Sibling 2 keeps making me watch episodes of this show. She liked it well enough that she bought the first season, and since she is presently hunting a job it's almost always on when I get home at night.
It has one or two moments, notably in The Man in the Bear. Mostly I don't care for it. It's just another pseudoscientific crime show featuring amazingly attractive, fashionably dressed people with fantastically clean and well-lit labs stocked with millions of dollars' worth of machinery that no state or federal government would commit to law enforcement because they're busy spending it on congressional haircuts and subsidized car tabs.
Television at large is a little more fond of science now than formerly, but only when it comes to law enforcement, and only when it's been dumbed down to the level of... hmm... Basically the rest of television. Ask a real forensic specialist how they feel about CSI some time.
It's not that I'm against escapism. I just prefer my fantasy to involve swords.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Bones
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Ask a real forensic specialist how they feel about CSI some time.
It's not that I'm against escapism. I just prefer my fantasy to involve swords.
Sort of makes you want to ask a real knight of the Crusades how he feels about those fantasy stories, huh?
Interesting you should use CSI as an example, though, as I just bought Lady Luck a book about CSI (her favorite show) that features a variety of people, some of them forensics experts, writing articles about the show. So I can honestly say that, as you'd expect... their reactions are mixed. Some take the rather insular, condescending, Comic Book Guy-ish approach of nitpicking every last inaccuracy; others love how a fun, entertaining show has sexed up their profession a little and just appreciate it as a good television program. Seems to be a pretty even split.
(Unfortunately, it's my sad duty to report that this eliminates any possibility of a Mutant Summit between us, as I dare not bring Lady Luck within 3 states of a CSI hata... it's just not safe for anyone involved.)
I'm not really a hata. I absolutely loved that show for over a year, back before it spawned CSI Miami, New York, Delaware, and of course CSI Shalen's Hometown, where every single episode is about crack hos.
Now I mostly wander through while the 'rents are watching it and shout "Waaark!" whenever he is on screen.
As for the Crusades...
Ha ha ha ha.
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