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CSI and Sex
Feb. 24th, 2005 10:27 pmRecently, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rmd complained that CSI had managed to make itself irrelevant and even annoying at their overuse of sexual deviancy as a plot device, and that they invariably take a sex-negative perspective toward what we wags are now calling the "perversion of the week".
(That wasn't exactly what she said, but that's what I read into it.)
Sure enough, tonite's "perversion of the week" was chubby-chasing. And it ended badly for the chubby-chaser. And while not overtly unsympathetic, there was still a lot of smirking about the very notion of fat people having sex.
And I finally figured out what CSI's problem is.
They're Crime Scene Investigators. Duh. This means that whenever they're looking at a sexual perversion, it's exactly because a crime happened in it. Inherently, they're not going to see the good that can come from a particular off-kilter approach. By the nature of their involvement, they will have to see the worst that any scene has to offer.
This means that they have to get off this ridiculous schtick. They will eventually tread on the deeply held kink of every viewer they've got, and wonder why ratings are gradually dropping as they offend everyone, subset at a time.
Not only that, the sex plots have been getting pretty formulaic. Lady Heather is gone, and what's left is just a sad sketch of the stereotypes of the perversion of the week.
The sports-betting plot tonite was actually good. They should take on more gambling-related stuff, some sprawl and development corruption, and a few other Las Vegas trends. And lay off the sex, because they're not doing it right.
rmd complained that CSI had managed to make itself irrelevant and even annoying at their overuse of sexual deviancy as a plot device, and that they invariably take a sex-negative perspective toward what we wags are now calling the "perversion of the week".(That wasn't exactly what she said, but that's what I read into it.)
Sure enough, tonite's "perversion of the week" was chubby-chasing. And it ended badly for the chubby-chaser. And while not overtly unsympathetic, there was still a lot of smirking about the very notion of fat people having sex.
And I finally figured out what CSI's problem is.
They're Crime Scene Investigators. Duh. This means that whenever they're looking at a sexual perversion, it's exactly because a crime happened in it. Inherently, they're not going to see the good that can come from a particular off-kilter approach. By the nature of their involvement, they will have to see the worst that any scene has to offer.
This means that they have to get off this ridiculous schtick. They will eventually tread on the deeply held kink of every viewer they've got, and wonder why ratings are gradually dropping as they offend everyone, subset at a time.
Not only that, the sex plots have been getting pretty formulaic. Lady Heather is gone, and what's left is just a sad sketch of the stereotypes of the perversion of the week.
The sports-betting plot tonite was actually good. They should take on more gambling-related stuff, some sprawl and development corruption, and a few other Las Vegas trends. And lay off the sex, because they're not doing it right.
