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

But end of the day, it's just a procedural. Week in, week out...same ol same ol.

Posted by Will Hunting (aka JoeMetz) May 24 '10, 11:31

There's nothing that it truly spawned that's unique as evidenced by the fact there's 105 of those shows on tv now.

The only shows that when they leave will be 'iconic' will be Simpsons and Survivor imo as they've readily changed the game of what tv could be.

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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

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