Todd Sullivan wrote in a message to Mike Powell:

 TS> /Huh!/ Bad CSI stuff!  What'cha gon', what'cha gon, what'cha gonna
 TS> do, when Mike Powell and Roy J. Tellason come for you?

 MP> Well, I think that is a lot of it.  I don't miss an episode of the Las
 MP> Vegas variant, and love it, but it does often seem rushed.  Most of the
 MP> shows contain more than one storyline, and if one is too complicated,
 MP> it
 MP> makes me feel like "something is missing," and maybe they
could have
 MP> spend more time on just that one case.

 TS> There's one problem:  Reality.

 TS> Most CSIs have more than one case in process, some taking as little
 TS> time as a few weeks to years.  Hell, why not go ask your local CSI
 TS> team?  You might find I'm being optimistic.

 TS> A general, almost cardinal, rule for television shows is "Keep the
 TS> viewer's attention engaged."  This is why the shows cram so much
 TS> in, and leave what's not completely essential out.

There was one episode lately where there was a jarring discontinuity in the
sequence of events,  and yeah,  it made me wonder...

OTOH,  put a cute,  foxy,  chick with long blonde hair on the show,  who
also happens to have a nice figure,  and who,  in addition to everything
else,  is into guns,  and yeah,  they got my attention.  :-)

 TS> The one thing they have to get right is the science.  The public is
 TS> more savvy than most would think, and I'm sure more than a few CSIs
 TS> watch to check the accuracy.

Even still,  I tend to sit there and nit-pick.  Some of that stuff just
comes *too* easy.

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