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Post by Cammie Moonites on Sept 30, 2008 5:42:20 GMT -10
Meh, I dont know.
I just, It wasnt like the usual CSI: Miami.
I dont know why but I didnt like it... I mean the story line was kind of raw, to say the least.
And The acting was good, but... I dont know maybe my standards are too high and expectant.
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Post by margaret1234 on Sept 30, 2008 5:49:59 GMT -10
Sounds good to me........thanks Karen and Emily.
Margaret
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Post by ohiogranny on Sept 30, 2008 7:20:56 GMT -10
This is what I have come to call a "meat and potatoes" episode. It was one of those stories that did not require a really huge budget, so perhaps that is why it felt rather flat for some people. I have come to like these rather ordinary episodes because of their more localized setting; no Coast Guard, no Brazil, just Miami and its citizens of which some need protecting from the others.
Horatio likes to help damsels in distress so this might be why we have seen this slave trade idea three times now. Hope they don't go there again for a loooong time.
Yes, I did notice the yellow and green color scheme. While I do think it is ridiculous at times, it is all a part of the "campiness" of the show. I'm glad that Horatio and Calleigh are the leads, wearing black and white, just like they do in ballet! I don't let it bother me anymore.
Someone thanked me for my review; please know I did not think I wrote one. I simply responded like everyone else. When I dislike something, I know why I disliked it and I can tell you. Also, when I really like something, I also share that. I think the M. E. has a lot of potential, and I hope this bit of irreverance on her part (calling the body "Crispy") continues. A 180 degree turn from Alexx for sure and from my perspective, very welcome.
Like the rest of you, I am looking forward to Krystal's review.
Karen
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Post by sanne on Sept 30, 2008 8:07:17 GMT -10
That was me and it was merely because you were the 1st to write a comment with a little bit more info than we had up 'til your post. And Like you, I hope Krystal will again write a review like she did last week. I'm looking forward to that. Sandra
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Post by gonsy on Sept 30, 2008 10:15:14 GMT -10
Thank you everybody for your comments, because every little bit of information is welcome here... ;D Gonsy
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Post by Laci Caine on Sept 30, 2008 12:29:01 GMT -10
I think the episode was great. And while some may have felt that it lacked a lot -- I didn't. Because honestly, to me, it felt like a 1st season or 2nd season episode. Weird I know, but that was the feel I got from it.
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Post by sundancer on Sept 30, 2008 20:58:44 GMT -10
Thanks for the overview ladies. Flat stories? Just watch one of these inexpressible German crime-shows and then let's talk again about a really d**n flat plot...
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Post by NV Oracle on Oct 1, 2008 3:00:20 GMT -10
Laci, I was wondering if that was my imagination playing games with me, because, yes, it felt like a first or second season episode to me too. We saw more of Horatio in different parts of the lab, interacting with the team, and getting more involved with the overall mystery. There was also an actual smile when Dr Price stood up and offered him her gloved hand to shake.
I loved his scene in the beginning with the new M.E. I also think she has potential. She doesn't talk to them the way Alexx used to, but she's not just thinking about them as just objects in the case (remember when she looked down at the body? She lost her smile, and concentrated on him).
Then that ending scene with Horatio, the girls, and the bad guy. Oh, man, it was priceless. Just the way I like to write him in my story. His eyes changed color, and he moved to stand head on with the bad guy, and his voice dropped. I could picture a teenage Horatio standing up to his father that way as well. He meant business. I would not want him to be that mad at me for anything.
