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CSI: Miami
2002 · TV series · 42 min episodes · 10 seasons
Created by Ann Donahue, Anthony E. Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn
The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.
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There are services that exist to hunt down any scene details like this and at this point is pretty standard. The thinking behind it is that even though most people won’t notice or care, the ones that dk notice will care, and if it’s wrong then it could be the single defining thing that pulls them out of the story. That and the pressure of the film industry in general and bringing bad press to a film. There’s always someone who notices every mistake and then they take to twitter over and on the other end of that message is some poor art director or continuity coordinator who’s losing their shit.
Perfect example, you seem to be someone specialized in a field that would exist somewhere in the same vector map as plumbing. Not plumbing but pipes, so therefore it’s in the studios interest to ensure the specialized feel recognized as well. Had it been so obviously fake CSI Miami style, you might not feel the same about the movie, or maybe you’d not care and still enjoy the movie but you sure wouldn’t be in HN singing it’s praise. So it’s all upside for the studio to ensure you don’t get pulled out of the story or at the very least don’t talk to your friends who also live in the same vector map as you. Not saying it’s wrong as it’s cool to see effort put into the creation process but it’s definitely thought of ahead of time.
This was a plot twist in an episode of CSI:Miami several years ago.
Identical twins were implicated in a crime for which DNA was left behind, and they thought they were safe by being twins. But they also had distinct T cell (etc) signatures and that solved the case.
This trend is not really new, and it actually goes both ways: when you want a darker tone, you desaturate the colors and go for a "colder" color palette, when you want to get all warm and fuzzy (think romance movies, soap operas etc.) you use a "warmer" palette and crank up the saturation a bit. But this already annoyed me back in the early 2000s: CSI New York had a "cold" color palette, CSI Miami a warmer one, although (or more likely because) they were both mostly filmed in and around L.A.
There’s an episode of CSI Miami where someone says let’s have a video conference and someone else asks but is it secure and Horatio looks right at the camera and says of course it’s secure, it’s Cisco.
> When is the last time an episode of CSI didn't end with the guy getting caught and convicted? Have they ever made a mistake in CSI? Made an ambiguous decision?
Actually there was one episode where they knowingly sent down an innocent man in CSI:Miami. A mentally challenged man had been unwittingly framed by his brother for a murder he didn't commit. The piece of evidence that sends him to jail if I recall correctly was a tie used in the crime that the brother asked his mentally challenged brother to retrieve from the back of the truck putting his DNA or fingerprint on it. The team know the kid they're sending down is innocent, but the evidence is the evidence and their hands are tied.
I can't for the life of me find a link to the episode. Perhaps someone with more Google-fu than me could assist.
> "All records and things in whatever form, including communications, relating to the activities of the Mega Conspiracy, including but not limited to, Megaupload, Megavideo and Megastuff Limited"
That bit reads like someone wrote up a search warrant after watching a few episodes of CSI: Miami.
"Pro quality" TV series? You mean like "CSI: Miami"? Or "Gilligan's Island"? Or do you mean movies like "The Smurfs" or the US version of "The Vanishing" or "Leave it To Beaver"?
Yes, I'd gladly do without all that TV and all the movies, and most or all of the books. Oh, and the popular music. Especially the music by Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato and Ashlee Simpson.
This was covered years ago in an episode of CSI: Miami, believe it or not (I don't remember too much else of the plot, though - something about an exploding manila envelope, IIRC).
Games, especially MMO's and Social Gaming exploit their addictiveness to keep people paying them.
Certain TV shows exploit similar addictiveness. CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Trial by Jury . . . all still supplying ~24 new episodes a year during prime time slots. To put it roughly, 9 days worth of programming that is essentially identical. Then there's the more unique (to some degree) procedurals (IE NUMB3RS, Castle, etc. Incidentally, the only procedurals I like, I can't stand the CSI crap as my mind is violently raped by unscience almost every other episode I watch) that appear.
I personally did stop watching TV for a prolonged period, but for no elitist reason as I love TV . . . perhaps too much. However, I'm satisfied watching only the show, so I'm more a DVD person.
Movies, again, strike at this addictiveness with the 'unnecessary sequels' market. It's one thing when a movie plans multiple parts, a la the Borne trilogy. However, then there are the Bond series that maybe only hit a good movie every 3rd or 4th produced, but still take in millions. Then there are the totally unnecessary sequels that appear because the studios dangled hundreds of millions of dollars off an ACME sized mousetrap to bag a producer.
Books similarly can get into this trouble of unnecessary sequels. I believe Agatha Christie inadvertently suffered this problem as her publishers forbid her from killing off Poirot, it took her 40 years for the novel that killed him off to be published.
Ironically, the most addictive TV shows and books appear to be detective dramas. This is easily illustrated by the fact that Mystery/Crime novels is the biggest market in literature, and by the fact there are over 9 procedurals routinely running during prime time slots, year after year for almost a decade.
Or methanol (under the right circumstances): "Pure alcohols burn with a nearly invisible flame in daylight." (http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/transportation/alcohols.html)
Which was done in (yeah, I know) an episode of CSI:Miami: http://csimiami.wetpaint.com/page/207:Grand+Prix
Though, of course, hydrogen is far more exciting.