CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

This episode of this show had a guy with a foot fetish as a rapist and a murderer. It focused on his foot fetish, and how his fetish drove him to commit the crimes.



I hate when the media portrays us as harmful criminals, or as jokes. This episode was disgusting. We are not people who have not control or are cumpulsory, so that we prey upon women. I wrote the show with my comments, and I would hope that others do the same.



It appears obvious that the writer or writers for this show don't realize what a common fetish this is, and how many very normal, very harmless people have it. We get enough abuse as it is, and this episode didn't help it all. To me, it's like portaying all homosexual men as pedophiles and indiscriminate HIV carriers.



For shame CSI

The story of a killer with a foot fetish is something I had not seen before. Disguising himself as a fireman could be a good twist [from the usual cop] and the painting of the toenails a good touch. This episode could have been a winner...had it not been ruined by constant interruptions from a film crew! The gathering of evidence, usually of some interest, was made ludicrous by the inclusion of the film team. Up until now the episodes have been reasonably believable. This one was not since I cannot perceive of any forensic team or police investigators allowing anyone, even so-called "authorised" film crews, from entering the crime scene. Nor can I imagine them being furnished with all the information of the crime, the names of possible suspects and worst of all, access to laboratories where they could and probably would, contaminate evidence samples. All in all a pain to watch!

This episode looks like "The Making of...CSI". I don't like those reality crew, they makes this episode looks awful. The story in this episode is kind of boring, or in another way of saying it, filler. This is a crime DRAMA, but I think this episode has way too much drama than usual, lacked of scientific investigation in this episode.



Serial rapist is on loose, and he dressed like a fireman so that he made his victim open the door. I have to admit this is clever. This is only a good episode. Compared this episode to the previous, I think this episode is awful. But I still love the series. Just more science than drama.

What made this episode really stand out was the presence of a documentary crew that follows the CSI team around. A couple of times the crew causes serious problems when they upset a victim and pose a very inappropriate question to Brass. They mostly follow the team as they attempt to uncover the mystery of a serial rapist who gains access to his victims by posing as a fireman. I really enjoyed Grissom's remarks regarding forensics shows on television. I think the writers wanted to take a stab back at the critics who claim the show teaches criminals how to get away with their crimes.

A completely different P.O.V., a new atmosphere. CSI on handy-cam, even the Lars-von-Trier-Effect (you know, watch and get nauseous from the handycam-on-a-rollercaster-effect *smiles*) was included. And the CSI\'s all whispered in some scenes, when the crew was around, it was unbelievable. I almost felt guilty to pry into their privacy, watching them thru the lens of the handy-cam.



I just liked the opening scene very much, when the camera followed the staggering feet of the drunken lady, as a hint what will follow next.



I know, it\'s not a comedy-show, but there were a lot of scenes which made me laugh or which I found most intriguing and I\'d like to share:



-No-nonsense-Nick, first a bit nervous but then explaining his work very thoroughly.



-Sofia and Brass right before the interrogation, Sofia opening the last but one button of her shirt before entering the interrogation.



-Grissom and his satelites (the crew) in the background of a scene when Cath is in DNA-lab (it is really hard to see, cuz far in the background and out of focus, but it sent me to the floor, laughing)



-Yay, and Hodges IS vain,

Sara: (whispers)\"Hodges, what\'s wrong with you??\"

(my bet: 50 takes of the scene with Jorja Fox bursting into laughter)



-poor Warrick and a quarrel with his wife on the phone. (It hinted very god, what it actually means to juggle working overtime and private life.)



-Several stares of Grissom, for instance: \"Mr. Grissom, we made a mistake, could you please repeat your last sentence for the camera?\"

Grissom: *stares*



-and Doc Robbins goes paralympic - that was a cool hint.



I found it amazing, how the actors played \"real\".

That episode was challenging for me in the most unexpected way.

This was a good episode. Grissom's comment about there being too many crime shows on TV was quite obviously a jab at other crime shows and even the other CSIs. I like Grissom's hating the camera crew and sending them death looks whenever they asked him to do something again. Hodges was funny wanting to be on camera, especially when he paged the crew then pretended that he didn't. Nobody should ever have to live with the image of Spork undoing a button on her shirt but that was really the only down part of the episode. Overall a good, witty episode that returns to CSI roots of good episodes.

I found this episode to be interesting. If you hadn\'t noticed they refered to many of the issues currently being raised about what these \"forensic shows\" are doing to how people think the justice system is supposed to work. In some way, it kind of addresses the whole CSI effect thing that\'s being talked about how people expect DNA to be the main evidence and all.



The message I got from this episode was that they were trying to explain to us that this is just a show and because of that they have certain time constraints therefore everything looks so much easier and faster than it is in real life. I honestly feel like telling everyone \"Hello!!! It\'s just a show not real life. Don\'t go expecting it to be exactly the same.\"



So I liked this episode cuz it puts a bit of perspective on things. They tried incorporating the idea that television is not reality and people just have to be able to differentiate between the 2 so they don\'t have any false expectations. I give them props for being able to put their perspective out there about what is being said about their show and the CSI effect and for defending their show.

