CSI Miami aka The Horatio Caine Show

[Viking Bastard]

Yeah, he's a frickin' Superhero.

Grissom has the whole Sherlock Holmes thing. He's a genius. But he's so obsessed with
his work that he has no resemblance of any kind of personal life. He also has no social
skills when dealing with anyone outside of his closed circle of friends and no tolerence
for people that don't match up to his high standards. This lack of diplomacy has made
him unpopular among his peers and TPTB, which stuck him on the lower-profile Night
Shift, which suits him fine, as it gives him the breathing room he needs.

Taylor is nothing like the other two. He's pretty darn good at his job, after all he has
plenty of experience. He's a good boss but an emotional wreck, still dealing with the
death of his wife and overworks because he doesn't want to go home to an empty
house. He hides his pain with cynicism and a slightly ironic sense of humour.

Caine is a badass, brooding ex-bomb squad supercop that lusts after his dead dirty
cop brother's widow. He makes love to his sunglasses every night.

 

[Henry]

Caine is a badass, brooding ex-bomb squad supercop that lusts after his dead dirty cop brother's widow. He makes love to his sunglasses every night.

You forget that he's too noble to give in to these baser instincts, despite that Yelena gave signs that she wouldn't have minded (back when they both thought he was dead) and even reunited them and put them on a plane to obscurity. And he poses for a photo-op even when he's alone in a confessional booth.

I still like the show, but that like keeps dwindling with every season because Caruso/Caine is getting to be too much to take. I never liked the 1950's Superman, either. Go figure.

 

[Viking Bastard]

The character overall aren't that big on CSI. I mean, Las Vegas's cast has become
pretty fleshed out but it took a long slow build over five years.

It's all about the cases. The CSIing. Solving the mysteries. Miami's crappy characters
have never bothered me as I don't think they're all that important. They add a tad of
spice, but for me, it's all about the crime solving.

Miami isn't still just about the Crime Solving. It's about Caine Solving Crimes. If the
focus is turning towards the characters, the characters better be darn entertaining.

 

[Dhevan]

The main problem with both CSI: Miami and CSI: NY is that it feels like they lost the flavour of the original CSI.

CSI is supposed to be about the cases, the stranger the better. Grissom was always the scientist, looking for clues and following the evidence.

CSI:Miami is about Horatio Cain. It's become a cop drama about taking down the gangsters and drug dealers. I have to laugh when the CSI's come bursting into a crime scene with their guns drawn, taking down the bad guy themselves. None of the original CSI team would be doing this, most of all by themselves. They have guns, but they almost never actually use them. For Horatio, it's his first recourse. If the original CSI's ever have to shoot anybody, it's usually because they've put themselves in a bad situation by following the evidence, not activly hunting down the bad guy themselves.

CSI:NY is guilty of being too much a police drama too, but not nearly as much as Miami. I lost interest when they stopped being scientists and started to be cops.

And they really have to start working harder on Horatio's dialogue:
Gangster: "They're gonna get you, Cain"
Cain: "That's what you think!"

Wow. That's more like a grade school come back. What's next?
Gangter: "You're a dead man, Cain"
Cain: "I know you are, but what am I?"

Hell, I still watch both the new ones if I happen to come across them, but I not activly searching them out like I am the original CSI. Plus, I just like the characters better, all the new ones seem forced.

Dhevan

 

[Ghostwind]

I gave up on CSI New York last year. I watched a few episodes here and there, but it never really "got" me. And the thing is, I really like Gary Sinese and Melina "no one can say or spell my name because it is really Greek" as actors. But the chemistry is just missing. When I watch the original CSI Weekends after the late news, even in the first two years of the series, the actors all have chemistry with each other. It feels like they've been working together for a long time. You just don't get that with any of the other CSI series.

 

[Arnwyn]

CSI Miami aka The Horatio Caine Show

That's exactly what Mrs. Arnwyn calls it! She gave up on it midway through last season (and she had the misfortune of seeing the season finale when H. became a bomb expert on top of CSI, SWAT team member, and head detective).

I'm still hanging in there, but I thought that the season premiere was just wretched. (And I gave up on CSI:NY about 7 episodes in.)

 

[Ghostwind]

Maybe CSI: LA will be better since it won't have a headliner lead star. If the rumors are true.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Well, it *has* been established since episode one that Horatio was in the Bomb Squad before joining CSI.

 

[Ghostwind]

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there was a revelation in a future episode that Caine was ex-Fed (Secret Service, DEA, FBI, whatever), ex-bomb squad, ex-special forces, and ex-IAB. He character is so well-rounded and godlike after all...

Yes, I am being sarcastic.

 

[Eridanis]

I enjoy CSI, but Miami doesn't do much for me (caught the last ten minutes of the premiere after teh Giants game finished) - where the heck are all the doctors and nurses when the bad guy came to strangle the woman, and ESPECIALLY when a shot is fired? Maybe this was explained earlier in the show, but it just seemed silly to me. Just gave Caine a chance to be the Lone Man In The Nick Of Time.

I love Gary Sinese, but haven't caught too many eps of CSI:NY; I usually have stuff going on Wedenssday nights. What I've seen hasn't made me want to make sure I'm near my set for the show, though.