The New Miami Order
The ongoing wonderfulness of the new season of CSI Miami has established some new rules, and reinforced an old one – namely, all houses in Miami are great, have swimming pools, fantastic views, and substantial gardens, especially the ones in “condemned” crime ridden areas. However, in terms of the new stuff, the character growth is beginning to settle into some happy patterns:
Delko is now Uncle Forensics, and will get at least one chance per episode to explain some technique to one of the less fortunate staff
HoCaine now only visits the lab to stand around in corridors waiting for people, and prefers be up to five or six feet behind a suspect, facing the other direction, before asking him a question.
Boa-Vista is Field Agent Barbie. The writers’ attempt to disguise her evident eye candy non-Scientific status by throwing in a rubbish abusive husband subplot is going nowhere. Unless someone Dexter’s him.
Wolfe is real police. I honestly don’t know how this happened, but he has become undeniably so over the first few eps of this season. This may be aided by Boa-Vista taking over many of his more annoying character traits.
Calleigh is slowly turning into a generic, passive, slightly older female agent. The days of sassy ballistics girl are long gone, though she still has ridiculous shoes.
Frank is Frank, though H did call him Francis, which I support.
Finally, it seems that the use of their iMovie special video effects is to continue unabated. Though we have yet to see the star wipe, plenty of fine filters have been used, include scenes swinging in like a door, the “youtube vlogger trying to do 24″ multiple screen style, and the stack of slightly smaller layers of the same picture. Importantly, these are used when otherwise the show would require acting.