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Posted by Featherlite on August 10th, 2009 - View Comments

The Evolution of Criminalistics

Remember when Quincy was cutting edge science?? Don't worry, neither does anybody else.

Geeks burst upon the scene when CSI premiered in fall of 2000.? Suddenly the lab was the coolest place on television.

DNA was just coming into mainstream acceptance and old cases were being overturned as technology caught up the evidence that was left behind at crime scenes years ago.???If Cops was successful in showing the arrests, viewers were rabid to what happened next.? Taking the audience into the lab opened up a whole new world where it became apparent that the perfect crime was becoming much harder to pull off.

The science geeks opened the door to their siblings, the computer geeks, and their cousins, the academic geeks.? It wasn't enough to simply solve current crimes anymore.???The CSI spin-offs begat sub-genres, and the realm of the geek quickly spread to military crimes and specialized evidence.

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Charlie Epps, Numb3rs.? Not all geeks have unhealthy relationships with their keyboards.? This Cal-Sci mathematics professor prefers to work old school with chalk and dry-erase markers.? Each week, he helps his FBI-agent brother by reducing complex theories to their lowest common denominator to show how math can be used to predict human responses.? Algebra class was never this interesting.

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About the Author:
Deidre Gould is a Canadian writer who graduated from UCLA's screenwriting program in 2010. When she isn't watching procedural crime dramas, Deidre wonders when she became a sci-fi geek and how she can overcome her addiction to SPACE channel. In addition to contributing articles to TVOvermind, Deidre is busy working on "Fringe" recaps as well as her own television and movie scripts.

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kinnat

I adore Garcia and of course House is the king of - well - everything, including geekdom. However, what about Abby in NCIS? IMO she was the original that Garcia was modelled on and Abby totally rocks.
Then of course there's McGee (also NCIS, also genius geek) Topher (Dollhouse) don't forget Garcia's colleague Dr Spencer Grey (genius/geek/agent/HOT!), Masuka (Dexter) and then there was Zach from Bones (sniff) presently languishing in the funny farm) and alllllll the other squints (including their queen - Dr Temperence Brennan.)
Give Xander a regular role with Garcia too, please, he is adorable as a computer genius just as he was as a Scooby.

Featherlite

Definitely another geek fan. Good choices! I didn't put Dr. Spenser Reed on because I already had one from Criminal Minds. I seriously considered Abby but I like Chloe a little more (and I was trying not to use the more CSI-like characters). Hope you liked it.

starkiller

I wish it was easier to read this but when I increase the text size it disappears off the right side of the screen and with no scroll bar at all.

Helen

Consumption was actually the name given to Tuberculosis, so called because people seemed to beconsumed from within by the disease.

Featherlite

Thanks, Helen. It's been amended.

Featherlite

Pixie, you should be able to type your name in the From: field and type over "Guest".

Charlie only became serious because people keep shooting at him. He has lost a lot of his quirkyness in the last couple of years. Hopefully his engagement to Amita will help him revert to his old ways.

Yes,Garcia rocks. No question. :) Check out some of these phone conversations:

Derek Morgan/: I thought I was calling the office of Supreme Genius.
Penelope Garcia: Well, gorgeous, you've been re-routed to the office of Too Frickin' Bad.

Penelope Garcia: Office of Unfettered Omniscience - how may I help you, O fortunate one?

Penelope Garcia: Oracle of Quantico - speak if you deign to hear truth!

Penelope Garcia: Fount of all Knowledge, check my flow!

Penelope Garcia: Rainmaker, how wet do you want it?

Guest

(PS: this is me, Pixie. Don't know how to do the name change thing yet, but soo happy to be able to comment on your articles!)

I used to love Charlie on Numbers, but the past year or so he seems to have gone from geeky young and hip professor to a much more serious character. I want the fun Charlie back!

I adore Garcia, and the episodes 2 season ago where she was shot and the aftermath were painful to watch, heartbreaking really- but probably my fave episodes so far. I was hoping "Xander" might become more of a regular character, so Garcia could have someone to play with.