I like CSI, but...

Nutty · Post by **Nutty** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:02 am 0

CSI is shit... and the blonde/ginger twat Horatio is the most condescending twat ever, and the show is soo simple its embarrassing to yanks..

I tried to watch it once but his condescending tone and continual stating of the bleedin fucking obvious got on my tits.

utter shite.

failrate · Post by **failrate** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:22 am 0

Anders wrote: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...

I can't remember which one (aren't they all just about the same

), but I saw one the other day where the computer guy just flat-out said (paraphrasing), "Yeah, I can make it bigger, but after a certain point it's just going to look grainy and pixellated."

the2bears · Post by **the2bears** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:39 am 0

failrate wrote:I can't remember which one (aren't they all just about the same ), but I saw one the other day where the computer guy just flat-out said (paraphrasing), "Yeah, I can make it bigger, but after a certain point it's just going to look grainy and pixellated."

Yeah, I tell the wife that one too

Bill

mightyzim · Post by **mightyzim** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:27 am 0

Girlfriend loves it and I'll watch it if its on, but I find it has too many scooby doo endings on it

oNyx · Post by **oNyx** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 6:37 am 0

Ye, its pretty horrible, isnt it? But I think its rather good please-dont-think-too-much-entertainment. The only bad thing is that there will be always some people who think its omfg so real. Like actors who play a crimminal in some soap opera get arrested by some security guy or another actor who plays a nazi gets regulary beaten up etc. I think thats pretty scary.

Complete loss of reality, but they wont tell you about that on tv. Heh. Videogames are the real threat and everyone knows it. The brand new breed of crimminal etc. History reapeats itself... cant wait until videogames tell me that the new media thingy (whatever that might be) turns everyone into chainsaw-swinging freedom-hating terrorist zombies.

My favorite oh-please-scene in CSI:whatever was like... they watched some tape and one guy says "can you show me the stuff which the cam *doesnt* see" and the other presses a knob and it swings some meters to the left... YEA RIGHT!

Well, I prefer Crimminal Intend anyways.

the2bears · Post by **the2bears** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:11 am 0

oNyx wrote:Well, I prefer Crimminal Intend anyways.

Pretty much the best cop show on television IMO. It's about the only show the wife and I watch regularily.

Bill

skip · Post by **skip** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:31 am 0

SVU is also good. Funny to see Ice T play the cop.

failrate · Post by **failrate** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:36 am 0

There was an excellent episode of Monk that sent-up the whole modern CSI-style cop drama. Of course, it's all just a bunch of McGuffins. The main entertainment value is in the character relationships... just like any other soap opera

BTW, David Caruso can fuck right off. CSI in Vegas is the only one I'll watch (oooh, look at Mr. High Standards here

).

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:39 am 0

mightyzim wrote:Girlfriend loves it and I'll watch it if its on, but I find it has too many scooby doo endings on it

I think you have a point there. CSI is the new Scooby Doo.

Orangy Tang wrote: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...

Probably. I wonder what real cops think about all the crime shows too.

Another thing that strikes me about CSI: Miami is their offices. It is a luxurious hi-tech set with slanting walls, pretty lights and lots of glass. It looks beautiful, but I can't imagine what kind of budget those CSI guys are working with...

saul · Post by **saul** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:30 pm 0

Never been much of a fan but haven't given it a chance. Off topic slightly but anyone given Prison Break a whirl yet (Ch 5 Mondays, 10 pm)? Now there's a decision I'll come to regret. Awesome in the most sickening kind of way.

supermonkeyworld · Post by **supermonkeyworld** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:41 pm 0

Of course CSI wouldn't know anything of glorifying violence

marf · Post by **marf** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:21 pm 0

I pretty much refuse to watch it because of the "enhance video" deal. In one episode they took video footage from a surveillance camera, zoomed in on the dude's eye and were able to identify a perp from the reflection on the eye. Right.

Also one where they take some pottery and are able to play back audio from the vibrations in the air at the time the pottery was on the wheeln nope, I don't buy it and I can't seem to turn my rain off that much.

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:01 pm 0

Nutty wrote:and the blonde/ginger twat Horatio is the most condescending twat ever

wasn't he the wimpy copper in Rambo: First Blood?

Lenardian · Post by **Lenardian** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:06 pm 0

Peet wrote:

Hmmmm...
...I donÂ´t think so.