Brief Tv reportage, and Revenge of the Bug of Ugh

[lagilman]

Tonight's CSI was good but not great -- each case was interesting (and I liked the range of causes) but the format required that they skimp on the details, and the overall conceit wasn't fabulous enough to override it.

That said?



Greggo! Nooooooooo! *eeeps quietly* Not the Greggo!



ETA: "No bad news while I'm eating dead fish." "I will say it once and deny it if ever quoted. Damned. Good. Work." Shark continues to amuse/horrify.

In other news, somehow knowing that I had 12 hours during which there were no deadlines, the Bug of Ugh has returned. I am as one with my sofa, and NyQuil is my frien....*snore*

Comments

[dudley228.livejournal.com]

I love CSI. This season just hasn't felt the same as the previous seasons. I am not sure if it is because of new writers or what. I started watching tonights episode then I got called away from the televison. I was taping it so I will finish watching the episode later.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Greggo! Nooooooooo! *eeeps quietly* Not the Greggo!

Oh, dear. My DVR cut off the previews for next week. I'm almost afraid to ask.

[nick-kaufmann.livejournal.com]

I agree about tonight's CSI. The conceit was cute but too repetitive (all the other bodies should have been awake already when the first one woke up so we didn't have to keep watching the same actions over and over again), and the mysteries were solved too quickly and easily because they wanted to smoosh four of them into an hour. I did like the idea, though. It reminded me a bit of the episode of Millennium with all the demons talking in the donut shop about Frank Blank.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

He's in trouble, but we don't know how badly.

Personally, I think it's a bit much to throw on top of Nikkie gets the Poe treatment and Brass gets shot. The strength of the show is the science, and the love that the agents have for their job (I adored the whole air guitar/singing the autopsy summary bit from last week.) If they turn this into the Perils of Peterson's Crew, I'm gone.

spoilers, ahoy!

[lagilman]

plot recap from TV Guide: while investigating a rash of beatings around the city, Greg observes one and intervenes, to his cost."

Based on what was shown, and how they played it ("from investigtor to hero to victm") I am suspecting that they're going to use this as his 'graduation' from lab rat to full-fledged CSI, which would make sense, sort of a last stripping away of lab-protected innocence.

It will still hurt to watch.

episode spoiler-specific herein...

[lagilman]

I thought they were going to (and wished they had) left all the narrative to the dbs. It would have made for a stronger conceit, I think, and given the odd distance the living characters had a real reason -- the use of the students felt like an add-on, as tough the writers were hedging their bets.

And the dbs had the best lines "Someone will figure it out" from the cop, and "so long as they're not here, its okay" from the daddy-Marine, for example. Very calm, still sympathetic to the living, and caring about them, but (especially with the cliff-girl ) already becoming noticably detached from the follies and emotions of the living [Griss & Sara's gentle flirting, Brass checking up on Catherine, etc].

[barbara-ferrenz.livejournal.com]

Crossing Jordan did the talking dead people better a couple of years ago. Maybe they were trying to do their version of the House lecture epi in which he reviewed several cases for a medical school class. That was a thing of beauty.

I love James Woods.

PS--Hope you're feeling better.

Re: spoilers, ahoy!

[windrose.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. And yeah, it's going to be difficult to watch. :(

Brief Tv reportage

[spiziks.livejournal.com]

I was kind of "meh" toward the CSI episode. Ever since the awful thing they did with Quentin Tarantino, I've been wary of surrealism or supernatural anything in CSI. This one was okay, and no doubt an attempt to do something a little different.

It's interesting how the original CSI show is still overall the best out of the three. I don't watch CSI:NY at all anymore. I realized I had lost interest. CSI: Miami is heading in that direction, too. Eric and Ryan both act like testosterone-laden jerks most of the time, and I've stopped liking both of them. (Eric smirks a lot, and my fingers itch to smack him.) Dead Case Girl as a new contract character doesn't grab me, either. The only two I'm really interested in are H and Calleigh.