The reality show thing and the case itself were not very interesting. What i really loved in this episode were some of the quotes that the characters said. Such as my favorite:



* Gil Grissom: There's too many forensics shows on TV.



And some others like:



* Hard Crime Cameraman: You were a CSI right?

Sophia Curtis: Yeah.

Hard Crime Cameraman: But now you're a detective, so which side of the fence do you prefer?

Sophia Curtis: It's the same side.



* Also the moment when Hodges is waiting for the camera and Nick tells him that no one is going to film a 6 hours process of evidence, he says that they will edit and make it last 30 seconds.



Was a great episode :)

Okay, I really enjoyed this episode. I do have to agree with many of you that it's about time Grissom took it to the next level with Sara ... come ON already with the flirty smiles and googly eyes!!!



I love the way that throughout the series, Cath has been getting a little tougher. (not that she wasn't pretty tough before, but she seems to be more in control and more stable)



Nick was very witty in his "account" of the evidence to the TV crew.



I would have thought Greg would have been the one to have tried to hog the TV crew, rather than Hodges, but it was funny watching Hodges primp and preen. (as watching a man do that is always pretty funny)



Although the TV camera crew following around the characters in the TV series isn't a new plot, I think it rarely gets old, seeing as though you see people from new angles, and how odd people can react to cameras.



All in all a good and tightly written episode, kudos to the cast and crew!!!

Eh... it's so-so. I think that the ending, when they get a bit personal with the CSIs was a good ending but talking to Brass about the shooting was a bit far. I think that this was a bit strange for the writers but it was an interesting change. I liked it enough.

One of he best episodes of the season, next to Gum Drops, Kiss Kiss Bye Bye & a few others.



This time we see the team in a new light as a reality show crew follow them around, and seem to be annoying Grissom & Sophia the most.



There were some great inside jokes mentioned, like how there are too many forensic shows on TV and Hodges' 6 hour experiment being cut down to 30 seconds.



The cameraman bringing up Brass shooting the cop in A Bullet Runs Through It, was very unexpected, but a really great touch to the episode. And Brass' reaction was priceless.



And is the honeymoon really over for Warrick?



But the writers did miss a great opportunity for GSR. Where's David Rambo when you need him.

the plot was great, a serial killer with a foot fetish. the intro was promising, but the parts through the camera-crew's eyes killed every serious scene. the catch of the 'bad-guy' seems rushed. it was however nice to see how every character reacted different to being in the spotlights. Hodges wanted to impress, Nick looked shy or uncertain how to explain and Warrick could care less. It was remarkable how the camera-crew could touch a sensitive chord several times with the CSI's.

Well, the episode in itself would have been fine but there was no need to have a so-called reality show filming a crime scene and what goes into the investigation. There is enough reality show on tv as it is. The only thing good about it was when Grissom said there were to many forenics shows on televion.

"There are too many forensic shows on TV." gotta love shows that talk about themselves this way, though in this case CSI really set the bench mark, it's probably more a comment on all the spin-offs and rip-offs out there that CSI spawned on their coat-tails. The reality cop show thing added a nice twist to the episode that at this point in the series is probably hard to come by, even if it wasn't an original idea in Hollywood, it worked for an episode of CSI. I’m so glad they commented on the presses spin of CSI type shows helping criminals, I’m so tired of things getting censored because of their fear tactics, people have known for YEARS that they can track our fingerprints, but still people get caught with it. Knowledge is knowledge, and evidence will still be evidence … there’s just so many huge holes in the idea that these types of shows help criminals, it’s just childish. Unfortunately it’s the loud-hyperworriers that can’t tell the difference between a bugler and the boogieman that comes when they turn off a light that scream until we do something about it because their screaming is annoying, whether it’s a good thing or not.

They have done these shows many, many, times

A reality show filming a "real show!"

But then again I love CSI first and foremost of all and just can't get away from the show

It is sad how Warrick's working schedule

Is driving him away from his marriage

But of course, there is hope of either seeing him with Catherine

CSI shows are mostly good ones IMO

This one though just didn't workout at all

Wierd one but hey it is still CSI!

When I saw the bit about the reality show in the TV guide, I thought of the X-Cops episode of X-Files, which was clever and funny. Unfortunately CSI didn't do it as well, and the result wasn't very good. The few self-referential jokes (about a six-hour experiment being cut to 30 seconds, etc.) were funny, but the reality show part of the plot just wasn't well-developed. The only part of it I liked was Catherine's reaction to the cameraman invading the victim's privacy while she was still in the hospital. The rest of the episode just didn't do it for me.

