I think, of all 3 shows, this one has some style: As each CSI show has, over the last 9 years, developed a kind of personality - I like the way the graphics are done in the "discovery" shots (The little "bridge" shots that show the various CSIs working and the evidence being collected) - As Danny always says, "Boom".
Stylistically very contemporary, I love the way the viewer can expect to see various items from "real life" - a Treo 700, a Dell Inspiron 6400/1505e laptop, Blackberries and I-Macs and sometimes even IBM Thinkpads- All the nice goodies that you can buy at the computer store... You can always tell which year each episode was made just by the electronic equipment that is being toted, and so the Dell 6400's were probably episodes from 2006... The Treo 700s probably 2007, these apparently insignificant things are all indications of not only the year, but the month or even specific day the episodes were filmed.
You can do this with any show that uses contemporary electronics as part of the storytelling "device"... And as a semi-spoiler/goof, I can say with pretty much 100% assurance that some of the things you see Danny-Boy doing with his Dell Laptop or his Treo 650 or 700, I know for a fact cannot be done- Because I have the exact versions of these items, I am using them now for instance- And although the Dell Inspiron is a fine machine, it simply has speed and productivity limits that unless the laptop o' Dannys is hiding something a lot more powerful than the Centrino Core Duo T2300 under its Lid, some of the things he does with it are basically impossible. Aside from that, I do know that the functions that are being depicted are possible on a more powerful desktop workstation, so I always let it not bother me.
I like the cast of this CSI better than the others, especially Stella, who on one hand is a pinstripe-posing woman of professional standing, and does she stand... On the other, a voluptuous beauty, when we are lucky enough to see it revealed- Which happens every 5th episode- Like when she decides to date that sculptor. You think that eventually she'll end up with Mac, but then Mac would not be able to date all of the MEs with British accents.
I miss Aiden, and I finally saw her final episode, and it was sad but in the end her goal was made a reality thanks to Mac. I thought her interaction with Danny was better than "Montana"/Lindsay - Who kind of bothers me cos of her cherub face-straight-from-a-Reuben-painting, but the character has a lot of good "character." I don't think it was ever blurted out in any episode, but there are indications that something happened between old Danny boy and Aiden - Who at one point indicated to Danny that she was way out of his class.
Mac always makes me think of either "Apollo 13" or the film "Impostor" - And he is actually playing a character very like both of the roles he played in those films- A very tenacious, methodical, and mysterious person, whose past is revealed in small chunks when appropriate to the flow of episodes. I like Mac.
No CSI is compleat without your resident genius, in this case Hill Harper as Hawkes, who appears to be too smart, honestly, maybe there are guys that are as smart as Hawkes, that would be nice: They all ought to be hired as CSIs.
Eddie Cahill is great especially when they are digging cell phone sim cards out of his chest cavity, you think he was imported straight from Law and Order, I don't know the actors Bio, maybe he did come from there. He's like a younger Lenny from L&O.
I like the rapid-fire delivery of each episode, first the murder, then the CSIs collect evidence, then they process it, then they question suspects, and finally they nail the perp right on the head, and always there is a Perry-Masonish twist, except that there are no Perry Masons and Paul Drakes suddenly entering the courtroom to deliver smoking models of volcanoes as evidence at the last minute (A joke from a Benny Hill skit)- So it is more realistic... Except for, I always ask... Can they REALLY do that, that fast.
I thought I saw on a discovery channel show... DNA can't be processed in 15 seconds, can it? I thought it took weeks to run some of these tests.
And so, even though in this show, they highly fictate these tests, I still like the general Murder Mystery, and each ep, as I stated for my comment of the original CSI... Is a miniature Jerry Bruckheimer/Tony Scott flick run at 78rpm speed.
Everyone who loves murder mysteries can love CSI:NY - Or any CSI. The MacDonald's Happy Meal of Crime Drama, it goes by quick, but sometimes, you get a very substantive meal.
I can honestly say, there is not one CSI:NY ep I have not highly enjoyed, especially the ones detailing sufficiently grisly murders, mummified bodies, organ extraction, and just plain pre-meditated murder.
