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Tarantino Meets CSI
It had to happen sooner or later ? Quentin Tarantino writes and directs an episode of CSI. Last night?s 2-hour season closer was like the ultimate CSI fanfic written by the ultimate geek fanboy. Tarantino played with the cast, getting some of them to do stuff that was just a bit out of character. Some things didn?t ring true for me, but it was all fun, except for the really harrowing parts. As you might expect from a Tarantino piece, these was plenty of blood spatter, gratuitous gore and the most over-the-top autopsy ever shown on CSI. Thank god it was in black and white!
Here are the top moments:
- Grissom?s personal revelation when he shows Sarah his replacement of a childhood trophy: a Certificate of Ownership of Trigger (the horse.) ?You had it framed?? she asks incredulously. ?Huuyeah?, Grissom almost sneers.?
- Warrick getting all bad-assed describing an encounter with some nasty boys outside a movie theatre, almost channelling Samuel L. Jackson in ?Pulp Fiction?.
- Greg playing a ?Dukes of Hazard? board game with that nerdy suck-up tech we all love to hate.
- Learning that Nick Stokes likes country western music, and sings along ? and finding out his boyhood nickname was Poncho.
- Cameos by Tony Curtis and the recently departed Frank Gorshin, playing themselves.
Some not so characteristic things: Catherine begging daddy Sam Braun for a million dollars to ransom kidnapped Stokes. Considering that she had to know how against that Grissom would be, and how little she wants to do with Braun, I would have to figure she?d be pretty desperate to ask. I suppose that was the point.
The other unrealistic thing was having Eccle (sic?) being nice for a change. You mean to tell me that he wouldn?t have found SOME way to use the kidnap situation for some kind of career advancement?? And it even looked like at the end he might listen to Grissom?s plea to give him ?his guys? back. I guess we?ll see about that.
It was a pretty gripping episode, small flaws aside. Poor Nick really gets put through the wringer. What more can happen to you after discovering that you?ve been kidnapped and are buried alive, your air gets cut off every time your buddies tune into the web cam to see how you?re faring, and your coffin is developing some serious cracks? Um, lets see? fire ants! Oh... and then, pressure-triggered explosives!
Well played by all, especially George Eads, who gets to show more way emotion than usual.
Did I ever tell my William Petersen story? He actually spent a season at TPWIUTW, playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I saw him around but never actually got to make him anything, as he didn?t wear any hats, but thanks to him I got to REMAKE a very delicate pink straw hat worn by Blanche duBois. Seems he accidentally stomped on it during the ?rape? scene, coming out of a real shower onstage with wet feet. Heat, pressure and? moisture are pretty much the natural enemies of delicate straw hats, and that one got smashed but good. I seem to recall having to work overtime to make a replacement and not liking the brash young actor from Chicago so much.
All I can say now, is, all is forgiven, Will.
Filed under Pop Culture, May 20, 2005
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