Since I have this blog about a show in this franchise, I
figure that I might as well do a review of the whole CSI franchise in this one
post. What is the best way of reviewing this show and the CSI effect? I guess
that I will delve into this here.
What the franchise is like: Some crime shows run the risk of
being generic. Before this franchise was made, I don’t know if it was copying
anything or not. But it would seem that a lot of other shows that were made
after these shows aired were copying it in some way. In it, you would often see
all sorts of different crimes being investigated by the main team, with changes
in the team as needed. You often would not see the victim’s perspective on
anything unless it was via flashback relating to some other character. A bad
thing is that you often couldn’t tell shows apart from each other outside of
their casts as they all seemed similar in different ways. But let’s get to
actual pros and cons.
Why it is good: In my mind, all of the four main shows in
this franchise were quality entertainment all at some point in their tenure on
TV, if not the whole time. They brought us villains that were believable in
some way most of the time. The main characters were established well enough
that we knew who they were beyond the people who always solved the crimes.
Why it is bad: As stated before, there was a sameness with
all the shows except, maybe, CSI: Cyber. The shows were often more gruesome
than they had to be and wasn’t always believable. You could also tell in the
later seasons that they were running out of good ideas on at least the first
two shows. While there was always something notable about the main characters,
they were often only related to the crimes on the show and you didn’t see much character
development as you wanted. What I mean is, they were not as good making us
interested in the characters themselves, just the crimes that they were going
to solve in each episode. Plus, there were negative real world implications of
the CSI effect where shows in this franchise wanted juries to be more exposed
to crime scene evidence in order to convict.
What make some different than others: There actually were
differences between the shows that were hard to tell sometimes. But it is
believed that the original would be focused on the evidence while the others
focused more on criminal profiling or computer science. I think that CSI: Miami
was more likely to use flashbacks than the other ones were.
My overall thoughts: I found it hard, originally, to get
into the franchise. I was too young for it when it had first started and wasn’t
as interested in it as I could be. Then, I was only into CSI: Miami before I
got into the rest of the shows in the franchise as well. This became the only
one that I ever blogged about in the end, although I might have missed out on
it if things had gone differently.
That’s it for this blog post. I wish that I knew for sure
when the regular updates would be and when all the random updates would be as
well. I would review the other seasons of shows in this franchise, but I might
not be able to do any outside of the first season of Without a Trace. Know that
for now, updates of this that are regular will be linked to my Good Wife blog
in some way. I will keep updates in this blog once a month no matter what until
Elementary returns. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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