Re: CSI: Horatio - whose arm was that, anyway?

"Mike Minor" <mminorhsd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Thanatos" <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In article <ANIM8Rfsk-3D0375.06062103042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> Oh, I noticed that yet again, at the end of the episode, we had the
>> slo-mo perp-walk of the bad guys out the front door, as they are led in
>> cuffs to a waiting cruiser.
>>
>> Given the number of bad guys that have been shot dead on the front
steps
>> by grieving relatives during just that procedure, one would think
>> Horatio's crew would have learned their lesson by now.
>>
>> If the county can afford to outfit that lab like something out of a
Star
>> Trek episode, they can surely afford to construct a sally-****t on the
>> back side of the building-- you know, like EVERY OTHER police
department
>> in country has?
>
> I've been wondering why/how CSI: Miami fits in to the CSI franchise.
>
> The original CSI has always been well written, and hasn't deviated from 
> the original premise of the lab work and investigative techniques
involved 
> to solve the cases. Of  course they have their on going story lines and 
> interpersonal dramas, but they haven't fallen into the trap of sci-fi 
> fantasy as Miami has.
>
> CSI: NY still has it's feet on the ground, and with the  exception of
Mack 
> blowing up the whole lab when the terrorists attacked, that show still
has 
> a realistic feel to it.
>
> CSI: Miami started out pretty good, but the last few years, it has just 
> gone in a direction that makes the whole show unbelievable. In my mind,
it 
> started with the episode where Horatio useda laws rocket to blow up an 
> explosives laden truck, on a public road. Ever since that episode, it
has 
> just gone down hill. Even to the point of Eric seeing dead people.
>
> Did one of the producers have a bad LSD trip and decided to make CSI: 
> Miami a real fantasy type show? Have the producers decided to sabotage 
> their own show? Do they think that because it is in Miami that it
doesn't 
> have to be believable?  After all, Florida is the home of the Magic 
> Kingdom. And we know that everyone living in Florida is living a fantasy

> come true.....I just don't get it....
>
> (BTW, that part about living a fantasy come true is meant as sarcasm, 
> folks....)
>
> Mikey

I used to think CSI-NY was grounded in reality, but the more I see CSIs' 
bust down doors with guns drawn or have running gun battles, the less I 
believe it. I thought I was seeing things at one point when Mac was
wearing 
a lab coat and doing actual...you know...science.