Let me first say this has been one of my favorite shows. However, it seems to be getting so far fetched lately, even for me. I wonder in the life of a typical CSI whether they ever draw their weapons. The Miami guys get into a shootout every week. The blonde agent takes one in the chest last night and just gets up and shakes it off. H shoots a moving semi truck loaded with explosives with a sniper rifle before it drives into a nuke plant. Come on!
I tried to like the show, becaue I like the original. But I can’t get past the cheesiness.
I wouldn’t mind the show if not for the “Deliver a line, stop, pose, act really earnest” acting method of David Caruso. He was much better back in the day on NYPD Blue.
in the real world, csi’s aren’t cops and they don’t carry guns. all of the csi shows stretch the bounds of reality. the forensic science is pretty accurate in that they don’t make stuff up, but the application of the science is far from realistic. these shows have made life more difficult for police because crime victims now expect cops to find fingerprints, dna etc in and on every crime scene. unfortunately, it just doesn’t work that way anywhere but tvland.
hate it, hate it, HATE IT! Ever since I was watching CSI Miami and H found a bomb in a car that they were processing for evidence and he calmly got in, started it up, drove to the beach, got out of the car, put his sunglasses on, and walked away I can’t watch it anymore. Oh and he had like 4 minutes until detention to do all of the above. SERIOUSLY!! It is so over the top it is ridiculous.
Holy freaking crap. I was watching it last night (my wife likes it) and they did this recreation of a dead chic’s ring based upon the tan lines on her finger, all I can say is WHATEVER! I made some comment and my wife told me to get out of the room. She likes the show, but can’t stand my comments and I am unable to watch it without commenting.
Normal CSI’s are not the first responders. Normal CSI’s do NOT drive Hummer’s. I don’t even know if they carry weapons. Normal CSI’s do not interrogate witnesses/suspects.
Here’s a job description of a real CSI
http://www.feinc.net/csi-desc.htm
**these shows have made life more difficult for police **
And it is more difficult for prosecutors too. Potential jurors feel that they should get the same evidence available as the CSI shows.
ahaha. I saw that too. My gf loves CSI but when we saw H driving off with that Mercedes we were saying “what is he doing?” hahaha. stupid. I never got into CSI:NY but Caruso and William Peterson take their roles too seriously. Everything is personal. It gets tiring. And what the heck is with Caruso’s neck? Is he incapable of holding it up straight? Its always tilted…
Wasn’t it in the same episode that one of the instruments (centrifuge?) explodes and splatters a CSI? Righht. High rpm device on a glass table, and the technician never wears crappy clothes, a lab coat, ear plugs or safety glasses…
as much as I think its a stupid show, I have to admit I do watch it from time to time.
Do normal CSI’s have a bat phone to homeland security, CIA, FBI and DEA like H seems to have? I’ll bet he has Jack Bauer’s cell phone number.
Law enforcement peeps - if you get shot in a kevlar vest from 20 feet with a large caliber handgun, do you normally just get up and walk away?
**Wasn’t it in the same episode that one of the instruments (centrifuge?) explodes and splatters a CSI? Righht. High rpm device on a glass table, and the technician never wears crappy clothes, a lab coat, ear plugs or safety glasses… **
Yes, because in their great wisdom they use glass tables in their lab. Yes, GLASS tables. And then they just throw an axe down on top of the table which cracks it ever so slightly and then the centrifuge makes it freaking shatter. Sure it does!
Yeah, for some reason that show just doesn’t do it for me. Defies reality just a bit too much. Especially Caruso’s “acting”.
Now the original CSI is significantly better. What I can’t get over is how they work in the “layman” explanations of how the stuff they’re using works. Two CSI’s talking:
“What’s that?”
“Oh, it’s a bomb sniffing device. Yep. It sucks in the air and detects bomb residue in parts per trillion.”
“Oh. Cool.”
There’s just something so fake about it. These guys work together daily, and they’re all (presumably) highly trained, if in their respective specialties… No way they need such simple explanations interjected into the discourse…
Sorry, none of the CSI shows really stand up to L&O for believability, but Miami is at the bottom of the heap.
On a side note, though, the blonde from Miami was on the back-page-interview feature of Runners World a few months ago.
If there is a bomb sniffing machine like that?
I dunno in realtiy. They had one in the show. That’s how they figured out that H had to take out that semi…
Seemed like a pretty small explosion for a 53’ trailer full of semtex… does that stuff not ignite when exposed to a shock/heat/flame? Given what happened to the truck, I doubt it would have ruptured the containment shell of the nuke plant.
(he actually shot out the propane cylinder mounted on the front of the trailer. Not sure if those will go up like that from a bullet either… but that’s outside my area of expertise…)
Nice shot for a CSI!
Ummm…It’s TV it is not supposed to be “real”
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my favorite moment of the season was when in last weeks episode (the one where boa vista sister was kidnapped), ryan (i think that was his name) walked up the safe and immediately was able to crack it open. “My uncle was a safe cracker and he taught me when I was 10” was the line or similar. I mean what can’t these CSI guys do???
I thought all TV was ‘Reality’ TV nowadays.
Dude ! How can you like that show ? Caruso is such a bad actor w/ that mellow deep phoney voice…always striking a pose .
I heard there are websites devoted to Caruso bashing.
He’s like a freakin lephrechaun in Miami, its so hard to take seriously. Sorry .
ummm… some is more real than others.
Another question…those fingerprint ID computers, do they really work that fast?
ok david, that’s good… now just turn your body so that you’re facing the camera.
no, turn your whole body, face the camera.
dave, it’s over here. the camera, it’s over here, you’re facing over there.
ok, you want to face over there, fine… but could you at least turn your head towards the camera?
ok, good, we’ll do that - you’ll face your body over that way, but you’ll turn your neck so that your head is facing the camera. great. nice work.
