I am not an entomologist, but the roaches on the body looked very much like Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches which are only found in Madagascar and maybe, on dead bodies in bus stations in NY.
I was ready to like this show but since German cockroaches grow to less than an inch, I am going to believe that the producers took the easy way out on this.
Minor nitpick? I don’t think so: more like the last straw. G’bye Gary, I wanted this to work, but it just can’t.
Yeah, I noticed that too (well, not by name, more like “Isn’t that one of those big ugly cockroaches that aren’t native to NYC?”)
I noticed that they did the magic grab a perfect reflection off the guy’s eyeglasses (off a grainy black and white video image), of course Miami was worse Monday, pulling a perfect image off a reflection in a guy’s eyeballs.
And “NTSC is underscanned”? Maybe, but not half a frame’s worth of underscanning.
I’ll still watch, though I probably won’t go out of my way.
GES
Haven’t you ever seen New York cockroaches? They’re HUGE and have been known to carry off small children in their beaks.
I can’t say I’m so bothered about the cockroaches being inaccurate, but the image processing upsets me. Pulling an image off glasses? Off an eyeball? Come on.
I understand that they can use complex algorithms to take a pixelated image and make it appear clearer, but the image will be based on several assumptions and I doubt they can come up with someone’s face off an eyeball any clearer than possible identifying it as a primate’s face.
Or am I unaware of some new technological magic?
I lived in Key West for a few years. We had those damned palmettos. They’re huge. And they’re still not as large as the Madagascar roaches.
And PussyCow, you and Green Eyed Stranger both make good points. I give them some stretch with processing but I don’t buy the getting the image from an eye ball reflection either.
Stoopid CSI.
CSI:ToS did this a while ago. I was sceptical but the way they did it was a bit more plausible. They were able to get a blurred image that Grissom was able to infer was the port hole of a boat. I don’t know if it was possible but I could buy it in the context that they put it in. I watched the episode of CSI:Miami. The image they got off the eyeball looked like a professional group photo. It was as clear as the original picture it came from. At least they could have made it a little blurry.
Lifting a useful fingerprint off a pipe that spent six years in an environment they went out their way to establish was constantly exposed to corrosive exhaust was pretty silly, too.
And what about the guy who worked in the bus station?
“Hey, I told you, I was only having a bit of a wheeze with a dead body I found. I’m not saying anything about it.”
“Oh, okay, I guess I’ll just leave you alone completely and figure out where the body came from myself.”
What the…?
head explodes
I’m glad they’re staying true to the Mag-Lites though. It wouldn’t be CSI without entirely inappropriate use of Mag-Lites.
Wasn’t that the episode where the father was sexually abusing his daughter, including taking nude photos of her on his boat? Wasn’t it a reflection off something in the photo that was showing something else otherwise outside the scope of the camera, and was found by their magic move-and-zoom program that would put the one in Blade Runner to shame?
I don’t think it was quite that complicated but that was the episode.
How do you (they) misuse a Mag-Lite?
These points bothered me, but not as much as the ‘isotope gun’ (I think that’s what they called it) from the premiere. They could point it at anything from several feet away and it would tell them if there was lead in it. It looked like a mechanic’s timing light with a PDA mounted on top. Gawshamighty, that looked dumb.
Having said that, I still watch all three shows of the franchise. I can stretch my disbelief quite a bit. I guess I’ve stopped expecting much from television writers.
I did like that when Stella told Mack about the plot of the book, and said it ended when the main character, “gets out before the city kills him.” He looked down at the remains, then looked at her significantly. On CSI: Miami, Horatio would have said, “I guess it didn’t work for this kid.” Mack, being more subtle in his conversation, made the point with his eyes alone.
Yeah, that gadget bugged the heck out of me. Point it at a group of rats and he could tell just which one had the bullet in it. :rolleyes:
I’ve given up on CSI:Miami (I gave up on it after one season), but I still love the original Las Vegas version, and I’ll give this one (New York) at least another few weeks.
I haven’t seen the show but I can tell you why every time when a show needs cockroaches they always use the Madagascar hissing roaches: they’re easy to manage. It’s the old showbiz problem of working with animals. It doesn’t come up that often, but pay attention when a show (and most movies assuming they’re not using digital bugs) features roaches and they’re almost sure to be these guys.
Using the Mag-Lite in situations where better light would logically be available but wouldn’t look as dramatic is a standard CSI franchise gimmick.
Never mind flipping the switch and turning on the overhead fluorescents-- we’ve got three volts supplying quality portable illumination to work with, here!
My favourite example is the one where, with the aid of a Mag-Lite, they discovered confectioner’s sugar on the seat-cover of an armoured car that had been held up. At noon. In Miami.
Puny G2-class star. P’shaw.
My favorite example was on the original CSI from the first season when they were investigating the deaths of an entire family (four or five people), and they all used Mag lights to look at the bodies and look for evidence. Never mind turning on the lights in the house. :smack:
I really don’t understand why they can’t try to use all real science. Real science is cool! You don’t need to make up dumb shit. The way investigators discover the truth in reality is neat-o. So maybe they don’t solve every case, but the story can still be cool.
Well, Mag-Lite abuse is a staple of lots of shows. Didn’t you ever notice that Mulder and Scully would rather stumble around in the dark while using a Mag-Lite in their own office instead of turning on the freaking lights?
Yah, but look how much we’re talking about it. Excellent product placement, no?
In the Season 2 of “CSI” (2001-2002) [episode “Ellie,” in which we meet Brass’s wayward daughter], Grissom is shown boasting of his Madagascar hissing cockroaches, which he is going to show off in Chicago.
Apparently some of them got loose, and in just two years, made it all the way to NYC.
Look out! You could be next!
I dunno, have you ever had a mag-lite: if I had a mag-lite, I’d be stumbling around in the dark using it! 