10/03/05 show - Meh - Run of the mill show with obvious references to Aruba teen disappearance. Each time I think that David Caruso can’t be a bigger ham he exceeds my expectations. I think next week he needs to donate an organ to an orphan and heal a leper by the end of the show to eternally cement his cred as a selfless hero.
All with his hands on his hip and not smiling.
His special “Horatio moment” at the end of each episode is as much an indispensable part of the series as the “Knowing is half the battle!” segment at the end of every episode of the '80s G.I. Joe cartoon was to that series.
The cartoon characters were better actors, though.
takes Ray Bans off and stares over the camera to some unidentified point on the horizon
And I do believe… we have some critics here…
(It helps to imagine a Shatneresque type of speech here.)
[sub]Thank you, I’ll be here all week![/sub]
Painful…although Horatio is impressive as a CSI, since when he arrives on the scene he never looks at the crime scene but glazes woefully off in the distance while asking for background info. A single glance tells him all he needs to know…
But WTF is with the police force?
1) What the hell is their jurisdiction? Wasn’t the crime halfway across the state (from the maps tracking the IP address)?
2) Don’t they search the area? The playground couldn’t be very far away since they we both staggering drunk.
3) They are very unlucky in that whenever they ask someone something they are lying or unwilling to help. I suppose they don’t show those who are helpful on camera (jogging witness) since they are boring.
4) Flashlights? Why don’t you turn on the lights? (OK, Las Vegas is worse for this). But flashlights? in the daytime? outside? in a park?
5) Jr. CSI guy is a dick! Nice questioning of the mom. Shouldn’t they have been in an interview room, with some evidence, and perhaps someone who knows what they’re doing?
6) I like the ME (she boils heads!). Why would she be squeamish about some sort of residue on the girls clothing? “I’m almost afraid to find out.”
7) I can’t believe the budget that Miami-Dade has to build all these high-tech uber-designed facilities (oh, and the Hummers).
8) One sperm?!?
9) Horatio - “A file for me? I don’t know what file you’re talking about. I was the arresting officer? Hmm, I don’t recall arresting anyone recently. What are the first 2 numbers? Oh, yeah, I forgot that I ordered that recently and am anxiously awaiting it…it’s been a monkey on my back for the last decade. I’ve also been in recent contact with the victim and am worried enough that I have to ask the first uniformed officer I see to guard her. (now that I’ve received the file, rather than when I found out she is here)” Dunce…
10) Horatio - “I’m going to look over here when I talk to you…I have trouble looking people in the eye…” Actually, maybe that’s a good thing. It’s really creepy when he looking and talking straight at a suspect. Creepy, not authoritative. (Come to think of it, it’s sort of like Catherine O’Hara in Waiting for Guffman)
BTW, I watch for spousal harmony…fortunately she tolerates (and agrees with) my comments…
Forgive my nitpick, but…
I am aware there are always glaring discrepancies in the story lines, but I enjoy it anyway, or try to without being too critical.
But I watched with two friends last night and had to bite my tongue to keep from ruining it for them, when they hit a totally unbelievable plot turn.
Of course, I asked if they had spotted it at the end, and then blurted it out.
Remember when she was sucking face with the guy in the back of the car? And her crazed step father shows up and breaks it up. He rips them both from the back of the car and they have a tiff. She wrenches herself away, saying, “You’re not even my real Dad.” Then storms off into the arms of her murderers who are within earshot at the time of this altercation, in the same parking lot in fact.
Now, her crazed step Dad has followed her from her home town away on this holiday, holed up in a hotel. He also installed a camera in her rental car so he could keep an eye on her. Then he rushes to the car when he sees her sucking face and breaks it up.
And yet he just stands there, after they exchange heated words, and watches her stumble blind drunk off into the parking lot. Doesn’t chase after her - nothing. This behaviour doesn’t seem to match the character they had so far constructed.
Sorry, nitpick over, carry on.
Ah… CSI:Caruso. Such a guilty pleasure. The “vogue” moments. The totally implausible science twists. And Caruso - the only man to wear all black ensembles in the hot Miami sun and not sweat. Ever. Yep, that’s realistic.