Speculation, Fact and Fiction

CSI Miami, to be specific. I'm a great fan of American cop shows and generally keep up with all the incarnations of CSI and Law & Order as well as trying whatever new pretenders come down the turnpike.

But CSI Miami is definitely the weakest of that franchise, I reckon. And something has caught my eye in the last couple of episodes that really makes me wonder where the creative priorities lie there.

First was an episode where everyone, absolutely everyone, was wearing shirts, blouses, tops, whatever, in red/orange/yellow. Nothing else, so that any gathering of good guys and bad, allegedy drawn together by random circumstance, was wonderfully colour co-ordinated.

In the next episode, everyone's in clothing shading along grey/blue/green, with the lighting in the lab, which had previously been all yellow and orange, now shifting to moody blues.

What? Are we supposed to believe that the local TV station announces the day's selection from their resident stylist's colour wheel, along with the weather forecast maybe? And the entire population selects from their wardrobe accordingly?

As I think I've mentioned before, it's never a good sign when a story fails to engage me sufficiently that I start to notice this kind of thing.