Csi

[lordlundar]

Okay, I know i'm gonna get nailed on this, but this show drives me insane! Why?

1. It's on ALL THE TIME! I swear, every channel has at least some variant playing at any time of the day. I'm thankful I don't have satellite or I'd never get rid of it.

2. It's nowhere NEAR accurate. Oh sure, the techniques are used in real life(with the exception of anything using a computer), but not in the time span of a few minutes. Hell, on that show, they can solve a case faster than any CSI facility on earth can gather the evidence.

3. The scenery is a crock! Who ever heard of a CSI lab in near pitch black? And where is the damn lights when they are gathering evidence? I mean come on! when there's a lack of lighting, they bring in emergency floodlights! Yet these freaks of nature can spot a black hair in a black rug with light that only a cat could find fine for visibility.

4. Teamwork. It seems if you aren't a CSI on the show, you are an idiot who can't be trusted with any information. News Flash! A CSI gathers and processes evidence. Then the police makes the arrest and the interrogations, and a DA or ADA moves on from there. A CSI will rarely, if ever, even see the suspect! Not be there in every step of the process!

5. The cases! What the Hell!? I have seen only one episode where there wasn't a murder. What, are they too good to be involved in anything else? I can understand a murder case taking up a lot of their time, but in this show, if there isn't a body, they don't touch it.

VG Cats and Cascade Failure seem to nail it right on the head of how asinine the approach of this show is. I know Law and Order and Dragnet weren't as exciting, but at least they were more accurate.

[Greenday]

I'm a forensic & toxicological chemistry major. The first thing people say to me when I tell them that is, "Like CSI, right?" Um, no, not quite.

I want absolutely nothing to do with going to the crime scenes to do any of that crap. I want to stay in the lab and specialize in one area, like all real scientists do.

CSI definitely stereotypes my major and makes it into something it really isn't. I like the Las Vegas version, but I'm sick and tired of people asking me if I want to be like CSI. HELL NO!

[FashionLad]

I love CSI. It entertains me greatly. Why? I dunno, I just like it. *sigh* It's love.

[LadyBarbossa]

I think the matter-of-fact attitude is what irks me the most about this show and it's half dozen spinoffs. The agents will just be spewing off stuff in this smarmy, smug way and it irritates me to no end for some reason.

"Ah-ha, blood drops. This means the victim must have been walking from the bathroom at 10:42 PM exactly three days ago and they were bleeding from the elbow."

Paraphrase, of course, but hopefully I've gotten my point across

[Dreamstalker]

My mom and I like nitpicking CSI. Yes, we love the show. The mistakes are what made me go out and find the correct info on my own (see, TV can be educational!). They have to condense everything for time purposes (although a full-season single episode done in real-time would be interesting).

The computer-related nitpicks are especially amusing, such as getting a perfectly clear license plate from a blurry long-distance security camera pic.

[DesignFox]

I just feel bad for law enforcement having to deal with the consequences of these crime solving shows.

1) they make criminals smarter as they start taking precautions against leaving evidence.

2) they make lay-people think that all police officers and detectives have a magic computer that solves the crime in ten mins.

When our house was burgled, the cops felt the need to tell us, repeatedly, that it was not like CSI and they'd probably never catch the dirtbags that did it.

Hunny and I don't watch the show, and we assured them that we know better than that, anyway.

Imagine people badgering you about their missing shit and asking why you can't be like CSI? I'd hate to have to deal with that.

[protege]

I watch CSI from time to time, both the Vegas one, and Miami. However, David Caruso just annoys the hell out of me. Whenever he tries to act "threatening," I can't help but laugh! He tries to act tough, but it really doesn't come across that way.

[Greenday]

I just feel bad for law enforcement having to deal with the consequences of these crime solving shows.

Apparently, it's been making court cases much harder for the prosecution. Because of these shows, people expect there to be semen on everything, along with blood samples of everyone involved, hairs, etc. etc. People are getting off because "there is not all these types of evidence", and they ignore the evidence that is provided.

[crazylegs]

In CSI you can pull a print of a wet, bloody body thats been burnt,
HELL NO

In CSI you can compare DNA in seconds from the worlds smallest blood spot
HELL NO

In CSI the Techs can wander round with no protective gear, no hear nets, no face masks, no over shoes, no floor panels, no wall protection
HELL NO

It is however good entertainment, but even if you have a tiny bit of police/SOCO/CSI/Science knowledge you can rip it apart.

[DesignFox]

Apparently, it's been making court cases much harder for the prosecution. <snip> People are getting off because "there is not all these types of evidence", and they ignore the evidence that is provided.

Good point Greenday. I forgot to mention that. The detectives that handled our house burglary told us about that.

Fucking great, right?

[Dreamstalker]

"Neat, plausible and wrong."

David Caruso just annoys the hell out of me. Whenever he tries to act "threatening," I can't help but laugh!

Ditto (my mom has commented that he must have taken acting lessons from Shatner). I like Gary Sinise (CSI:NY) though.

I'm probably in the minority of the general public who do know where CSI gets it wrong. (yes, I've recently been considering going into forensics. Yes, I know it's not like the show).

[AFPheonix]

Apparently, it's been making court cases much harder for the prosecution. Because of these shows, people expect there to be semen on everything, along with blood samples of everyone involved, hairs, etc. etc. People are getting off because "there is not all these types of evidence", and they ignore the evidence that is provided.

Ah hahahahaha....that reminded me of Superbad. God, I love that movie.

I'd never really watched it before my BIL moved in, but I've caught a few episodes here and there. Poor Gary Sinise, if I yell "LIUTENANT DAN!!!" at the screen every time he comes on, I wonder how often people do that to him in real life?

It's good mindless entertainment. It's just like any other show that deals with someone else's hobby or livelihood (think all the doctors and nurses that threw fits about ER), there's going to be bits that are made more dramatic to make it watchable. Would anyone watch the show if you had your standard neckbeard phlebotomist hanging out in a lab making H&E stains of tissue? Hell no.

I do feel your pain, though. Horse movies can be painful for me (and probably DesignFox) to watch without noticing all the lapses in horsemanship.

[DesignFox]

I do feel your pain, though. Horse movies can be painful for me (and probably DesignFox) to watch without noticing all the lapses in horsemanship.

That's a good point.

[Rapscallion]

Because of fourteen-year-old boys, people expect there to be semen on everything,.

Edited for accuracy.

Rapscallion

[LadyMage]

I am not a fan of that show, its dull, I liked dragnet better anyways (yay) that and the ones on court tv that show the way these things really work