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I rewatched CSI Season 1 during the last week, and I've got to say: the second half is brilliant.
The first half is already very good, but in the second half there are excellent storylines, good character development and a wonderful Grissom.
That said, let's move on to the relationships...
First of all, I'm not limiting myself to slash relationships. CSI is an "everything goes"-fandom for me. That made it even harder to figure out who is doing whom in the first season. At some points I was convinced that everbody is sleeping with everybody else, in all variations and sometimes at the same time. However, the evidence told me that there is no ned big enough for these kind of parties, so that must have been my imagination.
Now, let's start with Greg.
It took me a long time to even see Greg. I started watching CSI when the fourth season had already started, and there was all that Greg/Nick and some Greg/Grissom fic. Only problem: in the first half of season 1, he play almost no part. He appears on screen, sure, but not enough to figure out anything about his personality. And so he stayed strangely pale in all the Greg-fics that I read, just a shell filled with whatever the writer thought he should be.
Now, I've started with Greg because he is is the easiest person relationship-wise, and I wanted to get him out of the way before it gets complicated.
First season Greg isn't involved with any other CSI. He flirts with everyone, so that doesn't tell us much. At this point, the only one who is interested in Greg is Grissom, because Grissom really wants to know how Greg's brain works. He is probably the most interesting co-worker Grissom had during his time with the crime lab, and Grissom doesn't understand him at all. But since it is a purely academic interest, and Grissom has other relatioonships to consider that I'll get into later, nothing comes out of it.
Greg flirts at work and eats at home: various girl-friends, nothing serious. Also, I think that he is theoretically bi, meaning that he never had a relationship with another man, but isn't opposed to it. That way, we can have VirginGreg/Warrick fic in season 4. *eg*
Let's move on to Sara. She has a crush on Grissom, that much is obvious. She is fascinated by his intellect and his knowledge, and by the fact that he isn't intimidated by her. Most men Sara meets want her for her looks, and when they figure out that she has a brain, they take off pretty fast. By the end of season 1, Sara's crush on Grissom has eased up a bit: she is often very emotional and personally involved, and she doesn't understand how Grissom can stay so detached. Sometimes she hates him. She definitely doesn't sleep with him.
There's no way she is sleeping with Catherine in season 1. She genuinely likes Catherine, even admires her a little, but Catherine's life is so far from the life Sara expects to live that they just don't get this close.
She doesn't sleep with Nick either. They like each other, but I'm not sure if they even have a relationship apart from being colleagues, but at the end of the season, their relationship seems more like a brother-sister relationship. (For example in Evaluation Day).
Sara really doesn't like Warrick at the beginning of the season. Which also makes him the most likely person to have an affair with. She hates him, then she wants him. Unfortuantely for her, Warrick is otherwise involved (we'll get to that later), but then she doesn't want him that desperately anyway, just for some not-quite casual sex. And if Warrick is still pissed at her about the gambling thing, then he can stay where he is, and she starts a nice affair with some delivery boy that last two nights and a day, and leaves her satisfied for a whole month.
Next one is Nick. The only one he really has chemistry with in season 1 is Grissom. But "Nicky" (canon can be so cruel) is wonderfully innocent in season 1. Oh, don't get me wrong: I'm sure he knows exactly how to make a woman happy. But he has no clue that Grissom, whose attention and approval he is almost begging for, is actually flirting with him from the first minute on. Nick is so straight that he doesn't even imagine a man could flirt with him. He just doesn't get it.
He begins to see changes in the relationship at the end of the season, with Nick becoming more offensive in his attempt to get Grissom's approval, which will finally lead to Grissom taking the first step, but it doesn't happen in season 1.
By now you are probably asking yourself if any of these people has some kind of sex life at all. Calm down, we are getting there.
Now, Grissom, the man himself. To start with: he slept with Catherine. Of course it was years ago, when she didn't even know Eddy. Catherine was exotic and smart, and he had never met a woman like her before. Grissom was clumsy brilliant, and honestly admired her, and she had never met a man like him before. So yes, he slept with Catherine a lifetime ago, but none of them thinks about doing it again.
We have already established that Grissom is flirting with Nick, and that he finds Greg very interesting. He isn't interested in Warrick, Warrick is too self-confident and also too predictable for Grissom to find him interesting.
But what does he think about Sara? To be honest, I don't know. I don't think he knows himself. On the one hand, he sees a very intelligent, pretty woman in her, on the other hand, his feeling are almost like a father's feeling for his favourite daughter, or maybe like a patron who got too much personally involved. That confuses him, and then she shows all that feelings about work, and about people, and that confuses him even more. He stays far away from her.
Next suspect is Catherine. Catherine, my favourite CSI, gets all the sex that the others don't have. Not only does she have an affair with that building guy, she also gets the other CSIs. Or one of them. Warrick.
Or she will, because I'm not absolutely sure if they are sleeping together yet, but it won't take long anymore. Why not Nick, you are asking? Because Nick is boring. Nick is reliable and serious, and Nick wants a relationship. Nick wouldn't be satisfied with messy sex on the breakfast table after a long night of hard work. Oh, he'd take the sex alright, but he'd also do the flowers, and dating, and "call me when you are home"- thing, and right now, Catherine so doesn't need that. Actually, she thinks that she will never need that again, but later, when Nick had his heart broken by Grissom and has come back from licking his wounds, she discovers that needs nothing more than that. But that is later.
For now, she is happy to come home with Warrick, who is good with her daughter and who holds her when she is feeling down, all without the commitment of a serious relationship. Oh, they aren't casual, but they also know that their love is not the love of a lifetime.
So, there you are, the CSI relationships during season 1.
