I just downloaded my new diploma. I am officially an accredited Crime Scene Investigator. At least according to CSI: The Experience, an incredibly fun attraction at the MGM in Las Vegas, where I have been enjoying the 70 degree temperatures for the last several days while it snowed at home.
I have been a fan of CSI since its beginning, although I only like the one in Vegas and I have not seen it since Laurence Fishburne joined the show. When we saw the sign for the attraction, I immediately wanted to do it, although my family was not as easily convinced. But finally they decided it could be fun and we went in to study the three crime scenes we had to choose from: a car running into a house, a dead girl in the street, or a skeleton in the desert. We choose the third.
Armed with clipboards, we sat through a few minutes of Gil Grissom welcoming us and then went to our crime scene. We were told to write down everything we saw. They even had maglites for us to see even better. Our skeleton had been there a while, there was a bullet hole in its skull, and there was some sort of hair scattered in the sand. We took a lot of notes.
From there, we went to several interactive stations, where we checked out bullets, comparing one to another, we studied DNA of the hair found at the scene, we discovered there were non-native seeds at the scene and matched them to plants. Putting all the clues together, we managed to discover who the killer was.
While it wasn't incredibly challenging, it was really fun. What's your favorite crime show?
Karen
Without any doubt, DEXTER.
Posted by: Patti Abbott | February 19, 2010 at 11:33 AM
THE SHIELD (but it very very very narrowly edges out the British show CRACKER).
Posted by: N | February 19, 2010 at 12:18 PM
CRACKER is my all-time favorite. Then WIRE IN THE BLOOD, then PRIME SUSPECT. I love those damn British crime shows.
Posted by: AlisonGaylin | February 19, 2010 at 03:41 PM
Current: Burn Notice and White Collar
And the Rockford Files :)
Posted by: Lori Armstrong | February 19, 2010 at 03:45 PM
The First 48, and yeah...and like LA I watch Burn Notice for Bruce Campbell's awesome mojo. Netflix-in' a long overdue catch up w/BBC's WIRE IN THE BLOOD; that Hermione Norris...phew, what a tomato.
Posted by: KJS | February 19, 2010 at 05:11 PM
Also a huge fan of the Rockford Files. I also really like Law and Order CI, although recently it has sucked. In it's heyday, Vincent D'Onforio was just a freak of nature--hysterical, weird, tons of strange tics.
Posted by: Chris Rhatigan | February 20, 2010 at 11:54 PM
My favorite is BONES. I also like the British shows PRIME SUSPECT, INSPECTOR LINDLEY, MIDSOMER MURDERS and INSPECTOR LEWIS.
I used to like CSI: LV but haven't watched it since Jorja Fox left. I tried watching LAW & ORDER once, but it gave me vertigo.
Posted by: Becky Hutchison | February 22, 2010 at 01:53 PM
NCIS! Mark Harmon and David McCallum: how can you not? And the rest of the cast is great too including the best goth Forensics Specialist ever, Abby (Pauley Perrette)
CSI Las Vegas (of course, its where I am from, though I hadn't got down to see the Experience yet), I miss Grissom though.
CSI NY is ok (hate hate hate Miami one). I also like Bones, Dexter (it ran one season behind on regular tv, then vanished...)
Posted by: Rose 'Cat' Thorne | February 27, 2010 at 12:25 AM