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This show was actually really good and had overall good ideas for updating Spidey and his world that still hold up. Sure, it's stylized and kiddie-friendly, but most Spider-Man is. Besides which, the writers still managed to throw in some more complicated ideas. It's a pity this didn't get to keep going, because I'd have been interested in seeing what else they came up with. Some characters were named but never used. Some were actually on screen but never had any lines. No, this was the perfect balance of how the world would look to a teenager suddenly given great power and responsibility. Too bad it was ended before being properly finished.

Within ten minutes, you'll know who did it and why. It's so bloody obvious that even a CSI 1 could have solved it in minutes. While a little more interesting than most of the stories, the science is still way wrong.

In the episode's favor, Penny and Beau, the only actually remotely interesting characters, get a few minutes in the spotlight. Sadly, those same scientific stupidities also make the characters seem like jerks, and their superiors are turned into utter jackasses.

Honestly, why was this show ever made? Clearly someone wanted to harvest the nostalgia for the original series, but didn't know how to cast, how to write good stories, or what made the original show actually good--it wasn't the relationship soap-operas; it was the weird but actually believable cases. Stories didn't need to be bloated out into 4-21 episodes. In fact, most of the really good episodes had 2-4 stories each, and many of them were unrelated beyond taking place the same day.

Hopefully the people responsible for making CSI:Vegas the disaster that it is won't get any future work in Hollywood.

What? AI is the big new Villain? Wow, the writing team was really stretching there, weren't they. No, they really weren't. What? There was a bug monitoring the office? What a shock.

Sadly, this is one of those stories that only works if supposedly brilliant people are frickin' stupid--dumber than an (outhouse) rat stupid. The Villains are brilliant idiots. The CSI team members are brilliant idiots. And the writers are writing about science when the clearly have no knowledge of any of the fields of science involved in their stories. These may have been cutting-edge concepts in the 1980s, but 40+ years later, relying on these stale ideas and stereotypes is just pathetic. And only 1/2 the cast seems able to act. And every cheap trope is employed in the climax that you could make a drinking game of it.

In all seriousness, I think the worst offender in this collection of lame stories has to be the excuse to get Catherine Willows back into the show. Imagine if, instead of just being told her star pupil had gone missing, they'd spent 3-4 episodes with Willows teaching, so that we could see this star pupil learning, growing, becoming Willow's protege, getting the job at the casino, and then at the mid-season cliffhanger, have the student go missing! You know... ...do something so that the audience might care and become invested. No, sadly, we don't get that. We get lazy writing, bad story telling, and episodes that just plain don't work.

As a long-time fan of the show, my final words on it are "At least they didn't make a season 4." This sucker deserves to die.