Some of the crazier furries would disagree with that statement.
Of course, we’re talking about people who dress up in animal costumes and have sex with each other, so the word “crazier” is kind of relative here.
Another reason I like CSI Vegas over Miami is the interrogations. This is how I remember the two:
Vegas
Brass: You’re here to answer questions about the murder of your wife. This is Gil Grisson of our Crime Lab.
Grissom: We found your skin cells under the nails of your wife. This shows there was a struggle between you and that you must have got back from your trip the day before you claim you did.
Brass: We have a taxi driver who remembers bringing you from the airport to your home on the day of the murder.
Suspect: OK, I did it!
Grissom nods slightly.
Miami
Caine: You did it, didn’t you?!
Suspect: No I didn’t.
Caine: OK, you’re free to go…(menacingly)…for now. Don’t leave town. If you harm the witness, I will make it my life’s work to hunt you down.
Caine glares at the departing suspect, then stares at the sky and removes his sunglasses.
My number one reason not to like CSI: Miami
It makes “Ike! Do your impression of David Caruso’s career!” meaningless.
Heh. I’m not saying that it’s all about sex. I’m saying it’s connected to sexual development via body image. While I’m not a furry, I’ve known a few and if I could draw like Chalosan, I probably would. I don’t, however, have any big connection to any online community.
The guys with the extreme costume fetish still freaks me, though.
(Admittedly, I’ve long wondered what life would be like if humans had animal characteristics which they lacked. Say, tails, or reproducing in a specified time every year, or having sharper hearing. Come to think of it, how much less clothing would we wear if people did have fur? And why did we lose all these characteristics anyway?)
CSI: Original Flavor should be “The Blue Show”. Do they light their offices with blacklights?
I think CSI took a cue from the movie Taffic. IIRC, they filmed the different storylines (Michael Douglas and family, Benicio del Toro in Mexico or wherever) using different gels/saturations - blue for the Douglas stuff, orange for Mexico, etc. I think CSI: original ‘blue’ flavor came out around the same time but Miami and NY were a couple years later.
The science and procedure is really stupid on CSI, but I still love it. Blue flavor only.
No, no, no … CSI:NY should be the blue show. As its Wikipedia entry reports, not only did the show make a point of filming in a hard blue light during its first season, but the original choice of theme song was “Behind Blue Eyes.” You see, the makers weren’t sure that the audience would realize that it was supposed to be a gritty procedural unless they hammered home BLUE this and BLUE that and BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE BLUE!
There is no truth to the rumor that the lead character was supposed to be named Jimmy “Cerulean” Blue, nor that a scrapped storyline involved his crippling addiction to blueberry pancakes.
Of course, you could also refer to CSI: NY as the “We took our perfectly good theme song, a song which has stood the test of time, and subjected it to a pointless remix” show. I imagine I’ll get used to it, but it was fine the way it was.
CSI evidently is very, very good to Pete T’s music-publishing royalties. I can tolerate it in VERY controlled doses (mainly Vegas) as a “puzzle” show – essentially that is what the CSI concept is, not a mystery, but a word-problem involving some convolutedly improbable ways of snuffing it, and the word-problem asks you presume ideal conditions of instrumentation performance. However some times they DO come up with solutions just barely this side of “and then suddenly little green aliens showed up and killed him”. They’re just missing a Chief Investigator named Goldberg. It also has, in some episodes, IMO veered unsettlingly close to death fetishism, really do we need so much screen time to a dried-up starved corpse, autopsy wounds, splatterings of tissue/secretions, etc.? And yes, their science/tech has by now veered into Starship-Enterprise territory, plausibility-wise.
Was a bigger fan of L&O Original Recipe from the beginning, though I must admit after all this time it was inevitable that it would show some wear(). The variant flavors have their moments. I suppose what did it to me from the start was indeed as their tagline says, nailing the criminal is a two-part process, things don’t just end when the sleuths find the smoking gun and go AHA! Besides, any franchise that would rescue Belzer’s character from Homicide, has much merit to it.
( And I’m sure that heavily accounts for the “taken from headlines” plots)
(Best line I ever heard in one of these shows, was to the effect of: “do you ever NOT find traces of semen?” . )