I have to admit that pointless explanations for the audience's sake are where I usually give shows a lot of slack. I mean, it is unrealistic when people who've been on the job as long as the team would have to bother spelling out the obvious like that, and it's a little frustrating when you just know this or that line was there for any newbies in the audience. But on the flip side, I know that as a newbie, there's nothing that turns you off a new show like not knowing what anyone's talking about, because the characters are speaking on a level you don't get (when House first came out, this was definitely me).
yep, i agree - it can get frustrating if you're a regular viewer, but you have to accept that not everyone is, some people may not have heard these terms before.
In earlier seasons, the characters on Original CSI, and even Miami and NY, were always given random lines or conversations that were just there to explain what GSR was or what Luminol did or whatever -- and while I get time constraints and stuff recently, I do think it kind of sucks that they've lost that element. Some of those lines/exchanges were fun, as far as conversations-that-arise-at-work go.
yeah i remember that too, it was good. it's odd that (speaking for NY, i can't speak for the others so much) moving from 2 cases to 1 case per episode has apparently left them *less* time for the work-related conversations. oh yeah, that might be because they've allowed more time for personal life mallet moments instead
Not to say that NY doesn't have its share of way-too-pointless lines imo; to me the ones that are especially "Ya think?" are when someone asks a question, and another team member says something like "that's the question we have to answer" -- well, duh
haha, yeah, for sure. horatio's always been the worst culprit (although maybe those shades just make it seem worse) but mac has had a LOT more of those lines this season. the others have too but his are usually the ones that lead in to the credits, so it's more noticeable. mac, STOP with the cheese already!
I don't think it's stupid to say obvious things, especially when it's not really obvious. I mean, saying that something might be the murder weapon doesn't always mean it is. They need to test it. It's not in every episode or scene that they say anything every time they bag an evidence so it's okay for me.
this is true - sometimes the "obvious" murder weapon is a decoy, so it's wrong to jump to conclusions. on the other hand, i dunno, picking up a gun near a shot body and saying "this might be the weapon" - regardless of whether it turns out to be or not - seems a little obvious. i mean, if they picked up, say, a block of cheese and said "this might be the weapon" that would be a whole lot less obvious. but a gun, near a shot body, yeah that's kind of blatant, even if it's a decoy, you'd assume they'd pick up on that being there at some point.
What annoys me at times is when they act super genius especially Mac! :lol: They know the generic name for every medicine, plants, chemicals etc... Well sometimes, they just read from the tablet but sometimes, I can't see them handling the tablet and say the out-of-this world names! :wtf: But I forgive them many times especially when chemical or the thing in question is common in their job.
haha yeah that's great - i remember aj saying in an interview that he's dyslexic (i think...) so learning those lines was always a nightmare. i gues a lot of the time (in the lab-rat sense, not the actor sense) that kind of info would just pop up on a screen, so i guess they can be let off that, but then they do always seem to know an awful lot about some of these things with no prompts at all. and yes, mac especially. whenever he does that i like to think that he was just really really good at latin and stuff - there are scientists out there who really do know all this stuff (i've met some, mostly they're insufferable, unlike mac, of course)
