QUOTE(Frances144 @ Jan 27 2007, 10:30 AM) [snapback]117129[/snapback]
So she came up with Forensic scientist or Scene of Crime Officer - she loves CSI and loves the bits where they examine stuff.
She must know, of course, that most of the the whiz-bang gizmos on CSI are as fictional as the rapid results and the municipalities' budgets that would allow them to buy the stuff.
This
Wikipedia article blows the lid off the scandal of the millennium!! (and there's a lot of millennium left).
I found it with a search for CSI TV "the reality" that hauls up a lot of stuff. I can't find the story that laughs at the actors' use of flashlights. In that story, a real-life investigator says they turn on all the lights they can find. I saw an episode the other day where one of the "investigators" used her flashlight outside at mid-day.
The ultimate CSI: "Through a Glass Darkly." David Caruso is found dead, killed by the weight of thousands of sunglasses dumped from an aircraft on his head by an evil mobster living in a shack in the Florida Everglades, and who's running a New York crime family via a 7-Eleven blister-pack prepaid cellphone purchased in Las Vegas.
This would allow all the stars of all the shows to appear together in this grand-finalé two-hour sunglasses spectacle. Despite being dead, Caruso would have lots of screen time through the use of heavily filtered flashbacks and zooming macro animations of sunglasses nosepieces slicing through molecules of air as they fall from the plane.
The audience, though, is disappointed when it turns out Caruso isn't dead. It was only a ruse to trace the mobster's cell-phone call to a florist shop that he phoned to supply flowers at the funeral, a tradition among mobsters that all CSI investigators know about because they watched The Untouchables. Caruso had merely been hidden away in a morgue's body drawer — after borrowing an overcoat and mitts from one of the New York CSIers. He passed the time by using his flashlight to read books.
As the credits roll, hilarious out-takes loaded with censoring bleeps are shown of
Caruso stabbing himself in the eye as he puts on his sunglasses.
Complete DVD sets will include "CSI: Behind the Scenes," in which each actor praises to the skies the abilities of each of the others, and with each telling of the rare and marvellous chemistry that grew among them that made the shows such a success.
But the shows never disappear, of course. Your great-great grandchildren will be watching them on Spike TV, sandwiched between Star Trek episodes and I Love Lucy marathons. Like us, how lucky they'll be.
