1.E3)

Death Proof

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (S2.E20)

Two Is a Family

Despicable Me

Despicable Me 2

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days 

The Goldfish 

Die Hard with a Vengeance 

DieRy

Dinocroc vs. Supergator

Dinoshark

Drawn Together (S1.E6)

Distant Drums

District 9

Django Unchained 

Community (S3.E8)

Doom

Littlest Pet Shop (S1.E23)

Down by the Riverside 

Due Date 

Galavant (S1.E6)

Blizzards of Souls

Maverick (S3.E10)

Ein Rabe namens Poe

Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas

Encanto

Enchanted 

Star Trek Phase II (S1.E6)

Enthiran

Community (S2.E6)

Toren C (S2.E2)

Maverick (S2.E6)

Evening Class

Ever After High: Dragon Games

Everything Wrong with… (S9.E100)

Everything Wrong with… (S10.E105)

Everything Wrong with… (S4.E24)

Regular Show (S4.E1)

Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales (S1.E1)

Explorers 

Extinct

Outlander (S3.E13)

F9: The Fast Saga 

Face Eater 

Fantastic Four

Feast 

Feels Good Man

Doom Patrol (S2.E5)

Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales (S1.E4)

Flushed Away 

Regular Show (S6.E16)

Freddy vs. Ghostbusters

Free Guy

Fresh 

The Simpsons (S28.E2)

The Loud House (S1.E2)

Community (S5.E5)

Getaway

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 

Ghost Rock

Ghosted 

God of War

God of War III

Golden Dreams

Grabbers

CSI: NY (S1.E4)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Grey Eyes

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

SMG4 (S6.E36)

Guns Akimbo

Family Guy (S20.E14)

Hacksaw Ridge 

Halo Wars

Hancock

Hardcore Henry 

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Harper 

Hellboy 

Star Wars: Rebels (S3.E5)

Hercules 

The Boys (S3.E6)

Schnitzel Paradise 

Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party 

Epic Rap Battles of History (S3.E1)

Hitman: Agent 47

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu (S1.E2)

Home Team

Masters of Horror (S1.E6)

Homefront

How 13 Props are Made for Movies and TV

How It Should Have Ended (S9.E2)

How It Should Have Ended (S8.E18)

Howard the Duck

A Frozen Rooster

I Am David

Impasse

In a Valley of Violence

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Inglourious Basterds 

Injustice 

Inspector Gadget (S2.E26)

Community (S2.E17)

Ultimate Spider-Man (S2.E12)

Jason and the Argonauts

Jiu Jitsu 

Jumanji: The Next Level

Juno

Just Visiting 

Justice 

Katy Perry: Roar

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (S3.E10)

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

Cyanide and Happiness Shorts (S1.E140)

Kill Possible 

Nostalgia Critic (S12.E28)

King Kong

Kingdom of Heaven

Klitschko

Knight Rider (S1.E3)

Steven Universe (S4.E2)

Knowing

From Up on Poppy Hill

Kung Fu Panda

Lego Star Wars Summer Vacation 

Dogmatix and the Indomitables (S1.E15)

Land of the Pharaohs

Tad: The Lost Explorer

The Legend of Hallowaiian

Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return

Legion of Iron

Lego Beyond Worlds

Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload

Lego the Lord of the Rings: The Video Game

Leprechaun 6: Back 2 Tha Hood

Lethal Weapon 2

Lethal Weapon 4

License to Wed

[televinita]

TV I Watched In 2023

Before I can even begin to answer survey questions about it, I have to remember what I actually watched. I have been tracking it month to month, but since I rarely finish an entire series or even a season within a month, all that data is stretched and scattered throughout the year and it takes a post like this to bring it all together. Does this need to be public? Probably not. But it is anyway!

