I like CSI, but...

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:04 pm 0

...the "videogames are evil" episode (it's on right now) is just embarrassing. They really try hard to demonize gamers, videogames and game developers. The game in question (a GTA lookalike) gives extra points for killing cops, extra points for raping women, and feature a slow motion "bullet cam" shot as a bullet hits a woman in the head. Arrogant posing "gamers" sneer at the police and gladly take several years in prison (or actual death), because it's "part of the game", and best of all, Horatio looking thoughtfully into the distance and saying "Miami has a new breed of criminal".

Argh!

matt303 · Post by **matt303** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:11 pm 0

We've found so many things to blame that no one need take personal responsibility for there actions and parents you don't have to give a shit about what your kids are doing just blame the media and schools. Thank goodness we'll soon have ID cards, they'll make the country a safe place

.... end of rant

Peet · Post by **Peet** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:34 pm 0

Mr. Olsen · Post by **Mr. Olsen** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:37 pm 0

Anders wrote:...the "videogames are evil" episode (it's on right now) is just embarrassing. They really try hard to demonize gamers, videogames and game developers. The game in question (a GTA lookalike) gives extra points for killing cops, extra points for raping women, and feature a slow motion "bullet cam" shot as a bullet hits a woman in the head. Arrogant posing "gamers" sneer at the police and gladly take several years in prison (or actual death), because it's "part of the game", and best of all, Horatio looking thoughtfully into the distance and saying "Miami has a new breed of criminal".

Argh!

I totally agree! But its an old episode; at least here in the states. But that particular episode disgusted me too!

failrate · Post by **failrate** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:55 pm 0

Almost as humorous is the anti-drug episode of CSI where two teenagers smoke pot that's laced with PCP... then kill and eat their best friend... It's not humorous because of the subject matter, just the heavy-handed judgements and the ludicrous plot.

the2bears · Post by **the2bears** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:36 pm 0

I actually think the CSI shows would be a lot better if they focused on just one crime each episode. As it stands, you get too little story on each one.

Bill

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:46 am 0

There was also one of those "magical computer" scenes in this episode. The gamer criminals are caught on surveillance camera when they park their car. The camera is 7-8 meters from the car, which is also partially obscured by a tree. One of the CSI guys spot a tiny sticker (a couple of centimeters big) on the windshield. It is of course just a mess of pixels.

"Can you enhance that?" he asks the computer guy. The computer guy says "Sure", presses a button and the sticker is suddenly clear and crisp and they can easily read it.

They must be using a Mac...

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:52 am 0

Am I alone in thinking the only thing remotely cool in the whole CSI franchise is the music? It's wank, and it's so full of bullshit. It's patronising near-future wank. It's cyber-bollocks half the time. It's just shite.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:09 am 0

I love the show(s). I think they're great, but sometimes they get it so wrong...

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:16 am 0

There's a new one "Bones" which they watch down the pub, which seems pretty much to be a CSI ripoff, and that is even more annoying with the computer stuff than CSI. Not content merely to have annoying, Hollywood-noise-making giant-font-using computers, they also had a *complete Star Wars style 3D display that simply doesn't exist* the other day.

If I'd've been at home that was the point I would have lobbed used plushies at the screen, but I was in the pub and there were none to hand.

Spoongod · Post by **Spoongod** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:19 am 0

Yak wrote:There's a new one "Bones" which they watch down the pub, which seems pretty much to be a CSI ripoff, and that is even more annoying with the computer stuff than CSI. Not content merely to have annoying, Hollywood-noise-making giant-font-using computers, they also had a *complete Star Wars style 3D display that simply doesn't exist* the other day.

If I'd've been at home that was the point I would have lobbed used plushies at the screen, but I was in the pub and there were none to hand.

Pretty much how I feel about it all.

skab · Post by **skab** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:42 am 0

"...we can trace them by those numbers, every computer on the Internet has its own unique ID..."

And then you see dozens of those "IP-numbers":

834.257.302.604
939.284.687.295
...

Or, even better:

45385.54534.54311.86242
...

Must be IPv6 or something

And then there's of course this "can you sharpen that one" thing, where they take a really crap CCTV still and by a simple click sharpen the picture just a little bit so they can see the reflection of a number plate in someones eyes or something...

And still those mega-computers beep and chirp like an Apple II whatever they are doing. If my computer would make noises like that while I'm trying to work on something, I'd smash it with a hammer within minutes.

I still like CSI, the production values are excellent and usually it's good fun.

Orangy Tang · Post by **Orangy Tang** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:58 am 0

Anders wrote: "Can you enhance that?" he asks the computer guy. The computer guy says "Sure", presses a button and the sticker is suddenly clear and crisp and they can easily read it.

I often wonder if there's a whole bunch of biologists and proper forensic scientists grinding their teeth at the rest of the 'investigation' that they're on...

the2bears · Post by **the2bears** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:23 am 0

What gets me is there's a host of new "crime" shows, all centering around the FBI (Bones, Nunb3rs, etc) where every crime is a fuckin' terrorist plot. It's propaganda, designed to get people to think that it's more of a threat than it really is.

Bill

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:43 am 0

No, its more that we don't want to ever offend anyone whatsoever.
Terrorists, like Nazi's and Russians before, are the generic enemy of our era for TV shows.
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Peet ~ Great strip, but of course, the same applies to Quincy and Dick Van Dyke;)

And then there's of course this "can you sharpen that one" thing, where they take a really crap CCTV still and by a simple click sharpen the picture just a little bit so they can see the reflection of a number plate in someones eyes or something...

Yeah, been in every hollywood film ever too.

I do wonder if the show/film creators believe this shit, why do they use expensive cameras at all?
Why don't they just film it all with cheap webcams, and ask the shows post-production team to "enhance" it.

YakYak

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