I have been *glossing* over these posts cuz I hate those dumb CSI shows
and others like them, grin.
When I was taking jewellery lessons 2 years ago, one of the instructors
was a rather young *forensic pathologist* and I asked her how come they
could solve some huge serial killer set of crimes in less than 1 hour,
when the real cops couldn't.
She howled!! And said sarcastically, "I would be lucky to get blood
test results back in 3 weeks or so, let alone DNA. But I watch them
just the same, for the sheer idiocy".....lol
I only watch maybe 2 shows.......and Medium is one, naturally. Rather
well done, actually.
Heather
"Joan Archer" wrote in message
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Oh I know that Noel, gbut as far as the workings go to me it's
fascinating to see how things can be worked out from a particular
scenario.
And I do understand that what we see in an hour would probably take
months of work if not longer to come to a conclusion and there is also
the chance that it couldn't be solved g
I still like watching it though and I know you do g
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"Noel Paton" wrote in message
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Careful, Joan!
the science in CSI is OK as far as it goes...... but the timescales
are totally of-the-wall. a 'proper' gene match can take days (not the
'while-you-wait' service that the program implies), if not weeks!
A lot of the other stuff has a fair amount of poetic license applied
as well to speed up the story - although they do stick to the realms
of the possible while ignoring the time-spans involved (and the
pressures of other work). No forensics team can afford to spend the
amount of time they do on-scene (and none does the amount of
off-scene investigation) that they do.
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Noel Paton
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"Joan Archer" wrote in message
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I didn't watch Angel or Buffy Kelly did though and she was the one
that got me into Bones, never watched ER either g
We're into series 9 at the moment with CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation but of course I didn't start watching it until a few
months ago and I can forgive Gil for leaving as he's joined up with
Sarah studying her monkeys g
I enjoy watching them as they're programs that actually show you how
things can be worked out and solved through science.
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Joan Archer
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