Should "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" be cancelled this year?

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The season finale aired on February 15. To be honest, I can’t say I’ll be too sad to see the show go even though Elisabeth Shue and Elisabeth Harnois have both been regulars for the past few years. In fact, I haven’t recorded the majority of this season’s episodes.
 
I can’t say as I haven’t watched it regularly. My husband watches it a lot, and it plays a constant backdrop of macabre, sadistic and inventive crime when I’m trying to think of other things. I really don’t like it, though the endings when the heroes come through and dash to the rescue are sometimes encouraging. But there’s too much garbage before that.
 
It should have been gone the first year. Dumbest police drama ever. 😛
 
Viki63 said:
I can’t say as I haven’t watched it regularly. My husband watches it a lot, and it plays a constant backdrop of macabre, sadistic and inventive crime when I’m trying to think of other things. I really don’t like it, though the endings when the heroes come through and dash to the rescue are sometimes encouraging. But there’s too much garbage before that.
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I didn’t care for the show either. It always seemed like women were killed in deviant and sadistic ways. At least from the few episodes I watched. I don’t think I ever made it through an entire episode.
So I won’t miss it. Most of the shows on tv are garbage so I rarely watchNBC, CBS or ABC.
 
I would have preferred for them to have cancelled the original CSI years ago instead of CSI: Miami or CSI: NY.
 
Maxirad said:
The season finale aired on February 15. To be honest, I can’t say I’ll be too sad to see the show go even though Elisabeth Shue and Elisabeth Harnois have both been regulars for the past few years. In fact, I haven’t recorded the majority of this season’s episodes.
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I stopped watching it about a year or two ago, I think. It was one of my regular favorites for years, and one of the reasons I liked it so much was I couldn’t always figure out the ending ahead of time (a problem with me for a lot of movies/shows–I can figure out what’s coming long before it happens.)

Then William Petersen (Grissom) left, and Laurence Fishburne’s character should have been a good addition, and Fishburne’s a very talented actor…but I think the problem was Fishburne got top billing and his character became the focus for a lot of episodes, when it’s actually an ensemble show, and Fishburne’s character was established to be ‘low man on the totem pole’, so far as ranking went. So the show went lopsided when he was on. (I kinda wondered if the writers went nuts, saying, “We’re writing for Laurence Fishburne! Let’s get way dark and moody!”)

I think Ted Danson’s character was a well-thought up idea, and should have also worked…but by this time, the plots were getting a little too ‘out there’, and I was figuring out the endings in the first fifteen minutes. It went from being my ‘must-watch’ show to ‘oh, I’ll watch it on OnDemand in a few days’ to seeing this thread and thinking, “Wow, it’s still on? When did I last see it?”

Kinda sad, I really did enjoy that show a lot, once upon a time.
 
maltmom said:
I would have preferred for them to have cancelled the original CSI years ago instead of CSI: Miami or CSI: NY.
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How come, maltmom? The only episode of CSI: NY that I really watched had Ted Danson in it, and its storyline originated in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

It’s worth noting that years ago, Elisabeth Shue tried but failed to get a part in Gary Sinise’s Of Mice and Men. She was devastated at the time, but she ultimately became Nicolas Cage’s leading lady in Leaving Las Vegas.
 
Catholic1954 said:
It should have been gone the first year. Dumbest police drama ever. 😛
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Oh, I agree! It is the by far the most unrealistic cop shows on the air.

In their world, the cops are more concerned with what clothes they are wearing, what vehicles they are driving, and of course, everyone is in perfect shape and could double as a model. LOL

I would also go as far to say, if even a small number of the complex crimes depicted on the show actually took place in the real world, I would bet the real police would never be able to solve them.
 
It was one of the last TV shows I watched. I stopped watching it years ago when Ward got killed and Grissom had the affair with Sarah. I thought it out of character for Grissom. A superior shouldn’t take advantage of a vulnerable subordinate.
 
Joe_Kelley said:
It was one of the last TV shows I watched. I stopped watching it years ago when Ward got killed and Grissom had the affair with Sarah. I thought it out of character for Grissom. A superior shouldn’t take advantage of a vulnerable subordinate.
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True, but these are the kinds of things that happen in the real world…TV is supposed to portray modern society (as close as possible anyway), thats the problem with most of these cop shows, they are SOOO far from reality, its actually funny…it may be sad, but corruption, cheating, affairs, people using others to get ahead (or women using sex to get ahead), etc. these things are fairly common in our world, especially in law enforcement I assume, so to have a cop show that is nothing like the real world, well, thats just not interesting imo.
 
mikekle said:
True, but these are the kinds of things that happen in the real world…TV is supposed to portray modern society (as close as possible anyway), thats the problem with most of these cop shows, they are SOOO far from reality, its actually funny…it may be sad, but corruption, cheating, affairs, people using others to get ahead (or women using sex to get ahead), etc. these things are fairly common in our world, especially in law enforcement I assume, so to have a cop show that is nothing like the real world, well, thats just not interesting imo.
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My objection is that I thfound it out of character for Grissom; it destroyed his portrayal. Grissom was the type to adhere to the rules. I note that both he and Sarah were soon removed from the series. Someplace Dorothy Sayers said that the author cannot force the character to do things that are opposed to his nature; it destroys the character. I think this a prime example.
 
maltmom said:
I would have preferred for them to have cancelled the original CSI years ago instead of CSI: Miami or CSI: NY.
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To each his own I guess. I really liked the original C.S.I. but IMNITLBHO, it bit the bullet when William Petersen left the show, :nope: and the two spin-offs :newidea: should never have been started. :banghead:
 
Patricia Arquette, who just won an Oscar for her role in Boyhood, will begin appearing on CSI: Cyber next week. I can’t say I’m too thrilled about this latest spinoff.
 
Retread_Mick said:
To each his own I guess. I really liked the original C.S.I. but IMNITLBHO, it bit the bullet when William Petersen left the show, :nope: and the two spin-offs :newidea: should never have been started. :banghead:
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Actually, I didn’t care about the spin-offs until William Petersen left. The show was never the same again. I prefered CSI: NY over Miami. Spin-offs are rarely as good as the original.
 
I am very saddened that it got cancelled. Now there are only 2 worthwhile police dramas worth watching left (Hawaii Five-O and NCIS Los Angeles).
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But I suppose all good things must come to an end.

And yet the abomination that is Mad Men continues
 
Johann_du_Toit said:
I am very saddened that it got cancelled. Now there are only 2 worthwhile police dramas worth watching left (Hawaii Five-O and NCIS Los Angeles).
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But I suppose all good things must come to an end.

And yet the abomination that is Mad Men continues
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The thing that irks me about shows like Hawaii 5-0 and NCIS, it always shows cops wearing designer clothes, looking like they could all be part time models, driving around in very expensive sports cars…Uh, this is so far from reality, its not even worth watching imo. At least Mad Men, was a pretty accurate portrayal of people living and working in that time.
 
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