CSI. Seriously? AIBU to think that it's bolleaux?

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For a start, crime scenes are covered in tents and shit here in the UK.

There would never be a scenario where a murder victim's body would be wheeled out in full view of the vultures press with Micronesia being poked in the faces of detectives as they go about their business.

Would that really happening the USA?

Because if it does then the USA is doing it wrong?

And another thing: our SOCOs (scenes of crime officers) here in the UK wear disposable jumpsuits and face masks to minimise contamination.

But apparently "Horatio" and his team don't have to.

It's funny when these series make their characters become TV series characters and/or consultants and they portray the series (within the series) as completely over the top and getting the details wrong. Ah, ah.

Oh, and the different coloured liquids they have lying around in the lab. Usually the only coloured liquids are culture media and those are in the region of red/orange/pink.

And how intently they look at each tube, lifting it high to eye level. In reality, we never lift tubes much higher than the bench and someone with experience will have very automated movements.

Bloody love csi. Even though it may be a tad far fetched at times.

There was a moment a few years ago when in the moments between taking sleeping tablets and actually going to sleep I cackled and mumbled to dh about how I was a crime solver cs-Ems. And I was going to take on the world.

I then proceeded to pass out. And didn't solve any crimes.

am very impressed by the GC in CSI & NCIS, no changing conditions, columns, detectors or calibration, no clean up, just whack some stuff in a vial & it's out in 5 minutes...marvellous!

I quite like Ted Danson and Elisabeth Shue in CSI Vegas. The best follow up to Grissom so far.
( that Sara and Grissom divorced)

I love CSI (the original, never got into the others) even though it is completely ridiculous.

The image enhancing stuff they do is hysterical; taking a grainy CCTV clip and being able to get a lovely readable image of a number plate on a car half a mile away

But then on NCIS you have Abby single handedly doing it all, from DNA to high computer tech. And in the whole of 5 min, although they keep complaining that it takes forever.

also very concerned by the poor reagent labelling, not very COSHH at all....(I like to put the anal back into analysis).

Thanks to TV I expect my A&E visits to be more exciting, with a soundtrack, and not having replay on my live sports experiences is annoying.

Real life is so ...disappointing

There was an episode of NCIS where Abby was trying to hack something, and had to do it at top speed for some inane reason, so McGee joined in. On the same keyboard. .

How the actual fuck would that speed anything up? The funniest part is that they showed them using half of the keyboard each. So they're psychic now? Know what the other needs to type? Come on.

And then there's the Mass Spectrometer. I can't even get started about that miraculous multi-tasking piece of machinery, because I would never stop.

I do love these shows, never miss an episode. But omg, the science and tech is ludicrous.

I loved Quincy! I can still der der the theme tune.

I remember the shared keyboard hacking episode too. :o

And then when poor Ducky was obviously feeling a bit sidelined by things, he took a psychology course (presumably when still working full-time) and became a one-man-Criminal-Minds team. As you do.

That's TV for you though. Same with crime series, hospital dramas, legal dramas, school dramas etc. I mean, Crossroads for heaven's sake, trying to make running a motel in the Midlands the height of sophisticated glamour. Plus Bennie.

I made the mistake of watching this with my DH once. I had a monologue of 'Ive got one of them in my lab, they're not using it right, it's not for that, that'd never work etc'. Drove me potty and I haven't watched it since.

David McCallum's entry on Wikipedia contains this slightly worrying information -

According to the behind-the-scenes feature on the 2006 DVD of NCIS season 1, McCallum became an expert in forensics to play Mallard, including appearing at Medical Examiner conventions. In the feature, Bellisario says that McCallum's knowledge became so vast that at the time of the interview he was considering making him a technical advisor on the show.

I suppose it explains a lot.

Doesn't Elizabeth Schue (or however you spell it) set anyone else off twitching?
She always has this stupid smirky smile going on - really winds me up.