>>>>It amazes me that these people know EVERYTHING, down to the chemical structure and nature of yacht varnish or elephant hair carbon content. AND they still go out on arrests AND, despite their vast knowlege, obvious high education, qualifications, and non-expendability, they're first in the house searches, sometimes unvested, in front of the helmeted SWAT members whose speciality THIS IS! What heroes!!!
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>>>I'm glad I'm not the only one having a few problems with suspension of disbelief on CSI. I have similar problems with House, where his three assistants do all the tests and surgery and everything else. Gee, why do they need all those other people at the hospital? <bg>
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>>My younger daughter Emily is a big fan of CSI (the Miami version only for some reason) and I have watched it a couple of times with her, or she has had it on when she is here and I half watch it. The part that bugs me is they always solve the mystery in the last 5 minutes of the show. I haven't seen so many tidy endings since Perry Mason. (Some distraught guy stands up in the back of the courtroom and says, "All right, all right, I did it!" LOL). Most of the better dramas went to more realistic multi-episode arcs, often without clear conclusions, years ago. Then again, CSI is about the most popular show on television, so what do I know?
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>I think the CSI and CSI NY shows are ok, but CSI Miami? I truly hate that show. Any time I've tried to watch it, I've always ended up hoping for David Caruso to get hit by a bus. I mean, all that posing, and that smarmy arrogance he exudes. How can anybody stand it? And that blond assistant with the slight southern accent? How on earth did she ever get an acting license?

We watch it for his acting. The way he says something then pauses just before the end of the sentence and then says the last few words. The way he is always putting on his sunglasses and the weird angle he often holds his head almost like his neck is broken.

Nick Mason