Broken down by categories that are not, for the most part, genre:

INSTA-QUIT

Animal Control: 1x01

The Terror: 1x01-02

Quantum Leap (2022): 1x04

The Triangle (2005 miniseries): pt 1

SAMPLED, WILL COME BACK SOMEDAY

The Ranch: 1x01-02

Trinkets: 1x01

What If…?: 1x03 & 1x07

CURRENT SHOWS (SCRIPTED)

Abbott Elementary: S2

Night Court (2023)

That 90s Show

Ghosts (CBS): S2

Poker Face

Daisy Jones & The Six

Loki (full series)

Alaska Daily

Good Omens: S2

Big Sky: S2-3

La Brea: S2

Goosebumps (2023)

NEW TO ME

The Exes: 4x17-22, finishing what I started last year

Scott & Bailey: S3-5 (and a rewatch of S1)

The Night Manager (which I completely failed to reblog anything about because I was overwhelmed with joy; so good)

The Essex Serpent

Return to Cranford

Litvinenko

Slasher: S1

REALITY & GAME SHOWS

Survivor: S44-45

The Amazing Race: S32 & 35

The Chase: S3

Celebrity Jeopardy

Celebrity Family Feud: Chenoweth vs. Najimy

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune: Abbott Elementary cast

Cook at All Costs

Snack vs. Chef

Best Leftovers Ever

Pressure Cooker

The Traitors (both US and UK)

Snake in the Grass

Squid Games: The Challenge

Special Forces: World's Toughest Test: S2 (and 2 of S1)

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team: season 15

(I can't explain why I will watch 7 junk food reality shows before I watch one genuinely good series when I have sooo many of the latter on my watch list. It used to be because I wrote about every episode of TV, and it's always hard to articulate positive feelings well, but now I guess I just have an emotional block about processing Great Stuff without even having something to show for it afterward.)

RANDOM REWATCHES

Various episodes: 30 Rock; Seinfeld; Friends; The Simpsons (S7 & 12 mostly); Community (S1-2 mostly)

That 70s Show: 1x01-19

Survivor: Gabon (S17)

The Amazing Race: S32

The Office: S9

CSI: 4x12

Primeval: New World: 1x01

Doctor Who: 4x01-02; 4x06; 4x12-13

[erikiara80]

8 TV shows to get to know me

Thank you for tagging me, @travllingbunny ! Ok, let's do it!

Stranger Things

BBC Sherlock

Star Trek: Voyager

Buffy the vampire slayer

Once upon a time

Inuyasha

CSI: Crime Scenes (love Grissom so much)

The X-Files (first 9 seasons and first movie)

I wish I could say The 100. It was in my Top 3, then S7 happened...

Tagging, should you feel like doing it, @chirpsythismorning @shippingfangirl013 @cari-plans and @anyone who wants to do this!

8 TV shows to get to know me

I was tagged by @gaiagalit. Thank you !

The 100

FRIENDS

The handmaid's tale

Bridgerton

The X-Files

Supernatural

Daredevil

Andor

Tagging (only for fun of course): @pendragaryen, @natassakar, @ninappon, @jeanie205, @roguetwelve, @kizo2703, @carrieeve, @bellamyblake, @heartbellamy, @okmcintyre

[lilcathsmith]

Greg in every episode of CSI (141/328) • Living Legend •

[avatarquake]

Being part of many fandoms means you get out-of-the-blue feelies for some really old shit. Like, for example, watching CSI: NY reruns from somewhere between S1-6 and still get hit with the JoxMac feels of S7-9.

[sela-ward-love]

29/∞ moments with Jo Danville ♥

       ↪ 7.17 “Do or Die”

[eddiestattoos]

Have I ever mentioned how much the season 7 subplot sucks and how Greg deserved absolutely none of that?

[addictedtostorytelling]

“and i kind of decided at the beginning of the year that even though i was under the umbrella of csi, i, personally, was in a romantic comedy”—jorja fox, on csi s7

[thelonelywriternl]

Good morning. It’s Monday again. Have a good start of the week.