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Quiet evening, so let's talk about murder!
Feb. 4th, 2021 07:51 pm I was spending quality time with Peggy on the loveseat, but she has abandoned me to go curl up and snooze on the other sofa. I am slightly miffed because I deliberately set things up so we could have a nice cuddle together, but apparently she is all cuddled out. I didn't think that was possible, but here we are.
Since I now have both hands free, I figured I would update my journal before heading to bed. I am quite sure I had stuff I wanted to talk about, but my brain has gone to sleep ahead of me. I can't remember what I wanted to say, and I don't really want to just make things up just to fill space. I mean, I could, I suppose, and you, beloved readers, would be none the wiser unless I told you about my cunning trickery.
I'm re-watching early CSI these days, because it's nice to have something in the background that requires absolutely no brainpower whatsoever, and I've been enjoying watching all of today's faves make guest appearances when they were all very young and had terrible haircuts. Jeremy Renner and Zachary Quinto have crossed my screen so far, and a couple of other TV actors who later got leading or supporting roles in TV dramas. Old familiar faces, etc.
That being said, a lot of it is making me cringe so hard. I first watched this long before I had any knowledge of policing, and watching it now is just... yikes. That is not how ANY of this works, and I'm not even touching the "science" part of it. Also, Grissom has some truly horrendous views on mental illness which directly impact how he investigates cases (which he shouldn't be doing anyway because he's the forensics guy, not the detective, but I digress). My favourite terrible opinion so far is that he decided a man was murdered because he still had his glasses on after being pushed off a very high balcony. He explained it as "suicide is the ultimate act of cowardice," and so if the person trying to complete a suicide is a coward, they would take off their glasses before jumping so as not to face their own death. The man had his glasses on, ergo he was murdered. I cannot emphasize this enough: WHAT THE FUCK. There are so many things wrong with that reasoning, I don't even know where to begin. *flings hands in the air*
Anyway, as long as I remind myself that I put this on precisely because it's mindless, it's fine. I like most of the characters, and there are "happy endings" inasmuch as killers are brought to justice in a police system that isn't inherently violent and corrupt, and it's a nice fictional place to live in for a while.
Since I now have both hands free, I figured I would update my journal before heading to bed. I am quite sure I had stuff I wanted to talk about, but my brain has gone to sleep ahead of me. I can't remember what I wanted to say, and I don't really want to just make things up just to fill space. I mean, I could, I suppose, and you, beloved readers, would be none the wiser unless I told you about my cunning trickery.
I'm re-watching early CSI these days, because it's nice to have something in the background that requires absolutely no brainpower whatsoever, and I've been enjoying watching all of today's faves make guest appearances when they were all very young and had terrible haircuts. Jeremy Renner and Zachary Quinto have crossed my screen so far, and a couple of other TV actors who later got leading or supporting roles in TV dramas. Old familiar faces, etc.
That being said, a lot of it is making me cringe so hard. I first watched this long before I had any knowledge of policing, and watching it now is just... yikes. That is not how ANY of this works, and I'm not even touching the "science" part of it. Also, Grissom has some truly horrendous views on mental illness which directly impact how he investigates cases (which he shouldn't be doing anyway because he's the forensics guy, not the detective, but I digress). My favourite terrible opinion so far is that he decided a man was murdered because he still had his glasses on after being pushed off a very high balcony. He explained it as "suicide is the ultimate act of cowardice," and so if the person trying to complete a suicide is a coward, they would take off their glasses before jumping so as not to face their own death. The man had his glasses on, ergo he was murdered. I cannot emphasize this enough: WHAT THE FUCK. There are so many things wrong with that reasoning, I don't even know where to begin. *flings hands in the air*
Anyway, as long as I remind myself that I put this on precisely because it's mindless, it's fine. I like most of the characters, and there are "happy endings" inasmuch as killers are brought to justice in a police system that isn't inherently violent and corrupt, and it's a nice fictional place to live in for a while.
