Post by Jemma on Dec 7, 2008 8:47:44 GMT -5
CSI: NY: From A "Box" To A "Triangle"
I guess it’s my turn to say this: oh, thank you, CSI: NY, for giving me my much-needed dose of gritty reality. I couldn’t thank them enough, really; if I’m not busy admiring the environment itself, and how blue it always seems to look for an entire hour, I’m probably busy trying to figure out who did what to whom, or whether someone will be stumbling into a hole in the process.
Sometimes I could just forgive however (subtly) ridiculous some cases are. All for the sake of entertainment, right? Sometimes it’s just a case of springing the right things at the right time. Last week’s episode was called “The Box”, and involved a skeleton found in a compacted car. Sounds simple from the get-go, but of course that’s not all there is to it. Suddenly the bones were that of a teenage girl who ran away from home. Suddenly the girl was pregnant when she was killed. Suddenly, it seemed that the unborn baby was not in the girl’s womb when she was killed. Oh, oh, sometimes it seems a little weird (although, yes, still grounded in gritty reality; it is possible, after all) but that’s what shows like this are all about: the hooks. And the way the cases parallel with the team, too. Lindsay (Anna Belknap) is pregnant, after all.
So maybe I’d try to give next week’s episode a chance. It’s called “The Triangle”—what is it with geometry nowadays?—and it involves a mysterious energy field appearing in the surrounding of the Empire State Building that’s apparently responsible for the disappearance of a wealthy businessman and the death of his limo driver.
Already it’s an interesting case, because you’d wonder how the team will work around something that is seemingly hard to investigate forensically. But an energy field? I wonder how that’ll look like. The limo driver suddenly flying in the sky? I had to check Wikipedia to see what others had to say about energy fields, and it got stuff about spirituality and acupuncture. Makes me wonder terribly.
There’s no episode of CSI: NY tonight, as the entire CBS Wednesday schedule gives way to Rudolph, Grammy nominees and the Victoria’s Secret fashion show. You can return next Wednesday from 10pm, however, to see how this energy field actually turns out. It isn’t a really long wait, after all.
Sometimes I could just forgive however (subtly) ridiculous some cases are. All for the sake of entertainment, right? Sometimes it’s just a case of springing the right things at the right time. Last week’s episode was called “The Box”, and involved a skeleton found in a compacted car. Sounds simple from the get-go, but of course that’s not all there is to it. Suddenly the bones were that of a teenage girl who ran away from home. Suddenly the girl was pregnant when she was killed. Suddenly, it seemed that the unborn baby was not in the girl’s womb when she was killed. Oh, oh, sometimes it seems a little weird (although, yes, still grounded in gritty reality; it is possible, after all) but that’s what shows like this are all about: the hooks. And the way the cases parallel with the team, too. Lindsay (Anna Belknap) is pregnant, after all.
So maybe I’d try to give next week’s episode a chance. It’s called “The Triangle”—what is it with geometry nowadays?—and it involves a mysterious energy field appearing in the surrounding of the Empire State Building that’s apparently responsible for the disappearance of a wealthy businessman and the death of his limo driver.
Already it’s an interesting case, because you’d wonder how the team will work around something that is seemingly hard to investigate forensically. But an energy field? I wonder how that’ll look like. The limo driver suddenly flying in the sky? I had to check Wikipedia to see what others had to say about energy fields, and it got stuff about spirituality and acupuncture. Makes me wonder terribly.
There’s no episode of CSI: NY tonight, as the entire CBS Wednesday schedule gives way to Rudolph, Grammy nominees and the Victoria’s Secret fashion show. You can return next Wednesday from 10pm, however, to see how this energy field actually turns out. It isn’t a really long wait, after all.
