[ SECRET POST #3482 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3482 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/o0B5vOu.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

What show is this?

[(Anonymous)]

Blue Bloods.

[(Anonymous)]

Blue Bloods

[(Anonymous)]

thanks

[plushulala]

Copaganda :)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not gonna rant about it, but yeah I think this show is awful. I really don't understand its popularity.

[raspberryrain]

I actually liked Tom Selleck as Jesse Stone, and Donnie Wahlberg in Boomtown, but I can't get interested in this show. Isn't this the one where the whole family are bigshots in NYC or something? That seems pretentious to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Of course it's overly pro-cop...it stars TOM SELLECK!

[(Anonymous)]

and his 'STACHE!

[(Anonymous)]

If I had to guess, people watch it because (based on the episodes I saw on a TNT marathon once) it's about adults dedicated to doing right by the jobs they love. Because they are a family of police officers and lawyers, it's friendly to those professions.

[plushulala]

I'm pretty sure that's why my mom watches it.

[elaminator]

Pretty sure my mom only watches this because she has a thing for Tom Selleck, but going by the bits and pieces I've seen of it, it kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Maybe this is why.

[(Anonymous)]

Why? Because it's about adults? Or because they love their jobs?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh god, get the fuck over it. I know the current pop trend is to see cops as nothing less than Lucifer's henchmen, but their job actually is to enforce the law. For a tv show that's essentially about a cop family legacy, Blue Bloods does a solid job of tackling the moral issues the job often involves. No character is demonized for "questioning" the police unless they're being full-on fucking stupid (and dangerous) about it.

[(Anonymous)]

My issue is more that almost anyone who questions the police in this show are then written as being full-on stupid (and dangerous) about it.

From what I've seen, there are no shades of gray. Police in this family = right.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, no, this show is extremely pro-cop to the point of ridiculousness. Everything the cops do is right! Questioning them is never wrong! And I love cop shows in general.

[(Anonymous)]

Being Lucifer's henchman is Mazikeen's job. The cops are pretty poor at doing that. Anyway, what is so bad about being Lucifer's henchman? At least he'll give you free drinks at the bar.

[(Anonymous)]

UGH my father is watching this show RIGHT NOW and I fecking HATE DANNY he is the WORST. Like Tom Selleck's character is ok, and I actually like the younger son (who always gets shit on by the writers because he's not Danny) but FECKING DANNY. THAT FECKING FECK. He is the WORST and NO ONE holds him accountable for all the SHIT HE DOES. AARGH FECKIN DANNY.

[(Anonymous)]

My Mother-In-Law watches this, and I'm reminded of two specific episodes.

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Off duty cop who had a drink at a bar, then goes to a corner shop and breaks up a robbery in progress with no injury to anyone. He is then (obvi) wrongfully excoriated by media/politicians (? someone who didn't like the officer's connections to the main perfect cop family) and it is demanded that he be fired. As if anyone would look at a situation like that and say, "Oh a cop (who had a drink after work) prevented a robbery where no one got hurt? Cool."

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Prosecutor discovers her witness is withdrawing her testimony because the bad guy kidnapped her brother and is threatening his life so she won't testify. Prosecutor's response is NOT to go to the police with this new information to find a connection between the accused on trial and the kidnapper. It's not even sympathy for the witness whose brother has been kidnapped. Her response was to threaten the witness with prosecution and a prison time in YEARS.

I study crime and, to a small degree, police. I've met a lot of great officers. I've met some real shits. My beef with this show is that it seems ALL officers are great and anyone who would disagree is painted as evil/criminal, not understanding of the full scope of the problem of crime (that only cops can solve), or people that will put themselves and their own interests against the greater good. Anyone in this show who opposes the police (it seemed to me), was a strawman created by conservative, pro-police (no matter what), writers.

[(Anonymous)]

This show frustrates me so much. I want to like it! The plots are good, the characters are usually likeable. It could be a good show about law enforcement characters with integrity trying to do the right thing in a hard, complicated job. And it's clear that's what the show thinks it is. But it's just not nuanced enough. It's a show that tries to tackle complicated moral issues written by people who think in black and white, and it's so, so disappointing.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm liberal and my parents are conservative, and my dad will complain all the time about how anti-conservative shows like Last Week Tonight with John Oliver or Full Frontal With Samantha Bee are when I've had them watch episodes, and this (and to a lesser extent, Tim Allen's Last Man Standing) are the two shows I point to that he LOVES that are anti-liberal.

I don't even hate the show, but yeah. This "the police can do no wrong" thing is so unnerving and upsetting, especially in this modern political climate where cop's failings are on full display and they're not being held accountable for them by the justice system. Also, the youngest son's partner, the petite blonde, is probably the most unlikable character I've come across in any show.

I'm not sure it's worth ranting over.

[(Anonymous)]

There are a few episodes where a cop is not in the right (the corrupt cops that killed Joe, the retired cop who shoots someone, the gung-ho newbie that Danny wants Jamie to mentor, and a few others), but on the whole, it's generally presented that Commissioner Reagan (Selleck's character) is mostly in the right. But really, Danny (Wahlberg's character) is the one that's really a problem, since he often crosses lines and rarely gets reprimanded for it. I usually don't really mind the very pro-cop tone because most of the police on the show seem pretty honorable. They do actually bring up a lot of issues that people clash with the police over though, yeah, they're usually resolved way too quickly and neatly.

[(Anonymous)]

Is it worse than NCIS with the protecting of the corrupt vigilante with a badge?

[(Anonymous)]

I've only seen bits and pieces of this show while channel surfing and the dialogue is so inane I couldn't stand it.