Thursday, April 14, 2016

Season 2 Episode 12

I had originally planned on this being a blog about the whole CSI franchise in general before deciding just to do a blog about CSI: Cyber. Yes, I actually do like this show. I wonder why others don’t. But, I would do blogs about other shows that are part of the CSI franchise. That is, I would do that if there is ever more to the franchise. But, is the franchise going to last? There are warning signs believing that it won’t. I mentioned this before in my TV blog http://adamdeckertv.blogspot.com/ that the future of the franchise looks pretty bleak. (Check for the post labeled CSI franchise speculation) It might not have a future. Since it all rests in just this show, you have to wonder what the options are.

Why does the future of the franchise look bleak? How does it all rest on this show? Well, if this show were doing well in the ratings, then there wouldn’t be a problem. But it’s not. The bad reception is another huge problem. One of the biggest problems with it right now is its terrible time slot. Every show on CBS at 10/9 Central on Sundays gets cancelled. New shows are almost never put there. They normally put some type of older there where it slowly dies. I have a list of shows that aired at that time slot. Here they are: Without a Trace, Cold Case, Three Rivers, The Unit, CSI: Miami, NYC 22, The Mentalist, CSI, and Battle Creek. Those are all that I can remember airing then, at least.

Now last season it seemed like since CSI and CSI: Cyber were connected in enough of a way that only one of them would get cancelled. CSI was, after coming back this season for a mere two episodes. I’ll never get over how strange that was. Who brings a show back for two episodes? Anyways, the fact that those two episodes aired this season makes it possible that CSI: Cyber won’t get cancelled this season. Since the shows are so linked, you wouldn’t think that they’d both get cancelled the same season. That’s why CSI: Miami got cancelled and CSI: New York lasted at least one more season a while ago. That’s why when it comes time to cancelled part of the NCIS franchise, that if multiple ones get low ratings, only one of them would end in a single season. You can contest this logic if you want to, but I believe that it would always lead to a choice between them and not both of them ending at once. The thing is, CSI was technically over last season so that doesn’t help this show prevent itself from getting cancelled this season. But, that doesn’t mean that there aren’t other possibilities.

One of the things that I wonder about at times is whether or not a cancelled show will get picked up by another network. I wonder that about the CSI franchise due to a dumb decision made by not one, but three different networks. That decision related to the original pilot for CSI. It wasn’t originally pitched to CBS. It was rejected by ABC, FOX, and NBC. All three of those networks rejected the CSI pilot before CBS picked it up. That’s why I think that CBS was so quick to make CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. Three networks rejected the pilot and now there would be three CSIs on TV. Those three all ran their course by the time that they ended. But CSI: Cyber hasn’t. Would any of those three networks be interested in making more CSI: Cyber should CBS cancel it? FOX might not since it relies on a demographic of younger viewers that this show doesn’t have. Meanwhile, NBC now has the Chicago franchise and still has some of the Law and Order franchise. Do they need more? ABC might be the best bet of the three. Of course, it could be none of them as yet another network picks it up or it might just end when it gets cancelled. That’s what happens to most shows anyways.

Here are the options going forward: 1- Despite the low ratings, CSI: Cyber could get renewed for next season. They could try to milk out at least syndication from this before tossing it aside. However, they could just pair this with the Ted Denson episodes of CSI. I mean, they did move him here for a reason. 2- This show ends and so does the franchise. Since they’ve had it for sixteen years, they could want to keep it lasting longer, so this might not be as likely a choice as some might think. 3- The CSI franchise continues in movie forms. CBS Films has to do something good in the future, right? 4- After this show’s cancelation, within two year’s time, a new show in the franchise is launched. Starting fresh could work, even if there isn’t a direct case to link them. 5- Another network picks up this show after it is cancelled. That option is possibly, but it might not be too likely since that would mean giving part of the franchise to someone else. 6- Something else happens that I can’t predict. I do promise that if there is more to the CSI franchise in the future, I will create a blog about it.

It is possible that a new CSI spin-off will happen if this show is cancelled. Anthony Zuiker, the creator of the whole CSI franchise, pretty much said so himself. So the question then becomes whether or not this show will get cancelled and for CBS to do anything else with its ratings wouldn’t make any sense. Not that networks haven’t done that before…

Today’s episode is brought to you by now delay. We begin with tea being poured. I guess this is some type of asshole since tea is involved. You know TV/movies and their symbolism. You also have the classical music playing while this guy is murdered on a chair and another guy looks at it. Too many people are having problems calling 911. They think that a cyber intrusion is happening. They mention who uses a landline anymore, but pay phones would probably be used less than that. Plus, I do wonder if phones where you can just hang up by closing the phone would be able to by-pass the problems that people have. They find the wi-fi on a bus to be infecting other wi-fi routers.

The second part brings us the focus of this episode: default password. I would have more information about what that is, but I’m live blogging this episode today and thus wasn’t able to pause it to write it down like I normally would. A new agent here is after Brody and wants money that Brody stole back. But, Brody is working the case despite this man’s wishes because Avery wants him to. Brody finds out that the message is a recording that is tricking people into thinking that they got through to 911. They look into a possible person in the case.

The third part has the team finding dead bodies of the 911 caller from earlier. She called about the break-in of her house. This leads to more investigation into the main hacking case. Now is the murder case that important to the main hacking case? It looks like he might be reenacting old 911 calls. Interesting, right? The third call is the next planned attack.

The fourth part has the link between the three 911 calls. It turns out he was responsible for the deaths of those three callers. Avery has to convince the bureaucrat that Brody can be trusted using Amber Alert. But Finch gets it and reports false sightings of himself. But they are able to outsmart him as usual (it’s usual that any group of heroes would outsmart the villains).


The fifth part has a stand-off between the suspect and the team. He truly is a warped mind, which is what to be expected of pretty much anyone on a crime show. They do catch the suspect. Brody says that the ATM stuff that he is blamed for wasn’t actually his. I do wish that there were more character development on the show. The text that D B got earlier is brought up and he ends up talking to a person even though she didn’t send the text. There are no scenes from next time, so I’ll be back with new episodes whenever that is. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

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