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Apart from the imitators, CSI changed the game for other cop shows. L&O had to start incorporating forensics. Plus, it spawned

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) May 24 '10, 11:27

dozens of true-crime shows about forensics.

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But end of the day, it's just a procedural. Week in, week out...same ol same ol. - Will Hunting May 24, 11:31 19
- I diasgree 100%. I think while it may not get as much press. CSI has proven to be one of the most influential shows in decades. -- nm - MDH May 24, 11:34 6
  - When it disappears, it'll be just another police procedural gone. - Will Hunting May 24, 11:37 5
    - Side note, 24's series finale is a getting a lot less press (and interest in people that I've seen) that I imagined. -- nm - MDH May 24, 11:39 4
      - If they'd stopped before hitting ludicrous speed...they had a chance. - Will Hunting May 24, 11:44
      - Because it was over a few seasons ago. -- nm - Nightcrawler May 24, 11:43 2
        
        they finally ran out of time -- nm - crash davis May 24, 11:46 1
        
        Should that statement have involved sunglasses in some way? -- nm - Fuzzy May 24, 11:48
- how can you say in the same sentence that there are 105 shows like that, but it didn't spawn anything? -- nm - loosilu May 24, 11:32 11
  - There's nothing unique about what it did....it didn't change the game. There were process shows on (L&O predates it by a decade) - Will Hunting May 24, 11:34 10
    - and by the way, I was told by real forensic scientists and lawyers that CSI changed their jobs and even had an impact on real crime. - loosilu May 24, 11:37 4
      - it's been horrible for prosecutions. if juries can't get CSI level forensics, they think they can't convict someone -- nm - sideways pixie May 24, 11:39 3
        
        eh, they had the same complaint about Perry Mason, even Homicide LOTS said that people expected prints, DNA shoe impressions, ballistics and 4 witness -- nm - zeitgeist May 24, 11:55
        
        exactly. and it may very well have made criminals smarter. If that's not influential, I don't know what is. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 11:39 1
        
        but it is a force for evil - witness what you both discussed, and then throw in prolonging David Caruso's career and I smell brimstone -- nm - crash davis May 24, 11:41
    - We must be watching different shows, because the show spurred huge national interest in criminalistics. - MDH May 24, 11:36 3
      - there was an enormous surge of interest in it as a career. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 11:37 2
        
        A friend of mine works in Baltimore's crime lab - MDH May 24, 11:40 1
        
        I briefly studied forensic anthropology and it was very marginal at the time (about 15 years ago). You were seen as a freak. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 11:44
    - ok, I'll give you that ... but the tools it introduced totally took over. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 11:35
Exactly! - MDH May 24, 11:29 14
- and we couldn't have a show like Bones if CSI hadn't happened. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 11:30 13
  - Since the first book was published a few years before CSI, I disagree. - the wrong element, bad guy May 24, 11:37 5
    - disagree. that just means she was late to her own party. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 11:38 4
      - Because every author's goal is to have their books televised ASAP. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy May 24, 11:44 3
        
        not the point. Her show is not the one with all the influence. -- nm - loosilu May 24, 11:47 2
        
        I never said it was. - the wrong element, bad guy May 24, 11:55 1
        
        I think it absolutely was dependent on CSI being on TV first. - loosilu May 24, 11:57
  - and then what would Emily Deschanel have done? - sideways pixie May 24, 11:32 6
    - Something worthwhile, perhaps. nm - Dignan May 24, 11:36
    - If we're lucky...me. -- nm - Will Hunting May 24, 11:34
    - German cabaret? -- nm - Reagen May 24, 11:33
    - Still been hotter than her sister? -- nm - Jim May 24, 11:33 2
      - incorrect, again. -- nm - tRuMaN May 24, 11:36 1
        
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