CSI New York

[Harlequin-LA]

Now I know that many of my discerning fellow Archers willl be following the CSI franchise....On Saturday 29th April the Sunday Times tells me that CSI New York will be dealing with a double homicide by a Bowman (Its got to be a compound archer - the Dark Side and all that!)

Thought you should be told........


On a more important subject.....Mel ....All the very best.......

[Wrexham Exile]

I HATE CSI, I HATE CSI, I HATE CSI!!!!!

sorry had to get that out my system - Forensic Science student.

[Harlequin-LA]

Alan.....why?


Is it factually wrong....is it the acting..or just crap?

[Wrexham Exile]

can be factually very wrong.
also gives people a false idea about it all - i read last year that there were 200,000 tests on back log due to american polive watching it and making wrong assumptions about test - thus ending up just sending everything in for tests that may not even be suitable. not only can it be a waste of time but also money - tests like DNA aint cheap.

and the amount of time you get

what degree do you do?
Forensic Science
OHHHHHHH so you must watch CSI?
grrrrrr

(its not just CSI either. i'll admit shows like that can be entertaining but the scientist/cop/lawyer role all rolled into one is sometimes a bit much)

[clickerati]

Originally Posted by DMU_AC

what degree do you do?
Forensic Science
OHHHHHHH so you must watch CSI?
grrrrrr

Hehe...I made that mistake *gulp*

[Wrexham Exile]

yes Clicki but your american, your not to know any better :P lol
(only teasing)

[Little Miss Purple]

I made that mistake too

My dad and my cousin must've seen something about that as they were telling me how to kill someone and what not to use

[JohnK]

I also hate CSI. Not that I have a background in forensics, that is. The scripts are so crappy and formulaic that even when given to actually pretty good actors (like several of those in CSI:NY) it makes them look bad.

As for this particular episode, it lead to a huge row over on Archery Talk. Apparently a great deal of emphasis is placed on the fact that anyone could pick up the murder weapon (a Bowtech of some kind) and kill at extreme range with no practice.

[greydog]

'Bones' is another one where they have a magical computer that instants reconstructs the evidence and presents it all with neat graphics to a bunch of underwear models pretending to be scientists. How do criminals get away with anything these days, they only have to fart at the crime scene and these forensic guys have got them

[Tobytoolbag]

Originally Posted by greydog

...have a magical computer that instants reconstructs the evidence and presents it all with neat graphics...

Yeah - that's what gets me - feed all the evidence into the 'magic computer' and it'll automatically spit out something that's absolute proof whodunnit!

You also see 'magic computers' in a most of the modern 'spy'-genre programming like Alias and 24, mostly operated by someone with some sort of headset sticking out of their ear, which is used to relay the answers to every question the 'agent in the field' has instantly, as though the internet has the exact answer to every question without having to take half a day to wade through all the rubbish!

Anyone know where I can buy one of these machines (yeah, I know, Hollywood!), as it would make my job a hell of a lot easier!?