[ SECRET POST #3490 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3490 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Police Procedurals

[(Anonymous)]

What really bugs me is how condescending the characters can get. It's like the show is trying to make me root for the characters by making everyone else look bad and I'm supposed to think they're justified in being rude and bitchy to people.

For example, there's a CSI episode where a building collapses. When Catherine shows up, a guy there asks why she's there and she's really bitchy about how, duh, of COURSE she would be there when really, "Why is a CRIME scene investigator here when this doesn't appear to be a crime scene?" is a perfectly valid question and she could have explained herself without being a jerk about it.

Then there were the times on Law and Order when the cops would get mad at people for not having seen anything or being able to describe a suspect. Sometimes you legit didn't see anything! You weren't in the exact right spot, you were looking the wrong way, it was dark, you were distracted by something you had every right to be paying more attention to than whatever thing was going on across the street. I was once in the front passenger seat of the first car waiting at a red light when an accident happened right in front of us. I was lookinh,g out the side window at the time and only turned to look when I heard the crunch. I didn't see the impact or what led up to it, I only saw the aftermath. I had a front row seat and I saw nothing helpful, but it wasn't apathy or neglegence on my part, just chance that I wasn't looking in the right direction at te right time.

Re: Police Procedurals

[(Anonymous)]

Law and Order franchise is the worst for this. There is literally no abuse to great, no scam too low, that will stop them from claiming the ends justify the means. Full editorial fiat means that no matter how ludicrous the story is, it will be portrayed as the Right Thing for the detective to do it.

NCIS is not far behind though.

Re: Police Procedurals

[(Anonymous)]

SVU in particular. Could be that I just can't stand Elliot or whatshisface.

Re: Police Procedurals

[(Anonymous)]

^this

I keep biting my tongue when my mother has it on because of how "no, this is *wrong*" some of the plot lines get. And I think one of the worst offenders on L&O is Stabler from SVU. How did that man keep his job??

Re: Police Procedurals

[dani_phantasma]

Agreed in regards to SVU. That's what turned me off the show eventually.

The episode that infuriates me the most was "Clock" with the young woman with Turner Syndrome, and how all the way to the end, nobody gave a single shit about what she wanted. Even at the end one officer attempts to arrest the boyfriend of a young looking but consenting adult woman and even though she's stopped from doing it there's an air of "man isn't it tragic that we can't arrest him?"

Maybe it's because I can relate with her on somethings (re being seen as young and vulnerable and not an adult) but urgh that episode pisses me off so much I can't watch it.

Also the episode with the transwoman whose boyfriend committed suicide and she was blamed was just urgh utterly painful. I know by the very end the detectives are shown to be wrong in what they did but it's painful to sit through all the transphobia coming from our "heroes" as well as everyone else.

Criminal Minds may have issues on how it treats some mental disorders (not that other shows are better) but at least I don't hate the protagonists half of the time.

Re: Police Procedurals

[(Anonymous)]

Don't get me started on when they're wrong. There are never any apologies to whomever they (wrongly) decided had done the crime. At least, I've never seen any. Maybe, just maybe in one of the British procedurals, but I wouldn't count on it. ( Incidentally, that episode of "Frost" with the Down's Syndrome kid getting booked for murder is the one where I lost my temper. Confession under duress. No apologies from anyone.)