>>Overall a good story, but it makes me wish for a little less new
>>set-up and a little more actual *closure*.
>
>Yeah, sorry about that. It could be argued, and I would be
>hard-pressed to disagree, that the "sub-arc within larger
>television-style series concept" thing doesn't entirely work in
>episodic prose. Or at least that I didn't that part terribly well.
>But what the hell, every experiment is an opportunity to learn
>something, even if it's only "setting your eyebrows on fire hurts." :)

The actual shows themselves strive for this kind of thing, though, too. They may solve the case in 45 minutes, but rarely are any of the personal problems of the characters put to rest so quickly. Indeed, they played that game so much in the Vegas show that it actually turned me off watching it any more after season 5. The way things were headed with Grissom and Sara really kind of grated on me. It felt more like writer pressure than anything real, and given how I've heard things wound up, I'm glad I passed on it. But who am I to judge; when I was home for the holidays recently, my father caught me watching an ep on Spike and proceeded to expound on how great it was that Gris and Sara got together, because it made Grissom seem more human (I'm stating this rather more eloquently than he did, but. He also referred to Calleigh as 'The Gun Princess', which, you know, good taste is genetic ;).

I'd like to think what we're striving for here is a balance between UF's space opera and the show's need to put the characters through the ringer. I'd like to avoid the actual-show situations Gryph refer's to as, "does anyone this episode NOT need a hug?" But I'd be stupid if I thought moments like that weren't dramatically important sometimes. :)

And I'd also like to think that, say, everything in this run of CSI:NA might be stitched together by ep 124, but then maybe it won't, or maybe it'll be worse. But you're certainly not going to get a sense of completion of every possible character arc by 109.

	Chad Collier Smirking Kilrathi The Captain of the Gravy Train