CSI Miami: exercises in imagination

[karrie]

For pete's sake. I can't stand CSI:Miami. And after the opening for tonight's show, where assorted gun runner vanish into mists of gun and debris, presumably assassinated by the new Metal Storm gun (they call it the 'vaporiser'), I just couldn't bear to watch any further. The physics of their effects had me annoyed, let alone the idea that someone could sneak up on a gun running operation with a 200 barrel gun.

There are days I wish I could just ignore what I know and enjoy a show, but Miami just pushes it too far too damn often.

 

[s243a]

For pete's sake. I can't stand CSI:Miami. And after the opening for tonight's show, where assorted gun runner vanish into mists of gun and debris, presumably assassinated by the new Metal Storm gun (they call it the 'vaporiser'), I just couldn't bear to watch any further. The physics of their effects had me annoyed, let alone the idea that someone could sneak up on a gun running operation with a 200 barrel gun.

There are days I wish I could just ignore what I know and enjoy a show, but Miami just pushes it too far too damn often.

Hmmm.....unless the barrels are really small there is no way that is the hand gun version.

 

[karrie]

Nope, definitely not the hand gun version. I'd hate to see the size of the guy sneaking up on people with the 200 barrel version. LOL.

 

[thomaska]

Yep, I have to agree with Karrie. Horatio should have been reduced to a pile of goo last night...apparently he must have a few more shows on his contract.

These shows don't even make you use your imagination anymore. It would have been obvious to anyone with half a brain that they were drawing parallels between the secret corporation and the government. BUT, for those without half a brain they went ahead and made the secret corporation's symbol a pentagon. Oooooh...such wit, such subtle commentary...I guess the writers strike is still going on or what?

 

[MikeyDB]

Yeah geeez Karie you should be watching something with more honesty and down-to-earth like Survior or American Idol or WWE or any of the fine products that are entirely believeable ....The Simpsons....South Park......King of the Hill.....all that wonderful entertainment geared to the adult market.....

 

[darkbeaver]

The grave danger of Telly Vision has been repeatedly stressed for forty years and more. Eventually it renders it's victims into a pile of living room mush. :lol:

 

[Unforgiven]

Beyond all the physical faux pas, I hate that each and every criminal in the world never bothers with a lawyer before making a statement to the police. As well I can imagine the director saying "Ok in this scene, you just know that dolphin farts smell like cabbage only when they eat fish that have a problem turning left in the summer months." "Knowing this tortures Horatio's soul!" :roll:

 

[MikeyDB]

Unforgiven

The Greeks wrote and perfomed "tragedies" and that theme is the underpinning behind much of what passes for TV in our modern chaos. The powers that be....politics and economics have an agenda that's served by manipulating our senses of right and wrong and furthering particular agendas. CSI and the entire gamut of modern "entertainment" is about sculpting opinion and conditioning to belief.....

If you can fool people into believeing that the police and the "civil authority" as the overarching concept, have elaborate but exacting instruments at their disposal that facilitates judging guilt or inocence.... the "state" becomes the ultimate arbiter of what justice actually is....

Every TV program after Sept. 11/2001 has used some element of lawlessness to push political agendas and CSI is no different.

 

[karrie]

Yeah geeez Karie you should be watching something with more honesty and down-to-earth like Survior or American Idol or WWE or any of the fine products that are entirely believeable ....The Simpsons....South Park......King of the Hill.....all that wonderful entertainment geared to the adult market.....

I don't mind the shows like Simpsons and KOH and such because they don't try to pretend they're realistic. lol. As for Survivor, AI, WWE.... nope, not my cup o'tea. I've hit the point I tend to turn on the TV, and leave it as background noise while I talk to real people.

 

[Said1]

Horatio is great. He's a laugh a minute. I watch that show specifically for him. :lol:

 

[lone wolf]

Horatio.... Is he the one who overacts enough to make William Shatner look serious? 3x CSI.... How many Law and Orders?... TV Phooey....

Woof!

 

[eh1eh]

Frank puts it straight. I am the Slime

 

[Unforgiven]

Unforgiven

The Greeks wrote and perfomed "tragedies" and that theme is the underpinning behind much of what passes for TV in our modern chaos. The powers that be....politics and economics have an agenda that's served by manipulating our senses of right and wrong and furthering particular agendas. CSI and the entire gamut of modern "entertainment" is about sculpting opinion and conditioning to belief.....

If you can fool people into believeing that the police and the "civil authority" as the overarching concept, have elaborate but exacting instruments at their disposal that facilitates judging guilt or inocence.... the "state" becomes the ultimate arbiter of what justice actually is....

Every TV program after Sept. 11/2001 has used some element of lawlessness to push political agendas and CSI is no different.

Is it the race for the bottom or do smart people just not worry about the small stuff?
I've accepted that schools now and have for some time been churning out people to work in jobs, rather than intelligent people who are aware and can fend for themselves using the tools they acquire through education.

A population that doesn't notice much of what is going on around them is of benefit to whom? Should people become so specialized in what they are able to do, does this lead to dependence upon others to the extent we are not at all able to exist outside of society?

I fear so.

Perhaps CSI would make for an interesting examination through essay of the direction that the common denominator lay and the steps society takes to arrive their.