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[Spike Spiegel]

It's on right now for you folks on the East Coast.

You can already tell it's a Tarantino. It just gives off that vibe... it's got time skips and quirky little stuff, like Grissom gushing over Roy Rogers memorabilia and Greg and the other lab guy playing a Dukes of Hazzard board game.

Feels weird for a CSI episode.

Story thus far:

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Stokes was kidnapped at a crime scene.

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

I ignored this show for so many years, but now it's one of my favourites, and one of the few shows I make a point of watching every week. Not too hot on the spinoffs though. I'm not sure if the season we've got in the UK at the moment is the current US season but the last episode they showed a couple of days ago was the one with the guy who got crushed to death at a 'chubby chasers' convention.

 

[Matlock]

:lol @ them trying to make it all special looking to run a lexar jumpdrive

 

[Spike Spiegel]

...WHOA. @_@


BTW, that guy looked familiar. Star Trek familiar. Anyone recognize him?

 

[Matlock]

No idea, but Frank Gorshin was pretty cool.

 

[kernel]

Hoooo. The level of tension is insane.

 

[Orin GA]

Best fucking CSI EVER















































EVAR @_@

 

[Lonestar]

this is a pretty insane episode. Don't watch CSI very often, but damn, Tarentino has done a good job "IF" he wrote it

And now it goes even wierder!

 

[belgurdo]

kboom

 

[Dan]

Meh. Even with Tarantino doing the story and directing a special two hour finale, this show still can't reach the heights that Law & Order: SVU hits every single week. It's just seems way too much like crime scene investigation for dummies with dummies. The characters are consistently stupid until the script calls for them to discover a new clue. I knew the very first time the lights switched on that it was connected to the fan. How could you not hear it? It took Stokes several hours to figure it out. The CSI crew knows Stokes is buried, and it took a fucking accident for them to search the DIRT COVERED area where the bad guy blew himself up? Christ, I called that the moment the main dude walked into the building.

How much time these people spend not investigating and simply watching the guy squirm around on the Internet feed?

Why wouldn't they get someone to read his lips right away? Instead the main dude just does it once for his own sake. I mean, they were seemingly low on clues, you've got a guy on screen in a box occasionally talking. Maybe you should see if he's saying something useful!

Enough with the gimmicky zooms, my god.

I was disappointed by Gorshin's short bit. I only tuned in for him, while it was good, I was hoping he was a significant guest star. Ah well.

 

[onion_pixy]

It was a staff writer. Tarantino just directed it, he also had a large part in the editing of it.

I don't think RZA did the music, he may have had a few songs in there but I don't think so. QT had his hands all over the song selection, its quite obvious. The score was by John Keane, the normal guy.

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my favorite scene is Nick's autopsy, classic Tarantino

 

[Zilch]

Not written by Tarantino? Much of the dialogue could have been ripped straight from one of Quentin's movies!

 

[Flaming Duck]

The story was by Tarantino, as well as, I think, a few scenes, but most of it was written by producers and the series creator.

 

[kernel]

I've never seen SVU. Does it have moments like when

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the case started to crack. The crackling sounds would've driven me nuts. And then they topped it off with the ants.

I haven't seen anything that good since the rippling water in the first Jurassic Park. Can you give some SVU spoilers, Dan?

edit:

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and the heat inside from the light shining in his face. How could I forget that. Good stuff.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

God, the ants drove me bonkers... It was so hard for me to even watch that. I had two bad experiences as a kid that involved me getting covered and bitten by ants (fire ants, even!), so when that happened I started swiping at my skin and freaking out a little.

*shudder*

 

[Dan]

I've never seen SVU. Does it have moments like when

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the case started to crack. The crackling sounds would've driven me nuts. And then they topped it off with the ants.

I haven't seen anything that good since the rippling water in the first Jurassic Park. Can you give some SVU spoilers, Dan?

