CSI: Las Vegas vs CSI: Miami

[Mark Chance]

CSI: Miami is horrible. It has yet to hold my interest long enough for me to watch an entire episode. The problem is that David Caruso gets way too much screen time with minimal pay off for the exposure.

At least they got rid of Delaney. Blech. They also need to fire the person responsible for Delaney's character showing up at a crime scene in the Everglades wearing stiletto heels.

Stiletto heels. In a swamp.

I was so dizzy from rolling my eyes at that one that my wife had to rush me to the emergency room.

 

[wingnut_dc]

CSI: Miami is horrible. It has yet to hold my interest long enough for me to watch an entire episode. The problem is that David Caruso gets way too much screen time with minimal pay off for the exposure.

At least they got rid of Delaney. Blech. They also need to fire the person responsible for Delaney's character showing up at a crime scene in the Everglades wearing stiletto heels.

Stiletto heels. In a swamp.

I was so dizzy from rolling my eyes at that one that my wife had to rush me to the emergency room.

I have to agree with Mark Chance, my wife and I cannot stand Caruso or Delaney but unfortunately that was the only thing on. We were so happy when USA switched Touching Evil to Monday nights. Now we have something else to watch.

I am looking forward to CSI: New York, big fan of Gary Sinise.

 

[MaxKaladin]

David Caruso is that annoying. He's the biggest poser tough-guy on TV.

Agreed! I do watch CSI:M, but find Caine to be too arrogant and self-righteous and he gets too emotionally involved in the cases. I much prefer Grissom. He does his level best to remain objective and uninvolved. While Caine might be more comforting to a victim of a crime, if I were an innocent person accused of a crime I'd want Grissom to be the CSI on the case.

A sentiment someone once expressed to me about the two characters -- and one I agree with -- is that Grissom does not prejudge the case but rather studies the evidence and sees where it leads him while Caine decides fairly early on who he thinks is guilty and then tries to find evidence to fit his hypothesis. This week's CSI was a decent example of this. Some adult movie star was murdered. Caine decided early on that he didn't like the owner of the company that made and distributed her films (a moral objection was implied) and spent much of the episode trying to pin the murder on the guy only for it to turn out that he wasn't involved in the crime at all.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Wow, this is probably the most one-sided poll I've ever seen on ENWorld. So far, there are 46 votes in favor of CSI:LV, and only 2 in favor of CSI:M.

And it sounds like a lot of people really don't like Horatio Caine.

Caine decided early on that he didn't like the owner of the company that made and distributed her films (a moral objection was implied) and spent much of the episode trying to pin the murder on the guy only for it to turn out that he wasn't involved in the crime at all.

Although the guy was guilty of distributing child porn. If you'll recall, he found out that the porn star was only 15 years old when she started making movies, but he distributed them anyway.

 

[pensiv]

I think Warren Ellis sums up my opinions on David Caruso when he calls him "Carusobot."

That being said however, my wife and I get a real kick out of seeing him "emote."

I guess I just miss him as a character actor.

 

[MaxKaladin]

Although the guy was guilty of distributing child porn. If you'll recall, he found out that the porn star was only 15 years old when she started making movies, but he distributed them anyway.

Yeah, and they only found that out in the last few minutes of the episode as I recall. Most of the time Caine was trying to nail him, he had no evidence and -- as far as I could tell -- no suspicion that she was underage. In any case, I'm not trying to defend the distributor or say that he shouldn't have gone to jail. Rather, I'm trying to point out that Caine basically decides he wants to nail someone and then goes looking for a way to do it rather than following the evidence to the criminal like Grissom does.