Note from Me, to myself and I:

[capri0mni]

Do not watch any of the C.S.I. franchise, except when you are in such a jolly mood that you're bordering on ecstatic. This is especially true for C.S.I.: Miami.

Watched C.S.I.: Miami, tonight. Is there any character, in all of Fictiondom, that is more self-righteous, sarcastic, and paternalistic, than Horatio Caine? I'm scanning the character cache in my brain, right now, and I can't find his match in these traits.

Really. And yes, I get it, Mister Bruckheimer. You are pro-life.

Just wondering: does anyone know Bruckheimer's religious orientation? It's just 'cause I noticed something with the PAX, Christianist, television network, too: When they weren't doing television movies about angels and miracles, they were doing television movie adaptions of dime-store thriller novels about murder and sin -- that was them "letting their hair down." But even those so-called "edgier" stories still underlined the basic sinfullness of Man, and how lost we all are without God's grace (And Pax's successor, ion, will be airing reruns of 48 Hours|mystery, come 2008). And I'm noticing the same tone in the C.S.I shows.

To counter that all that sin and righteous paternalism, and raise my mood a little, before I try sleeping, here is a random rhyme from Mother Goose (and yes, I opened to this page in the dark):

THE MAD FAMILY
There was a mad man and he had a mad wife,
And they lived in a mad town;
And they had children three at birth,
And mad they were, every one.

The father was mad, and the mother was mad,
And the children were mad beside;
And they all got on a mad horse,
And madly they did ride.

They rode by night, and they rode by day,
Yet never a one of the them fell;
They rode so madly all the way
Till they came to the gates of Hell.

Old Nick was glad to see them so mad,
And he gladly let them in;
But he soon grew sorry to see them so merry
And he let them out again.

Comments

[ravenevermore.livejournal.com]

The more David Caruso got creative control in CSI, the less I liked the Miami branch of the show. I much prefer Gill Grissom on Vegas.
However I prefer NCIS to any of the CSI shows now. I think it'd be more popular, but it doesn't have as good a theme tune (The Who > Synthopop).

I had a point here. not sure what it was.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Maybe it was, simply, that The Who > Synthopop? :-)

Vegas is definitely the better written of the three; I notice with Miami, they compensate for having no plot or three-dimensional characters by playing games with the camera, instead....

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

I can't stand Horatio Caine. ^^;; I haven't been able to watch enough of him to pick up any politics. He's just too self-absorbed and melodramatic to be interesting.

That rhyme is fantastic. I want a mad horse.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

I wish I could post the illustration that goes with it, but the book is too big to fit in my scanner.

[rob-t-firefly.livejournal.com]

Is there any character, in all of Fictiondom, that is more self-righteous, sarcastic, and paternalistic, than Horatio Caine?

In short: nope.

Fear the bitter sunglasses of justice.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Hee! Though from the comments, it looks like a lot of people like those one liners... :::Shakes head, sadly:::

Have you seen C.S.I.: Pie ami (http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/CSI/), from Weebl & Bob?

(fixed link)

[rob-t-firefly.livejournal.com]

I have to say I like those one-liners when out of context in one long absurd row like that. But then, I don't really watch the show.

Nowadays whenever I make a painfully bad one-liner - especially one in dubious taste - I immediately hear that opening riff to the "who are you" song in my head.

And yes, I love that Weebl & Bob ep. *repeatedly puts on and removes Shades of Justice*

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the Mother Goose rhyme. I love it. :-)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

It really did raise my mood. Just the perfect anti-dote!

[spiralsheep]

I just googled for that rhyme. Guess what appeared on the first page.... :-)

[capri0mni]

This page? Hee!

Mother Goose > CSI

Are you going to recite it at one of your poetry readings? I think Mother Goose deserves to get out of the nursery and into the coffee house, now and again -- she's earned it.

[spiralsheep]

It's Jon Boden's folk song of the day:

http://www.afolksongaday.com/2010/10/29/mad-family/

:-)

[capri0mni]

Oooh, nice tune addition. But I think I like the final line in the version I posted here: "He soon grew weary to see them so merry." I think that has more punch than a repitition of the single syllable mad/glad rhyme...

But perhaps the soft syllable at the end would get lost in the din of pub chatter, or something. *shrug*

[spiralsheep]

I can't access the audio file, as ever, so I shall have to trust your judgment. :-)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

According to wikipedia, Bruckheimer's parents were jewish, and he's a rare Bush supporter in Hollywood — though they claim he's given more to the dems than to the pubs.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

That he's a Bush supporter does not surprise me, seeing how all of his shows, over the years, have centered around the combatting of evil... That he's given more to the Dems may just be a function of timespan...

[jekesta]

THat really IS a cheering rhyme. I never heard it before. Thank you as ever.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

It's the combination of madness and merryment, I think. Madness and Merryment FTW!

Like Chocolate and Strawberry, or peanut butter and apple!