In one of those instances where critique is more interesting that the object of critique, J.G. Ballard analyzes the TV show C.S.I. in an essay at The Guardian.
In C.S.I., not only are there no cars, but there are no guns. The team wear sidearms, but I have rarely seen a gun drawn in self-defence, let alone fired. The only bullets discharged end up in calibrated water tanks. The assumption is clearly made that reason and logic need never rely on anything so crude as brute force. No cars, no guns and, even more significant, no emotions, except in the flashbacks to the actual crime.
Every viewer knows that the only people who show emotion in C.S.I. are about to be dead.
[via Beyond the Beyond]
Posted by johndan at June 28, 2005 11:21 PM | TrackBack