Crime Scene Shows?

[Rican]

Yes - we all need guns cause it's TV land

[House of Mustard]

On the most recent CSI I saw (it was on cable, so I think it was a re-run... I don't watch it enough to know.)  It was the main female forensic person who went and told the suspect (who had already been arrested and arraigned) "we've decided not to prosecute."  That's not even the police's job -- that the District Attorney's.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

yeah the point of this thread isnt the law aspect of it though, its the Forensics...

Does the cool science attract people to science

[42]

I like to think that people actually like to learn a lttle from their entertainment. If this wasn't the case then news stations, non-fiction programing would have died out a long time. Admitably, I don't think many wants pure eduactional content in their TV shows, just enough that we feel like we're not wasting time, (even though about 90% of the show was a waste of time).

So yeah, I think shows like CSI makes people interested in science, if only marginally.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Its interesting because I watch CSI and I go yeah,... thats so cool. I wish I could do that. Theres a certain Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew quality to shows like that.

[MoreDew]

I think I read or heard a statistic somewhere where Forensic Science majors have increased over 100 percent nationwide in the last few years, largely due to the popular tv shows.

[42]

I think TV does a great job of glamorizing jobs that are really quite tedious and/or stressful.

[MoreDew]

there's no way I could do that job.  One, I don't have the patience to spend countless hours over blood samples or reconstructing accidents, and two, my attention span is too short... what were we talking about?

[42]

I'm waiting for a TV show that makes accounting look glamorous, exciting, and dramatic. There are lots of shows that have accountant characters, but none that actually focus on accounting itself. But you never know, perhaps some cool zoom in shots and some hot female leads could make spreadsheats and tax forms the next trend in TV shows.

[Dex1138]

A little OT, but I heard the story on the news last night of a CA woman, living in MA, who had killed her hubby years ago and shipped him to a self-storage place in MA in a cooler.
And I thought "Now that sounds like a CSI show!" No sooner had I thought it than they showed a Crime Scene Services van at the scene

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

shipped him in a cooler....

thats cold.

[Fellfrosch]

And three points for Jeffe.