CSI: Miami
Apr. 25th, 2007 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiCould someone explain to me how this show can suck so much more than either its progenitor (CSI) or its own spin-off (CSI: NY)? I mean, sure, David Caruso is god-awful (and comparing him to Peterson or Sinise isn't exactly fair), but the writing on this show is way, way worse than on the other two. And (Khandi Alexander's Alexx aside) the characters here just blow.
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Date: 2007-04-25 01:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 02:34 pm (UTC)The missus and I openly mock him when watching the other 2 shows. We take Peterson and Sinise lines and make them awful by delivering them like Caruso...including the dramatic pause for the shades.
GAH!
He soooooooooooooo blows.
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Date: 2007-04-25 03:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 03:38 pm (UTC)GAH!
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Date: 2007-04-25 06:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 06:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 01:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 05:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 02:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 02:42 pm (UTC)Anyway, I have thought about it. I stopped watching it when the whole Brazil thing started happening. I saw the episode where Eric Delko's character was in the hospital after being shot. I have no idea if he went back, but I was so disgusted with the show. It seems like they want to focus so much on the character's outside their job on the show. That and I don't like how they change the personalities of them to make characters have tension (re: Ryan, they completely changed him from when they introduced him).
I still love Vegas. I like the fact they don't focus on the characters as much. They focus on a good story. Yes, I know some of their life story (example: Grissom and Sara (gag)) but it's not as important to the show as they make it in Miami. Just bor-ring.
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Date: 2007-04-25 02:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 03:11 pm (UTC)I don't watch it religiously or anything. Just if I happen upon it.
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Date: 2007-04-25 03:19 pm (UTC)The sad part...
Date: 2007-04-25 03:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 04:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 04:24 pm (UTC)Too busy showing Caruso putting on his sunglasses, standing with hands on hips and jacket pushed back, on one knee looking at crime scene catching stuff the entire rest of the unit missed,
standing with his 9 mm and head tilted to one side and feet apart the exact same way every time he draws on someone, delivering one liners dripping with omnipotent menace to criminals, getting the last word in in every conversation, etc etc etc.
The cop (detective) as a demigod. At least Goran on L&O:CI (the only L&O i can stand to watch) does it with a self effacing sense of humour.
Whenever i see Horatio on CSI:Miami, the line "Strike a Pose" from the
Madonna song pops into my head ;)
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Date: 2007-04-25 11:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 04:39 pm (UTC)except he does it on purpose, somehow thinking it's dramatic.
He used to be a lot better back in the Michael Mann films, now his acting is reduced to a half dozen cliches.
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Date: 2007-04-25 04:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 05:49 pm (UTC)It's sort of like watching Star Trek and then having a blast impersonating Shatner...
(I also like Alex, however. Too bad she can't be exported to another show...)
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Date: 2007-04-25 06:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-26 11:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 06:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 11:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 07:52 pm (UTC)Amazingly, it's the most popular show in the world right now. Wait, that crown used to belong to Bay Watch. That explains it.