Well, SVU is not in the game of providing spiffy visual sequences, so if that's all you're after, it won't be your thing. I'm comparing them because they're both very focused on investigation, and I feel CSI does it pretty poorly. I can't say I think the character development is that great either, but I've only seen a few episodes so maybe I'm missing what was so interesting about the locker room conversation or the power of watching a bunch of people stare blankly at a screen. I'd say SVU handles character development pretty superbly though. It's great on all levels, with sharp writing around the investigative side along with the moral aspects raised, and then solid character pieces. Except for Lost, SVU is the only drama that I find intelligent enough to watch on network television right now (and I'd have to put SVU over Lost in terms of sheer writing quality and intelligence, but they're very different kinds of shows).

When I watch L&O:SVU, I don't come away finding plotholes or thinking characters are stupid. Watching CSI though, I often do.

 

[kernel]

Sounds good. I'll set Media Center to record em. They better be good. Or I'll come back here and THROW CAPITAL LETTERS AT YOU.

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joke

edit: love these spoiler tags.

 

[Dan]

Sounds good. I'll set Media Center to record em. They better be good. Or I'll come back here and THROW CAPITAL LETTERS AT YOU.

Spoiler

joke

Season finale's next Tuesday, 10pm. Give it a shot, I think this season has been absolutely spectacular.

 

[Spiritreaver]

I'm avoiding much of the thread for spoilers, but I'm watching here now on the West Coast time, and I can't stand this. Not that I was exactly hoping for anything (I hate Tarantino), but this is terribly drawn out and down right dull. It feels like so many of his other films, except without much of the action, his style is something I just tire of so quickly.

To be honest, the first hour is nearly up and it feels like the most boring episode of CSI I have EVER seen. Bloody publicity stunts. I really hope things pick up in the next hour. But ugh, as a fan of the show, so far this is very disappointing.

 

[belgurdo]

I'm avoiding much of the thread for spoilers, but I'm watching here now on the West Coast time, and I can't stand this. Not that I was exactly hoping for anything (I hate Tarantino), but this is terribly drawn out and down right dull. It feels like so many of his other films, except without much of the action, his style is something I just tire of so quickly.

To be honest, the first hour is nearly up and it feels like the most boring episode of CSI I have EVER seen. Bloody publicity stunts. I really hope things pick up in the next hour. But ugh, as a fan of the show, so far this is very disappointing.

Glad I'm not you because this episode is fuck me awesome

 

[Spiritreaver]

Glad I'm not you because this episode is fuck me awesome

:lol I expected such, but thank god Frank Gorshin is in this, he was rather funny, I loved the guy (, memories, ). So I'm up to the explosion, which was only slightly unexpected, the conversation was going no where, and he wasn't at all interested in the money, and there's over an hour left in the finale, so it was kind of obvious things weren't going to go so hot. Nice little predicament.

Still though, I don't know how I got through the first hour. I can only take so many time warps, unneeded conversation for "character", and overly implied dramatic sequences. No fun.

EDIT: Well it's over, the last half hour wasn't all that bad, and moved pretty smoothly. The bomb thing was too predictable, but it was rather nice to see this all warrant something I've wanted the entire season. For the team to come back together. But yeah, this should have been an hour long like all the others, I think 2 hours stretched things way too thin.

 

[Manders]

awesome episdoe tarantino rocs

 

[Oni Jazar]

:lol I expected such, but thank god Frank Gorshin is in this, he was rather funny, I loved the guy (, memories, ). So I'm up to the explosion, which was only slightly unexpected, the conversation was going no where, and he wasn't at all interested in the money, and there's over an hour left in the finale, so it was kind of obvious things weren't going to go so hot. Nice little predicament.

Still though, I don't know how I got through the first hour. I can only take so many time warps, unneeded conversation for "character", and overly implied dramatic sequences. No fun.

EDIT: Well it's over, the last half hour wasn't all that bad, and moved pretty smoothly. The bomb thing was too predictable, but it was rather nice to see this all warrant something I've wanted the entire season. For the team to come back together. But yeah, this should have been an hour long like all the others, I think 2 hours stretched things way too thin.

you have no soul.