Feather's Gripes and Complaints, Part Two

[nirix5]

As in the previous Gripes and Complaints entry, I have been splitting hairs in regards to things I like. And no, not even CSI escapes the nitpicker's axe.

My problems with CSI

~ Okay, I know Grissom goes into... well... Grissom mode, and wants to see things through the eyes of the victim, etc. etc., but hello! You cannot be working the NIGHTshift and leave the lights off at a crime scene. As the crime has already been committed, there is not 'atmospheric' point for this; besides, what if you miss something? Sorry, it's something that kind of rankles.

~ Catherine and Sara. Everyone knows I love them both to death; Sara especially. And that I think they are both some of the best looking things walking. However. Pull. Your. Hair. Back. How the hell can anyone work with their hair falling in their face all the time? Isn't there some kind of regulation for that? Don't female police officers have to have their hair above their collars when on duty? And that's why they all have French braids? (This is just an eyebrow-raiser on a personal note. I'm always pulling my hair back- if it's ever down in my face its distraction drives me crazy.)

~ When you clear a scene, you don't hold your gun in the upwards position. That way, if it misfires, the bullet hits your foot, and not your face. Duh. (This also applies to X-files.)

~ Don't CSI's get something similar to Hazmat suits in real life, so they don't contaminate the evidence? Not the way it seems to be on the show. You walk around in high heels and tight pants (or whatever) and wear the hazmat suits so the evidence doesn't contaminate you.

And the never-ending 'thing' about the samurai episode

~ For those of you who watch this show, the 4th Season episode "Suckers" dealt with Japanese antiques and vampires (separately, much to my dismay...) At one point Sara and Grissom are looking over a catalogue of antiques pretaining to the robbery at the casino. Now, generally, CSI is pretty good with their information, but this little discussion just kind of made me jump back and go, "WTF?!?!?!?!"

(SARA reads the list as GRISSOM stands in the middle of the room looking at the
empty display cases.)

SARA: Other items in the exhibit include a 17th century decorated silk.

(She turns the page.)

SARA: 17th century iron war mask.

(She turns to the next page.)

SARA: 17th century kabuki robe used in the first kabuki dances in Kyoto.

(GRISSOM stops in front of the empty display case with the card still in it:

Suit of Armor
17th c.
lacquer, horsehair, iron, beading, silk cord, wood
Collection of Yuri Yamamoto

The Japanese suit of samurai armor was only worn by the highest military class and emperors. Oda Nobunaga played a key role in shaping the course of history in feudal Japan. His policy of unifying a country controlled by many feuding daimyo was furthered in a series of victories characterized by brilliant war tactics and firearms.)

GRISSOM: Seventeenth century suit of armor. Wasn't the Japanese military established long after that?

SARA: Let's see.

(SARA puts the clipboard aside and checks on of the many reference books next to her. GRISSOM looks around and waits for the answer.)

SARA: (reading) 1868, by Emperor Ma-ji? Meiji?

GRISSOM: So, this is out of place.

SARA: Just like the sugar water we found nearby.

Now, as anyone who has seen the Last Samurai (let alone dug around a bit in Japanese history) knows, the above statements are (to quote Griss) 'out of place.' DUH!!!! Just because the Japanese miltiary was Westernized during the Meiji period doesn't mean it didn't exist before that.

*grumbles and tells them all to go read the Tokkaido Road*

I mean, really now. How the hell could they let a glaring fact like that slip? CSIdiots!

Okay. I feel better now.

Comments

[evening-shadow.livejournal.com]

Since CSI sparked my interest in forensic science, I picked up the book "Cracking the Cases," by Dr. Henry Lee. There are some photographs in there and in any of them that has personnel, you see them all wearing the traditional white jumpsuits. So now every time I watch the CSIers in their street clothes, I wonder how much they're contaminating the scene. I suppose it's a lucky thing that none of them have pets!

[nirix5.livejournal.com]

See, you know what I'm talking about. Craziness, and now everyone thinks that if they become a CSI they get to wear spiffy Prada shoes and stuff. Unless you're Greg, then you get ugly shirts... but whatever. TV is a wonderland, I guess. *falls down the CSI rabbit-hole*