CSI / Bones
You might think it a bit weird or maybe even useless to write an entry about TV shows but I watched them yesterday and there were a few things that crossed my mind I felt like sharing.
CSI Vegas was on and it was the first episode I saw in almost two years (you know we didn't have TV for quite a while). I was surprised to see Ted Danson as new Head of CSI and I wasn't quite sure what to expect. It's not like he left much of an impression as an actor in the past, the only thing I could place him in for certain was Made In America, that film he made with Whoopie Goldberg back in the 90s. But after all he couldn't be any worse than that obnoxious Lawrence Fishburne (who was in fact the reason why I stopped watching the show). And after I saw the episode I have to say that he really surprised me in a positive way. He's doing well, taking a whole new approach, not trying to replace Gil Grissom (which is impossible anyway). That's what I hated about Fishburne's performance, he tried to copy William Peterson's character, even imitated his facial expressions and gestures as if he thought people would't notice that Gil Grissom is black all of a sudden.
Now for the content of the episode, there were things that really bothered me. One of the two main cases was a dead naked man found on the streets. During autopsy his lungs are found to be filled with liquid chocolate and it's soon clear that he actually drowned in a chocolate factory's vessel. He was a big guy of about 200 pounds and as the story unfolds he turns out to once have been a model who did an advertisement campaign for that very company until he became addicted to their chocolates and gained weight until he was twice his former size. Which made him commit suicide.
Now my problem with that story was firstly the impression it left that people who gained weight ought to be so fundamentally miserable that killing themselves is the only option.
Secondly I hated the fact that the script writers felt compelled to let people remark how sad it was that he gained that weight and lost all his good looks. As if people grow uglier by the pound and big guys can't be handsome as well! (I guess there's no need to say that I found him rather attractive whereas the thinner him was the kind of man I wouldn't waste a second glance on- they had another actor playing flashbacks, convincingly casted though.)
And thirdly there was a minor thing but something that bothers me because you see it so often- whereas the model guy had impeccable skin they gave the big guy a face full of festering pimples. As if all big people have bad skin as a rule, I simply hate that stereotype.
As for Bones there's just one thing I couldn't stop thinking: Bones is pregnant? By Booth?? I guess I really missed out on a few things in those two years...
CSI Vegas was on and it was the first episode I saw in almost two years (you know we didn't have TV for quite a while). I was surprised to see Ted Danson as new Head of CSI and I wasn't quite sure what to expect. It's not like he left much of an impression as an actor in the past, the only thing I could place him in for certain was Made In America, that film he made with Whoopie Goldberg back in the 90s. But after all he couldn't be any worse than that obnoxious Lawrence Fishburne (who was in fact the reason why I stopped watching the show). And after I saw the episode I have to say that he really surprised me in a positive way. He's doing well, taking a whole new approach, not trying to replace Gil Grissom (which is impossible anyway). That's what I hated about Fishburne's performance, he tried to copy William Peterson's character, even imitated his facial expressions and gestures as if he thought people would't notice that Gil Grissom is black all of a sudden.
Now for the content of the episode, there were things that really bothered me. One of the two main cases was a dead naked man found on the streets. During autopsy his lungs are found to be filled with liquid chocolate and it's soon clear that he actually drowned in a chocolate factory's vessel. He was a big guy of about 200 pounds and as the story unfolds he turns out to once have been a model who did an advertisement campaign for that very company until he became addicted to their chocolates and gained weight until he was twice his former size. Which made him commit suicide.
Now my problem with that story was firstly the impression it left that people who gained weight ought to be so fundamentally miserable that killing themselves is the only option.
Secondly I hated the fact that the script writers felt compelled to let people remark how sad it was that he gained that weight and lost all his good looks. As if people grow uglier by the pound and big guys can't be handsome as well! (I guess there's no need to say that I found him rather attractive whereas the thinner him was the kind of man I wouldn't waste a second glance on- they had another actor playing flashbacks, convincingly casted though.)
And thirdly there was a minor thing but something that bothers me because you see it so often- whereas the model guy had impeccable skin they gave the big guy a face full of festering pimples. As if all big people have bad skin as a rule, I simply hate that stereotype.
As for Bones there's just one thing I couldn't stop thinking: Bones is pregnant? By Booth?? I guess I really missed out on a few things in those two years...