I thinks this episode was a pivotal episode it shows that warrick is having problems with his wife. It hints at the katherine warrick relationship. I wish they would bring back Tina soon i liked her. There should be a love square between catherine warrick tina and tina's ex- boyfriend that would be great

CSI does a half satiric show when the crew is fallowed by some fictive TV team. But it was some how irritating. In one scene a team is there, in others I asked myself where they are. Some jokes where great, especially with Grissom.

Some facts where worked out really well: For example the questions to Sara (do you hope for another victim, don’t you?) or when they filmed the victim at the hospital. That was really well done.

The idea of the criminal was nice too, maybe needed to be seen a bit more though.

The scene with Nick was disturbing too. I mean he’s such a player and is so nervous in front of the camera. I don’t get it and think that it should be different.

What I liked too was that the show picked up the critique there was around a few weeks before, where some people said that shows like CSI would help criminals to get away.

I thought this episode was ok and the story was told in an original way with the camera crew following the team. The criminal was so perverted; it was so weird that he would dress up as a firefighter and give the women he attacked pedicures!! I have to say that was one of the strangest and most perverted things I've ever seen on this show. I felt so bad for the black girl who was attacked because she couldn't remember anything she went through, even though it would have been a life changing experience. This episode was good, but of course I always find something good in every CSI episode.

I love CSI. No doubt about it. And this was *ok*, but I wanted to see a little more into the characters. Yeah, yeah, CSI is a forensic show. But I really wanted to see some drama. One minute with Brass does not a drama scene make. Plus, the filming kinda kept me out of the storyline.

My girlfriend and I love CSI. Tonight, along with a friend of ours (another fan of CSI), we just finished watching probably the only episode of CSI that we didn't like, ironically titled I Like To Watch.



In this episode, there's a reality show crew following the CSI team. This video footage is cut into the rest of the regular CSI footage (which is shot on film), and the intercutting of the 'first-person' viewpoint of the video camera, and the 'third-person' viewpoint of the regular CSI film camera is jarring. We couldn't believe how bad this technique was.



I know it's good for a show to experiment once in awhile, but for this episode, it didn't work. If someone wanted to be extra-critical, they could say the technique was pretentious.



Towards the end of I Like To Watch, there was less of the reality show's footage, and we were getting more into the story, and then they start up with the video footage again which took us out of the story -- again. Editing and shooting techniques shouldn't take you out of a story, they should be transparent, making you more involved with the story.



I'm sure CSI learned their lesson and won't do this again, and next week they'll be up to their usual excellent standards.



CSI is one of the best shows ever. They can be forgiven for one bad show.

Once the first CSI, uses a different way to tell a story and this time to use the every popular “Reality Show” format this time. While they do this, they rip into themselves and ripped into the “Reality Show” format craze that seemed to fully up the airwaves.

I always like when established TV shows, like CSI forgets about their old format for one episode and choices to used a different way to tell a story. They did like year with the episode “4 x 4” , and this year with the wonderful episode “Killer”. I like when these shows do this, because it gives the show a sense of freshness to the show and makes the episode interesting to watch.

This episode also rips into the Crime Drama craze that is going on right now with Grissom’s line “There are too many forensic shows on TV,” a direct reference to the CSI and Law & Order franchises, plus the other Crime Drama shows that have nothing to do with them, but who themselves are pulling ratings as well. This episode also sheds light into a real problem that these shows are doing, in real life law enforcement, that they are distorting juries who think that crime scene investigations happens the same way that it dose on TV, and effect that has been coined “The CSI effect”.

The “Really Show” format also gets hit in this episode as well with the fact that people that are filming the show wants to be everywhere all of the time so that they can get all of the good stuff, the stuff that people don’t want the rest of the world to know about. But the people that are being filmed don’t want them to be everywhere all of the time.

This episode really had me hooked. Although from the teaser we knew it was going to be a fireman, I still found this very interesting. Greg, Warrick, and Sara didn't show up very much. Although I hate to say it, I'm glad Warrick and Tina's relationship is on the rocks. That just mean there can be Yo!Bling that much sooner :D



I thought that the cameraman bringing up Brass's shooting in 'A Bullet Runs Through It' was very clever. Although the camera man said that incident was a year ago. But....that was only at the beginning of this season. Usually, they have the characters in actual time.



Still, a very good episode. Now, just bring on the GSR :D

Although I am not certain that this was the best one they have ever done, it does rank in top 10. It is an interesting format and clever in its attempt to show the team in a new light. However, there are moments when I feel they are stepping out of character and are revealing things we never saw before. That could simply be a case of camera consciousness or the writers looking for something new to say about the characters.

This is the best show ever, this show and simpsons and my name is earl is the best.. !



I watch this every week, it ' s so exiting.. !

If you don ' t watch this show, start now.. !

I love it.. ! And if you have a good taste of tv shows you will like this for sure.. !