This incarnation of CSI (the one true CSI) has the same shortcoming of every single CSI style procedural I have ever watched. It seems that every crime scene always has to have "the one thing". And that is defined as the one thing that immediately narrows down the list of suspects to one or two people, or the list of regions to one area.
Think back to the shows you have watched. Even better, pay attention from now on. How many times do the CSI techs discover a marine organism specific to only one small bay (NCIS New Orleans), bird poop that results from a specific breed of bird eating a specific berry only found in either South America or one specific casino (CSI).
I can live with the accelerated time-line resulting in DNA tests taking only an hour instead of weeks but in most cases when a lab tech analyzes dirt left at the scene, what he/she discovers is that it's just freakin' dirt with absolutely nothing special about it. Lab techs do not routinely find that the victim ingested a type of chocolate that is not yet on the market and can only be found at one specific person's house (CSI:NY), or pollen from a plant that only grows in a ten square yard area in Central Park and only blooms on the third Thursday of June (CSI:NY again).
And yet, time and time again those miraculous techs (in conjunction with incredibly stupid and/or unfortunate villains) manage, with a few tests, to "nail it". Either these techs are regular miracle workers or the writers just assume we are all morons who won't recognize lazy writing.
Think back to the shows you have watched. Even better, pay attention from now on. How many times do the CSI techs discover a marine organism specific to only one small bay (NCIS New Orleans), bird poop that results from a specific breed of bird eating a specific berry only found in either South America or one specific casino (CSI).
I can live with the accelerated time-line resulting in DNA tests taking only an hour instead of weeks but in most cases when a lab tech analyzes dirt left at the scene, what he/she discovers is that it's just freakin' dirt with absolutely nothing special about it. Lab techs do not routinely find that the victim ingested a type of chocolate that is not yet on the market and can only be found at one specific person's house (CSI:NY), or pollen from a plant that only grows in a ten square yard area in Central Park and only blooms on the third Thursday of June (CSI:NY again).
And yet, time and time again those miraculous techs (in conjunction with incredibly stupid and/or unfortunate villains) manage, with a few tests, to "nail it". Either these techs are regular miracle workers or the writers just assume we are all morons who won't recognize lazy writing.