CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

This was a nice episode, they tried something new as CSI producers are fond of doing on a fairly regular basis. And while I'm usually a huge fan of those new ways of showing the scenes and exploring the "who done its" of the cases. Cases of the nature explored were better served under a "normal" episode format. They tried to show that any case can have two sides to it. But they ended up revealing that they screwed up by looking at the most easily found evidence instead of exploring all options before collectively comparing all the evidence as they normally do.

It was a nice episode, just felt weird that in this episode they took what they were doing so lightly.

First off, when I put labeled this as, "Painful to watch," it wasn't in reference to the episode being horrible. I decided to label it this was in terms of, it being a sad episode to watch. It was painful to watch at the end.



Although this isn't one of my favorite episodes, it revealed a few more things about Gil Grissom. First off, we learn that Grissom is...well, was a Roman Catholic. At the end he reveals that he doesn't believe in it; doesn't believe in religion. Funny enough, I have those same views. He went on to express his reasoning behind the belief. He believes in god, but not religion. I love that scene with him and the "father" in church. Very well done.



Second, the ending. When the guy committs suicide in jail. The look in his eyes as he looked at Grissom before he stopped breathing...wow. Very powerful scene, especially when Grissom held up his bloody hand to look at it.



The reason I like this episode is because it revealed that sometimes, no matter how hard Grissom tries, it doesn't turn out to be the way it should. No matter what he did, there wasn't anything he could do for the brother. It was out of his hands and he knew it. This is not some almighty character that is Superman and can fix anything that comes at him; he's a regular human being, though with flaws, he is still a top notch CSI. It was sad, knowing the actual truth and then knowing there was nothing they could do. *Sighs*



~Snyder~

I've seen this episode about three or four times now and each time it has a greater effect on me, it wasn't that the initial effect was weak, it's just now I'm older and I start to realise and notice more.



Up until this point in the franchise you start to think that no matter what Grissom says about evidence, the truth is reliant on the person who interprets the vidence, but this episode reinforces all that Grissom has said, the evidence cannot lie, but it can rigged. This episode also highlights one of the differences between CSI: Miami and CSI. If Horatio were Grissom you can guarantee he would go after the guilty brother, but Grissom instead opts just to resign himself to what the evidence, which isn't actually quitting. He's doing his job, nothing more and nothing less. He's not expected to be a vigilante.



This episode was brilliant because it's from near the beginning, when CSI was still in its infancy or adolescence. It reminds you that the cases are not just reliant on who handles them, but what the culprit has done to the evidence.

I don't think this episode was that bad. I just thought it was kind of sad at the end that the guy's brother used the evidence to pin the murder on him just because he didn't want to get his third strike.

In this ep we kind of get to see what Grissom's views are about religion. He doesn't say he specifically belongs to a certain religion, nor does he seem to take religion too importantly, at least that's wat I thought. He's more into science and what it tells him because that he knows for certain that it exists.

I also feel it was really sad how the younger brother, who was just trying to protect his older sibling ended up being betrayed by him and because he wouldn't be able to survive in jail, he committed suicide. But I must say, the whole biting his wrists thing kind of creeped me out.