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In response to "But end of the day, it's just a procedural. Week in, week out...same ol same ol." by Will Hunting

how can you say in the same sentence that there are 105 shows like that, but it didn't spawn anything? -- nm

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) May 24 '10, 11:32

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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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