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Is CSI : Vegas the worst 'reboot' of a tired TV series in living memory
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What about that Charlie's Angels TV series reboot that aired a decade ago and which took itself way too seriously, as though anyone watched either the old Charlie's Angels TV series and/or the 2000 and 2003 movies for the plot?
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I'm voting yes because I hate reboots in general.
Also Miami > NY > Original
Also Miami > NY > Original
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When I worked at VIAC, one of the things they triumphed was "The power of content" and this giant library of IP they had at their disposal. Wondering if I should short the VIAC I own. They just want to make Paramount+ the best place for trash.
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I just watched the first episode and have to say – man, the new cast sucks.
Like if you want all those woke points can't you at least hire a diversity cast that does not suck as much? And why does the lead (Paula Newsome) have to be a mom? Not just any mom, but seems to be a very specific kind of mom.
Why isn't she more than a black Catherine Willows if you are going for the woke points? The pajeet's role (Mandeep Dhillon's) seems like they stole it straight up from Bones. The asian and chad felt as they belonged into a series about incompetent investigators or cops where the "good ones" fix up all their mess-ups.
It looks like the main cast from the original series has moved on with their lives or they could not pay them even close enough to what they'd need to pay, but they found that out once the reboot was already written with them in mind so they got the great value actors along with the diversity cast.
The premise and plot of this season – somebody trying to discredit hundreds or thousands of cases with a elaborate yet simple plan is great, however the side stories that extend over just one or two episodes look like they are going to be very underwhelming if the very first one is anything to go by.
If I had to pick one actor from the new main cast I liked, I'd probably go with Mel Rodriguez who plays Dr. Hugo Ramirez, the Chief Medical Examiner. His acting and the role did not seem forced.
I am going to give this a try and see for how long I can keep on watching it. Hopefully it will get better. But I certainly would not rate it 8.0/10 stars as those lunatics at IMDB. How the fuck does it have such a high rating there? Is the nostalgia for the original series really that strong? If I were feeling nostalgic I'd rather go rewatch the original series again than watch this.
Like if you want all those woke points can't you at least hire a diversity cast that does not suck as much? And why does the lead (Paula Newsome) have to be a mom? Not just any mom, but seems to be a very specific kind of mom.
Why isn't she more than a black Catherine Willows if you are going for the woke points? The pajeet's role (Mandeep Dhillon's) seems like they stole it straight up from Bones. The asian and chad felt as they belonged into a series about incompetent investigators or cops where the "good ones" fix up all their mess-ups.
It looks like the main cast from the original series has moved on with their lives or they could not pay them even close enough to what they'd need to pay, but they found that out once the reboot was already written with them in mind so they got the great value actors along with the diversity cast.
The premise and plot of this season – somebody trying to discredit hundreds or thousands of cases with a elaborate yet simple plan is great, however the side stories that extend over just one or two episodes look like they are going to be very underwhelming if the very first one is anything to go by.
If I had to pick one actor from the new main cast I liked, I'd probably go with Mel Rodriguez who plays Dr. Hugo Ramirez, the Chief Medical Examiner. His acting and the role did not seem forced.
I am going to give this a try and see for how long I can keep on watching it. Hopefully it will get better. But I certainly would not rate it 8.0/10 stars as those lunatics at IMDB. How the fuck does it have such a high rating there? Is the nostalgia for the original series really that strong? If I were feeling nostalgic I'd rather go rewatch the original series again than watch this.
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Are any of the CSI series actually worth watching? I've seen (half-paid attention) a few later episodes of the main series with Ted Danson and Elisabeth Shue and I wasn't impressed.
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I have names for these series.
CSI (Original, natch)
CSI: Orange (Miami)
CSI: Gary Sinise (New York)
CSI: LOLWTF (Cyber)
I think I'll call this one CSI: Unnecessary Reboot
CSI (Original, natch)
CSI: Orange (Miami)
CSI: Gary Sinise (New York)
CSI: LOLWTF (Cyber)
I think I'll call this one CSI: Unnecessary Reboot
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I had a lot of time for the original CSI. It was interesting, well-written, and often had good cases. There was a period for a couple of seasons where it was very dark; at least one case an episode would end in a 'everyone sucks and this is all just sad'. And I stopped before the Ted Danson era. But as a mystery of the week show I liked it quite a bit.
Miami didn't work for me - the sunglasses meme with David Caruso is emblematic of what kind of show it was. I didn't watch NY, and nobody watched Cyber, but it was inherently ridiculous.
I need a good source of media news - this sounds like all the other reboots, where it's 'x, but worse and with/because of forced diversity'. I know they are doing a black The Wonder Years, and a diverse TV series of I Know What You Did Last Summer, but I feel like I'm finding this shit out late. The problem being nearly every entertainment news website is aggressively woke or very free with spoilers.