While watching CSI the other day, I noticed that the way in which a guy was killed was impossible. The grounding terminal was removed from a plug of a power tool and the man using it was electrocuted even though it was plugged into a GFCI. On the show they said that a GFCI wouldn’t work because the grounding plug was gone. I know this to be untrue as a GFCI measures the difference in the current going out (not really the proper way to say it, but I’m simplifying) through the hot side of the plug and the current coming back through the neutral. A GFCI will work just fine without a connected grounding terminal.
Many other ideas the show has proposed look knd of shaky to me, but I can’t be positive on anything. Has anyone else noticed the use of extreme creative license on this show or is it an isolated incident. I’m not trying to flame the show, I’m just wondering.
Why are the CSI guys even interviewing the suspects. It almost looks like they are running the show and the detectives are just there to put the handcuffs on. IMHO, the CSI guys are doing waaaaaay too much. In other shows such as Law and Order, they just spray the luminol or vaccuum the hair, or do the autopsy, here they do everything.
But it’s a good show, it’s the characters that make the show more than the story and they have a great cast here.
I can’t comment on the supposed flaw with the GFCI, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the alleged cause of death was a touch implausible. The CSI team seem to deal with lots of people who die in faintly implausible ways, and murderers who - even inadvertently - are very good at leaving clues which seem to point to something having happened that didn’t really. But hey, it’s just a story, and the writers have to give the CSI boys and girls something unpredictable to figure out. I fnd it doesn’t detract from my enjoyment of the show.
Then again, when I was very much littler than I am now, my favourite TV show was Mission Impossible. This is quite probably the least plausible TV show in history (maybe this has the makings of a good thread?). I don’t think there was ever a moment when the MI writers were the least bit concerned with plausibility - I mean, the whole business with masks was comprehensively idiotic. Yet I still thought it was a fun show and I enjoyed the ‘ingeuity’ of the missions.