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Timothy Watson2/05/2015 4:15:14 am PST

re: #20 Kragar

I tried watching one or two of the CSI shows on Netflix and honestly, I just can’t bring myself to watch them. The sheer ridiculousness of them is just overwhelming.

“Yes, I’m the on duty crime scene photographer. Why else would I show up in a city park at 3:00 am wearing a power dress worth more than I would reasonably make in a month and heels so I can traipse around in the mud? Don’t worry, I’ll be able to enhance this photo, then we can digitize it and we’ll be able to triangulate the location of a victim based on cut and paste/drag and dropping from a JPG into a map program.”

For the love of fuck people, how the hell did this shit make it on air?

The first couple seasons of the original show were kinda interesting and kept the absurd to a manageable level. After that? Ugh, awful.

In one of episode of CSI: Miami, the bad guy built some kind of drone, which he mounted on the underside of his car, to shot a bullet at someone using the person’s cellphone GPS signal.

Seriously.

The bad thing is the negative affect the shows have had on the trial process (Google “CSI effect”), where jurors expect absurd levels of forensic science before they’re willing to convict a defendant, particularly for less serious crimes where the government isn’t going to pay for a couple dozen DNA tests, etc.

Unfortunately, CSI isn’t alone promoting the absolute absurd, Bones and NCIS are right up there with it, the Law & Order series use some of the same stupid plot gimmicks.

About the only shows I’ve ever really enjoyed have been Southland, where the detectives use this thing called detective work, you know, going around interviewing people, to catch criminals; and The Closer, where the main characters are more likely to lie about having forensic evidence to get a confession (the show is often morally dubious if you haven’t seen it) than to actually have it.

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