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Post by hypergolic on Oct 8, 2008 10:47:18 GMT -10
Just caught up with this episode at lunchtime today. You know what? I really enjoyed this one. I don't know what it was about it but it stuck with me. You've gotta admit that the opening scene was pretty impressive - man running amok at a party engulfed in a ball of flame. (Although I have to admit I shouted at the screen at one point - remembering some fire safety thing I think the fire service produced a few years ago - why doesn't he just 'stop, drop and roll' the sand will put out the fire! Then realised he was heading for the ocean and kinda went 'oh, right, large expanse of water, I can see why he'd be heading there'.) Karen - I thought exactly the same as you when the case started to unfold - been there, done that, both the syphoning of fuel - I think they were stealing fuel from speedboats last time (and the guy's cell phone started him burning internally that time too) as well as the human trafficking plotline - but as I got into it, the fact that they'd done something similar before didn't bother me so much, because this is Miami and there's always a way of mixing it up. I was in what I can only describe as as 'absolute fits of squee' with that end scene. "Who said that"...and lo the heavens shone down and the sea of women parted and Horatio caught the bad guy. It was the bit where he says 'ladies' and they all obediently move out of the way that got me - like a choreographed dance. Pure brilliance. Em, was it you that described it as 'cheesy'? That's just the perfect thing about Miami, it doesn't take itself too seriously and there's a little bit (ok, quite a lot) of campness that makes me keep coming back for more. Also like the new coroner, it'll take me a while to get used to her, but she was good. Bought a bit of 'flirt' back to Eric. And called the victim 'crispy' - I loved her for that. Anyway, enough ramblings from me. I'm off to take a look at 7.03 Hype.
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Post by ehmalo01 on Oct 8, 2008 18:05:47 GMT -10
Hype--yes, it was I who called it Cheesy. And I meant that in the best possible way. That's what I love about Miami. Glad we can agree on that point. Everyone loves a bit of camp, right?
em
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Post by hypergolic on Oct 8, 2008 20:31:49 GMT -10
Good heavens yes - where would the world be without a bit of campness?!?!?! The 1980's would have to be cut out of history for a start!
Hype :-)
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Post by KRoseLynn on Oct 9, 2008 6:29:05 GMT -10
Sanne, Sorry I've not done it yet, but I do plan on doing it. Thank you for reminding me though. ;D Krystal
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Post by sanne on Oct 9, 2008 6:30:45 GMT -10
And will you also pick up on Epi 3 as well than? Sandra
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Post by KRoseLynn on Oct 9, 2008 9:01:06 GMT -10
Yes. ;D
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Post by KRoseLynn on Nov 23, 2008 2:16:28 GMT -10
I know I promised this a long time ago, but with my new job, and all the ‘homework’ it required, I had to put these on hold for a while. I hope they are not too after the fact, and I will post them as I get them done.
“Won’t Get Fueled Again” Season 7; Episode 2, Airdate: Sept, 29, 2008
So, the episode starts with this guy running through people at a beach party toward the water. Obviously trying to get there to put himself out. He doesn’t make it however, and falls just yards from the water and dies.
Enter Dr. Tara Price. She’s not hesitant at all and starts right in on the examination of the body. Telling Horatio, after introducing himself like the gentleman he is, that the Latin term for fist fighting is ‘pugil,’ therefore the reason for the pose the dead man is in called ‘Pugilistic.’
What bothers me about this scene is that the guy should have ‘stopped-dropped-and rolled,’ and that the other guests made no attempt to put him out either. They just stood there and watched (unless I missed soemthing.) But that’s a different essay.
Dr. Price is able to determine there is accelerant all over the body as well. This man was not a guest of the party, and no one knows who he was.
Horatio’s one liner is in response to Dr. Price’s explanation of the ‘Pugilistic Pose’
“A fight to the death.”
Horatio is standing on the beach when a man walks over and it is made clear he’s the host of the party. He identifies himself as Paul Sanders and all of his guests are accounted for and safe. He doesn’t know who the dead man is.
Meanwhile Calleigh and Eric are examining the trail left by the burning man back to a possible starting point, which happens to be a parking lot. Eric is the one who spots a piece of evidence that turns out to be a piece of fabric that has melted. But an accelerant is not found at all at the point of origin.
We next see Horatio and Ryan discussing what to do with a mass of melted plastic and fabric that turns out to be a name tag. After putting it through the CT scanner, the name tag belongs to a valet named “SAM.”
This Sam proves to be quite a defensive guy and doesn’t like it when Calleigh and Ryan show up and ask him if he had anything to do with the dead man. Sam explains he works for an independent service for private parties and that he was the only one working, so his badge must have been stolen.
Back at CSI, we witness the ‘spark’ when Eric meets Dr. Price; it’s quite obvious he likes what he sees. Dr. Price informs him she found high octane gasoline and the dead guy also had burns in his throat, with traces of the gasoline in it. They speculate that it wasn’t suicide and more than likely he was forced to swallow the gas.
