>>>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?

Isn't that suopposed to be because there are so many channels, and the average attention span of an American is such that they don't dare risk long drawn-out investigations? Mind you, that flies in the face of series such as 24 and Lost!

Mind you, they do actually solve at least 2 cases per week, and they don't BOTH come at the end.