Why can’t you CSI guys turn on the lights? You’re investigating a crime scene, hit the fucking switch!!
The autopsy guy; is he Daredevil? Has he got Infravision? because he performs his autopies practically in Braille.
Are all the CSI offices in a let’s-fight-global-warming-one-light-bulb-at-a-time mode? or is Dracula the Head coroner?
Get some torches (flashlights) that have more than 0.01w of power!!! My daughter’s glow-in-the-dark Pucca stickers shine a brighter light!!!
I know that some less-than-shiny lighting gets some atmosphere, but if you do it 100% of the time IT’S NO LONGER INTERESTING!!!
PS: …and I’m not crazy about your always solving the crime with “the fibre only sold in two stores for a week in 2005 and all the customers left full addresses”
This is a convention that drives me nuts in a lot of mystery/horror films as well. A lot of directors seem to think they’re creating a creepy mood or something, but I don’t find it creepy, I just find it hard to see.
I had the same problem with the X-Files. Could not see what the heck was going on. Ultimately, the fact that I couldn’t see (along with the plots becoming nonsensical) drove me away from the show entirely.
The occasional dark scene can work, given the right context. Otherwise, please let me see what’s actually happening, okay? Especially when there’s a mystery going on and actually seeing the action will allow me to understand it!
I wonder if it is part of the crime scene investigation protocol, that you don’t turn the lights on there. Anybody have any facts about this?
And while we’re at it, can the cinematographer from BSG quit jiggling the freakin’ camera around? I need a freakin’ gravol to watch that freakin’ show. Thanks, dude.
Well, I know that I’ve heard Grissom say that they need to look at the rooms with the lights off first because the darkness will “tell them something”.
That doesn’t explain why all the labs look like dimly lit lounges. The ones where I work have heavy duty flourescents so bright things practically glare.
Am I the only one that wants to stab Horatio whatshisname with an icepick through the ear? That is the most obnoxious, stupid, nonsensical, boring character on TV. Ever.
Nope - he’s the worst friggin’ actor I’ve ever seen. Notice that he never has a monologue? Only one liners? I’m convinced that’s because he can’t remember more than one line at a time, and then only if it’s a cliche.
“That’s the way the cookie crumbles.”
“It’s my party, I’ll cry if I want to.”
“Don’t cry for me Argentina.”
I hate that friggin’ Miami version, even though my ex looks just like Eric Delco. Like, JUST like him. Built like him too. Ummmm. Ahem, sorry.
I’ve seen exactly one minute of CSI, and I remember it well. A taxi driver was driving a customer down a street when he slammed into someone. The cabby got out and surveyed the scene, then ran back to his cab. A bunch of rednecks watching the scenario unfold saw he was trying to run, dragged his ass out of the car, and proceeded to beat the everloving hell out of him. The passenger in the back of the cab was visibly (and understandibly) shaken.
I got up to head to the computer, but before I left I turned to my wife and said in my best omg-I’m-freaked-out voice, “He w-w-w-as g-g-getting his c-c-c-cell p-p-p-phone!” I moved quickly out of the room before risking any further exposure.
Of course, that’s apparently exactly what the woman said when someone asked the passenger what happened. My wife came in and interupted my Dope reading to inquire, “How did you know that?” I tried to explain that I’m just That Damn Good.
But, but, but… if they switched on the lights, we wouldn’t see that the machines have screens!
SHINY!
Before CSI, every movie lab consisted of rows and rows of multicolored liquids, often bubbly. If the owner of the lab was Evil, there was CO2 smoke coming out of several beakers.
Now it looks like a showroom for HP in a blackout…
Thankyou. You owe me 7 minutes and 16 seconds.
They don’t turn the lights on because they know that any good crook will fashion a bomb to go off when the lights are turned on. Duh!
