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kradical From: kradical Date: May 10th, 2008 04:26 am (UTC) (Link)
Hell, it's more fundamental than that: real CSIs don't solve murders! They don't talk to suspects, they don't take the lead in an investigation, they almost never venture out of the lab except when they go to the crime scene. I don't mind a show that glorifies the lab rats, but I do find it frustrating that they feel the need to also give them the roles the detectives are supposed to have.

Also, you ask any detective, a case is almost never made in the lab. It's supplemented by lab work, absolutely, and ideally you want both physical evidence and a confession, but lab work alone rarely puts cases down.
autojim From: autojim Date: May 10th, 2008 04:39 am (UTC) (Link)
True! Though in some depts., the CSIs (the field people who collect evidence) are indeed sworn officers, carry sidearms, etc.

The lab rats -- well, LV and NY's never-in-the-field lab rats are close in many ways to real, at least.

The lab can bust something open in some cases -- but it's the detectives who run the leads down once said something busts open.

Even so, I like LV and NY enough (largely driven by the characters and the way the actors who play them bring life to them) to willingly suspend disbelief for a couple hours a week.
kradical From: kradical Date: May 10th, 2008 05:16 am (UTC) (Link)
The lab rats -- well, LV and NY's never-in-the-field lab rats are close in many ways to real, at least.

I haven't been keeping up with the Vegas show, but the NY guys are constantly in the field. I particularly hate it when they conduct interrogations without Flack or Angell present....
autojim From: autojim Date: May 11th, 2008 02:05 am (UTC) (Link)
There *are* some lab-only lab rats on both LV and NY, who only go into the field very occasionally when some specialized skill they posess (such as Hodges' nose for cyanide on LV) is needed. Otherwise, they're chained to their labs.

Which are usually, in the real world, painted white and brightly-lit, with precious little in the way of windows.

And does anyone else remember Wallace Langham (Hodges) as Jay Underwood's sidekick in the largely-forgettable "The Invisible Kid", memorable to me primarily for an invisible Chynna Phillips strip-teasing (I was a teen then...)?
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