Agree? Disagree? Have a question? Leave a comment. :-)
The first half is already very good, but in the second half there are excellent storylines, good character development and a wonderful Grissom.
That said, let's move on to the relationships...
First of all, I'm not limiting myself to slash relationships. CSI is an "everything goes"-fandom for me. That made it even harder to figure out who is doing whom in the first season. At some points I was convinced that everbody is sleeping with everybody else, in all variations and sometimes at the same time. However, the evidence told me that there is no ned big enough for these kind of parties, so that must have been my imagination.
Now, let's start with Greg.
It took me a long time to even see Greg. I started watching CSI when the fourth season had already started, and there was all that Greg/Nick and some Greg/Grissom fic. Only problem: in the first half of season 1, he play almost no part. He appears on screen, sure, but not enough to figure out anything about his personality. And so he stayed strangely pale in all the Greg-fics that I read, just a shell filled with whatever the writer thought he should be.
Now, I've started with Greg because he is is the easiest person relationship-wise, and I wanted to get him out of the way before it gets complicated.
First season Greg isn't involved with any other CSI. He flirts with everyone, so that doesn't tell us much. At this point, the only one who is interested in Greg is Grissom, because Grissom really wants to know how Greg's brain works. He is probably the most interesting co-worker Grissom had during his time with the crime lab, and Grissom doesn't understand him at all. But since it is a purely academic interest, and Grissom has other relatioonships to consider that I'll get into later, nothing comes out of it.
Greg flirts at work and eats at home: various girl-friends, nothing serious. Also, I think that he is theoretically bi, meaning that he never had a relationship with another man, but isn't opposed to it. That way, we can have VirginGreg/Warrick fic in season 4. *eg*
Let's move on to Sara. She has a crush on Grissom, that much is obvious. She is fascinated by his intellect and his knowledge, and by the fact that he isn't intimidated by her. Most men Sara meets want her for her looks, and when they figure out that she has a brain, they take off pretty fast. By the end of season 1, Sara's crush on Grissom has eased up a bit: she is often very emotional and personally involved, and she doesn't understand how Grissom can stay so detached. Sometimes she hates him. She definitely doesn't sleep with him.
There's no way she is sleeping with Catherine in season 1. She genuinely likes Catherine, even admires her a little, but Catherine's life is so far from the life Sara expects to live that they just don't get this close.
She doesn't sleep with Nick either. They like each other, but I'm not sure if they even have a relationship apart from being colleagues, but at the end of the season, their relationship seems more like a brother-sister relationship. (For example in Evaluation Day).
Sara really doesn't like Warrick at the beginning of the season. Which also makes him the most likely person to have an affair with. She hates him, then she wants him. Unfortuantely for her, Warrick is otherwise involved (we'll get to that later), but then she doesn't want him that desperately anyway, just for some not-quite casual sex. And if Warrick is still pissed at her about the gambling thing, then he can stay where he is, and she starts a nice affair with some delivery boy that last two nights and a day, and leaves her satisfied for a whole month.
Next one is Nick. The only one he really has chemistry with in season 1 is Grissom. But "Nicky" (canon can be so cruel) is wonderfully innocent in season 1. Oh, don't get me wrong: I'm sure he knows exactly how to make a woman happy. But he has no clue that Grissom, whose attention and approval he is almost begging for, is actually flirting with him from the first minute on. Nick is so straight that he doesn't even imagine a man could flirt with him. He just doesn't get it.
He begins to see changes in the relationship at the end of the season, with Nick becoming more offensive in his attempt to get Grissom's approval, which will finally lead to Grissom taking the first step, but it doesn't happen in season 1.
By now you are probably asking yourself if any of these people has some kind of sex life at all. Calm down, we are getting there.
Now, Grissom, the man himself. To start with: he slept with Catherine. Of course it was years ago, when she didn't even know Eddy. Catherine was exotic and smart, and he had never met a woman like her before. Grissom was clumsy brilliant, and honestly admired her, and she had never met a man like him before. So yes, he slept with Catherine a lifetime ago, but none of them thinks about doing it again.
We have already established that Grissom is flirting with Nick, and that he finds Greg very interesting. He isn't interested in Warrick, Warrick is too self-confident and also too predictable for Grissom to find him interesting.
But what does he think about Sara? To be honest, I don't know. I don't think he knows himself. On the one hand, he sees a very intelligent, pretty woman in her, on the other hand, his feeling are almost like a father's feeling for his favourite daughter, or maybe like a patron who got too much personally involved. That confuses him, and then she shows all that feelings about work, and about people, and that confuses him even more. He stays far away from her.
Next suspect is Catherine. Catherine, my favourite CSI, gets all the sex that the others don't have. Not only does she have an affair with that building guy, she also gets the other CSIs. Or one of them. Warrick.
Or she will, because I'm not absolutely sure if they are sleeping together yet, but it won't take long anymore. Why not Nick, you are asking? Because Nick is boring. Nick is reliable and serious, and Nick wants a relationship. Nick wouldn't be satisfied with messy sex on the breakfast table after a long night of hard work. Oh, he'd take the sex alright, but he'd also do the flowers, and dating, and "call me when you are home"- thing, and right now, Catherine so doesn't need that. Actually, she thinks that she will never need that again, but later, when Nick had his heart broken by Grissom and has come back from licking his wounds, she discovers that needs nothing more than that. But that is later.
For now, she is happy to come home with Warrick, who is good with her daughter and who holds her when she is feeling down, all without the commitment of a serious relationship. Oh, they aren't casual, but they also know that their love is not the love of a lifetime.
So, there you are, the CSI relationships during season 1.
Agree? Disagree? Have a question? Leave a comment. :-)
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