I wish in real life the CSIs of real police departments could be as successful as these guys... And due to these shows, I think it is just slightly harder to get away with it than it was in Perry Mason and Paul Drake's days, and even those were highly entertaining.
I love this show... to deth!
Stylistically very contemporary, I love the way the viewer can expect to see various items from "real life" - a Treo 700, a Dell Inspiron 6400/1505e laptop, Blackberries and I-Macs and sometimes even IBM Thinkpads- All the nice goodies that you can buy at the computer store... You can always tell which year each episode was made just by the electronic equipment that is being toted, and so the Dell 6400's were probably episodes from 2006... The Treo 700s probably 2007, these apparently insignificant things are all indications of not only the year, but the month or even specific day the episodes were filmed.
You can do this with any show that uses contemporary electronics as part of the storytelling "device"... And as a semi-spoiler/goof, I can say with pretty much 100% assurance that some of the things you see Danny-Boy doing with his Dell Laptop or his Treo 650 or 700, I know for a fact cannot be done- Because I have the exact versions of these items, I am using them now for instance- And although the Dell Inspiron is a fine machine, it simply has speed and productivity limits that unless the laptop o' Dannys is hiding something a lot more powerful than the Centrino Core Duo T2300 under its Lid, some of the things he does with it are basically impossible. Aside from that, I do know that the functions that are being depicted are possible on a more powerful desktop workstation, so I always let it not bother me.
I like the cast of this CSI better than the others, especially Stella, who on one hand is a pinstripe-posing woman of professional standing, and does she stand... On the other, a voluptuous beauty, when we are lucky enough to see it revealed- Which happens every 5th episode- Like when she decides to date that sculptor. You think that eventually she'll end up with Mac, but then Mac would not be able to date all of the MEs with British accents.
I miss Aiden, and I finally saw her final episode, and it was sad but in the end her goal was made a reality thanks to Mac. I thought her interaction with Danny was better than "Montana"/Lindsay - Who kind of bothers me cos of her cherub face-straight-from-a-Reuben-painting, but the character has a lot of good "character." I don't think it was ever blurted out in any episode, but there are indications that something happened between old Danny boy and Aiden - Who at one point indicated to Danny that she was way out of his class.
Mac always makes me think of either "Apollo 13" or the film "Impostor" - And he is actually playing a character very like both of the roles he played in those films- A very tenacious, methodical, and mysterious person, whose past is revealed in small chunks when appropriate to the flow of episodes. I like Mac.
No CSI is compleat without your resident genius, in this case Hill Harper as Hawkes, who appears to be too smart, honestly, maybe there are guys that are as smart as Hawkes, that would be nice: They all ought to be hired as CSIs.
Eddie Cahill is great especially when they are digging cell phone sim cards out of his chest cavity, you think he was imported straight from Law and Order, I don't know the actors Bio, maybe he did come from there. He's like a younger Lenny from L&O.
I like the rapid-fire delivery of each episode, first the murder, then the CSIs collect evidence, then they process it, then they question suspects, and finally they nail the perp right on the head, and always there is a Perry-Masonish twist, except that there are no Perry Masons and Paul Drakes suddenly entering the courtroom to deliver smoking models of volcanoes as evidence at the last minute (A joke from a Benny Hill skit)- So it is more realistic... Except for, I always ask... Can they REALLY do that, that fast.
I thought I saw on a discovery channel show... DNA can't be processed in 15 seconds, can it? I thought it took weeks to run some of these tests.
And so, even though in this show, they highly fictate these tests, I still like the general Murder Mystery, and each ep, as I stated for my comment of the original CSI... Is a miniature Jerry Bruckheimer/Tony Scott flick run at 78rpm speed.
Everyone who loves murder mysteries can love CSI:NY - Or any CSI. The MacDonald's Happy Meal of Crime Drama, it goes by quick, but sometimes, you get a very substantive meal.
I can honestly say, there is not one CSI:NY ep I have not highly enjoyed, especially the ones detailing sufficiently grisly murders, mummified bodies, organ extraction, and just plain pre-meditated murder.
I wish in real life the CSIs of real police departments could be as successful as these guys... And due to these shows, I think it is just slightly harder to get away with it than it was in Perry Mason and Paul Drake's days, and even those were highly entertaining.
I love this show... to deth!