• Godort@lemm.ee
    912·
    10 months ago

    If cops in real life acted like cops in fiction, people wouldn’t hate them as much

    • BabyVi@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Columbo comes to mind, he refuses to carry a gun and goes after the wealthy and powerful, including other cops. If only real cops were so chill.

    • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
      31·
      10 months ago

      Which is why most cop shows function as authoritarian propaganda. They show an idealist fairy tale version that nonetheless creates this aspirational image of cops in mainstream culture. It gives cover to the true cop culture. Just like villains in movies are always just a bad apple that is corrupt and once eliminated all is well, when in real world the rules of the system is what breeds corruption. It’s not meant to be, but it acts as authoritarian propaganda.

      I love cop shows, they are my guilty pleasure, but one needs to be aware that this is fairy tale.

      • DragonAce@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 months ago

        Which is why most cop shows function as authoritarian propaganda.

        Exactly!! I mean why else do you think Law & Order:SVU has been on the air for like fucking 30 seasons? Its not because of Ice-T’s incredible acting ability, thats for sure…

      • hakunawazo@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        You just need to mix sometimes the other extreme in to balance it out: Training Day, Leon The Professional, Kiss Of The Dragon and so on.

  • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works
    272·
    10 months ago

    Unpopular opinion: the show was kinda cool. Not because it’s very realistic, but because it had really good writing. Well except for the computer science, but that much is obvious.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      Well except for the computer science, but that much is obvious.

      And that’s never good. But as a computer scientist, I am of the opinion that the real thing is rarely as compelling as The Imitation Game, and even that was about people more than math/science. I’m on board with writers having fun with this stuff because it sort of challenges us to do better out in the world.

      For instance, Hackers was not a wildly-off-target take on what computing was like. Rather it’s what we wanted computing to look like.

    • nyctre@lemmy.world
      82·
      10 months ago

      Same appeal as all the other decent hospital/cop shows of the time. Just because some of the tech scenes were did poorly on purpose doesn’t mean the rest of it is equally bad. The cast, dialogue and plot were fine. Not sopranos or whatever, but definitely not “drivel”. Not everything needs to be super serious all the time.

      Edit: lul, the guy actually questioned his father’s intelligence because they enjoyed NCIS. What sort of person judges others for their taste in art/hobbies? Jfc.

      • III@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        I had a girlfriend that was really into anything Hitler… Rest assured I judged.

        • nyctre@lemmy.world
          31·
          10 months ago

          Was it like those people that enjoy watching interviews/documentaries with serial killers or was it more like those people that write them love letters?

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
        15·
        10 months ago

        Nah, it’s bad. I’m sorry you have bad taste, but I’m sure you’re otherwise tremendous

    • radicalautonomy@lemmy.world
      33·
      10 months ago

      Boomer humor at its most basic. “Them young 'uns think they’re so smart, but they just got schooled…that’s why you gotta respect yer elders!” Right, because unplugging a single node is going to save the network servers. I’ve literally only seen this clip of the show, but that blatant pandering to boomers told me all I needed to know. Also, fuck 12.

      • LwL@lemmy.world
        51·
        10 months ago

        I’ve always took that scene to be way more about not panicking and thus missing the obvious solution than any sort of boomer humor.