Eckley's Behavior Around Catherine (concerning last episode)

[squee-rent.livejournal.com]

Just a thought



I am not sure if I found it comforting that Eckley was so worried about
Catherine, or if he was trying too hard to get Catherine's reasoning
why she had been around the suspect. It is the first time I have not
fully hated Eckley, so it was a change. To see him caring is
something I am not at all used to.

I mean, come on, Eckley's a prick and we all know it.

Comments

[vagablonde.livejournal.com]

I think everyone has layers and sometimes those layers surprise us. It certainly makes the character more interesting, doesn't it?

Funny though, what you saw as caring and supportive, I saw as a totally creepy way of finding a reason to pry into the details of Catherine's private life and more specifically her sexual life.

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

it squicked me too... at first i thought he was being caring, then i realized this is ECKLIE and well, caring just does not fit the profile, and well, i squicked!

[smithchaos.livejournal.com]

I agree. I was creeped out by it. I mean... ew. Its Ecklie!

[jessickuh.livejournal.com]

I half expected him to ask if there was tongue involved. Ew Ecklie!

[smithchaos.livejournal.com]

now THAT is a truly creepy thought!

[ex-flamelig.livejournal.com]

To see him 'caring' made me shudder...it seems wrong somehow.

[bellipotens.livejournal.com]

It IS wrong. So very, very wrong. They can't make him into a complete softie after all of the crap he put Grissom through. That would just be lame.

[ex-flamelig.livejournal.com]

you're absolutely right and I would miss the scenes where I keep thinking,"Damn it, Grissom, stop being all in control of your feelings and just punch him."

[psykochatter.livejournal.com]

I might have to watch it again, but I didn't really see it as caring. I saw it more as trying to get to the bottom of it.

Slightly off topic, but slightly not- I was glad to see that Gris was still upset with Catherine at the end. She's kinda done this sort of stuff to him a few times (not been totally honest and then springing it on him at a bad time), I'd really think that a relationship would be soured by now in reall ife.

[anniemoon.livejournal.com]

Ecklie also protected Catherine when her roll of fim was stolen in "King Baby" and he acted professionally with Sara when reviewing evidence from an older, related case in "Compulsion." Ecklie's primary motivation is protecting the lab from bad publicity and keeping it running smoothly. If he needs to use honey rather than vinegar to accomplish that, he will. He's not an evil person; he's just beauracratic, micromananging and a born politician. Every office in every career has a guy like Ecklie, which is what makes him fascinating in the context of the dramatic foils he presents to the CSI teams. Plus, I love how Marc Vann plays him.

[jessickuh.livejournal.com]

He and Cath were also on the same side when it came to the subject of Sara needing to be punished in ND.