Gil Grissom and his Las Vegas CSI team are modern day Sherlock Holmes characters with handy dandy gadgets and a wealth of crime knowledge they use to get the job done. The episode we watched last night had a guy turn into human soup after decaying for 2 months in some kind of vinyl gym bag. (I guess the Biblical idea that "we are a vapor" had no place to go so the 'Nam vet turned into condensed human soup.) Needless to say, the crime was solved, but I learned that if you have a strong smell of dead guys left on you, it can be removed by taking a shower and using lemons to absorb the odor. It's interesting...to me at least...that when dogs get sprayed by skunks, you're supposed to use tomato juice to remove the odor.The writers of "CSI" are like Arthur Conan Doyle in another way, too. They apparently discount an afterlife and its consequences for the actions of this world...why am I not surprised?!! (Tip of the hat to Iago in "Aladdin.") I wonder what it would be like if a show like this was written from a Christian perspective without "getting preachy" in pointing out that the wicked...victims and perpetrators...get their due in the end?
I'm trying to figure out whether this show would dissuade totally depraved people from committing crimes because of the numerous ways they can get caught or if it's a seminar in knowing how you'll get caught, so figure out how you can get around it and go ahead with the crime anyway. Something...probably 29 years of reading the Bible...tells me the latter.
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