Well, what did every one think of the premiere? [Thought I might has well try to get the ball rolling!]
As for premieres, I thought it was a so-so start... the cirque case was cop out cases in my opinion- not really exciting beginning to a year, but rather a short story that would be the "second" case in a mid-season episode. It seemed the case at the cirque show was supposed to be the headlining case so to speak, and it seemed to go either way to slowly to be in any way exciting or way to quickly- the ending was of no real surprise [I'm trying not to spoil it for anyone who has not seen the episode yet], and my brother was thinking that the only reason why they started the season with the case was because they felt having cirque du soleil "involved" would make it special. The case could have happened anywhere as far as I'm concerned, not just at a cirque show. And frankily Quidam and Varekai are better shows than Ka in my opinion anyway
For case #2, it was a little bit better in terms of story in comparison to the cirque case, a good amount of twist, but it too seemed to go a little too slowly- it was as if the two cases were battling it out for which case was the headliner in the episode, and neither seemed to peak at the right time. Once Sara saw the oven mitt in the box, the case went into ho-hum rhythm.
I did like how Grissom got Sara the veggie burger though- it doesn't seem as if anyone has figured out what is going on with Grissom and Sara [I'm still getting unsettling vibes from that though- so it's almost a good thing that these CSIs don't seem to see everything that is in front of them]. Grissom looks better clean shaven though- you'd think that would tip people off! Watch annoying lab tech creep figure it out first!
Catherine and Nick are starting to worry me
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Anyways, the ending of the episode was WAY better and I felt that the entire episode would have been better if they opened with that instead. Poor Catherine seems to be the victim this year around- and deciding to collect the evidence herself probably wasn't a good idea! [sorry had to spoil a little there].
The case that Grissom is working on sounds good though... I sense a new villian to loathe!
Add your thoughts... oh and if you want to spoil the episode, feel free- all future thread readers have been warned....
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