A Complaint About CSI

[mysteriorockanova]

Did anybody else notice that it seems every other episode of CSI and its several spinoffs is about either people who died in orgies or pornstars? I'll still watch CSI if there's nothing else on but come on! Can't you think of a better way of attracting the audience?

[DocD83]

I hadn't noticed, but then I only watch the original and that not with much regularity.

[Head Mutant]

CSI is how my mother found out about the existence of Furries.

Curse that show.

[Hucklebubba]

Head said:

CSI is how my mother found out about the existence of Furries.

Brief, startled curiosity quickly gives way to general shuddering, and thankfulness that I'm primarily a Law & Order kind of a dude. I'll kindly thank fringe-of-society bestial sexual dysfunction to stay the heck out of my whodunit viewing.

[Hucklebubba]

Says the guy with the catgirl in his sig.

[Magill]

Justin--your mother is obviously not a reader of "Savage Love." I heard about furries from Dan years before last season's CSI.

I know the recapper for TWoP complains that the network flashes up "adult content" when women have lots of consensual sex (the orgy episode comes to mind) but violent rapes of women (reenactments of which are shown on screen) are A-OK.

I get more annoyed at the superspeed a lot of their analytical tests come out. "Oh, we have this random paint flec. Let's pop it into the gas chromotographer." 30 seconds later . . . "It's obviously Glidden brand 'sunshiney yellow'." It just don't work that way.

[duckie]

Magill said:

I get more annoyed at the superspeed a lot of their analytical tests come out. "Oh, we have this random paint flec. Let's pop it into the gas chromotographer." 30 seconds later . . . "It's obviously Glidden brand 'sunshiney yellow'." It just don't work that way.

I don't watch CSI, partially because I'm afraid I'll cringe at some of the "science" that they show.

I remember watching an episode of the X-Files, when they had a lab run a gas chromatograph spectra on a meteorite sample. And then, they were like, "It's layered with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons." Well, duh... that's what makes up soot, and didn't it just come through the atmosphere, where it was burning up on entry?

It reminded me of the Gilligan's Island episode, where Mrs Howell promises to buy the professor as much acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) as he could ever want, just to make her husband jealous. ;D

[funkymartini]

duckie said:

I don't watch CSI, partially because I'm afraid I'll cringe at some of the "science" that they show.

I remember watching an episode of the X-Files, when they had a lab run a gas chromatograph spectra on a meteorite sample. And then, they were like, "It's layered with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons." Well, duh... that's what makes up soot, and didn't it just come through the atmosphere, where it was burning up on entry?

It reminded me of the Gilligan's Island episode, where Mrs Howell promises to buy the professor as much acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) as he could ever want, just to make her husband jealous. ;D

my sister's obsessed with Days of our Lives, and I remember seeing on there once doctors who claimed a patients' blood type was 'OH'

[Mischif]

Ok, I'll admit that CSI cuts some corners on the science. I'm sure if we dig deep enough in any show (ER anyone?) you'd find things that were not correct.

However, the theme of the show (the original, not the spinoffs) is one that I adore.

Come on people, this is about GEEKS! Grissom doesn't use a gun (ok, maybe he did once). This is Sherlock Holmes for the 21st century. Holmes was fudged more often than not too, but that doesn't mean he's not excellent reading?

I personally love the show. Once again, I was late to the game and caught up via Netflix and DVD box sets. I tried to watch the Miami version via Netflix and found it horribly disappointing. The focus was less on science, and more on Horatio and his damn sunglasses, that he dramatically puts on and removes 3 times every episode. I'll never forget one line, it was an episode about a bomber, and apparently Horoshio is former bomb squad (he's former everything from what I can tell). Rather than waiting for the real cops to clear the building, standard procedure, he says "He's killing my friends, I'm going in there!" with this hero voice and stance. From that moment on, I hated the show.

But as far as CSI: Vegas goes, I love it.

I can't say I've seen all that many shows with a sexual theme. There were a couple about an S&M studio, the one with Furries (yuck) and some about rape. But I've watched 4 seasons now on DVD and those are the only ones that come immediately to mind. Considering that passion in a major cause (read: motive) of murder, it doesn't surprise me that sex comes up often though.

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Be he never so humble, there's no police like Holmes...

[siegeshot]

erm I don't know if this falls under this topic category. But there was a giant plot hole in an episode of 'the practice' that made me stop watching it. It was this tremendously enguaging sort of side story, that one episode just dissapeared and they went on to something else. So I literally stopped watching it. I even went back to check on tvtome and from one episode to the next it literally just hops right over an entire part of the plot that is never revisited.

They love to do that in these shows and I do not know why. I think thats why in Star Trek they just made most of their theories up, so the trekkies didn't have anything to argue about. heh.

These places need to hire real people in the fields at least as just mentors, otherwise you're filling peoples heads with total crap, even if they'll never hear the info again. It's the equivelent of lying to your child for a straight 18 years about complete useless information.

When Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton write a book they do their darn research first so its as accurate as humanly and for national security reasons possible

[synchondrosis]

If CSI follows regular procedure and the time it takes to get lab results, it wouldn't be much of a show, then, would it? In real police proceedings, I think, CSI are not the ones who interrogate the suspects. They just hand the results over to the cops, and go to court if needed. So I don't really mind that they're cutting corners, getting results in seconds and finding information through a bunch of coincidences. And I like watching CSI trap the bad guys in the interrogation room.

And can I just say, Horatio from CSI:Miami cracks me up. We just watch the show to see him remove his shades, glower, and wear his shades. We love to see him chew the scenery and spit it out like good ol' tobacco. He's a caricature, and the way he says his lines...IS THIS GUY FOR REAL?! Cracks me up every time.

[Magill]

synchondrosis said:

And can I just say, Horatio from CSI:Miami cracks me up. We just watch the show to see him remove his shades, glower, and wear his shades.

Ah yes, "The Sunglasses of Infinite Justice" as they're called on Television Without Pity.

[DarthToad]

Why don't they do CSI: Yakutsk? It's really getting to that point.

Crime drama-thingies aren't very good anyway. I say watch Monk instead.

[mysteriorockanova]

DarthToad said:

I say watch Monk instead.

It's times like these when I wish I had cable. Why can't people make good shows that I don't have to pay to see?

[spaceduk]

mysteriorockanova said:

Did anybody else notice that it seems every other episode of CSI and its several spinoffs is about either people who died in orgies or pornstars? I'll still watch CSI if there's nothing else on but come on! Can't you think of a better way of attracting the audience?

i didnt think alot else happened in las vegas apart from pornstars having orgies or casinos getting robbed lol.