CSI Files
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It's business as usual in sunny Miami.<p><A class="link" HREF="http://www.csifiles.com/episodes/miami/season7/resurrection.shtml">"Resurrection"</a>, the seventh season premiere of <I>CSI: Miami</I>, picks up where season six left off. Horatio Caine (<font color=yellow>David Caruso</font>) was shot and left for dead, and the finale ended as the camera panned back through his broken sunglasses. <A class="link" HREF="http://www.popmatters.com/">Pop Matters</a> commented that Horatio's trademark shades are symbolic for the show:<p><dl><dt><dd><font color=yellow>Those sunglasses stand in for everything that is just a little bit ridiculous about <I>CSI: Miami</I>. They are so obviously "cool," so affected and self-consciously deployed by the show's resident bad-ass, they seem a commentary on Miami as all affect and self-consciousness.</font></dt></dl><p>The premiere finds the team "unraveling the connections between Horatio's shooting and the introduction into Miami's underworld of new high-tech alloy bullets capable of penetrating armor of all kinds; personal or vehicular," according to the review. A review from <A class="link" HREF="http://www.tvaholic.com/">TVaholic</a> described "Resurrection" as a typical offering from the Miami-based member of the <I>CSI</I> franchise:<p><dl><dt><dd><font color=yellow>Tonight's episode is just what you'd expect from the series: beautiful people and places, explosions, gun battles, high-heeled investigators, Hummers, sunglasses and a bunch of twists and turns leading up to an ending you probably saw coming.</font></dt></dl><p> The review criticized the high-tech nature of the series, comparing it to science fiction. "Some of the stuff in that lab looks like it should be on the Starship <I>Enterprise</I> [from <I>Star Trek</I>]," the reviewer explained. "Neither of the other two <I>CSI</I> versions has gone down this road tech wise. It is just another way the show has gone over the top." Despite the comment about <I>Miami</I>'s gadgets, the review claimed, "if you like this show, then you will like this episode."<p>The original reviews are from <A class="link" HREF="http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/63620/csi-miami1/">Pop Matters</a> and <A class="link" HREF="http://www.tvaholic.com/2008/09/22/review-csi-miami-season-seven-premiere-on-cbs/">TVaholic</a>.<center></center>