Snowflake Challenge 2024 - Day 6
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gothikmausChallenge #6
In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. . Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
This is just a small detail, something that was probably meant as a comic relief moment, but I think it explains a lot about the character. I'm referring to when we find out that Greg Sanders (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) had his first time when he was 22. In episode 05x05 "Swap Meet", he gives a bunch of used condoms to the new DNA tech, Mia, and tells her "It's like being back in college". Only for Mia to reply that Sara told her Greg had his first time when he was 22. Greg's face falls and he quickly changes the subject.
Especially in the first seasons, Greg was the loud, slightly crazy guy, who would flirt with anyone and know everything about sex and fetishes. But here we find out that maybe he wasn't always like that. If we put this piece of information together with the knowledge that he had to wear awful braces for 4 years when he was a teenager, and the fact his mother never let him play any sports in school for fear of him getting hurt (which is revealed later in the series) we get a good idea of how he must have spent his formative years.
All these little bits of canon convinced me that Greg desperately wanted to belong when he was younger, he wanted to be one of the popular kids, to have sex and relationships, but he had to wait until he was already a young adult to finally experience that. So, to compensate, he did the only thing he could: he researched. He seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge about sex, the kind one gathers from books rather than direct experience. Maybe he read a lot about sex or watched porn so he would be ready for his first time and his partner wouldn't think he was a loser for still being a virgin. And even after years, he still wants people to think he's cool, so he flirts and acts cocky and sure of himself, but, deep down, he's still an insecure teenager who just wants to belong.
I know I'm probably reading waaay too much into such a small and unimportant scene (projecting? Who? Me?), but I like when authors give us such tiny, seemingly insignificant details, that make a lot of sense as part of the bigger picture.
(Can I also mention this particular scene inspired one of my fics? Yes, I can and I will: Twenty-Two, Nick/Greg, rated Explicit/NC-17).
In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. . Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
This is just a small detail, something that was probably meant as a comic relief moment, but I think it explains a lot about the character. I'm referring to when we find out that Greg Sanders (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) had his first time when he was 22. In episode 05x05 "Swap Meet", he gives a bunch of used condoms to the new DNA tech, Mia, and tells her "It's like being back in college". Only for Mia to reply that Sara told her Greg had his first time when he was 22. Greg's face falls and he quickly changes the subject.
Especially in the first seasons, Greg was the loud, slightly crazy guy, who would flirt with anyone and know everything about sex and fetishes. But here we find out that maybe he wasn't always like that. If we put this piece of information together with the knowledge that he had to wear awful braces for 4 years when he was a teenager, and the fact his mother never let him play any sports in school for fear of him getting hurt (which is revealed later in the series) we get a good idea of how he must have spent his formative years.
All these little bits of canon convinced me that Greg desperately wanted to belong when he was younger, he wanted to be one of the popular kids, to have sex and relationships, but he had to wait until he was already a young adult to finally experience that. So, to compensate, he did the only thing he could: he researched. He seems to have an encyclopedic knowledge about sex, the kind one gathers from books rather than direct experience. Maybe he read a lot about sex or watched porn so he would be ready for his first time and his partner wouldn't think he was a loser for still being a virgin. And even after years, he still wants people to think he's cool, so he flirts and acts cocky and sure of himself, but, deep down, he's still an insecure teenager who just wants to belong.
I know I'm probably reading waaay too much into such a small and unimportant scene (projecting? Who? Me?), but I like when authors give us such tiny, seemingly insignificant details, that make a lot of sense as part of the bigger picture.
(Can I also mention this particular scene inspired one of my fics? Yes, I can and I will: Twenty-Two, Nick/Greg, rated Explicit/NC-17).
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Date: 2024-01-11 10:58 pm (UTC)Show writers have no idea what they're doing when they toss off these one-liners that fic writers pick up and run with. ::grins::
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Date: 2024-01-13 09:16 am (UTC)I think in the last years show writers have become more aware of fandom and some of their choices are deliberate, but back then they really had no idea what they were causing. :D