I think this is the first time in the show’s run that the bad guy got away with it. I really expected something to happen, like the bad brother getting so mad over the good brother’s supposed statement that he yells out something incriminating as he passes past the cell. But I guess they needed to tell one story in which the evidence doesn’t tell them everything they need to know.
On a side note, I surely agreed with Grissom when he pointed out that the evidence only pointed to transport and burial, not to to murder. I’m surprised the DA was willing to go forward without even knowing where the murder occurred with any kind of certainty.
I continue to be a little bothered by Grissom and crew being so involved in aspects of their cases they wouldn’t and shouldn’t plausibly have anything to to with, like the questioning of witnesses. But of course, it’s television, where our heroes have to be the heroes, so I cut them major slack for that.
I was really disappointed in Grissom’s confrontation with the priest, in that he dissed religion but still said “I believe in God.” If ever there was a character on TV who should be an atheist, it’s Grissom, and shame on the producers for not having the brass to take him there.
Saltire, this may be the first time the criminal’s gotten away, but it’s not the first downbeat ending. Last season a woman was raped and left in a vegetative coma. CSI caught the perp, but because the victim was technically still alive, the maximum sentence was only a handful of years in stir instead of the death penalty or life in prison.
I lost power right at the end of the show (when Grissom was talking to the priest)…it sounds like the kid killed himself by knawing through is wrists? Is that right? Damn, that kid really didn’t think he could do the time.
My favorite episode is when the younger white guy (can’t remember his name) got a gun pulled on him and he actually seemed scared to the point of tears. In most shows when a character gets a gun pointed at him they act all tough, but in this show he actually cried at the fear of losing his life. I thought that scene was excellent.
And William Peterson (?) is extremely charasmatic, no matter his pretentious character.
I like the show because I think forensic science is fascinating… but… am I the only one annoyed by this guy Grissom?.. Oh God, I can’t stand him… He is always right, will always know before everybody else, and is just an arrogant prick…
CSi reminds me of a couple of other bad shows that I really like. StarTrek TOS and Dr. Who. Both of the shows had major flaws but they were still addictive in a strange way.
There’s at least one other person who got away with murder on the show.
OK, details are a little fuzzy but last season they had an episode where this lady was kidnapped as a child and raised by the kidnapper who also happens to be a thief. He was killed while robbing a store(?) and evidence eventually points to her as being the killer so she starts faking a split personality when they arrest her. Catherine exposes her as a fake BUT she gets out on bail because her biological parents find out she’s their missing daughter. She lies to them and they end up covering for her and facing obstruction of justice charges (I think) while she takes off with the boyfriend. It turns out the boyfriend had told her that her “father” (his partner in crime) had actually kidnapped her and that’s why she killed him…or something like that.
Anyway, she killed the father and got away with it.
Love it. I didn’t get the impression that Sarah Sidal (great name) was wet behind the ears. I wish they would do something with the skinny lab rat who runs the DNA analyzer, etc. They could make him slightly less of a dweeb.
I liked the story line last season about Burck’s (sp?) gambling past. Probably the least interesting of the CSI folks is the big square-jawed white guy.
Grissom used something he invented, a powder he called Red Creeper. I want to start a band and call it Red Creeper.
So last night we open with a warning about nudity. I’m thinking Amy Brenneman in NYPD Blue - so far so good. Who’s gonna disrobe - Marg? Jorja? Newcomer Stacy Dash? One of the fellas?
Nope, turns out all the nudity is necro-nudity, fluorescent blue-white T&A on the slab. Yiggggh. This show is boundlessly creepy.
I like the way sometimes it’s just an accident, and there’s no bad guy (I loved the episode with the missing college girl). Having the bad guy get away with it also makes it interesting.
The other thing I like about the show is that there’s usually 2 or more cases going on at a time. You don’t get bored.
The Las Vegas setting is perfect. I’m also a big fan of the “opening sequence” where someone either finds a body or gets killed. Really builds the suspense for me.
With the guy that killed himself, I thought they said he pulled his tooth out and sliced his throat with it. Not gnawing through his wrist or biting his own neck. I guess your tooth would be sharp enough for that, right?
This is the only show I make a point to watch/record. Though Scrubs on NBC right before that was amazingly funny (plus it has Bob the consultant from Office Space). I think I’ll watch that every Thursday from now on as well.
I’m a sucker for forensic documentary shows, so CSI is naturally a fav of mine. The one that really got me hooked was the porphyria episode. Obscure medical conditions mentioned on prime-time network television is a big plus for me. Probably the result of reading all those vampire history/folklore books as kid. :o
CSI is hardly great television, but it’s a lot of fun. For a really horrible show in the same vein, check out “Crossing Jordan” sometime – or don’t, and thank me later.
I liked how at the beginning of last night’s episode they twitted Grissom’s koan/riddle habit. “Do you get those from a book?”
What was that song they played when he was examine the body? That haunting lilting song when he found the liquid latex on the heel?
I need to find it…I love that song
I noticed Sigur Ros during one of the Grissom scenes; I bet that was it. Icelandic band - they have just recently caught on in the States AFAIK. I taped them on Reverb (HBO series) after the Björk set. The lead singer plays his electric guitar with a bow, and repeats nonsense vocalizations in a haunting falsetto, thus treating the voice as just another instrument by freeing it from any lyrical weight. They do ambient quite well. How Scandinavian of them.
Amen, darling. Last night’s conversation with the fetish club madame was particularly cringeworthy.
I don’t know where you get that from. I thought some of the scientists reacted to the whole scene like most whitebread Americans would, but Grissom and Marg were both downright respectful of it.
Marg even told Miss Heather she felt complimented by Heather telling her she’d make a good domme.
Miss Heather was depicted as a competent, principled businesswoman and a good mother.
Sure, the cowed husband was a murderer. But there’s always a murderer, even when the world of the episode’s mystery is auto detailing. I don’t see how the show indicted all BDSM behavior.
