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scorpio723 said:
I mean, even The Rookie, which has its pilot open with Nathan Filion distracting some bank robbers so the cops can get into position, has him acknowledge how potentially stupid it was.
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I feel like there's kind of a core difference between these critiques though. The question of if it's stupid (the gun could have hit the store robber when it went off, the blind fire could have hit someone, they robbers could have overpowered and killed the shop owner) vs if it's morally acceptable. By and far I think delivering a beatdown to someone who just pepper sprayed you and tried to rob you is likely seen well within the boundaries of good behavior; start shit get hit and all that. But then you get to the second level Athene mentioned, which is that these sort of shows often aren't showing the actual story but a fairy tale version while pretending it's real life.
 
Mutton said:
I feel like there's kind of a core difference between these critiques though. The question of if it's stupid (the gun could have hit the store robber when it went off, the blind fire could have hit someone, they robbers could have overpowered and killed the shop owner) vs if it's morally acceptable. By and far I think delivering a beatdown to someone who just pepper sprayed you and tried to rob you is likely seen well within the boundaries of good behavior; start shit get hit and all that. But then you get to the second level Athene mentioned, which is that these sort of shows often aren't showing the actual story but a fairy tale version while pretending it's real life.
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Oh agreed wholeheartedly. It's just that the fact that it's acknowledged is still loads better compared to what Athene is talking about. Honestly, the attitude of what she's talking is almost close to William Lind's "mob justice for everything, we don't need no stinking laws!"

...though it's a little more horrifying the way he puts it.
 
Yikes. Was the original series always this pro-vigilante, or did Bunnell just get more radical at some point between 2001 and 2012?
 
Mazeka said:
Yikes. Was the original series always this pro-vigilante, or did Bunnell just get more radical at some point between 2001 and 2012?
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It's more putting on the ham from what I have heard of him after all it's been said that even though before he was a sheriff he led the Vice unit he had never been on a raid until COPS filmed his department.
 
I will say I've got a slight disagreement about using vigilante here to describe this sort of action; what a lot of these celebrate is a choice of "fight" on fight or flight rather than actively seeking out crime or criminals.
 
Still working on this but as a side thing I can fit in more easily I have this:

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Lets Read "Rising Sun" by Michael Crichton: I don't want to alarm you but there may be a Japanman or Japanmen in the house.

So I was looking for a side project to my normal review thread, because I'm into some heavy shit in it and I decided to try to comprehensively review a 15 hour show and analyze it and by extension all similar pro-police propaganda. Unfortunately with my friends being injured in various ways by...
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My poor, poor project. :(

So had a rough few...shit there's a more than three month old warning on this thread. I'm going to get this back going within the next two weeks, I'm just trying to figure out how to do stuff again. I haven't done my models, I've let games slide by uncompleted, I've been a robot that works, worries about stuff, and works again. It's been a bad year. People get brutalized by the police down the street from me on a constant basis.

But this all means something to me and I want to tackle this incredibly dark shit. But also do fun stuff too.

I'm just real sorry this all sat here so long and so uncompleted but I'll get back to it.
 
Hundred percent. We can't get more Athene at all if you work yourself to death. You come first.
 
If you want to put out a piece of content you are only partially happy with, fine. Pros- you'll work out those rusty writing muscles. We'll happily wait.
If you want to keep editing a release because you want it to handily meet personal requirements for A, B, and C, fine. Pros- you'll figure out how you want to contribute to this thread in the future based on the experience. We'll happily wait.

If you want to leave a real life situation to merrily boil away, unwatched, for the sake of the thread then please reconsider. We aren't asking for that and no one reasonable thinks we deserve such a thing on top of the free, high-quality content you've already released. Don't burn the house down to keep us warm.
 
Thinking about doing a series on the Simpsons since its so big in my life where I go over episodes in more detail.

Starting with the second season because aside from it having more of the kinks worked out, I don't own the first season on DVD (even though most of my DVDs are busted) and Disney+'s cropping combined with the animation style and super close camera position of the season makes them damn near unwatchable at times.
 
Well, I am on a kind forced leave of absence so uh, no income plus plenty of time, so hopefully have some things soon. :/
 
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