A little rant about CSI:Miami

[bjobsessed]

ashatan said:

bjobsessed said:

Ok, I'm about to chuck a wobbly or have a spak attack, e-talk daily just said CSI Miami is the #1 show on television. Give me a break!

Gi BJObsessed!!
I've not watched it, what's it like?

It's awful. The storylines are dumb and the acting is really bad. If you can get it, you have to watch it at least once. (It's a cop show.)

[inuvik]

Check out this thread Natasha. You'll find all you need to know.

[shmeep]

Oh man, this show is so bad that it goes the full spectrum until it's good, just to keep going until it's bad again. But I have to say, it's about the funniest thing on television. I can't believe the writers aren't giggling to themselves over the craptastic quality of the show as they write. Maybe it's a social experiment. Just how bad does something have to be before the American public stops watching? The fact that this is on while so many great shows get canceled because they're well done and require some thought says a lot about the mentality of the typical American. Very sad. But funny!

And Mags, I even remember the whole "Who shot JR?" thing! That was good fun. I wondered about it for an entire summer. Funny thing is that my mom used to have a dog named JR when she was a kid and there's a cute picture of her pointing her finger at it like a gun and JR lying on his back like he'd been shot so we had our very own "Who Shot JR?" picture.

But back to CSI:Miami, I missed the last fifteen minutes of it because the president's speech made it go past 11 and it was far more important for me to record The Daily Show, but I don't feel that I missed much. From what I read over at TWoP, Mar-rheeee-sol (is anyone else bugged by the way David Caruso says her name?) just died. She wasn't in ICU (apparently) and wasn't really hooked up to anything and no one came to try to revive her. She just...died. And that was it. Realistic as always! There had been a lot of hype leading up to this episode about how we were going to see Horatio showing a lot of emotion. I kept waiting for it to happen, but I must have missed it.

[anna]

admin said:

From what I read over at TWoP, Mar-rheeee-sol (is anyone else bugged by the way David Caruso says her name?) just died. She wasn't in ICU (apparently) and wasn't really hooked up to anything and no one came to try to revive her. She just...died. And that was it. Realistic as always! There had been a lot of hype leading up to this episode about how we were going to see Horatio showing a lot of emotion. I kept waiting for it to happen, but I must have missed it.

She did just die - after her husband and brother left her alone to chase the bad guys. This was the first year that I had paid any attention to this show. I've watched it off and on this season to see what they did about Ryan's eye and for the snark value. I know it's just a dumb (dumbest!) television show with ridiculous plots and wooden actors, but it exceeded my own personal boundaries when the main characters left a dying family member alone during her final hours. I ended my experiment Monday night.

[hoosier]

maggiethecat said:

hoosier said:

What is it with all the shoot outs in the season finales this time? Marisol gets whacked--not surprising in the least--Lt. Brass gets nailed in CSI and next week, House takes a couple from a disgruntled ex-patient. Just for the shock value or a convenient and simple way of getting rid of a character.

You're probably too young to remember this . . .

. . . but shooting a major character in the last ep of the season began with "Who shot J. R.?" Dallas was actually the show that started the whole concept of the season-ending cliffhanger. Before that? The characters just sat around and smiled at each other and cracked a few jokes, kind of the way Perry and Della and Paul used to sit around the office and boy! did I just date myself with that reference.

I remember old J.R. slumping by the office door and waiting all summer to find out 'who done it'

I guess they wanted to have Marisol a good looking corpse! Can hardly be that with tubes up the whazoo and monitors etc. And her room looked more like one of those fancy hotel rooms. Almost like the office where Ryan got his eye exam. Must be something about Miami--all glitz and glamor.

[inuvik]

This is from my TV Times today:

TV is filled with iconic moments of various sorts. There's probably none more laughably silly than the way Horatio Crane always squints, puts on his sunglasses and then delivers a punchline that leads to the show's opening credits--or to some big plot transition. His timing always manages to evoke a giggle in us. After all, in TV, timing is everything.

So, maybe all this is intentional!