Eric then asks Dr. Price for DNA, at which point she pulls out a tooth and tells Eric to take it up to Natalia in DNA for the “Tsar treatment.” When Natalia heard this she explains that Dr. Price was trying to impress him. I don’t remember exactly but I’m remembering it had something to do with how they identified some Tsar and his family after their deaths.
After Natalia finishes the process in which the sample is ground to a fine powder and preserved with extreme cold, the dead man is identified as Dan Granger, a student at Dade University. Ol’ Dan has priors including trespassing and theft.
Whoo Hoo! Frank tags along with Horatio (I love when these two get to work together!) to Dade University and catch up with a guy named John Young, Ol’ Dan’s roommate. He’s selling gas cans out of the back of a pick up truck. Horatio and Frank soon discover that Dan was siphoning fuel and that’s how he must have swallowed gas. They were siphoning fuel from cars and re-selling at a discounted price to other students. John claims to have seen Dan running while burning, and a black SUV driving away at the same time Dan caught on fire. John gives them the can containing the fuel from the SUV and he gets a nice trip to Miami Dade Police Department for further questioning.
Eric gets the job of testing the fuel. He discovers its high octane and contains the additive of Tolouene (spelling?) That leads them to Arago Fuel and Mr. Nelson. Mr. Nelson is able to tell them the SUV is an Escalade and was towing a trailer. He stopped at the gas station to check under the hood, not to buy any gas, and didn’t need any help.
After Ryan notices crow bar marks on the fuel tank covers Mr. Nelson discovers he’s missing about 1,500 gallons of gas. They then speculate that the gas was stolen from an opening under the trailer, with a pump. Mr. Nelson then admits to accepting ‘anything’ from a pretty girl for a tank of gas. Distraction for the thieves more than likely. He then tells them there is a condom left in the woman’s bathroom.
Analysis of the condom reveals that the DNA on the outside belongs to Andrea Rinell, who had a record as well. For solicitation. Of course, when Natalia and Horatio question her about it, she’s surprised about the missing fuel and doesn’t know anything about it.
Ryan comes up with a video from the bank across the street from gas station because the camera’s there were not working. The video clearly shows hoses going from the trailer to the tank. It’s also discovered that the plates on the SUV were ‘cold.’
Calleigh is driving in the Hummer when she spots the SUV with the ‘cold’ plates and pursues them. After calling for backup however she looses them. When she eventually catches up to the SUV it’s sitting in the middle of the street on fire.
When Ryan gets to the SUV, Calleigh has already started processing the scene. She finds a used flare but there is still no evidence of any kind of accelerant. They do find a fingernail in the glove compartment of all places though, and they soon find it belongs to John Young.
When questioned by Frank and Ryan, John admits to rummaging through in hopes of finding some money but instead finds a bag full of passports. It’s Frank who discovers that they all belong to young women who have applied for visas but still in the county illegally. All of the women have used the same address on the applications….human trafficking.
Horatio has dealt with this kind of thing before so he and Frank find Andrea Rinell and questions her. She eventually tells them that she was told if she told anyone her and her family would be killed.
Meanwhile, Eric finds carbon inside the SUV. It turns out that the cell phone is also rigged to be a stun gun. He’s able to lift some prints from it and hits on Sam Laughlin (spelling?) the parking lot attendant.
After telling him they are searching the airstream at his house, Calleigh is able to get him to admit to stealing fuel, but refuses to admit to murder. Calleigh then tells him they know about the stun gun with his prints on it. It’s now that Sam admits to not knowing he’d ignite!
Sam, of course is not involved with the trafficking ring, and denies knowing Andria Rinell. He said he was hired by someone and that the SUV and trailer belongs to him. He refuses to give up his employer however.
So, back to Ryan. He has found the owner of a hidden plate. Paul Sanders, the host of the party at the beginning of the episode. He just happens to own a shipping business…transporting young women wanting to come to America.
Horatio knows where to find Sanders, and we get to see Horatio take down another bad guy!
More evidence of our Horatio's 'super powers' I think, getting inside a locked room and waiting for Sanders to show up. And with a simple "Ladies" the girls step back to reviel Horatio to Sanders. Cheering moment! Whoo Hoo!
So, human trafficking we’ve seen before in CSI: Miami, as well as siphoning gas (boats vs. cars though) but we’d be naive to think that crimes don’t repeat themselves, wouldn’t we? Good thing Miami has Horatio on the job!
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