CSI - New York has jumped the shark. Like some other reviewers, I have some LE experience which I have to suspend in order to just relax & enjoy the show -- something I've been able to do for the past several years.
But the plots are becoming more & more insulting to the viewers over the past year or so. I don't know if the original writers are getting burned-out, getting senile, or what, but the programs are really starting to insult the intelligence of the viewers & I'm considering removing the show from my Tivo record list.
This season's finale was part of an ongoing plot in which the sole protagonist is a psychopath in his 20s or 30s seeking revenge on one of the CSIs. The writing team has given this guy 9 lives, thanks to superhuman physical & intellectual powers & dumb NYPD cops falling for old tricks, and of course the brilliant CSI primary actors being hot on his trail.
He fell off a 100+' tall lighthouse onto a rugged, rocky shoreline with waves breaking at night & his body was not recovered. Then in what must have just been a day or two later there he is back in NYC at the apartment of the CSI officer he hates, holding a gun to his head.
Several prior episodes featuring this bad guy had similar activity.
The one other recent episode that blatantly insults everyone's intelligence had the plot lines of a bad-guy living in an apartment directly across from Mac Taylor's examining his poison gas agent right in front of his picture window, no more than 20' away from Taylor's picture window. The bad guy didn't think of closing his blinds/curtains, and Taylor happened to be home, recovering from a fall (one that would have permanently disabled a real human) & observed the activity. To complicate the plot even more, one of Mac's old love interests (the one with the pattering eyes & looks like she's has plastic surgery) just happens to show up at the bad-guy's place.
This show is becoming a cartoon, and I'm tired of it. I don't watch CSI Miami (the hot chicks can't overcome my dislike for David Caruso's acting) & haven't noticed the same level of inane plot-lines with CSI Las Vegas yet.
But the plots are becoming more & more insulting to the viewers over the past year or so. I don't know if the original writers are getting burned-out, getting senile, or what, but the programs are really starting to insult the intelligence of the viewers & I'm considering removing the show from my Tivo record list.
This season's finale was part of an ongoing plot in which the sole protagonist is a psychopath in his 20s or 30s seeking revenge on one of the CSIs. The writing team has given this guy 9 lives, thanks to superhuman physical & intellectual powers & dumb NYPD cops falling for old tricks, and of course the brilliant CSI primary actors being hot on his trail.
He fell off a 100+' tall lighthouse onto a rugged, rocky shoreline with waves breaking at night & his body was not recovered. Then in what must have just been a day or two later there he is back in NYC at the apartment of the CSI officer he hates, holding a gun to his head.
Several prior episodes featuring this bad guy had similar activity.
The one other recent episode that blatantly insults everyone's intelligence had the plot lines of a bad-guy living in an apartment directly across from Mac Taylor's examining his poison gas agent right in front of his picture window, no more than 20' away from Taylor's picture window. The bad guy didn't think of closing his blinds/curtains, and Taylor happened to be home, recovering from a fall (one that would have permanently disabled a real human) & observed the activity. To complicate the plot even more, one of Mac's old love interests (the one with the pattering eyes & looks like she's has plastic surgery) just happens to show up at the bad-guy's place.
This show is becoming a cartoon, and I'm tired of it. I don't watch CSI Miami (the hot chicks can't overcome my dislike for David Caruso's acting) & haven't noticed the same level of inane plot-lines with CSI Las Vegas yet.