I'm watching Season 1 on Netflix now. Anyone else notice how Delko and the other CSI's are complete experts on everything? Delko is an expert CSI, a diver, flies helicopters and even speaks Russian? The blonde girl is a ballistics expert, gorgeous w/perfect makeup and hair all the time and a chemistry genius. Horatio is a bomb expert, a cop and knows even more about the bodies than the medical examiner does.
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In an interview published in 2009, Emily Procter was quoted as saying CSI: Miami was
"the fantasy comic-book version of the CSI stories, while the other two [CSI shows]
are more reality-based."
https://google.com/search?q=%22emily+procter%22+csi+%22comic+book+version%22+reality
(She made similar statements in other interviews, e.g. in a 2007 Early Show interview:
"... Our show is ... more fantasy, it's glamorous, and in a lot of ways it is the more
comic-book-style version of [CSI].")
Seriously! She's so right. BTW I haven't seen any of the other CSI's...well except NY which I HATED! How are they?
shareI agree that most of the time them knowing what they do is a bit, more than a bit, over the top. But for H, it is easy to say he was a bomb expert... he worked in the bomb squad for several years. In his case it isn't hard to believe he was a cop, transferred to bomb squad then transferred over to become what turned into CSI.
Bobby: "You don't shoot Bambi, jacka$$. You shoot Bambi's mother."
That's common in TV. If they had realistic skill sets they'd need a lot more characters which would not work. Same with languages by the way. A language wiz character will happen to know any language the script calls for. ;)
shareI noticed that after only watching 1 episode. I never watched it because of David ( I'm a Great actor) Caruso. He's such a tool
shareI try not to hold some of the antics of the show against the cast, I know it's only television, but I did seriously almost laugh myself into cardiac arrest when the team were tracking a sniper who was killing people from high rise buildings and when the SWAT team is going up the stairs to confront the suspect, Calleigh is in the group with them...
I've watched The First 48 for years and have seen where SWAT and the Violent Offender squad has been dispatched to the suspects location and not ONCE did I ever seen a crime scene analyst (no matter how much of a ballistics expert they were) busting through the door with the SWAT team.. lol
They are (except for the lab techs) supposed to be fully sworn and qualified police officers in addition to CSI. That's why they need their firearms certification etc.
Caleigh even explicitly stated that in the scene when she was being interviewed for adoption.
Now, how realistic that would be in Miami-Dade or elsewhere, I cannot say. I expect not very much. But that's typical for TV. You have a limited cast of characters and you thus they do more than equivalent people would do in real life. You could see the same in House, where the main characters performed procedures other doctors of even nurses would do in real life.
And actually, early on they maintained the separation of CSI and police more tightly. There was even a plot point where Delco pretended to interview a suspect without a detective present - contrary to regulations - but in fact the detective was listening in all along. This "a detective must be present during interviews" was dropped later in the name of storytelling.
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