I’m sure Horatio has some kind of orthapaedic problem, as he never seems to look directly at the camera.
It’s always “stand at an angle, head dropped, sunglass slowly removed, slight head-turn… pithy one-liner”.
It’s probably his choice of pillow, or having to bend down to see anything with the lights off in the lab.
Oh, that is just outstanding. Truly, truly brilliant. This is waaaaay better than the Clooney headwobblesquint.
Cheers for that. 
Edit: The exact same intonation, every time! That’s craft for you.
That’s exactly my husband’s problem with the show. They’re looking for evidence, won’t they be able to find it easier with the freakin’ lights on?
I think I remember Grissom saying at some point that you have to start with the crime scene exactly as you found it. Personally I don’t see how turning the lights on would hurt anything.
speaking of flashlights
[slight hijack]
I was at K-mart the other day purchasing a flashlight. We had to ask a clerk where they were. The high school kid who showed us the display pointed out the Mag Light and said “you should get one of those, it’s what the cops use to beat people up”. That was a hearty recommendation I thought, so I bought one. Looks just like the ones they use on CSI.
Now I’m a proud owner of a mini Mag light. Not big enough to beat someone up with but certainly big enough to find the hair that solves the crime.
[/slight hijack]
I only want to punch him in the face.
Repeatedly.
With a ballpeen hammer.
I’m starting to jazz on a Canadian show called DaVinci’s Inquest they started showing on WGN. It’s a cop/coroner/DA show featuring Dominic DaVinci (no relation to Leo) as the Vancouver coroner. None of this fancy schmancy lab techniques, no instant DNA tests, half the time they don’t even catch the guy. It has a realistic feel that none of the other cop shows do.
CSI can “catch” a guy using a 20 year old photo negative of a bite mark (that had been improperly stored) and a tooth impression that they altered in the lab. DaVinci actually needs real evidence to get an arrest, imagine that.
How about the CSI Miami crew using flashlights while OUTSIDE DURING THE DAY! WTF are you going to see on the sidewalk that Mr. Sun can’t reveal at high noon?
Actually, if you watch the gag reel, you’ll see that much of the time, he puts his sunglasses on before or during the pithy remark.
All government offices look sexy on TV. A real government office (police station, DAs office etc.) looks like a concrete box with the most offensive fluroescents on the market. The only time I’ve seen this done realistically is periodically when the cops on Law & Order have to visit Child Protection Services and the place is a zoo and there are mountains of paperwork obscuring the workers.
The DaVinci guy kind of has a Columbo thing going on, with a dash of House to his character. No a bad show really, but I’ve only seen a couple episodes.
I always thought that was to help them scan easier so they don’t miss anything. Moving the light back and forth and following it with their eyes. Dunno though.
I love CSI but it’s definitely not realistic. CSIs don’t interrogate people! That’s what the cops are for. DNA takes a lot longer than 5 minutes.
I also don’t know how they work in the lab in the dark, but those lit up tables are pretty neat. It’s just a show so I try to ignore the stupidness of it.
The darkness will tell you something.
That you need to turn on the lights.
I blame Blade Runner for this trend.
I also experience the Unreal every time I see the forensic pathologist on Law & Order giving detectives the toxicology results while the body is still on the table. In real life lots of this takes weeks.
Ah, but that’s always just the prelim!
Well, in “House” all the doctors do their own lab work (by adding drops to slides and looking at them under microscopes). TV land lab work is magic - didn’t you know that? 
They also offer them ‘deals’.
And all criminals confess when faced with whatever evidence. :rolleyes:
…and the criminal carries the blood-stained shoes for two weeks…and of course the shoes are of a very special kind made with wombat teeth and Grissom finds out because the *Spuercosiam migeria bug only lives in wombat corpses
And thank Og for it. Someday I’m doing a show in real time. We watch the protagonist typing for 45 minutes. Someone gives him lab results from a case he was working on a month and a half before and he has to be reminded what it was about. He puts the report on top of the pile of reports he hopes to get to this year. Then he sees someone he arrested ten years before and doesn’t have even a glimmer of recognition because he’s arrested hundreds of guys since then and they have all blended together into a generic street punk.
The next episode is entirely devoted to him stuck in traffic on his way to a crime scene. No TV Cop teleporter for him!
Have you ever seen a well-lit high-def Marg Helgeberger?
It was worse before the lift after the first season. She was Clint Eastwood with tits.
I blame Se7en.
The worst is Crossing Jordan. Bodies piling up in the morgue and Jordan and sometimes even the other coroners too have time to be out on the street with Woody pursuing the perps. :smack:
Partly because they’ve been offered soda and are ready to pee themselves. Or if they are free to go the soda can is used for prints or DNA. Once you know that the cops are allowed to lie to you to get you to talk, ask for a lawyer and then SHUT UP. This is why I can’t stand The Closer. Why break down and talk? Just keep your yap shut.
Perhaps this is my own weird little quirk, but what bugs me about CSI (especially the Miami version) is that apparently everyone on the show shops at the "Mega-loud, clop-clop shoes’ store. And they always
walk
very
slow-----ly:
CSI supermodel (I mean investigator): “That’s the eyewitness over there. Let’s talk to him.”
clop
clop
clop
clop…It’s like hearing a herde of doped-up horses tread by.
Miami version.
Horatio is forth in line behind the SWAT team. Said SWAT teem breaks down the door and all swarm in to a darkened room…As Horatio is going in, he puts his sunglasses on.
True. I watched the episode twice.