Friday, October 14, 2005

Crime Scene Investigation x7

I must’ve seen six episodes of CSI this week, not counting SpikeTV. Actually, no… CSI Miami, Close to Home, Criminal Minds, CSI NY, CSI, and Without a Trace – and tonight I’ll catch Numb3rs, cuz I hear that’s good.

I guess the CSI formula works – crime in the beginning, and then we watch people collect clues to catch a bad guy in the end. Not sure why it’s so good – maybe the deduction process feels so good, being able to deduce little things a bit at a time, eventually coming up with a conclusion and catching the bad guy. I think that’s what it is.

Okay, so each non show is different, even within the CSI’s. CSI is 80% forensics. Close to Home reminds me of Single Female Lawyer, except she’s not single, nor a slut, but she’s pretty hot and at the end of every episode she turns around and smiles at her client. Close to Home is 70% tactics, trying to get the guy to talk or find some clues and stuff.

Criminal Minds follows patterns to deduce where the bad guy is… and it helps that the main character has the innate ability to figure something out at the last second. Plus, some of the girls on that show are pretty hot. And then Without a Trace is mostly about what people say – they would talk to a guy about the victim, and then there would be a ~45 second flashback about what happened, and from that they deduce who to talk to next.

So… CSI Las Vegas is now in its 6th season – is the show still attractive? Well, the formula still works, but are they coming out with original cases? Technically, if you count the other CSI’s, they’re now in their 10th, 11th, and 12th seasons. Some episodes are unique to their city, or unique to the characters in the show, but most are probably pretty similar.

Well, it’s still working – I’m still watching. Although, it’d be cool if they made a show where each of the investigators used to be criminals, so they each have special knowledge about different fields. Orrrr, maybe a show where every couple episodes, a member of the team dies or becomes the bad guy… that would work…

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