by Samual Seward

Created on: February 19, 2009

Real Life Problems Created by Hollywood

As I began watching the television drama, I gained many first impressions as the minutes wore down. The first was of the terrible storyline, I it contained a doctor that was sued for malpractice because he was stealing kneecaps and various body parts and transplanting them into patients. What tipped off my misconceptions was that the doctor removed body parts that were from non-donors or others that had died from previous diseases. Although, I am not very knowledge in the science of anatomy or biology, I believe that it would be quite difficult to get cancer from the transplanting of a kneecap from a previous patient that had died from the latter, possibly maybe from blood-born diseases, but seems highly unlikely.

As the CSI team begins to narrow down potential suspects, as the duration of the homicide increases, the team begins to find various clues that begin to point the team toward the perpetrator. One such clue was a tiny fragment off of a bow, in which was subsequently found near the second dead body. The fiber was then identified as a synthetic hair fiber. Unfortunately in real life, fibers and or other physical evidence do not always happen so easily.

Other evidence that came to light was blood, which was used in tracking down the criminal. The fact that blood was found on the crime scene is not a complete anomaly, but more in line with non-fiction considering that blood is found about 5 percent in all total homicides, but in this episode blood was found used as prop and key facet in the detection of the criminal twice (Ronane 2). Obviously it is easier to understand that blood, at least to the audience, is always the defining factor in tracking down the killer because it is so simple and concrete. The CSI team searches for clues in various crime scenes, attempting to find anything that could possibly lead to arrest, but they are thrown off track by evidence that leads to a brick wall, but as time disappears, the drama and tension increase, as the killer remains elusive. But in the nick of time, what do the CSI crime teams find? Not just a single trace of blood, but two were found near the body. Essentially these happenings do not occur in real life, and the plot of the show switches from a drama to something on the line of hilarious if you know the facts.

The simple fact that clues, even if they are present, are very hard to find and not as simple to unearth. Julia Layton, a writer for the discovery channel, states

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