I saw CSI:Vulcan tonight

[rhionnach]

Thanks to stevegreen I was alerted to an episode of CSI which was shown on Channel 5 last night and luckily for me was repeated on Five USA tonight.


It was fun! Here's a taster.

Whoever wrote the script knew their Star Trek, sorry, Astro Quest, torn shirts, and all!

Comments

CSI: Astro Quest (or should that be Galaxy Quest)?

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

LOL absolutely! XD I think it was one of the funniest shows going. The fact that I was getting all the references, and none of the non-Trekkers around me were, made it perhaps a little poignant.

They were insisting on seeing it as yet another CSI show.

I was watching it as the Star Trek / CSI crossover. :)

Re: CSI: Astro Quest (or should that be Galaxy Quest)?

[rhionnach.livejournal.com]

I came to this with no knowledge of CSI at all. It's not a series I watch. It seems to me that there was more going on within the CSI side of things than I knew.

What I loved was the fact that it soon became clear that most of the CSI lot knew their Astro Quest with all the stuff that was going on. "I'm not a seamstress, I'm a coroner's investigator, dammit!".

Re: CSI: Astro Quest (or should that be Galaxy Quest)?

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

LOL Oh yes! :)

The CSI crowd are all absolute geeks, the way they are written. And the thing is, they're coming into their own in their own geeky ways only now, in this, what, eighth, season.

The previous seasons had been more or less dominated by a principal character called Grissom, who loved studying bugs and was a huge geek - but it wasn't this kind of geekery. When William Petersen left the show, it almost seemed as if he'd been sitting on the lid of a hot cooker, and now everything he'd been sitting on is beginning to boil out from under the lid.

Scriptwriters for the Show

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

Most of the peeps behind CSI are (a) working for Paramount; (b) alumni of Star Trek: TNG, notably Naren Shankar.

So yep ... these guys knew their phasers from their self sealing stem bolts, all right. :D

[gaspodia.livejournal.com]

We saw that one a few weeks ago - great episode. Did you spot Boomer from Battlestar Gallactica in the crowd too?

[rhionnach.livejournal.com]

Yes, I spotted Boomer! It was a very enjoyable episode.

[heethen-crone.livejournal.com]

I watch the series prettyu regularly, it's one of the few good things on tv these days. It was a great episode and I enjoyed it more than most.

[rhionnach.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I should start watching it. I didn't watch Stargate due to not liking the film and by the time I realised it was probably quite good there was far too much to catch up with.

[heethen-crone.livejournal.com]

It's not a bad show. The cast is quite good and the writers are inventive most of the time. I loved Stargate, much better than the movie. Stargate Atlantis, not quite so much although I did keep up with it when I had cable.