...On The Brain
I know I've been going on about CSI:NY season 3 for a long time now, and y'all probably find it weird that I've mentioned nothing of it since it first aired on Five last Saturday. So here goes: the opening episode for season 3 was terribly disappointing. It's been almost a week, so don't ask me to go into detail - but I will rant some behind a cut, simply because I have nothing better to do at the moment...
This next bit, naturally, contains spoilers. Ye've been warrrned!
First off, I knew about Mac's new love interest prior to watching, but DAMMIT - I assumed it would have been a gradual thing... y'know - love blossoming throughout the series. However, in the first scene, we have Mac and Peyton in bed. Yeah, a couple months have gone by since the last series, but still. And I thought Mac was a sensible bloke - they'd have had that whole "we're professionals - we can work and make like bunnies in our free time, right?" conversation long ago.
Don. Is it just me, or has he recovered far too quickly for a man who'd had his abdomen blown open? I love the guy to bits, but come on! Here's what I think they should've done: left Flack out of it for about two episodes, or maybe put him on desk duty and have a couple of the CSI's go chat with him in order to fill the viewers in on his condition that way. He was far too perky. Or perhaps it was a facade?...
Personally, I reckoned the whole 'tongueprint' thing was ridiculous. I won't argue that a tongue could be used as a means of identification - but a tidy print would be rare, right? When we lick, we don't just stamp our tongues right on... whatever. To lick is to slide your tongue over something, and wouldn't that effectively destroy the print?
There's more, but I think you get the general idea.
Oh - and listen to this! One of the modules I'm taking this semester is "History on Television", so by next Friday, we have to come up with ideas for a history documentary. Now, I'm thinking something along the lines of "CSI" meets "Time Team". So, take a sacrificial victim, and get a team of archaeologists, historians and forensics experts to tell you not only how that person died, but also how he/she had lived. Lots of visual effects, sciency-gadgets and a smidgen of tension between experts. If that won't draw a large audience, I don't know what will!
This next bit, naturally, contains spoilers. Ye've been warrrned!
First off, I knew about Mac's new love interest prior to watching, but DAMMIT - I assumed it would have been a gradual thing... y'know - love blossoming throughout the series. However, in the first scene, we have Mac and Peyton in bed. Yeah, a couple months have gone by since the last series, but still. And I thought Mac was a sensible bloke - they'd have had that whole "we're professionals - we can work and make like bunnies in our free time, right?" conversation long ago.
Don. Is it just me, or has he recovered far too quickly for a man who'd had his abdomen blown open? I love the guy to bits, but come on! Here's what I think they should've done: left Flack out of it for about two episodes, or maybe put him on desk duty and have a couple of the CSI's go chat with him in order to fill the viewers in on his condition that way. He was far too perky. Or perhaps it was a facade?...
Personally, I reckoned the whole 'tongueprint' thing was ridiculous. I won't argue that a tongue could be used as a means of identification - but a tidy print would be rare, right? When we lick, we don't just stamp our tongues right on... whatever. To lick is to slide your tongue over something, and wouldn't that effectively destroy the print?
There's more, but I think you get the general idea.
Oh - and listen to this! One of the modules I'm taking this semester is "History on Television", so by next Friday, we have to come up with ideas for a history documentary. Now, I'm thinking something along the lines of "CSI" meets "Time Team". So, take a sacrificial victim, and get a team of archaeologists, historians and forensics experts to tell you not only how that person died, but also how he/she had lived. Lots of visual effects, sciency-gadgets and a smidgen of tension between experts. If that won't draw a large audience, I don't know what will!