A friend of mine recently commented how she came across some medical show she did not watch. A doctor was performing an operation and for some reason, absolutely had to have someone stab her in the foot while she was operating.
The show was Grey’s Anatomy.
That’s what they want you to think.
Yeah, I turned away in disgust after watching the first episode, but only because I had training in forensic anthropology and could recognize the bull crap for what it was.
He wasn’t all that bad, but the show became obsessed with the stupidest serial killer in all history and so became unwatchable. I don’t know how it came out because I stopped watching, but I’m pretty sure that the producers decided he needed to leave if the show was to live.
You missed Fishbirn.
But I do apologize for getting the spelling wrong.
I’m a fifty-six year old secretary, and was taught Gregg shorthand in college, which I attended rather later in life than the other students. It was oh, 1978 or so?
And I still use it today, constantly.
They are trying to hit F8 before Windows starts up.
I have never seen that program, and have no idea what the acronym stands for.
I’m not proud, I’m just sayin’.
When was the last time Castle was on?
The appeal of this show is entirely the charm of Nathan Fillion. The Kate Beckett character is wooden and boring. The dialogue is cheesy and the detective work is sloppy at best. Seriously, re-watch an old episode knowing who the culprit is; you’ll notice that if they had just performed a proper investigation initially, they’d be able to skip jumping through all of the hoops and catch the killer within moments of arriving at the crime scene because it’s almost always one of the first “witnesses” they talk to. And worst, the writers assume the entire audience is comprised of idiots; pretty much the only function of the Ryan and Esposito characters is to walk the audience through the explanation of the crime because apparently we’re too stupid to connect all those obvious dots on our own.
And believe it or not, I do like this show, for some reason.
CSI = Crime Scene Investigators
You know those jumpsuited drones you see gathering little pieces of forensic evidence that serve as meaningless background props for every other Police drama except Bones? CSI is what they dream about at night.
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Because we Americans are by and large lazy, unthinking tubs of goo that want to plop our fat behinds on a chair or sofa and watch a show and not think about it.QUOTE]
You know, we always get some dude with this silly meme about fat stupid Americans. But of course, internationally, TV is even worse.
Look, a majority of Americans have a IQ of around 100 or less. *Same with every other nation. * And, the Lowest Common Denominator likes to watch what we call ‘stupid TV”- Same with every other nation. It’s ignorance that has people thank that overseas their TV is so much more highbrow than ours. Sure, BBC does have some pretty high level shows- but all we usually see is the cream of the crop. If you actually have watched TV overseas, you’d be goggled at the fact that most of it is *even stupider *than American TV.
Personally, I nominate “Revolution”. *Every single moment. *
Benny Hill.
I can’t believe they’re still doing the “zoom in and enhance” thing. Last week’s Elementary, a show I enjoy, had Sherlock watching video footage from a security camera outside an airplane charter business from about 100 feet away, drag-selecting one guy’s shirtsleeve, zooming in and enhancing until he could read the shirtsleeve logo. Ugh. Compare that to the BBC’s Sherlock, in which the technology they show being used is damn near flawless.
And all of CSI is ridiculous. Forget the Minority Report computers, I never got past the concept of the CSI guys acting like detectives. I can imagine a real-life encounter:
“CSI. Where were you last night?”
“I’m sorry…who are you?”
“CSI. We need you to answer some questions.”
“Still not getting it…are you the Police?”
“Crime Scene Investigators. We found traces of your blood…”
“Wait - so you’re not the Police?”
“OK buddy, you need to come down for questioning.”
“Uh…I don’t think you can place me under arrest. You’re just lab guys, right?”
“CSI.”
“Yeah. I’m leaving now.”
“Stop! CSI!”
::drives away::
CSI and all of these kind of shows are ridiculous in many ways.
I always am amused that some homeless guy is found shot in an alley - and they spend about $39,800 on building models of the body, running thousands of tests, researching DNA from the middle ages, contacting Interpol and having dozens of people work on the case - overtime is unimportant - until it is solved.
Yeah, right - that always happens whenever a dead body shows up.
But it turns out he’s NOT a homeless guy! He’s the wealthy co-owner of one of Vegas’s hot new night clubs. We figured it out because one of our CSIs happened to see him 3 weeks ago while partying at the very same nightclub and they remembered that he had a scar over his left eyebrow, just like this “homeless man.” Coinsi-science!
When some Briton laughs at the stupidity of American television, I like to point out that when Americans had a choice of what to import from British television, they chose Downton Abbey and Monty Python and Doctor Who. When Britons had a choice of what to import from American television, they chose Baywatch and Friends and Dallas. So who really has the bad taste?
I give Grey’s Anatomy a lot of credit for that scene. The doctor in question was dealing with phantom pain in an amputated leg, and they had her go through several different ways of dealing with the psychological issue of feeling pain in a part of you that is not longer there. Having the visual input of a knife in her prosthetic foot helped her deal with it when nothing else would. Grey’s has really done a lot with PTSD issues and this is just one of them.
CSI, ugh. I’ve been working in labs of some kind or another for the past 10 years. Not one has had funky glass walls with neon lighting, or lab techs in low-cut shirts and high heels, or throbbing dance club soundtracks. Clearly I’ve been in the wrong kinds of labs.
Good point.
I’m in my 40s and although I didn’t do it myself, I could have taken shorthand classes in my high school. Lots of people who took typing also took shorthand. I wish I had.
This was in the 80s.
I dated a girl who was taking shorthand with her friends in High School. THis would have been the late seventies.
Her friend was writing down what my date and I said to each other. I found this very disturbing. :dubious: