In an episode of Cold Case, two detectives were looking at pictures on a screen and one said, “I think we have to zoom in on that area.” Then they got up and walked closer to the screen.
I’ve only ever watched the original, and it is still on the short list of shows that we download and enjoy in our “no broadcast/satellite/cable TV” household. I won’t touch any of the spin-offs with a 10 foot pole, even when Kim Delaney (drool) joined the cast of one of them (NY I think?).
Indeed, his belch is the wind beneath my wings.
Well you know when you are on the other side of the pond the pints are 20 fluid ounces instead of the traditional 16 fluid oz use for blood. So it is really like 8 pints not 10 so that would be no problem. The problem is they skip over these little steps in reasoning making the show hard to follow after tipping a few back in the evening.
Everything I know about furries, I learned from CSI. I think you could fill up a small sticky note with any accurate information from that source.
I really enjoyed CSI:Mayberry , although the episode when Otis raped and murdered Aunt Bea was a little dark.
Never could stand CSI, but for some reason I don’t mind Bones so much. Pretty much the same show, except, I guess, with more likeable characters.
This is what I know about furries: most of them seem to be high school or college students who feel weird because of puberty and/or not being cofortable with their self-image, and thereby adopt a strange sexual or pseudo-sexual persona in order to create a defined comfort zone which they can control. The “animal” represents the raw sexuality or difference they feel separating them from those around them. Also, it permits them to adopt a distinct caricature expressing their distinction with symbolic depiction of ancient mythos symbolism of animal representation, this tapping into the oldest human arts and legends.
Translation: they feel different or weird and found friends to deal with it which looks pretty.
I don’t mind the ones who just draw funny pictures of themselves as wolves or cats or whatnot, but the ones who put on costumes and routinely go to to conventions for themselves willies. Mostly because I guess they’re actually getting laid in those things, which just creeps me the hell out for some reason.
I have a habit of watching some subcultures, and this is what I think, anyway. Goths are pretty similar, substituting an accepted vampire/darkness theme for the animal one. Emos are a bit different, but partly because they tend to be younger.
Edit: I forgot to add that I know very nothing about actual psychology. I just made this up from looking at people. It’s certainly wrong, but I think it’s fun to make up neat-sounded psychobabble about weird people, like foreigners, astronauts, furries, goths, emos, jocks, nerds…
Ew.
I tried to watch this show back when it was the Sooper Dooper AllTheRage hit.
I made it through an episode and a half. I figured the first one was an anomaly, and gave it another shot. When they started enhancing the pixelized security video to read the name tag on the maintenance guy, or whatever the fuck it was, I gave up.
I want to watch glossy cinematography, I’ll look at music videos. I want to see tits, I’ll search for tits on Google. I am baffled as to the popularity of the CSI phenomenon.
It’s even funnier if you know Jerry Bruckheimer is responsible for both shows.
I like the CSI shows. But that’s because I consider them science fiction and watch them with the same suspension of disbelief I do an episode of ST:TNG.
I always had the serious hots for Grissom. But I got to the point where I couldn’t watch this show anymore. I feel like they were going to start taking fingerprints off of dead air.
Law and Order is my lifeblood, though. I don’t have tv but I’ll DL it every now and then. Except CI…I hate that guy that leans over everyone.
It’s my favorite also. David Caruso is mesmerizing. And the plots are so ridiculous it’s fun. Plus the extremely stylized look of the show and all the gratuitous shots of large power boats. What’s not to like?
The Miami-Dade (why do they always say both?) Police Department could cut the crime rate in half by firing their CSI staff. They’re personally involved in about half the crimes committed in Miami.
Is Miami really pastel orange all over?
EXACTLY!!! :mad:
You can tell it’s CSI: Miami before they even show any of the main characters, just because of that weird orange glow over everything. Is it always 10 minutes before sundown in Miami?? The color actually makes me a little queasy after half an episode. They probably have to do it that way, because any other color scheme would make David Caruso look like a drowned corpse.
But, but, but…the cops in Miami are so efficient…how can you not be impressed? Their seriousness and posturing is surely deserved. I mean, a crime is discovered and all the collection of evidence, processing, detective work, crime scene revisits and solving the crime (including arrests) are finished by early afternoon the same day!
The writers must be making a sly joke…but haven’t let anyone else in on it yet.
My wife doesn’t watch it much any more. She was too annoyed by the groaning:rolleyes:.
It turned out it was only a dream Barney had while tripping on her kerosene pickles.
The episode where Barney and Andy got the Freedom Riders to leave North Carolina alone was my favorite.
CSI - There was a time when it claimed to be a show about forensic science, which had gained tremendous public interest because of the Woodchipper Murder. It still gives lip service to science, but it long ago gave up sticking to anything plausible. DNA identification is instantaneous, film and video have effectively infinite resolution, ect. They don’t even try to be plausible anymore except by a bizzare TV standard.
CSI: Miami - What can one say of David Caruso that some swiss and some rye wouldn’t say better? Although this show does the same deal with the lab guys mysteriously becoming the chief investigators, there is less talk about science. And it has involved some of the less probable causes of death of the three CSI shows (a guy gets hit with a bullet that was whizzing around in a hurricane?). It also has the most soap opera bullshit, all of which demands squinting, nose breathing, sunglasses going on and off, hands on hips and tough-guy banter from a guy who seems to be trying to intimidate people on the basis of the old tale that a barking dog is tame, but a low growling dog will kill you.
CSI: New York - Less lip service to science than the original, and ironically, more titilization than the Miami variant. But overall more likable characters, fewer total bullshit causes of death.
Law & Order - Still the best police procedural out there. If it’s still running.
Bones - Fun, with likable characters, but doesn’t even pretend to be realistic. It’s got a holoprojector, for crying to Jesus. The writers don’t seem to have any idea what actual dyed-in-the-wool scientific rationalists actually sound like, so they resort quite often to this corny Vulcan/robot speak for Bones.
But Detective Goren is Sherlock Holmes! 
There’s an interesting interview on one of the the DVDs with the creator, Dick Wolf, where he talks about how they asked the actor playing Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) to get into the character and show how he thinks slightly differently about the investigation.
D’Onofrio really went for it:
- he bent down to catch the eye of a suspect in an interrogation scene
- he climbed onto a church pew and balanced by putting his hand on a policeman’s head in order to to show the angle he wanted the photographer to use
In one episode, there’s an insurance investigator who seems slightly autistic. Goren’s partner remarks how the two of them view things in a similar way.
David “Spaghetti Neck” Caruso - “Gravitas - I Has It!”
I too like CSI:NY just for Gary Sinise. He’s the man, Lieutenant Dan.
CSI original - eh. Watch, don’t watch, don’t care. It is what it is. The guys are all pretty hot on it, including Grissom, though.
Brilliant!
Eeew. Sounds more like L&O:Abu Ghraib.
I always thought that he was slightly autistic, or had some other high-functioning disability.
I guess the thing that bothers me most about the physical and psychological forensic shows (including Criminal Minds) is that the team members are targeted by assorted sociopaths and psychopaths for some exotic revenge, or are framed for bizarre crimes, or otherwise singled out for specific attention. I live in Massachusetts, and we’ve had some recent scandals with respect to forensic evidence. It was the first time I’d had any idea who actually did that work. I know that it makes good TV to put lead characters in danger, but it seems silly to put lab and field workers in peril.