The knack to following CSI plots

Problem Of Motivation

Now I know many of you will say it's a thing of the past now, and that it never made for good TV anyway, but some episodes from the original series were quite good. I think the trick in following any particular episode, is to catch the names of each suspect and know what they are for when you hear them throughout the program. I find you've to be paying quite close attention to follow exactly what's going on.

Often I found that I was only following the story line of what was going on between the permanent characters in the show, and not really following the cases. I think you need to be in a different mindset for each. For example, if Catherine and Grissom were having a moment, and then just as they're finished, some police man enters and says something like "we've managed to trace the files on the computer of our John Doe"! And it's at this point in time that I will have been completely deaf to what's just been said. And what's just been said might have been pivotal to the plot, and actually quite interesting... but God does it seem boring in comparison to where my mind was at. Know what I mean?

The other thing that can be quite annoying is that there will be too cases in the show, and one of them might be boring as hell.

Your Face

Wasn't he yer man with hair from the thing?

riffmongous

Yeah most of those shows are like that, you basically just want a directors cut of all the long term storylines coupled with the handful of episodes that focus on the characters themselves

Cee-Jay-Cee

Catherine was a fine thing, would definitely have given her a good seeing to if given half a chance.

Sarah on the other hand annoyed the fúck out of me, she was a right whiney aul gee-bag.

Grissom was pretty cool.

I watched them all, Miami, NY and the original.

Horatio was my favouritist of them all though, he was just a seriously fcuked up person who managed to hold it together for work purposes.

Autecher

I don't know which CSI David Caruso is on and I don't care. Any excuse to post these.

Grab All Association

CSI was inspired by the excellent true crime documentary called The New Detectives (Forensic Detectives here in Europe) shown on Discovery Channel.

CSI Cyber is based on the real life psychologist Mary Aiken work. The pilot episode was broadcast worldwide in syndication to set a world record for a scripted action TV show.

AttentionBebe

Grab All Association wrote: »

CSI was inspired by the excellent true crime documentary called The New Detectives (Forensic Detectives here in Europe) shown on Discovery Channel.

CSI Cyber is based on the real life psychologist Mary Aiken work. The pilot episode was broadcast worldwide in syndication to set a world record for a scripted action TV show.

Forensic Files is on Netflix too, it's a good watch

Gwynplaine

Horatio is one of the cheesiest characters of all time. I'd sometimes blush watching him.

Odyssey 2005

I think I read someplace that at the time William Peterson was the highest paid tv actor in the us.
Cool show though

Buford T. Justice XIX

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Catherine was a fine thing, would definitely have given her a good seeing to if given half a chance.

Sarah on the other hand annoyed the fúck out of me, she was a right whiney aul gee-bag.

Grissom was pretty cool.

I watched them all, Miami, NY and the original.

Horatio was my favouritist of them all though, he was just a seriously fcuked up person who managed to hold it together for work purposes.

Catherine had some work done towards the end of the series and it definitely didn't look good on her.

I never liked CSI:Miami, everything was just too orange.

Problem Of Motivation

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Catherine had some work done towards the end of the series and it definitely didn't look good on her.

I never liked CSI:Miami, everything was just too orange.

I didn't like her with the short hair either in season 1. But when she grew her hair long, she really had my attention. My first wet dream was actually about her.

Atoms for Peace

William Peterson was in two great, if not under appreciated, movies of the 80's, To Live and Die in LA and Manhunter.

Greyfox

Problem Of Motivation wrote: »

Now I know many of you will say it's a thing of the past now, and that it never made for good TV anyway, but some episodes from the original series were quite good.

It feels like each show has 20 seasons and 25 spin-off shows.. it's worse than the Simpsons for flogging a dead horse. Everyone has watched one of there's shows or one of the 100 variations like criminal minds or law and order as they all have some good episodes but there's just far too many shows to figure out which ones are good. All these shows eventually just recycle the same storylines.. there nearly as bad as the soaps.

jojofizzio

Remember when the one called Jo appeared in CSI:NY?one of the worst characters in tv history... i m not sure if it it was just ****e acting but she was like one who should be on a children’s programme with her fake cheesy smile and platitudes to all her co-workers....terrible casting or terrible character,can’t decide which.....

Scott Tenorman

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

William Peterson was in two great, if not under appreciated, movies of the 80's, To Live and Die in LA and Manhunter.

Manhunter is the best movie to feature Hannibal Lecter bar none!

Greyfox

Scott Tenorman wrote: »

Manhunter is the best movie to feature Hannibal Lecter bar none!

Unfortunately it didn't have Anthony Hopkins

hynesie08

I know most people don't read the OP's OP's because they're
...... well..... ****e, but this one is brilliant.

The knack to following the plot is to follow the plot.....

That's next level right there.....

Scott Tenorman

Greyfox wrote: »

Unfortunately it didn't have Anthony Hopkins

You misspelled "fortunately" there
Brian Cox was a better Lecter, Hopkins was verging on camp (particularly in the SOFTL sequel/prequel)

Gregor Samsa

Scott Tenorman wrote: »

Brian Cox was a better Lecter

Haven’t seen those movies, but I just can’t imagine him making fava beans and chianti sound in any way menacing.



As for the OP, this revelation has inspired me to go back and watch every TV show and movie I’ve ever seen again, but this time pay some attention to the plot, dialogue and characters. There should be instructions at the start if you’re expected to do this.

alta stare

Problem Of Motivation wrote: »

I didn't like her with the short hair either in season 1. But when she grew her hair long, she really had my attention. My first wet dream was actually about her.

That last sentence.